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About the Author
K.D. Boze is an award-winning cartoonist and advertising artist who created the daily comic strip Cpl Kev for the European edition of Stars and Stripes from 1981-84. He got his first job at age 14, drawing houses for an architectural firm. He also is the creator of the online comics Camille and Role Call. A native of Seattle, he still lives there with his family and pursues a career in 3-D design. He conceived of The Virgin Project in 2006 as an interactive art project to document and express real-life first-time experiences with sex.
Stasia Burrington (born Stasia Kato) grew up in a loving and supportive family who always told her she could do whatever she wanted when she grew up. She decided a while ago that what she enjoyed most was making pictures to go along with stories. Naturally, while growing up she devoured all of the Elfquest and Tintin books she could get her hands on, and upon graduating from high school, moved from Kalispell, MT to Seattle, WA to go to Cornish College of the Arts. Her cousins Grace Reamer, Kevin Boze and Katt Carlson took her into their family and taught her many new, exciting and profound things, and even took her and her beau to Paris! Miraculous things such as mochi-icecream, Eddie Izzard, countless classic and obscure movies, fascinating slang and life stories were disclosed to her by her wonderful new family, and Stasia sucked it all in like a sponge. While at Cornish, she studied painting, sculpture and printmaking, and took a couple of enlightening classes on comics by local cartoonist Ellen Forney. In 2007 she moved back to Kalispell to marry her high school sweetheart and returned to school the next year at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID, where she currently resides. While formally studying fine art, Stasia is actively pursuing a career in book illustration and cartooning, reading everything she can find on graphic design and business. She has been collaborating on the Virgin Project with Kevin D. Boze since 2006.
On May 1, 2010 -- two weeks after the book s release -- Boze and Kato were named Cartoonists of the Year by Cartoonists Northwest, which also awarded The Virgin Project 2 the Golden Toonie Award in the Comic Books/Graphic Novels Category.
Review
"If you loved the first Virgin Project and I do you ll be even more goony over The Virgin Project 2 .... This is a high-wire act, and without the sweet, humble approach of this talented duo, it would have crashed into the sawdust far below. Don't try this at home .... These are masterpieces of line art; pure and clean, they show complete hand-control. Kato trusts her work enough to allow it to come off the page almost as quick sketch, naked if you'll pardon the reference to the reader's eye, full of energy and bounce (ahem). Even beyond the first collection, these stories tear at the heart and play the funny-bone like a xylophone."
Donna Barr, AssociatedContent.com
"More expertly crafted than the first. Each account of sexual activity with a German prostitute, with a Klingon at a Star Trek convention, being so high on mushrooms that you believe you re having gay sex with Bob Marley is lovingly rendered, and the book is a fun, sexy read all the way through." --Paul Constant, The Stranger
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