After some weird delays in customs, LUST is making its way into stores this week. Hooray! (For your own copy — or one for your Valentine?? — call your favorite independent bookstore to see if they have it in yet, or you can order directly from Fantagraphics).
But wait there’s more!!!
1: I made downloadable desktop wallpaper out of the book’s endpapers (my drawings from Babeland’s catalog, on a kinky pink background). Yes, iPhone users: you can now have a tidy mess of sex toys on your phone — you know you want it…!
Download the size you want below:
| 1280 x 960 | 1280 x 1024 | 1280 x 720 | 1680 x 1050 | iPhone
2: In addition to over 100 “Lustlab Ad of the Week” cartoons, LUST includes interviews with six satisfied Lustlabbers — keep reading for your WEB EXCLUSIVE excerpt! (The intern who transcribed this particular interview told me she could hear the ice clinking in our cocktails.)
Excerpted interview with
ELIZABETH and JOE, 40 and 41
“beastwithfourbacks”
ELLEN: What made you two decide to put a Lustlab ad in together?
JOE: We had these separate relationships, and then we had our relationship, and then it was like, let’s have an adventure together. We loved each other and were getting more in tune together and it was like, what would that be like?
ELIZABETH: One thing about us that clicked in the dating world was that we were both perverts, right? It felt organic — like, “Hey do you want to go to a movie tonight? Okay. Do we feel like Greek or Ethiopian or Italian or Thai? Whatever. Oh, hey, let’s try putting an ad in and play with a couple. Cool, all right.”
It made complete sense. I think all of the values and all of the negotiations that would go into that decision were already how we started together as a couple, and so all of that groundwork was already there.
JOE: Yeah, totally. I don’t think it was like [Lowers to husky voice]: “I’ve got this fantasy: us with another couple.”
ELLEN: Do you only play as a couple?
ELIZABETH: Joe also has single ads. [To Joe] Or do still you respond to those ads?
JOE: Long time ago. Now I just respond to ads as a couple.
ELIZABETH: But you’ve responded to a few people since we’ve been together. You played with a couple trannies. And that lesbian.
ELLEN: “That lesbian”?
JOE: Yeah, there was a lesbian who wanted to Saran Wrap a boy. She was total butch, just a full-on butch dyke.
ELLEN: She just wanted to wrap you up?
JOE: Pretty much. She completely wrapped me up in Saran Wrap and then threw me on her bed and enjoyed the fact that I was… wrapped.
ELLEN: Did she pay particular attention to your genitals?
JOE: No, but she gave me a handjob at the end. Definitely. I came. And then she unwrapped me and said, “OK, you can give me a back rub.”
ELIZABETH: I think that’s so sweet.
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Other interviews include the bisexual woman who had 31 orgasms on her 30th birthday, the young internet text-sexer transitioning to real live lovers, the female-to-male transsexual sadist, and the new master with a “ReadyMade” sense for outfitting his dungeon (“It’s amazing what you can do with IKEA benches”).
Honestly, they were fascinating interviews to do, and I thank each of my interviewees from the heart of my bottom. (No small feat!) Here’s another handy link to the Fantagraphics catalog!
And if you’re in the Seattle area, please come to the book release party on Sat., Feb. 9, 6 – 9pm at the Fantagraphics store in Georgetown — I mean it, it’ll be a party: DJ, kissing booth, free chocolate (miniature candy bars with custom LUST wrappers), short performance by me — more!!
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