When Strand Comics wanted to launch Rocky for the US market the Norwegian publishing house asked Jens Peter de Pedro to translate the strip into English. He might have been contacted because of his extensive experience within Hip-Hop culture or perhaps because of his close connections to the US underground comic scene. But more likely it was just because he's a friend of the creator of the comic, Martin Kellerman. Good thing Jens Peter involved Native New Yorker Sarah Jensen for fact and language checking.

Jens Peter, also had a short, but glorious, stint at translating Rocky for Spain's El Vibora magazine.

The English translations of Rocky were part of a search for a US distributor. Thanks to, or despite of, Jens Peter's translations Strand Comics has now closed a deal with Fantagraphics, publisher of Ghost World and many other classics!