Inkling is a daily silhouette word puzzle by Macguffin Co. Ten crossword clues, none from the hidden work — the words you solve pour into a picture, and the picture is the final clue. Played on the web, on Kindle, and on paper.
A washed-up physicist discovers that his lab mice can break the laws of nature — but only when no one is looking.
A race of orange, spherical aliens lands on earth and hypnotizes humans into believing up is down in order to sell them shoddy merchandise.
When the Axis hunt for a relic that could turn the tide of WW2, Gen. Eisenhower recruits pro wrestlers to form a secret unit: The Turnbuckle Brigade.
A young visionary leads the world of zebra fashion in colorful new directions, but will his love of plaid win over the naysayers, or be his undoing?
An absent-minded pirate leads his ragtag crew - a chicken, a cat, a duck, and a pug - on a ‘round the world geography lesson in search of a misplaced treasure.
Read-aloud nonsense poems for ages 4–8 about impossible animals with very familiar feelings, told in a made-up language children delight in decoding.
Read-aloud nonsense poems for ages 4–8 about impossible animals with very familiar feelings, told in a made-up language children delight in decoding.
Follow the stories of two unlikely best friends, Anteater One and Anteater Two. As they rhyme and bicker, they encourage each other to step outside their comfort zones.
Slow Fourier is a meditative drawing instrument for people who can't draw. Ten minutes of active calm — drawn, seen, and heard — built on research linking art-making and paced breathing to a settled nervous system.
A misanthropic truth-digger sets out to determine the exact percentage of humanity that is genuinely good.
Emoji clues meet crossword logic. Decode the clues, fill the grid, build your streak, and discover the Cluemoji puzzle series.
Discover The Upfalling, Jen Pachabell’s middle grade science-fantasy series about Stella Vega, a young scientist uncovering the truth behind a world that is losing its gravity.
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Invest in Early-Stage Entertainment IP.
At Macguffin Co., we curate concepts for storylines and characters, and assemble creative teams to develop them into books, movies, games, and more. We then make shares of the future revenue from this IP available to our community of investors. The capital raised furthers ongoing creative development as we license fully-developed IP to multimedia partners.
How does it work? It’s pretty simple:
Consider Concepts: hop over to the Offerings page to consider Concepts with upcoming Investment Offerings.
Review the Terms: understand the terms of each Offering as detailed there. Terms vary by Offering.
Get Pitched: if a Concept piques your interest, you can RSVP to receive the full pitch deck, and reserve a spot in the pending Investment Offering. You’ll receive updates on the work-in-progress as the deadline approaches, and priority access to the investment portal when the Offering launches. (*By requesting a pitch, you’re under no obligation to invest.)
Join our community to receive all the latest concepts, team news, and editorial commentary in our investor newsletter, GUFF: Macguffin’s Character Issues, delivered to your in-box weekly.
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Drop us a synopsis.
Have a great idea for story? Send it to us, we’re always on the lookout for great characters, stories and worlds to develop. And now we’re open to submissions.
So leave us a logline and drop us a synopsis. If accepted by our Editorial Board, we'll post the concept to our community of Macguffins to either redlight or greenlight. If your idea is greenlit, we'll offer you a development agreement, build a team to collaborate on a pilot, raise capital for development, and shop the pilot to media partners.
You can also visit our Jobs Board to apply for open roles on creative teams.
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Invest in early-stage entertainment IP.
At Macguffin Co., we curate promising concepts to develop into books, films, games, and merchandise.
When Offerings are greenlit, we’ll work with an SEC registered intermediary to launch an investment offering. An Offering is an invitation to invest in a share of the future revenue of the franchise.
With the capital raised, we’ll fully develop the franchise and license the intellectual property rights to media partners, generating returns for creatives and investors.
How does it work? Simple:
Consider Concepts: hop over to the Offerings page to consider Concepts with upcoming Investment Offerings.
Review the Terms: understand the terms of each Offering as detailed there. Terms vary by Offering.
Get Pitched: if a Concept pique your interest, you can RSVP for Investment Offering. You’ll receive updates on the creative development as the deadline approaches, and access to the investment portal when the Offering launches. (*By requesting a pitch, you’re under no obligation to invest.)
The entire creative process, from Concept to Offering, is covered in our investor newsletter, GUFF: Macguffin’s Character Issues, and sent to subscribers’ in-boxes weekly.
For questions about investing in Macguffin properties, contact us.
Offerings are conducted and hosted by approved, partner funding portals, registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), and operate as intermediaries for offerings made under Regulation 506(b), 5069c), and CF, under the Securities Act of 1933 ("Regulation CF”). Clicking on a link below will take you to the funding portal hosting the respective offering. All information on partner funding portal sites is the responsibility of the funding portal.
This site, Macguffin.co, is a website owned and operated by The Macguffin Company. (“TMC”), which a media franchise development company. TMC is neither a registered broker-dealer, investment advisor, nor funding portal.
Nothing contained on this website should be construed as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security by TMC. Any offering of securities that may be conducted in the future will be subject to terms and conditions that will be set forth in offering materials made available through one or more unaffiliated third-party websites hosted by licensed intermediaries/funding portals registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").
TMC does not provide any investment advice or recommendations and do not provide any legal or tax advice concerning any Offerings. By accessing this site and any pages on this site, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy as may be amended from time to time without notice.
What began with an anteater who refuses to eat ants is growing into a children’s entertainment franchise. Meet The Anteaters—and see how Macguffin is expanding the characters from picture books into ancillary publishing, interactive experiences and future licensing opportunities.
Meet Schrödinger’s Mice, Macguffin’s new science-comedy franchise about a colony of lab mice who can break the laws of physics—but only when nobody is looking.
A free daily word puzzle. Solve ten crossword clues and the answers pour into a silhouette — the shape is the final clue. Books, Movies & Countries editions.
First up, in Concept of the Week, we have “There’s a Monster Under the Bed of the Monster Under My Bed,” which is pretty self-explanatory, and could also be titled “Monsters All the Way Down”, which is somewhat less self-explanatory, but much easier to fit in the meta data containers.
Slow Fourier is a meditative drawing instrument for people who can't draw. Ten minutes of active calm — drawn, seen, and heard — built on research linking art-making and paced breathing to a settled nervous system.
Root Hog is a darkly comic illustrated series about truth, corruption, human nature, and one hog’s attempt to determine what percentage of people are actually good.
Some interesting facts uncovered during a research trip to Woodland Park Zoo with Artie and Inky, and confirmed by Google over beers at The Duchess. Inky says next time we can skip the zoo & go straight to the “research” at The Duchess. Anyway, here are the findings: lions, the #1 predator for zebras, are color blind. They have terrific night vision, but don’t see colors particularly well. (The eye has two types of cells, rods & cones. Rods are for night vision, cones for color. Unlike most humans, lions are heavy on rods and light on cones.) So in theory, a zebra can change the color of its stripes without consequence, but wearing paisley & plaid is a dangerous fashion statement, when stepping out for a night on the savanna…
Emoji clues meet crossword logic. Decode the clues, fill the grid, build your streak, and discover the Cluemoji puzzle series.
Macguffin develops original multimedia concepts — story worlds designed from day one to live as books, animation, and games. But instead of pitching a publisher a manuscript, it pitches an option, and then it uses the option funding to do something publishers can't do themselves: put the concept in front of an audience before the book exists.
Macguffin Co. Welcomes Artist Walter Vasquez to the Creative Team for The Turnbuckle Brigade
Macguffin Co. is thrilled to announce that artist Brian Badgette is joining forces with writer Nia Soto on the creative team for our upcoming media franchise, “Helen 3000.” With their combined expertise and innovative storytelling prowess, we are confident that they will bring a new dimension to this project, which has been greenlit for creative development.
Macguffin Co. is thrilled to announce that writer Chris Tuff is joining forces with artist Natalie Baron on the creative team for our upcoming media franchise, “Infinite Monkeys.” With their combined expertise and innovative storytelling prowess, we are confident that they will bring a new dimension to this project, which has been greenlit for creative development.
Macguffin Co. today announced the addition of writers Bobby Henwood and Devin Nealy as the newest additions to its creative development team. Mr. Henwood and Mr. Nealy join creator Jason Baldwin and acclaimed comic artist Walter Vasquez on “The Turnbuckle Brigade”, a WWII historical action/comedy, set to begin creative development in January 2025.
Seattle, WA — [December 7, 2024] — Macguffin Co. today announced the newest additions to the writing team for its upcoming children’s media franchise, “PEANUT ZAPATA.” Writers Nicole Mazza and Morgan Lerner have joined the existing team of Jess Erion and Nia Soto to create an extraordinary narrative that promises to captivate audiences of all ages. Adding to the creative team, storyboard artist Justin Horn will also lend his artistic vision to the project.
Macguffin Co. today announced it has acquired publishing rights for “THE TURNBUCKLE BRIGADE,” by writer Jason Baldwin, and officially greenlit the World War II action/comedy synopsis for creative development. The project, which promises to blend the worlds of professional wrestling and historical adventure, will kick off creative development in January 2025.
Macguffin Co., a character franchise development studio, is thrilled to announce the addition of illustrator JP Roberts to the creative team for our upcoming franchise, “There’s a Monster Under the Bed of the Monster Under My Bed.” Joining lead writer Nicole Mazza, JP brings a wealth of artistic flair and a passion for storytelling that is sure to captivate young audiences everywhere.
Macguffin Co. announces Inkling: a daily silhouette word puzzle by Macguffin Co. Ten crossword clues, none from the hidden work — the words you solve pour into a picture, and the picture is the final clue. Played on the web, on Kindle, and on paper.
An advertising copywriter, voiceover artist and former journalist, Jason has been writing professionally for almost 30 years. In the mid-2000s, he briefly found the time to co-create and write indie comic books. He lives in St. Louis, MO with his incredibly patient wife and too many pets. He’s probably thinking about Robocop right now.
Bobby is a screenwriter, story editor, narrative designer, and creative development executive with more than a decade of experience bringing big concepts to life across film, television, and gaming. He lives on Vancouver Island, Canada with his wife and their two daughters.
Walter is a storyboard, comic, and graphic novel artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Devin has been fan of storytelling for as long as he can remember. When not conjuring worlds with words, you can find him elbow deep in a comic book, novel, baseball game or the newest fighting game.
Creatives, meet investors…. Investors, meet creatives.
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At Macguffin Co., we curate promising concepts to develop into books, films, games, and merchandise.
When Offerings are greenlit, we’ll work with an SEC registered intermediary to launch an investment offering. An Offering is an invitation to invest in a share of the future revenue of the franchise.
With the capital raised, we’ll fully develop the franchise and license the intellectual property rights to media partners, generating returns for creatives and investors.
How does it work? It’s pretty simple:
Consider Concepts: hop over to the Offerings page to consider Concepts with upcoming Investment Offerings.
Review the Terms: understand the terms of each Offering as detailed there. Terms vary by Offering.
Get Pitched: if a Concept pique your interest, you can request an invitation to the Investment Offering. You’ll receive updates on the creative development as the deadline approaches, and access to the investment portal when the Offering launches. (*By requesting a pitch, you’re under no obligation to invest.)
The entire creative process, from Concept to Offering, is covered in GUFF: Macguffin’s Character Issues, and sent to subscribers’ in-boxes weekly.
For questions about investing in Macguffin properties, contact us.
Offerings are conducted and hosted by approved, partner funding portals, registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), and operate as intermediaries for offerings made under Regulation 506(b), 5069c), and CF, under the Securities Act of 1933 ("Regulation CF”). Clicking on a link below will take you to the funding portal hosting the respective offering. All information on partner funding portal sites is the responsibility of the funding portal.
This site, Macguffin.co, is a website owned and operated by The Macguffin Company. (“TMC”), which a media franchise development company. TMC is neither a registered broker-dealer, investment advisor, nor funding portal.
Nothing contained on this website should be construed as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security by TMC. Any offering of securities that may be conducted in the future will be subject to terms and conditions that will be set forth in offering materials made available through one or more unaffiliated third-party websites hosted by licensed intermediaries/funding portals registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").
TMC does not provide any investment advice or recommendations and do not provide any legal or tax advice concerning any Offerings. By accessing this site and any pages on this site, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy as may be amended from time to time without notice.