User:OdunzeOguguo/sandbox

OdunzeOguguo/sandbox
Status	Active
Founded	2013
Founder	Frederick L. Jones; Raymond Brown; Odunze Oguguo; Andrea Doney;
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Morrisville, North Carolina
Key people	Frederick L. Jones (President, CEO, Publisher and Founder); Odunze Oguguo (Co Founder and Publisher); Raymond Brown (Co Founder and Publisher); Andrea Doney (Co Founder and Publisher)
Publication types	Comic books, Mangas, Digital Anthology Magazines, Anthology Magazines, graphic novels
Fiction genres	Superhero; Horror; Fantasy; Science fiction; Action; Adventure; Science fantasy; Crime; Mystery; Dark fantasy; Thriller; Comedy; Shonen; Seinen; Shoujo;
Official website	Official website

Myfutprint Entertainment, LLC is an American comic book/manga publisher, publishing the world's most diverse anthology manga/comic magazines like Saturday AM, Saturday PM, Fanart Friday, Brunch and more.^[1] It was founded in 2013 by former executive in the video game industry, Frederick L. Jones and several illustrators like popular Youtuber, WhytMangaTV's Odunze Oguguo, Raymond Brown, and Andrea Doney as a venue for creator-owned properties, in which manga/comics creators could publish material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally this was a case in the work for hire-dominated American comics industry, in which the legal author is a publisher, such as Marvel Comics or DC Comics, and the creator is an employee of that publisher. It includes manga/comics in many genres by numerous independent creators online. Its best-known anthology publications include Saturday AM, Saturday PM, Brunch, and Fanart Friday while it's best known individual series include Apple Black, Clock Striker, Bacassi, Bully Eater, Orisha, Hammer, Soul Beat, and Saigami.

History

Origins

Saturday AM's origins begin with Founder, Frederick L. Jones' earliest memories. A lifelong Anime/ Manga and Pop Culture enthusiast, he loved the more adult style action, detailed character designs, and outrageous plot lines that all went far beyond his beloved American superhero comics and cartoons for the '70s and '80s. This interest existed in a time where being a comic book fan was nowhere near as hip as it is today and thus, feeling a little weird and out of the mainstream was a typical reaction. Great properties like MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM, Claremont/ Byrne era X-MEN, LEGION OF SUPERHEROES, and SUPERFRIENDS became an indelible part of the pop culture education for most people during that era. Nowadays, the fun of comic book anthologies, interesting and diverse IP, and even Saturday Morning Cartoons has become far less common.

After a decade-plus career as an Executive in the Videogame Industry, Frederick decided to finally start his own company focused on his two loves - anime/manga and new Intellectual Property. MYFUTPRINT ENTERTAINMENT was created to assist in developing and marketing new manga concepts for up and coming creators from around the world. Utilizing social media, discovering a new crop of creators who had grown up with a love of anime/manga and could replicate the aesthetic but new artists who were interested in and were themselves, DIVERSE -- was becoming quite efficient. Since the 1980s anime/manga had grown globally but the racial diversity had actually diminished. Characters like Claudia Grant (i.e. MACROSS/ ROBOTECH) became invisible while characters who looked distinctly European were more and more prevalent.

It didn't take long to discover popular creators and new comics like APPLE BLACK from Nigeria, SAIGAMI from Hungary and BULLY EATER from the USA. Saturday AM was born as a vehicle for new properties that would enable us to not only capture the look of a classic comic book anthology magazine but likewise, recreate the aesthetic and feel of manga by serializing content on a bi-weekly basis. To that end, Saturday AM has become a far-stronger brand than we could have ever imagined with a videogame on the way and more media adaptations coming.

Saturday AM today has dozens of creators, thousands of fans and nearly 100 issues of our magazine and in inspiring young, diverse, creators much the same way that Shonen Jump. cartoons and comics did with Frederick back in the late '70s.

Diversity

Myfutprint Entertainment publications like Saturday AM believe that diversity and representation matters. new ideas, new viewpoints power new adventures. African, Latino, Southeast Asian, Arabic, male, female, big, small, rural, city, diversity is not only true of the world we live but should also be true of the stories (fantasy or not) they enjoy. They celebrate and promote diversity in the manga and anime industry by providing a platform for compelling stories and perspectives to be shared. These stories are not defined by diversity, they are made better by having new perspectives. Furthermore, each issue of Saturday AM also features professional articles, interviews and product spotlights centered around entertainment such as comics, manga, anime, and movies.