Real, Authentic
Stories
Focused on Innovative Storytelling for Business to Business, Consumer, and Non-Profit Brands.
We are a creative lab that is focused on innovative storytelling for businesses, consumers, and non-profits brands. We release comics, graphic novels, and animation to consumers through broadcast and retail, and we're constantly learning how to connect with a variety of audiences, creating leading-edge content that helps build brand awareness and fandom.
Telling Stories
Since Two-Thousand and Eleven
In 2011, Lion Forge was co-founded by David Steward II and Carl Reed, becoming a leading comic book and graphic novel publisher. Understanding the demand and change in communication, Lion Forge expanded into animation and games, creating Lion Forge Labs. At Labs, we create multi-platform storytelling services that help brands measure their success differently than traditional advertising.
Now, Lion Forge Labs is a staff of over twenty people with over one-hundred years of animation, publishing, and digital marketing experience. Our creators are as diverse as the audiences we reach. Again, authentic.
What makes our story special? Because of our foundation in storytelling, Lion Forge labs can develop both branded and unbranded content with a goal towards delivering the highest quality of presentation and storytelling acumen, with a firm commitment to transparency and integrity with our creators and partners.
This is our story.
Now, what’s yours?
Comics
Animation
Gaming
Let Us Tell Your Story
Work With UsWe Are
Directors, Writers, Animators, Illustrators, Storytellers
Dave is all.
David
Steward II
Carl Reed dreams in comics and cartoons, having spent the majority of his life creating them. He is a serial dieter, and has tried all of them except the cereal diet.
Carl
Reed
Chip is a veteran marketing, brand, and operations leader whose ideal job would be hosting a vintage motorcycle show on Discovery...with his dog, Finn!
Chip
Schafer
Barry is a longtime comic artist & animation storyboard guy from Chicago. He has a wife and kids who tolerate his continued presence, and two large, unruly dogs. Barry still refuses to binge-watch Netflix.
Barry
Crain
Affectionately known as mommy goddess at home, Tiffany has a love for people and has served in sales and sales leadership for over 10 years through generating revenue and helping successfully scale within large and small organizations.
Tiffany
Anthony
Britta’s superpowers include being a leading voice for women illustrators, designers, and animators. She is a professional high-fiver and cheese connoisseur.
Britta
Buescher
With 20 plus years of professional illustrative, 3D, and graphic design under his noggin…Scot will have such sights to show you!
Scot
Terry
Annie Monette is a champion of thumb wrestling and YA dystopian novels. Ask her about her pitch for the next Fast and Furious movie.
Annie
Monette
Lorenzo Lizana is an artist and toy designer with a focus on the design, development and production of unique characters, illustrations, toys and products for the entertainment industry.
Lorenzo
Lizana
Stanley is a story artist and tortilla addict. Allow him to wrap you into his stories; queso costs extra.
Stanley
Chen
David specializes in script writing, comics creation, editing and graphic design. David teaches the comics and animation class at Jennings High School once a week.
David
Gorden
“How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time” ~ Frederick Brooks
Tara
Schomaker
Tressa is a fan of Tim Gunn and always finds a way to "Make it work." She isn't afraid of deadlines and strongly believes in the negotiation powers of chocolate.
Tressa
Ryals
Rachel uses her powers of code, design, and wizardry to create both functional and user-friendly digital solutions.
Rachel
Mezinis
Our Clients
The brands below are just a sample of clients who are as passionate about storytelling as we are. We’ve worked with small nonprofit organizations and large Fortune 500 companies. For each client, we use a carefully-crafted process to identify or create compelling characters, clarify a narrative arc, and decide on the best medium to transmit the message. Through interactive gaming, fast-paced comic stories, and lively animations, we bring a kinetic energy to brands both big and small.
