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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Robb Armstrong</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Robbin Armstrong</div> (1962-03-04) March 4, 1962 <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Cartoonist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable work</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Jump_Start_(comic_strip)" title="Jump Start (comic strip)">Jump Start</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Crystal D. Armstrong</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.robbarmstrong.com">www.robbarmstrong.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Robb Armstrong (born March 4, 1962) is an <a href="African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> <a href="Cartoonist" title="Cartoonist">cartoonist</a>, best known for creating the <a href="Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> <a href="Jump_Start_(comic_strip)" title="Jump Start (comic strip)">Jump Start</a>. Jump Start is the most widely syndicated daily strip written by an African American.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div>

Armstrong was born on March 4, 1962, in <a href="West_Philadelphia" title="West Philadelphia">West Philadelphia</a>, Pennsylvania.<a href="#cite_note-family-1">[1]</a> Armstrong's mother, Dorothy was a seamstress. He was the youngest of the five children.<a href="#cite_note-philly_AfAm_life-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-1991_profile-3">[3]</a>

Armstrong attended the <a href="Shipley_School" title="Shipley School">Shipley School</a> in <a href="Bryn_Mawr%2C_Pennsylvania" title="Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania">Bryn Mawr</a>.<a href="#cite_note-family-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> During the senior year of high-school he completed a three-week internship with cartoonist <a href="Signe_Wilkinson" title="Signe Wilkinson">Signe Wilkinson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Soulsman1-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Soulsman2-6">[6]</a> He studied advertising design at the <a href="Syracuse_University_College_of_Visual_and_Performing_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts">College of Visual and Performing Arts</a> at <a href="Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a> and graduated with a <a href="Bachelor_of_Fine_Arts" title="Bachelor of Fine Arts">Bachelor of Fine Arts</a> degree.<a href="#cite_note-daily_orange_interview-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3></div>

During college, he began submitting his comic Hector to <a href="The_Daily_Orange" title="The Daily Orange">The Daily Orange</a> his freshman year and later became art director at the newspaper. Hector is a cynical, lazy black college kid who is accompanied by Meatball and Julias; a dog with human ears.<a href="#cite_note-1991_profile-3">[3]</a> When this character didn't work well outside the college boundaries, he worked over the next four years to reshape Hector into Jump Start.<a href="#cite_note-Soulsman2-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-daily_orange_interview-7">[7]</a> During his early years as a cartoonist, he held a <a href="Job" class="mw-redirect" title="Job">day-job</a> at Weightman advertising in Philadelphia.<a href="#cite_note-Soulsman1-5">[5]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jump_Start">Jump Start</h3></div>

<a href="Jump_Start_(comic_strip)" title="Jump Start (comic strip)">Jump Start</a>, Armstrong's comic strip revolves around the trials and tribulations of a middle-class Black family in Philadelphia that is made up of Joseph "Joe" Cobb Sr., a city police officer, and Marcy Cobb, a nurse and their four children.<a href="#cite_note-1991_profile-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-30_years-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The family is named after the <a href="Cobbs_Creek%2C_Philadelphia" title="Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia">Cobbs Creek</a> neighborhood located in <a href="West_Philadelphia" title="West Philadelphia">West Philadelphia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-family-1">[1]</a>

After being picked for syndication by <a href="United_Feature_Syndicate" title="United Feature Syndicate">United Feature Syndicate</a> in October 1989, the cartoon appeared in 69 papers within six months of launch.<a href="#cite_note-Soulsman1-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Soulsman2-6">[6]</a> Since its launch in 1989 around 10,000 comics have been created. As of 2018, it is syndicated in over 300 newspapers throughout North America, including <a href="The_Los_Angeles_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Los Angeles Times">The Los Angeles Times</a>, <a href="New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a>, and <a href="The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a>.<a href="#cite_note-philly_AfAm_life-2">[2]</a>

In 2020, Armstrong stated that he is working on a possible live-action comedy television show based on Jump Start.<a href="#cite_note-daily_orange_interview-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-loss-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-gain-12">[12]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_work">Other work</h3></div>

In October 2010, Armstrong's work was featured in The Original Art of the Funny Papers exhibition at Syracuse university's XL Projects gallery in <a href="Armory_Square" title="Armory Square">Armory Square</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> On May 19, 2012, Armstrong received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris causa degree from <a href="Holy_Family_University" title="Holy Family University">Holy Family University</a> in Pennsylvania.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

In 2016, Armstrong published a part self-help book, part memoir titled Fearless: A Cartoonist's Guide to Life.<a href="#cite_note-family-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-loss-11">[11]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influences">Influences</h3></div>

Armstrong lists <a href="Charles_M._Schulz" title="Charles M. Schulz">Charles M. Schulz</a> as one of his influences and heroes, saying that he started drawing sketches of <a href="Charlie_Brown" title="Charlie Brown">Charlie Brown</a> at age five.<a href="#cite_note-1991_profile-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-franklin-17">[17]</a> As part of the 1994 <a href="Animated_television_special" class="mw-redirect" title="Animated television special">animated television special</a> <a href="You're_in_the_Super_Bowl%2C_Charlie_Brown" title="You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown">You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown</a>, Schulz gave his <a href="Franklin_(Peanuts)" title="Franklin (Peanuts)">Franklin</a>, the <a href="Peanuts" title="Peanuts">Peanuts</a> strip's Black character, the surname Armstrong, after Robb Armstrong.<a href="#cite_note-30_years-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-franklin-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Armstrong was later chosen to co-write the 2024 Peanuts special, <a href="Snoopy_Presents%3A_Welcome_Home%2C_Franklin" title="Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin">Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin</a>, the first special to star the character.<a href="#cite_note-Animation_Magazine-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>

Armstrong has two children and is married to Crystal D. Armstrong, an events planner.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> They reside in <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="California" title="California">California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-family-1">[1]</a>

A great uncle, <a href="Gene_Benson" title="Gene Benson">Eugene Benson</a>, played baseball in the <a href="Negro_league" class="mw-redirect" title="Negro league">Negro league</a> and the majors.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFArmstrong1997" class="citation book cs1">Armstrong, Robb (1997). JumpStart. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780836236613</bdi>. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/37923054">37923054</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFArmstrong2016" class="citation book cs1">Armstrong, Robb (2016). Fearless: A Cartoonist's Guide to Life. New York: Reader's Digest. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9781621452874</bdi>. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/990821669">990821669</a>.</cite></li></ul>

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