Posts from — December 2006

Modern movie stars are hard to draw because they’re all pretty but in a kind of generic way.

“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. The “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics in early 2008.

Calling NY-ers and friends and loved ones! Please come, please spread the word!—

ELLEN FORNEY and MEGAN KELSO
Two Evenings of Multimedia Comics “Readings”

Cartoonists Ellen Forney and Megan Kelso celebrate the publication of their provocative comics anthologies I Love Led Zeppelin and The Squirrel Mother (Fantagraphics Books) with two evenings of irresistible, innovative performances.

Tuesday, January 9th at 7pm
The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway (at 12th St.)
212-473-1452

Friday, January 12th at 8pm
Rocketship
208 Smith St. (in Brooklyn)
718-797-1348

Forney performs as narrator with animated video adaptations of selected comics, including “The Final Soundtrack,” a death fantasy involving blood, glamour, and Led Zeppelin, “How to Be a Fabulous Fag Hag,” based on an interview with Margaret Cho, and “My Date with Camille Paglia.” Kelso will discuss her new book, the acclaimed Squirrel Mother, showing panels from the book that were inspired by her own life.

The presentations will be followed by an interview by cartoonist and critic Austin English and an audience Q&A with both artists, followed by a book signing.

This just in: Fantagraphics Books is going to publish a Lustlab Ad of the Week collection in early 2008. Yay!

“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. The “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics in early 2008.

Last night’s show at the new Fantagraphics store (COMICS ROCK! with Pete Bagge and me) went great (despite the crescendo of tech problems for me… but that’s all in the past now). Happy crowd, lots of cute people, and apparently the store sold a lot of books.

And I wore… Zeppelin sleeves!! Man, that RULED! I’ve always thought sleeves are cool, and I have a Kaz design tattooed on my whole back, but for now this ink on my arms is just henna-like paint and PrismaColor markers. As the final project in her independent study on tattoo art in various cultures, my student from Cornish, Morgan Cauthers-Knox, designed and painted full-sleeve Zeppelin-themed “tattoos” on her faculty advisor (me). (And the answer is yes, it’s tempting.)

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The animated first segment, by the crazy-talented Matt Rodriguez of Plexipixel.

Mid-performance of “Seattle’s Erotic Landmarks” (that’s the revolving sign on top of the Washington Energy Building)

This week’s Austin Chronicle includes a review of I Love Led Zeppelin (and the latest graphic novel from one of my absolute favorite cartoonists, Gilbert Hernandez). My book is: “uniformly boisterous”, “dork-positive”, and “manna for the sexually adventurous, post-feminist free spirit.” Cool! Thanks, guys!

COMICS ROCK!
Ellen Forney and Peter Bagge
Saturday, December 16 at 6pm
FREE!

Please join us at the new Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this Saturday for a special evening with the illustrious, entertaining cartoonists Peter Bagge and Ellen Forney. Ellen will be restaging her back-by-popular-demand multimedia performance based on the stories from her recent I Love Led Zeppelin collection, and Bagge will screen rarely seen animated shorts interspersed with tales of the glory days of grunge, which inspired the stories in Buddy Does Seattle. Also an excellent occasion to buy comics and art books as holiday presents!

Make this the first destination of your rollicking Saturday night!

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale St. in Georgetown
(Airport Way S. at S. Vale St., half a block north of the 9-Pound Hammer)
206-658-0110

I had everyone-but-everyone researching “smurf” as a slang term, to no avail. (Best definition I could find: all-purpose curse, like “fuck”: “That smurf smurfin’ smurfed her!”) But anyway this chick used it, and it appears here and there on message boards, so I figured I’d go with it.

“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. The “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics in early 2008.

A little product placement here. Love me some Fluevog boots!

“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. The “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection is scheduled to be released with Fantagraphics in early 2008.

December’s DiSCORDER Magazine has a round-up of five “great comics released this year” (“Inkstuds Year in Review”) and I Love Led Zeppelin made the cut. It’s a “romp” and “fabulous compendium”!