Few human experiences are as universally shared, and yet as diverse, as the loss of virginity. The Virgin Project, Volume 2 is the authors' second collection of first-time sexual encounters that illustrate a small sample of the breadth of human experience. Some people consider virginity as a prize to be given away. Some consider it a burden to be disposed of. For some, it was stolen and can never be restored. A few place little value on it at all. As one remarked, "I didn't lose my virginity any more than I 'lost' my pacifier. I outgrew it."
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.
