The GIGL
and Beyond.
The Big Picture of
Future Applied Cartooning
Applications.
Future Applied Cartooning
Applications.
Like any new company, we have big dreams!
Applied Cartooning is a concept of colossal scale. Cartoon illustration and technique have practical applications in nearly every form of communication. Positive, community-building applications. We, of course want to be involved in every single one of them. However, we're also trying to be lucid. By starting with the simple programs on this site and building out slowly from there, we foresee a day when cartoon art will be applied effectively in large and small ways to almost all areas of communication and idea exchange. And we'll be working hard to inspire you to share our vision. This page is dedicated to
how we'd like to grow our business and how we'd like to see it
influencing the world for the better. We hope it whets your appetite for the amazing potential of cartoons!The GIGL
The Googenius International Graphic Library
This online library of international graphic stories, comics and cartoons will one day serve as the central hub of the Googenius business model. With thousands of graphic literary works, the GIGL will be an invaluable global resource promoting literacy, education, graphic history, and international culture. We will offer readers safe, secure, expansive, language interchangeable access to the world's graphic story. This site will also sustain significant advertising, merchandising, and print production by offering the rights-holders of the works a new, inexpensive, international marketing tool and a popular forum to showcase their properties.
Goo Goods
Googenius Production and Merchandising
Goo Goods is the Googenius subsidiary responsible for production, management and billing issues for items purchased on the GIGL site. Goo Goods handles all royalty payments and establishes margins, maintains production partner contracts and relations, and enforces quality control and shipping deadlines. Some or many products may eventually be produced in-house to ensure timely delivery and maintain a value-aded market position.
Goo Student
Googenius Curriculum and Study Materials
Goo Student will supply all Googenius internal curriculum and all external education curriculum. Internally Goo Student will develop and supply all visually oriented booklets and materials for Googenius University and Goo 4 Good Camps, classes and workshops. Externally Goo Student will develop and supply visually oriented program booklets, teaching modules, materials and web support for public education and foreign language curriculum.
Goo Student Strives to integrate both right and left brain learning techniques into all of their curriculum and programs form lower elementary to university level and continuing education. Neurological research increasingly demonstrates the necessity or right-brain involvement in the learning process so that we can put ideas in context and understand information as part of a bigger picture. With that in mind, Applied Cartooning is an ideal curriculum enhancement for rounding out complete learning programs.
Goo 4 Good
Googenius Faith Based and Outreach Projects
Goo 4 Good applies cartoon techniques to all internal and public functions of churches and faith-based organizations, as well as missions and charity oriented outreach in America and abroad. Whether clarifying difficult theological concepts or developing process literature for program deployment, Goo 4 Good specializes in making difficult communication tasks understandable to all ages.
Goo Tech
Googenius Software and Programming
Goo Tech will originally exist to develop and support the software needs of the other subsidiaries of Googenius, primarily focused on the GIGL (above). Later, Goo Tech will be working on the development of optimal storage capacity with efficient memory organization for graphic data. The goal of this storage will be to make the retrieval and manipulation of graphic images and story as streamlined as possible. We will use this storage capability to enhance market share and increase the ease of application of all aspects of graphic story to learning delivery, business, language arts, communication, leisure and gaming applications.
Goo Green
Googenius Environment and Future
Goo Green is not fully fleshed out. The idea of Goo Green is meant to accomodate a few environmentally-minded projects relating to cartooning that we have on the table, as well as to foster and incubate visual thinking and right-brain synthesis in developing clean solutions for energy production. As our projects solidify, we will add structure and direction to this vision.
Goo Gorgeous
Googenius Fashion
Thinking inside and outside the box is particularly well suited to fashion. The visual thinking that goes into page design also has application in clothing design. This will be the last of the subsidiaries to develop, but applied cartooning will create its own niche in the fashion industry. Clothing that communicates...now that's different!
The Googenius Foundation
The Goo Foundation exists to invest in academic, commercial and community-building program development. The goal of the foundation is to promote and enable literacy, business comprehension, improved learning delivery, cultural understanding, effective mission work and civic unity. Ten percent of all Googenius profits will automatically go into The Goo Foundation and be used to implement these goals.
For a more complete breakdown of how The Googenius Foundation intends to meet these goals, our contact information is at the bottom of the page.
Investment
Building this vision has been a slow and methodical process. Building the business will be even more so. We are concentrating on providing quality products and programs in a few areas and attempting to grow and expand from there. We would love to have the financial where-with-all to launch all our subsidiaries at once because they each serve to reinforce the others. But that would require a significant investment, and we are not in the position to do that. We have, however, developed a full draft of our business plan and the vision of complete deployment with a ten year financial projection and use of funds for each subsidiary. If you like what you've read on these pages and think you might be interested in knowing more about how you could partner with us, please call or email. Our contact information is just below. Applied Cartooning is an idea that can truly change the world for the better.
We'd love to have you along for the adventure of making that statement a reality!