Month: July 2007

Overslept, gotta run! But I guest-blogged for Alison Bechdel last night, so you can read about our Eisner Award ceremony exploits here.

I really wanted use some of that ubiquitous, awful, drop-shadowed lettering, but I settled for a silly “I’m self-publishing!!” font. It was fun to typeset something – I always brush my own lettering.

“Lustlab Ad of the Week” is a comic adaptation of one of the week’s kinky personal ads in Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, and I post them here every Wednesday. See it on their site here. LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics Books in January 2008.

The Stranger’s arts editor, Jen Graves, not only wrote a nice little review of “Big Fuckin’ Hands,” but did it as a Stranger Suggests listing for this past Saturday night. Awesome!

‘Big Fuckin’ Hands’

(Art) Ellen Forney’s black-and-white hands on red backgrounds are big and fucking. The largest paintings are shorthand for sex acts (a fist gripping an index finger); the smaller ones are individual portraits of friends’ hands miming actual sexual acts. What a difference there is between the broad comedic shorthand and the surprisingly quiet, intimate gestures. We stand in the gap, a little embarrassed, a little turned on. (Liberty, 517 15th Ave E, 323-9898. 4 pm—2 am, free, 21+.) Jen Graves

I liked this couple’s story. And who knew “COCK” would make such a visually perfect head?

“Lustlab Ad of the Week” is a comic adaptation of one of the week’s kinky personal ads in Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, and I post them here every Wednesday. See it on their site here. LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics Books in January 2008.

Yes, the ads are real, and yes, I edit them heavily. I often add my own titles, like for this one. How can she not have called her ad “All You Can Eat”?? It’s almost too obvious.

“Lustlab Ad of the Week” is a comic adaptation of one of the week’s kinky personal ads in Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, and I post them here every Wednesday. See it on their site here. LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics Books in January 2008.