Geedad
Family Entertainment is a multi-faceted family entertainment
company that creates, produces, and acquires entertainment
properties that fit our focus and audience. By appealing
to the nurturing responsibility of parents; Geedad focuses
on family values, unified diversity and Nutrition.
Our flagship intellectual property, Cocomon
and the Fruitytoons™, is fast becoming a hit
with children, parents, and educational institutions
around the world. This animated series embodies our
corporate commitment to creating programs for parents
who desire non-violent, value-centered, and educationally
sound entertainment. . |

A child’s dream became a man’s vision,
when Delano A. Johnson, the founder of Geedad Family
Entertainment, dared to envision his childhood dreams
as real.
As a native of the Bahama Islands, Delano’s
creative journey toward art and music began at the
innocent age of five years of age. Buy the time he
was eight years old, his 3rd grade teacher noticed
his obsession with doodling cartoon characters and
singing TV jingles under his breath during lessons.
She was determine that he had a special gift and would
often times encouraged him. During that same year,
the class trip was announced and the destination was
Orlando's crown jewel, Disney World florida. However,
Delano was not to make this trip. His mother explained
that her $83 a week salary was not enough magic to
make his dream come true of the utopia play-land.
It was then that he promised himself that one day
he would build his own park where no matter how little
your money was, every child could get in.
Little did young Delano know that he would get to
make the school trip as a result of his teacher and
mother advocating for him to receive a creative allowance.
His teacher insisted that he be given the opportunity
to attend because she believed his creative abilities
in art and music would be enhanced by the experience.
Indeed, the experience at Disney World changed his
life forever! On the return trip from the “Mecca
of family entertainment,” Delano began to daydream
of his own fun park. He thought to himself that he
would need a star character, hence Mr. Coco was born.
Year after year, Delano would work on his idea by
visiting theme parks and paying close attention to
details. And just as his teacher anticipated, he excel
in music, being the lead singer of the second group
in his country’s history to be a recipient of
a Grammy Award nomination. In art, he founded a successful
graphic design firm in New Jersey with Fortune 500
clients.
Now some 25 years later, with the help of his lovely
wife Tracye and their three children, Mr. Coco has
evolved from a sketch character, to the deliciously
marketable, Cocomon and the Fruitytoons™.
Delano explains, "The long incubation time has
allowed me the opportunity to build a company from
both a child's innocent perspective of fun and a parent’s
nurturing concerns. Being a parent has strongly contributed
to Geedad's value and philosophy. While Cocomon™
is just the first step in building the Geedad brand,
I must say that I am compelled to push on by the thought
of children around the world like the 8 year old I
was, who just need the opportunity to see and be inspired
that their simple dreams can become an important contribution
to their country or even the world. I live for the
grand opening of Geedad Family World, when I can drive
in on a bus load of kids and watch the total amazement
and joy on each face and wonder,... what would they
all become in 25 years." |