MashON (http://www.mashon.com/), a next generation online software application company announced today that Platinum Studios, Inc. (http://www.platinumstudios.com/) (OTCBB: PDOS), an entertainment company that controls an international library of more than 5,600 comic book characters has signed an agreement to license the MashON online platform to Platinum Studios Inc.'s Digital Properties, the first of which will be at DrunkDuck.com.
MashON is an interactive online software platform that lets anyone create their own personalized digital comic books or graphic novels. These digital comic creations can be created and
shared online by emailing, posting them to your favorite blog or social network, and posting them to the MashON's gallery. MashON's interactivity will let the DrunkDuck.com fans finally
create their own comic stories using their favorite DrunkDuck comic characters.
"MashON's Comic Book Creator platform is ideally suited for the comic book fans on DrunkDuck.com to create their own user-generated comics," said Philippe Benoliel, CEO of MashON. "We
look forward to seeing what kind of digital comic books that DrunkDuck.com members come up with."
"By Platinum Studios' licensing the MashON platform for DrunkDuck.com the MashON Comic Book Creator now interactively takes our non-comic creator users to the next level," said Scott
Mitchell Rosenberg, Chairman and CEO of Platinum Studios.
"We have always wanted to allow DrunkDuck.com users to be able to be interactive with their favorite characters and create their own comics, and now they can," said Brian Altounian,
President and COO of Platinum Studios.
Now you don't have to be a comic creator to create personalized comics as fans's of DrunkDuck's Platinum Studios vast treasure-trove library of comics and characters will soon be able to
create their own personalized digital comics and graphic novels at MashON.com and at DrunkDuck.com.
About MashON:
MashON provides interactive web-enabled tools, widgets, and software applications that empower users to create, connect and syndicate easily on the Internet. The Company's signature
product, MashON Comic Book Creator, is an online and desktop application that embraces user-generated content ("UGC") and enables users to integrate their user-generated content into
social networks, blogs, and online brand spaces. MashON licenses its technology, including the MashON online platform and the Comic Book Creator software, to world class lifestyle brands
and advertisers in entertainment, online portals, video games, motion picture, television, music, sports, fashion, art, and travel.
For more information, visit www.MashON.com.
About Platinum Studios, Inc.:
Platinum Studios (OTCBB: PDOS) is an entertainment company that controls an international library of comic book characters from all over the world, which it adapts, produces and licenses
for all forms of media including print, film, online, mobile/wireless, gaming, and merchandising. Platinum Studios' library contains more than 5,600 characters spanning a full range of
genres and styles, and also includes properties such as www.DrunkDuck.com, the industry's preeminent webcomics community. Working with leading
companies in the entertainment and new media sectors, Platinum believes it is well positioned to emerge as one of the front-runners in the creation of new content across all media
platforms.
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Media Contact Information:
MashON
Mark Politi
Vice President - Licensing and Media Relations
800-560-2993 x 4206
310-409-5938 (M)
Mark @ MashON.com
Platinum Studios, Inc.
Randy Greenberg
Platinum Studios, Inc.
310-807-8100
Public.relations @ platinumstudios.com
Platinum Investor Requests:
Thomas Becker
Platinum Studios, Inc.
702-478-7363
investors @ platinumstudios.com