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Friends of Lulu's 2008 Board of Directors
Friends of Lulu's Board of Directors are elected each summer at Comic Con: International at San Diego. This year's board members are listed below. All board members are volunteers, and receive no compensation (beyond reimbursement of expenses). Candidates for the Board must have been members of Friends of Lulu for at least 60 days prior to the election. Both comics professionals and comics fans are welcome to run for the board; self-nominations are accepted.
There are many ways to be active and help Friends of Lulu advance its goals in addition to serving as a member of the board.
Contact us if you would like to get involved!
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Valerie D'Orazio
President
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Better known in the Internet as The Occasional Superheroine, Valerie has nearly seven years of comic editing experience, with Valiant/Acclaim and DC, as well as experience in Internet marketing and nonprofit organizations.
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Leigh Dragoon
Vice President, Public Communications
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Leigh Dragoon is the writer and artist of the fantasy comic,
By the Wayside,
which runs on Girlamatic.com. She also writes for
Sequential Tart and manages the FOL website. Leigh was always interested
in telling stories, and became very interested in comics after reading Elfquest when she was 13 years old. 'Elfquest was the only
comic I could afford to buy for years, and I assumed all comics had a similar level of quality. Imagine my surprise when I poked my head up out
of my hole and saw how shoddy the characterization of females tended to be in mainstream books! It was in my search for more female-friendly comics
organizations that I came across FOL, and I thought it was a great idea right off. I grew up reading my father's old Little Lulu comics and,
looking back, what better figurehead for FOL is there? Lulu was an inventive storyteller, spunky, and almost always got the better of Tubby.'
Web-site: www.leighdragoon.com
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Adalisa Zarate
Vice President, Public Relations
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Adalisa is the editor of the Anime y Manga Colecci'n de Luxe in Mexico City, and she has been working in the industry in different roles since
she was sixteen, when she made her professional debut with a comic book titled I. Doll. Since then she has worked on three different mainstream magazines,
and two self-published ones as an artist and a writer, as well as many projects as a translator, writer and editor. 'While the problems of bringing new readers
to comic books are quite different in Mexico than in the USA, I bring a different perspective to the board.'
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Marion Vitus
Treasurer
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Marion Vitus is an illustrator and comic artist and an advocate of women in all professions.
She has served on the Outdoor Program Board and the Older Girl Planning Board of Western
Rivers Girl Scout Council. She has planned and run Day Camps for girls between the ages of
10-15 in a variety of capacities: Counselor, Staff, Assistant Director, Director and Advisory.
'I love comics and I love introducing people to comics I think they'll love.'
Read Marion's Webcomics Nation comic, No In-Between
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Nicole Boose
Membership Secretary
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Nicole Boose is an associate editor for Marvel Comics, working with outside clients to create comics for all audiences extending beyond the traditional market, as well as editing the monthly series Cable & Deadpool.
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Alison Bailey
Recording Secretary
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By day, Alison Bailey is an honors student at Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia where she majors in both Creative Writing and Visual Arts with a focus on Drawing. By night, she draws comics, makes one of a kind stuffed animals and bakes pies.
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Active Volunteers
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MK Reed
Anthology Editor
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MK Reed is now a graduate of Syracuse University. She lives in New Jersey, split between the shore and
the hillier parts up north. She writes and draws the acclaimed comic series Catfight.
Web-site: www.mkreed.com
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Marc Wilkofsky
New York Chapter President
Marc Wilkofsky acts as P.R. consultant for the organization while working as the director of Lulu's highly
active New York chapter. A copy editor/writer for Soap Opera Weekly, Marc is currently creating a
relationship/fantasy comic book entitled Chains.
Dave Roman
New York Chapter
Dave Roman is a comics editor for Nickelodeon Magazine and the writer of the comic series Quicken
Forbidden. He currently draws a weekly strip on GirlAMatic.com called Astronaut Elementary.
He has been active in the New York chapter of Friends of Lulu since 1997 and was the editor of the
critically acclaimed FoL anthology, Broad Appeal. He also helped organize several Lulu events, like the
Broad Appeal release party at MoCCA.
Trina Robbins
Editor of FoL Members' quarterly newsletter "Lulu's Clubhouse"
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