Author: ellen

Years ago, Danielle introduced me to her friend, “Weber,” an expert with rope. It was a long time until it occurred to me (duh) that his name was a pun: “Webber.”

LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is out and on the shelves! If you’re in Seattle, please come to the book release party at the Fantagraphics store on Sat., Feb. 9, 6pm – 9pm — or you can order it here directly from the Fantagraphics web-catalog.

“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.

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.)

Continue reading “LUST-Y WEB EXCLUSIVES! Kinky Freebies for You!”

There’s an amazing exhibit of R. Crumb’s work right now at the Frye Art Museum. Kelly O did a video of me standing in the gallery, talking about Crumb’s work, my own work, and booties and boots.

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See Ellen Forney at her book launch party and art exhibition for “LUST: Kinky Online Personal Ads” on February 9th at Fantagraphics Books. See the R. Crumb exhibition at the Frye Art Museum, Jan 26-April 27. Listen to Jen Graves’ InVisible podcast about the Crumb exhibition with Ellen Forney and Kelly O here.

I tried to use Greek (and “Greek”) lettering for the whole ad, but it was really incomprehensible. It was pretty entertaining to write out, though.

LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is out and on the shelves! If you’re in Seattle, please come to the LUST book release party at the Fantagraphics store on Sat., Feb. 9, 6pm – 9pm — or you can order it here directly from the Fantagraphics web-catalog.

“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.

Alison Bechdel, one of my totally absolute favorite cartoonists, gave me a plug on her website. (Alison = Dykes to Watch Out For; Fun Home…. she’s awesome!) She’s kidding with the furrowed brow. Sort of.

This woman said that she likes “dark” artists like Odd Nerdrum, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and Joel-Peter Witkin. Another never-used reference book! I pulled out my collection of creep-o Witkin photographs and painted, scratched, and blotted my way through this week’s cartoon.

LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is out and on the shelves! If you’re in Seattle, please come to the LUST book release party at the Fantagraphics store on Sat., Feb. 9, 6pm – 9pm — or you can order it here directly from the Fantagraphics web-catalog.

“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.

So, yes, a vixen is a female fox (ooh, sexy, slinky) but the next definition says “a woman who is quarrelsome, shrewish, or malicious.” Be forewarned!

“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. And watch for LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection (Fantagraphics Books) in January 2008!

I thought “man-ass” was funny. But I think a leprechaun saying “man-ass” is pretty hilarious.

“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. And watch for LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection (Fantagraphics Books) in January 2008!

I used an old toothbrush for the ink splatters, something my dad used to do on his watercolor paintings.

“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. And watch for LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection (Fantagraphics Books) in January 2008!

This week’s issue of The Stranger is about the size of a pamphlet, so my cartoon is on a one-week hiatus. Instead, dear blog-reader, here is the back cover art for the book collection, featuring full-color versions of a few non-nudity ads. (In my original design, one of the ads showed a woman in a strap-on, to which my publisher said “Mm, nah.”)

“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. And watch for LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection (Fantagraphics Books) in January 2008!