Book Signings

Roosevelt Pitt, Jr. - Founder and Owner of AMARA Entertainment LLC:

Roosevelt Pitt, Jr. is the founder and owner of AMARA Entertainment LLC and the creator of hundreds of characters for comic book related properties and children books. He has written children books, graphic novels and movie scripts for his company and others throughout his twenty year career. He enjoys speaking about the importance of creativity and the fundamentals of living a healthy life style.

He was born in Tarboro, North Carolina. Roosevelt attended undergraduate school at North Carolina A and T State University, where he majored in Computer Science and Technology. During those years he began his first publishing company U.P. Comics, where he self published his first book at the age of twenty. The book sold over ten thousand copies. Other books published by Roosevelt later such as "Purge" and "Purge, The Purification Agenda" have sold over a half a million copies world wide.

Roosevelt has been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, Business North Carolina and Entertainment Tonight for his outstanding publishing accomplishments.

Roosevelt is the author and co-creator of "Food Adventures with Charles the Chef" A book created to help children develop good eating habits. A loving and magical filled book of adventure, Charles the Chef brings back the fun to eating healthy.

Roosevelt is now on a regional tour. The tours are designed to introduce Charles the Chef to children through reading. Roosevelt will facilitate reading with a flair that kids pay attention to. He has a whimsical voice that kids find exciting and funny. At times he may take on the character of Charles the Chef himself. Depending on the attendance he may provide gifts such as Charles the Chef hats, trading cards and recipes that can be used at home to create nutritious snacks. When available he will be accompanied by Mshindo Kuumba, co-creator and artist of "Food Adventures with Charles the Chef." Mshindo is actually one of the many characters featured in the first book of a five book series. Mshindo owns an herbal foods market where customers shop for tasty spices.

Roosevelt's reason for creating Charles the Chef grew through his experience with relatives who have struggled with obesity. He witness first hand how unhealthy eating habits were passed on to their children. His goal is to help break the cycle by sharing with children the importance of eating healthy and being active without leaving out the fun. Charles the Chef also helps parents by easing the resistance they may encounter when trying to introduce healthy foods to their kids.

Roosevelt currently resides in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina with his five children.

Mshindo Kuumba I - Artist:

Mshindo Kuumba I. is mostly well known for his enduring attention to detail and the "Afro-centric" look to his work. "Africa being so instrumental in civilizing the world, I found it peculiar that a strong positive image of Africans is largely absent from contemporary media. Since my youth I wanted to build a career addressing this discrepancy."

Born in 1964, Mshindo largely a self developed talent moved through his early years developing each aspect of his art one skill at a time. "I was fascinated by art that looked realistic and photo realism." Studying one aspect of the process at a time allowed Mshindo to develop strong foundation skills that would become the hallmark of "The Mshindo I. look". Moving from pencil techniques to ink, color pencil and airbrush in that fashion allowed for lengthy study with each technique. Some of the early influences was; his Father, older brother, Mike Bonum (the after school teacher who he did his first painting with), Frank Frazetta, Amsel, Keith Pollard, Neal Adams and many others whose names were not know. just the fantastic lessons in their work.

After high school and a three year infantry medic stint, Mshindo ventured out into the world as a freelance artist selling tee shirts with a newly acquired airbrush at a flee market while living on Oahu Hawaii. It is here he met a Rastafarian named Bongo I Fareed who would change his entire life! He was the true African influence that not only taught Mshindo to be an entrepreneur, he lead him to the waters of African culture which Mshindo drank freely from. He stressed the need for self knowledge, self education and the truth of the Africans place in the world historic view.

Returning to the states in 1985 Mshindo continued to vend and grow a reputation for being a "true artist." He began to attract clients like The Salvation Army, The NYC Fire and Police Dept., McDonalds, and V.I.M. store chain. Celebrities and educators were also apart of this long list such as; Bobby Brown, Vertical Hold (including Angie Stone), Arrow, Mathew St. Patrick, John Henrik Clarke, Leonard Jefferies, Queen Afua and Baba Heru. Mshindo's talents were also noticed by comic companies like; A & B, Ania, Brainstorm, Continuity, Defiant, Valiant, Broadway, Crusade, Kevlar, Amara and DC comics.

Currently Mshindo is honing his digital skills to complete yet another learning cycle in his over 20yr. experience. He is working on self publishing and reproductions of his astonishing work.