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Robb Armstrong entertains and enlightens millions of readers with Jump Start, his daily and Sunday comic strip. One of a handful of syndicated African-American cartoonists, Armstrong brings a unique perspective to his strip with art and storylines that are upbeat, fun and undeniably realistic. Jump Start appears in more than 400 newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Constitution and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jump Start offers an authentic, positive representation of middle-class African Americans. Joe and Marcy Cobb are a young African-American couple trying to balance their careers - he's a police officer, she's a nurse - with a loving marriage and warm family life shared with their young daughter, Sunny, and toddler son, Jojo. Many readers see themselves reflected in Jump Start. "I'm thrilled that people say that", says Armstrong. "I'm drawing about my life; about a black couple because I'm black. Joe and Marcy and the characters I've developed are deep and based on real life".
A popular motivational speaker who addresses groups at schools, churches, libraries and other venues throughout the US, Armstrong inspires young people with the story of his own success. He has lent his characters to several public service campaigns, including the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Risk Test and the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout, and has been recognized by the Governor of Pennsylvania, The Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Justice and Nestle's "Men of Courage" program for his tireless community outreach.
Plus Licens represents United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association for syndication rights to Jump Start in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
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