User:Kirk Greenfield/The Virgin Project

The Virgin Project was an interactive exhibit held at the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival and has grown into a pair of graphic novels collecting personal stories. As the title implies, the stories are comic art versions of anonymous stories of how individuals lost their virginity. The exhibit began as interviews conducted by Seattle area graphic artists K.D.Boze and Stacia Koti, and then drawn in semi-real time to be posted upon a public display wall. After the great success of the exhibit, the question of what to do with these "comic book pages" came up, and the decision was to publish the best in a graphic novel to be called "The Virgin Project". After an inital print run, the Project has spawned a second volume, released in April 2010 by Fanny Press. The Virgin Project is an ongoing effort to collect personal stories for consideration of illustration and inclusion in future volumes. Although personal histories are still collected in person at each years' Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, the authors/creators are also accepting submissions via the internet. Names and appearances are changed, and each story is identified by a first name, age and occupation only. Further information can be obtained from the author's website www.TheVirginProject.com