Joseph Young Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Joseph Young Jr.

American comics creator

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1964

Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Profession: cartoonist, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Joseph Young Jr.

  • Joseph Young Jr.
  • (commonly known as Joe Young) is a nationally recognized African-American cartoonist, filmmaker, producer, writer, and educator, who runs the Hartford Animation & Film Institute (HAFI).
  • Young is the president of Joe Young Studios, a 17 year old multimedia agency based in Hartford, CT and founded by Joseph Young, which provides arts programming businesses and organizations.
  • Specifically, JYS produces community art programs, books, videos, animated projects, graphic art, and conducts workshops in the performing arts.
  • Young is the creator of the Scruples comic strip in the 1990s, and the strip's characters now star in the animated film that the institute completed in December [2006].
  • He is the creator of the socially engaged Scruples comic characters and the writer and executive producer of Hartford's first major homegrown book-to-film project, Diamond Ruff.
  • In early 2015, Cinedigm Entertainment, the largest independent content provider in the United States, nationally distributed Diamond Ruff.Young is currently the President of Maurice Starr Entertainment/Joe Young! Studios headquartered in Hartford, CT, where he oversees many projects including the visual development of new boy band NK5.
  • He is also the Founder & Executive Director of the youth arts non-profit agency The Joe, Picture This Show/Hartford Animation and Film Institute.
  • He is a former Guinness World Record Holder for creating the World's Longest Comic Strip, which included the participation of thousands of Greater Hartford-based youth.
  • In 1999 he received the prestigious Daily Point of Light Award from the White House for volunteering his time in bringing the arts to otherwise access-less youth.
  • He and his work has appeared in People, Ebony, GQ and Jet Magazine, the Boston Globe, New York Times, C-Span, CNN, the Black Family Channel and other national media outlets.
  • http://www.joeyoung.org

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