The DEFIANT graphic novel & ongoing feature film development campaign was one of those dream projects to work on. I had complete creative control over all aspects of the marketing of this graphic novel by Legion M & Stranger Comics. I produced all the editorial, ecom, meme, social, & web assets as well as personally designed the website. I also had the pleasure of working with Rob Edwards (Writer: Captain America: Brave New World (2025), The Princess & The Frog (2009), Treasure Planet 2002), Marvin Jones III aka "KRONDON" (Actor: Black Lightning, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), and Michael Boulware-Moore (South Carolina congressional candidate, business leader, and direct descendent of Robert Smalls) to produce various video assets seen below. Most notably, the "Pitch Video" (and it's various iterations) was used to pitch the concept of the graphic novel as well as the feature film in development to major studios, and raised more than $150,000 from ~2000 backers on Kickstarter to get the graphic novel & individual comic series off the ground. This was a really fun campaign to help produce and I'm proud to continue to be a part of it, as it is currently ongoing.
Pitch Video
Editorial Social Content
Webdesign
MEMES
This entire project was sparked when a member of the Legion M Community posted this meme & tweet commentary to one of our message boards, begging the question: Why hasn't this story been told? We paid homage to this original viral meme in our marketing content, producing a number of variants for social & ads content. Following the philosophy of "it worked before..." we found that these assets performed extremely well in multiple campaigns.
VIDEO CONTENT - "THE STORY OF ROBERT SMALLS"
COVER ART
I didn't have much to do with the production of the cover art, but we did use these assets throughout the marketing campaign in various ways.
E-COMMERCE SOCIAL & AD IMAGERY
Creative Team Bios
I produced these assets (treatment & copy) for the website above & various other campaign uses. The photos were provided by the talent.
