Goo Toons.
New concepts in
cartoon application,
marketing and design.
We're using graphic illustration to tackle informational and marketing projects in a clear, entertaining, focused and measurable way. We're taking cartoons to the next level in business and education and entertainment.
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Marketing
•Fanzine
•Cartoon Publishing
House
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Visual Thinking:
(Learn more about why we believe what we believe)
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Information Embedded Stories
Stories are the way we learn and remember. Visual stories help us understand material and experience information dimensionally. Reading helps us to think critically about information, moving us to a decision and then to action. There is no more potent combination of information delivery than graphic literature. Googenius is dedicated
to harnessing this potential through informational graphic stories.
Whether the subject is apologetics, breast feeding, childhood illness or environmental awareness, graphic stories have the power to make the material within go beyond ordinary recognition and inspire long term recall and action. The blank page can say anything you want it to, crisply, efficiently and inexpensively. All it takes is imagination, visual technique and organization. In short, visual thinking. That's what Googenius is about. Reaching audiences visually.
Page rates: $200 to $500 full color (Price depends on level of detail and time)
$150 to $300 black and white
If you're interested in learning more, call us to schedule an appointment.
Our contact information is at the bottom of the page.
Graphic Story Marketing
The is a lot of debate about whether or not product placement should be allowed in any material that children can get there hands on. It's a good debate. We side firmly on the 'yes' side with an understanding of responsibility on the part of the advertiser and the content provider. With responsibility as our guide, we believe one of the most sound weddings of the next generation for young and old alike (already being born out in so many cooperative marketing promotions) will be printed story and product representation.
Googenius has developed a seamless, measurable story-driven marketing feedback system that we believe will not only offer targeted advertisers a new effective medium for reaching a mass audience, but will generate valuable consumer feedback that will serve as resource for future decision making.
Graphic stories give people a structure for sharing their opinions. Graphic stories motivate response. Graphic stories mirror life. Googenius uses those qualities to generate guided narratives that not only entertain, they give the reader a chance to interact and influence the outcome of the story. That's crowdsourcing on a whole new level!
Fall 2009 we will be bringing together our first Graphic Story Marketing serial. In the meantime, if you have any questions or interest in the concept for marketing your products, our contact information is at the bottom of the page.
GooToons Fanzine
Our Fan Magazine, called simply GooToons, will highlight the best contributors to the Googenius International Graphic Library (GIGL). GooToons will comment on the state of graphic novels, comics and applied cartooning worldwide with interviews of prominent domestic and foreign artists. We are positioning GooToons with a broader eye on design. With sections on fashion, architecture, film and education, this language interchangeable publication will reach and appeal to an enormous worldwide audience. This is a future project, but one that we intend to launch in tandem with the GIGL. For more information on the GIGL, visit the "Big Picture" Page Here.
GooToons Cartoon Publishing House
Cartoons are both a growing and a shrinking business. Growing in popularity and application. Shrinking in visiblility and ways to profit. With newspapers dying a slow death, syndicated cartooning is a harder business than ever. With comics companies consolidating and cutting titles, fewer stories are reaching the public. On the outside, one might think the market is drying up completely. Never fear! The cartoon market is just changing form.
Cartoons are just as powerful and profitable as before...getting them into the right markets and in front of the right buyers is the key. As Googenius builds its name in international graphic story, we are and will be seeking ways to represent authors and rights-holders to new markets targeted around their interest and subject matter. We will be producing our own works....cartoons, comics and graphic novels. Where it suits, we'll publish or translate or sub-syndicate. Our goal is to facilitate great market opportunities for great cartoon literature.
One of the ways GooToons intends to enhance market opportunity is through the development of a convenient digital format for cartoon distribution. We call them DVCs or Digital Versatile Comics. Whether disc bound or on a stick or chip, these comics will be a physically distributable AND electronically downloadable product on which multiple digital co-marketing efforts (music, video, gaming, etc.) can be highlighted.
While still in the planning stages, we would welcome one-on-one talks with publishing houses on how to keep the physical publishing business here in West Michigan. As much as is competitively possible, we believe in investing in the local workforce.
Our contact information is just below.