{"id":543,"date":"2008-08-12T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/lust-lustlab-and-ta-tas\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T01:56:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T05:56:55","slug":"lust-lustlab-and-ta-tas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/lust-lustlab-and-ta-tas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lust, Lustlab, and Ta-ta&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>Lust (the book):<\/strong> Black Heart Magazine just posted a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/blackheartmagazine.com\/index2.php?p=story&#038;id=167\">review<\/a> of Lust. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forney&#8217;s drawings are fabulous, a mixture of cute and sexy with lots of allusions from pop culture to high art. A large part of the fun is in seeing how she translates the print ads to graphics, without being crude. It&#8217;s a really playful take on ads that could otherwise come off as filthy and sensational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2. Lustlab Ad of the Week (the art show):<\/strong> For the Capitol Hill Artwalk on September 9, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babeland.com\/about\/seattle-store\">Babeland<\/a> is going to host a show of my Lustlab originals, and I&#8217;ll probably do my Lust reading\/presentation at their 15th anniversary party on September 18. The art show is called &#8220;Ta-ta, Lustlab Ad of the Week!&#8221; Why? Because:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Lustlab Ad of the Week (the cartoon):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>R.I.P.!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Online dating has gone through a lot of changes, as has the <em>Stranger<\/em>, and LLAOTW has been cut. I&#8217;m really sad, but it&#8217;s not a huge surprise &#8211; I&#8217;m thankful to have had the series for as long as I did (four years!). I&#8217;ll take the time to work on my new book, and will soon start plotting my next comic series. (I&#8217;m open to suggestions! And no, switching to Craigslist&#8217;s personals isn&#8217;t an option &#8212; pesky copyright issues..!)<\/p>\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n<p><em>Late night addendum:<\/em> Many thanks and for the well-wishes from commenters below, and from <a href=\"http:\/\/fleshbot.com\/5036539\/\">Fleshbot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlest.com\/2008\/08\/12\/lustlab_ad_of_the_week_has_ceased_t.php\">Seattlest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?option=com_myblog&#038;show=Ellen-Forney-says-ta-ta-to-Lustlab-Ad-of-the-Week.html&#038;Itemid=113\">Fantagraphics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/2008\/08\/12\/no-more-lustlab-for-light-rail-artist\">Capitol Hill Seattle<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenrain.com\/2008\/08\/the-stranger-to-cut-lustlab-ca.html\">Citizen Rain.<\/a> Deep curtseys! Blown kisses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Lust (the book): Black Heart Magazine just posted a lovely review of Lust. An excerpt: Forney&#8217;s drawings are fabulous, a mixture of cute and sexy with lots of allusions from pop culture to high art. A large part of the fun is in seeing how she translates the print ads to graphics, without being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/lust-lustlab-and-ta-tas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lust, Lustlab, and Ta-ta&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}