Congrats to Life Meter contributor, Matt Loux!

His videogame inspired graphic novel, Sidescrollers
was listed by The American Library Association as one of the Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2008

If you haven't read it yet, go check it out!

I still haven't had a chance to play Super Mario Galaxy yet, but a lot of friends are saying it's the game of the year. Here's a tie-in comic by hiimdaisy that might contain spoilers?

( Storybook behind the cut... )

Alisa Harris sent us this great comic inspired by the hit online game series, Diner Dash!



Alisa writes "I don't play that many video games, but Diner Dash took over my spare time for a while. The idea for this comic came out of playing "the endless shift" when I don't want to be sucked into the game for too long."

Side note: the characters and art in Diner Dash was originally created by Alisa's fellow SVA alumi, Amy Kim Ganter, who went on to create awesome comics series like Sorceress and Secretaries from TokyoPop.

Hey Lifemeter fans! If you're going to be in the northeast this weekend, don't you think you should come check out the New York Anime Fest?
This show promises to be one of the biggest shows of its kind, and LIFEMETER will be there in force!
 Be sure to pick up a copy of Lifemeter #1, and hopefully you'll also be able to get your mitts on a copy of Lifemeter #2 which is nearly sold out! But don't fret, we'll be sure to have lots of pins, stickers and prints for you, too. So stop by and say hi! Hope to see everyone there!

 It's been awhile, no? Here's a cute comic from Carolina Moya. Here's her explanation:

  " I loved Valkyrie Profile ever since the first game came out. In the first game you play as the Valkyrie, Lenneth.  In Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria, you play as her sister, Silmeria.
   It's a great game if you're just picking it up and also a really great way to continue the series.  If you did play the first one , you'll appreciate playing this game since it is a prequel to the original and it answers a lot of questions you might have had.
   I made this comic joking around about one of the newly added features for leveling characters. The non-main characters that enter your party have a " free level" attached to them.   When you level them up to what ever their "free level" is,  you can turn them into some powerful one-time-use items.  Basically you level up these characters, turn them into "Einherjar Vitamins" ( thats what I call it)  and then make your  loved characters stronger! "

 You can see more of her wonderful art at Endless Fluff!

Thanks to everyone who voted on the Sonic the Hedgehog Game Art Challenge
There were SO many great submissions, each with their own charms that it was even tough to figure out the tally for the winners! So really there were no losers. But based on the votes here are the winners:

1st Place:
By Sean Kelley


2nd Place:
By Marc Ruiner, mars_malice


3rd Place:

By Michael Bowen, zap199x

4th Place:
By James Mar


The first 3 winners get awesome prizes and the all 4 of them will be added to the Life Meter online gallery and possibly appear in a future print anthology. Congrats!!
Be on the lookout for the next Game Art Challenge later this year!

We got a lot of great entries for our Sonic the Hedgehog edition of the Game Art Challenge

Now we need your help to pick the winners! Check out the entries and vote for your first, second and third favorites. Then we'll announce the winner on MONDAY, October 29th!



( see the entries and cast your vote!! )