{"id":659,"date":"2008-12-18T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-12-18T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T01:43:17","slug":"this-weeks-stranger-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/this-weeks-stranger-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Stranger Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun to do a Stranger cover<\/a> because for a week, I get to see my work everywhere: strewn in cafes, tucked under arms, crumpled in the gutter. I didn’t think the art director would let me do another cover so soon (my last one was in September) but I guess I made a good case for it. (As I recall, it was something along the lines of “Pleeeease??!”)<\/p>\n

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“Triangle Choke, or Ballard Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu Alliterates Artfully”<\/em> (an admittedly tortured shout-out to my school, Ballard BJJ<\/a>. “Alliterates Artfully” -??)<\/p>\n

A few people have asked how many covers I’ve done. My first was in 1993 – it was also my first paid job as an illustrator – but after that I wasn’t sure. So I decided to go through my archives, and rounded up nine. I’m pretty sure I got all of them, but by “my archives” I mean a variety of ripped folders, overstuffed envelopes, and plastic sleeves. Back in the creaky ol’ mid-nineties I still used to hand in my originals, and in a fit of organizational pique several years ago I threw out my yellowing copies of the newspapers. (Geeks: remember cutting rubylith?)<\/p>\n

Here’s what I have, starting with the most recent:<\/p>\n

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\nSeptember, 2008. This is my mouth. <\/p>\n

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\nJuly, 2007. “Two Fingers” is a painting in my “Big Fuckin’ Hands” series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nFebruary, 2003. This image is also the cover for Best Erotic Comics 2008<\/a> (Last Gasp), which, interestingly, is featured on BoingBoing right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nMarch, 1998. I could only find the artwork for this one. (I remember drawing it around the time of my 30th birthday, though. International Women’s Day = my birthday, March 8.)<\/p>\n

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\nApril, 1997, collaboration with Shawn Wolfe<\/a>. I did a drawing of my friend Gwen holding an object (I had her hold a sleeping bag, then removed the sleeping bag and had her hold the pose) and Shawn did the rest.<\/p>\n

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\nNovember, 1996. This was also a t-shirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nMarch, 1996. Another International Women’s Day cover. (Note that the usually-phallic rockets look like breasts. Thank you, you’re welcome.)<\/p>\n

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\nNovember, 1995. Eleni (on the right) made that corset.<\/p>\n

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\nMarch, 1995. The newspaper was going through a redesign so the theme was “change.”<\/p>\n

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\nJuly, 1993. I did this when the Stranger was still based on the top floor of a house in Wallingford, which makes me one of the o-o-old timers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun to do a Stranger cover because for a week, I get to see my work everywhere: strewn in cafes, tucked under arms, crumpled in the gutter. I didn’t think the art director would let me do another cover so soon (my last one was in September) but I guess I made a … Continue reading “This Week’s Stranger Cover”<\/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-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}