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I’m in the new video game inspired anthology Life Meter 2. My story is about “Bust A Groove!” It will be debuting at the MOCCA Art Fest June 23-24 and features art by lots of great folks. Here’s a list:

Original comic stories debuting in LM2:
METROID by Joel Carroll (Flight)
GUITAR HERO by Jacob Chabot (Mighty Skullboy Army)
DOUBLE DRAGON by Debbie Huey (Bumper Boy)
SPY HUNTER by John Green (Teen Boat)
LINK’S AWAKENING by Dave Roman (Astronaut Elementary)
JET SET RADIO by Miguel Sternberg (back cover artist for Scott Pilgrim 4)
NIGHTS INTO DREAMS by Dave Roman, Bannister (Flight), & Stephanie Yue (Novasett Island)
SUPER MARIO BROS. by Josh Lesnick (Girly)
ELEVATOR ACTION by Sang S. Kim & Jeremy Arambulo (Let’s Do This)
PARAPPA THE RAPPER by Corey Barba (Nickelodeon Magazine)
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 by Zack Giallongo (10th Life of Pishio the Cat)
MARIO KART by Alisa Harris (Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff)
PIKMIN by Edward J. Grug III (Those Scurvy Dogs)
THE WIND WAKER by Christopher Hastings (Dr. McNinja) & Carly Monardo (Venture Bros.)
RIVER CITY RANSOM by Michael Vega (Radio Comix)
OKAMI by Jennifer Moore (Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends)
& Miss Monster (missmonster.com)
PHOENIX WRIGHT by Eric Kim (Love As A Foreign Language)
BUST A GROOVE by Abby Denson (Tough Love)
KIRBY by KC Green (Droop)
Q*BERT by Dave Roman & Shelli Paroline (Malarky)
PHOENIX WRIGHT by Alison Wilgus (Kids Next Door)
MEGA MAN by Matt Loux (Side Scrollers)
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA by Queenie Chan (The Dreaming)

New art debuting in the book:

NINJA GAIDEN by Allan Norico (Kappa Mikey)
GABRIEL KNIGHT 2 by Faith Erin Hicks (Zombies Calling)
PANZER DRAGOON RPG by Dave Roman
WIZARDS & WARRIORS by Raina Telgemeier (Baby-sitters Club)
EARTHWORM JIM by Steve Hamaker (Flight)
POKEMON by Jacob Chabot
ICO by Alexei Martins
ALEX KIDD by Elio (Sketchy Five)

Classic stuff that appeared on the Life Meter website:

SUPER MARIO BROS. and THE LEGEND OF ZELDA by Dan Schoening
CASTLEVANIA: CIRCLE OF THE MOON by Derek Hunter
TETRIS by David McGuire
TOAD by Jake Parker
DRAGON QUEST 2 by Lamar Abrams
KATAMARI DAMACY by Jacob Chabot
KID ICARUS by Alexei Martins
DUCK HUNT by Zack Giallongo
SUPER MARIO BROS. By Jeffrey Rowland
PACMAN by Jess Fink
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA by Queenie Chan
GOLDEN AXE by James Mar
CONTRA by Jeremy Arambulo
KID ICARUS by Miss Monster
PACMAN by David McGuire
CAVE STORY by Joseph Bergin III
STREETS OF RAGE by Curt Franklin & Chris Haley
SUPER MARIO BROS. by Jose Garibaldi
KOOPALINGS by Zack Giallongo
KIRBY by Stephanie Yue

Afterward by Matthew Hawkins.

All profits of the book will be donated to Child’s Play, a charitable organization that holds an annual toy drive for children’s hospitals.
www.childsplaycharity.org

Here are some pics Ivan sent me from last Saturdays event. It was fun and it was also my first time wearing a cape ever!

I’m one of the celebrities that donated a camera full of shots I took for MixNYC. It’s being auctioned Thurs. June 14 and there is a party for it too! Check it out!
The party is at Rapture Cafe 200 Ave. A (at 13th St) from 8pm-midnight.
$20 to get in, it’s a benefit for the MIX festival.

Just in time for Pride month check out this comic event on Saturday!
Join Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother), Alan Neuwirth
(Chelsea Boys), Ivan Velez (Tales of the Closet), Abby
Denson (Tough Love), and special guest cartoonists for
fun, hot, juicy gay toons!

Refreshments!
Go-go Superheroes!
Japanese Bear Manga!
Books on sale!
Free Stuff and Condoms!

Sat. June 9th
9pm
@ GLBT Community Center room 315
208 West 13th St., NYC

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I had a great time at Book Expo hanging out at the Manic D Press booth. We were in a cool spot between Small Beer Press (with very talented and sweet author Kelly Link) and Feral House, which puts out great rock and roll and underground books. I was pleasantly surprised by how many comics people were there and got a lot of great new books to take home. My “to read” pile is really towering now! It was very different from the comic conventions since it’s business only, no sales and no fans, all pros. Pretty much everybody there is in the book biz, buyers, sellers, publishers, librarians, agents, etc. That made it less crowded and insane than a comic con (and also no costumes for the most part), but it was still very busy. I would definitely go again. The best part of course was all the free books, they flowed like water! Free books! Yes! Though getting home was a challenge with a giant heavy bag of books T_T

Is the name of the latest book I’ve illustrated! It’s my first technical book illustration job and was very interesting to do. I had to draw a lot of subject matter that I don’t usually dabble in including knights, baseball players, and a car accident. All of those being metaphors that teach Data Quality Assessment. Here is one of the illustrations.

They posted my story from Girls Guide To Guys Stuff on myspace, so check out my story: The True Adventures of a Punk Rock Boy!

If you haven’t heard of the band Flaming Fire yet, you’ve been missing out. It’s hard to describe their sound, but they’re amazing, weird, fun, and catchy. I’ve been proud to know this band a long time and pleased that I got to sing/talk back-up on their great new album, When the High Bell Rings. I’m actually credited as a “moon chanter” along with some other very cool ladies.
Check it out!
I’m also extra-proud of Lauren Weinstein for her great comic work (Girl Stories) too, so check out her site!

I have work in four anthologies this summer; Life Meter 2, Prism Comics’s 2007 Guide, Young Bottoms in Love, and The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff from Friends of Lulu. Check them out!

Young Bottoms in Love