Long Vo (also known online as VO or Vostalgic) is an entrepreneur, freelance illustrator, producer and creative/art director. Long is one of the three original founders of

Gaia Online Gaia Online is an English-language anime-themed social networking and forums-based website with Chibi-style animations. It was founded as go-gaia on February 18, 2003, by Derek Liu, Long Vo, Josh Gainsbrugh, and the name was changed to GaiaO ...

, one of the first social gaming success stories being an English-language, anime-themed social networking and forums-based gaming website that grew to over 26 million registered users with 7 million

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s each month and was backed by venture firms such as Benchmark, Redpoint, DAG and Time Warner. Prior to this, Long managed comic studio Studio XD and produced illustrations, multimedia and comic books for

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Wildstorm Wildstorm Productions (stylized as WildStorm) is an American comic book imprint. Originally founded as an independent company established by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi to publish through Image Comics, Wildstorm became a publishing imprint of DC C ...

Image Comics Image Comics is an independent American American comic book, comic book publisher and is the third largest direct market comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry by market share. Its best-known publications include ''Spawn (comics) ...

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and many other publishers. Long's work was first noticed in '' PSM'' and ''

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'' magazine back in 1997 and since then his work has appeared in many other mediums from comics and kids books to internet websites and videogames. Long was listed as associate producer on an independent film ''All About Dad'' in 2009. Long was the lead sprite designer for ''

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix'' is a 2008 fighting game initially released on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Arcade services. A physical copy of the game was later released as part of '' Capcom Digital Collection''. It is a remake ...

'', a high definition remake of '' Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo'' that was released on

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and

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in November 2008. He provided artwork for the limited collector's edition of ''

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'' released in 2009 and was the lead ending artist on '' Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars'' for the

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. He would continue working with Capcom as the Lead Ending Illustrator for '' Streetfighter V'': Arcade Edition. He currently contributes cover illustrations for UDON's ''

Street Fighter 6 ''Street Fighter 6'' is a 2023 fighting game developed and published by Capcom. It is the seventh main entry in the ''Street Fighter'' franchise, following ''Street Fighter V'' (2016), and was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows ...

'' comic book series. Long is founder and creative director of Hiptic Games, a mobile games studio based in the Bay Area. Hiptic Games is the maker of the mobile game app GO NINJA and SHAQDOWN starring

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, both games featured in

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, as well as ''Bravoman: Binja Bash!'', a spiritual successor of the ''

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'' for

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under their Shifty Look banner. Their latest release is titled DiverDogs which debuted in July 2014 and was featured under Best New Games the week after. He still continues to do work for

and

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while creating new original IP and games for Hiptic Games. Long is currently CoFounder and COO at his startup OneSignal, the leading provider for Web Push and Mobile Push Notifications for Websites and Apps. He also continues to contribute to the Fighting Games community through his design work for

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, Nsurgo, UDON Entertainment and UDON Collectibles working on properties like Street Fighter V, Marvel VS Capcom Infinite and Robotech. He is also the designer for

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's "BEAST" brand.

Works

Comic books: * ''Tekken'' Series Cover Art (1998) * ''ECHO'' Series (1999–2000) * ''The Nine Rings of Wu-tang'' Series (2000) (Unpublished Work) * ''Last Shot:First Draw'' (2000) ** ''Last Shot'' Series (2000–2001) * ''

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'' Series (2001–2002) * ''

Robotech ''Robotech'' is an American-Japanese science fiction Media franchise, franchise that began with an 85-episode anime television series produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production; it was first released in the United St ...

'' Series (2002–2003) * ''Thundercats: Heroes and Villains'' Miniseries (2003) * ''Street Fighter'' Comic series (2004) * ''ROBOT'' Japanese Doujinshi (2010) * ''Super Street Fighter Volume 1'' Graphic Novel (2012) Video games: * ''RexBlade'' (Simon & Schuster, 1996) * '' Robotech: Battlecry'' (Vicious Cycle Software, 2003) * '' Capcom Fighting Jam'' (Capcom, 2004) * ''

'' (Capcom, Backbone Entertainment, 2008) * ''

Limited Collector's Edition'' (Capcom, 2009) * ''

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'' (Capcom, 2010) * '' Tatsunoko vs Capcom Ultimate Allstars '' (Capcom, 2010) * '' Final Fight: Double Impact'' (Capcom, 2010) * ''GO Ninja!'' (Hiptic Games, 2012) * ''ShaqDown'' (One Spear Entertainment/Hiptic Games, 2013) * ''Fat Squirrel'' (Hiptic Games, 2013) * ''Bravoman: Binja Bash!'' (Namco Bandai Games/Hiptic Games, 2013) * ''DiverDogs'' (Hiptic Games, 2014) * '' Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers'' (Capcom, 2017) * ''Fantasy Strike'' (Sirlin Games, 2017) * ''

Street Fighter V ''Street Fighter V'' is a 2016 fighting game developed by Capcom, Dimps and Taito and published by Capcom for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows, Windows. The major follow-up to ''Street Fighter IV'' (2008) as part of Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' ...

Arcade Edition'' (Capcom, 2018) Movies: * '' Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'' (Harmony Gold, 2007) *
All About Dad
'' (Spartan Film Studios, 2008) * ''

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'' (Warner Brothers, 2010) Board games: * '' Puzzle Strike '' (Sirlin Games, 2010) * ''

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'' (Sirlin Games, 2011) * ''Street Fighter

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'' (Hasbro, 2012)

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