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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.
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Christopher Hager is the Hobart Professor of the Humanities at Trinity College and an award-winning historian whose work explores the lives of ordinary Americans through their writing. His first book, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing, won the Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery. His latest book, I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters, was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Davide Gentile is a comic book artist and illustrator from Rome, Italy, and a graduate of the International School of Comics. He has worked with publishers including Manfont and Lanciostory and has contributed to Marvel projects including X-Men and Star Wars. Since 2021, Davide has served as the Lead Illustrator for Joe Young Entertainment’s Kemet the Time Traveler comic book property.
Mirco Maiorano is a comic book colorist and letterer and a graduate of the International School of Comics. Since 2021, he has contributed his coloring and lettering talents to Kemet the Time Traveler and other Joe Young Entertainment comic book properties. He currently contributes his artistic talents to independent projects on the international stage.
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