Anonymous Boy
Tony Arena (born circa 1965), also known by his pen name Anonymous Boy, is an openly queer artist, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his comics, his involvement in the queercore movement, and other contributions to queer punk zines, his column in Maximum Rocknroll magazine, his public-access television program The Wild Record Collection, and animation such as his film Green Pubes. Career

Comics and artistic work 

He adopted the pen name Anonymous Boy after G.B. Jones, the editor of queer punk zine J.D.s, credited an illustration he'd submitted to "an anonymous boy". Anonymous Boy was a queer punk zine that Arena began in the 1980s and ran through the early 2000s with nine known collections. Film and animation 
After this, he and boyfriend Ron Grunewald began producing a regular public access television show called The Wild Record Collection which appeared on Manhattan Neighborhood Public Access Television on Friday nights. Public Access pioneer George C. Stoney, widely regarded as "the Father of Public Access" was in attendance to vehemently criticize the featured programs as the "worst" of what Public Access had to offer. Writings 
In 2001, Arena began writing a regular column for the long running punk rock zine Maximum Rocknroll. His column lasted until 2004. He continues to draw comics, contributes to books and publications, and produces his own fanzines Homopunk World, created in 1997. Homopunk World featured interviews with many queer punk comics and musicians, including G.B. Jones, C. Bard Cole, and Joe Butcher of the American Band Ludichrist. Arena would also include reviews of punk fanzines and music. He is a regular contributor to the anthology Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly. The last issue to be released as a zine, the 10th Anniversary issue of Boy Trouble appeared in 2004. Since then, two volumes of the anthology have been published, the first, The Book of Boy Trouble, in 2006, followed by The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2 in 2008. Personal life 
Arena resides in New York City. He has been in a relationship with Ron Grunewald since 1986. Works

Books 
The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Green Candy Press, October 2008 
The Book of Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Green Candy Press; 1st edition (September 28, 2006) 
Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Boy Trouble Books, 2005, 
What's Right? : Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003, 
What's Wrong?, edited by Robin Fisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, 
Queer Zines 2, edited by A.A. Bronson and Philip Aarons, Printed Matter Press, 2013,

Film

As Director

Green Pubes, 1995

As Actor
The Lollipop Generation directed by G.B. Jones, 2008

References

External links
Anonymous Boy on My Space

American comics artists
Underground cartoonists
American comics writers
Queercore
LGBT comics creators
Living people
Year of birth uncertain
1960s births
21st-century American LGBT people