Marlon McKenney

Marlon McKenney is a San Francisco-based author, illustrator, and creative director with over 20 years of professional advertising experience working in San Francisco’s top ad agencies. Marlon specializes in narrative storytelling via motion graphics, video, interactive, and illustration. In 2016, he founded the independent publishing company, Conscious Culture Publishing, that focuses primarily on delivering diverse multicultural content to educate and empower children across the globe. With the release of Alice in Wonderland Remixed in 2017, Marlon became one of the first artists to create a children’s book entirely illustrated using 3D technology. Combining classic stories with contemporary narratives, Marlon incorporates elements of self-empowerment African and African-American history. His latest release, The Genius of Egypt is the African story of the world’s first multi-faceted genius, Imhotep, will be available April 2019.