Meet the Creator:

Biography:
A Connecticut native, is an award-winning cartoonist, filmmaker, producer, writer, and teaching artist. He is the president of Joe Young Entertainment, LLC and the Creator of the socially engaged KEMET, THE TIME TRAVELER comic property. Young also is 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, the Movie. Currently the movie can be viewed on TubiTV. Young is a Co-Founder and President of Hartford’s Got Talent!, an arts non-profit organization that showcases talent and connects the community. He is a 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, Young 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 have 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.