Category — Lustlab Ad of the Week

Before this week’s LLAOTW installment, I’d like to announce this upcoming event:

LUST comes to CAPITOL HILL!
Multimedia reading by Ellen Forney! Dazzling dancer Fuschia FoXXX (voted one of the Stranger’s “Sexiest Citizens”!)! Scantily-clad sirens, including Holly Chernobyl (also voted one of the Stranger’s “Sexiest Citizens”!)! Chocolate kisses! And more!! FREE!

Thursday, February 28, 7pm
Bailey/Coy Books
414 Broadway Ave. E. (across from QFC)
206-323-8842

Please come!

And now, this week’s perv:

LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is out and on the shelves! 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.

The latest “ink” on Lust: a post on BoingBoing links to an interview on The Reverse Cowgirl (thanks, Susannah!); nice posts in Electrolicious and Boinkology for Lust and the “kinky, pinky” downloadable wallpaper; a review in Fleshbot (in a list called “Valentine’s Day Presents Don’t Have to Suck Unless You Want Them To”); and a sweet review in Detroit’s Metro Times by Sean Bieri, which introduced me to the word “squick”:

Forney has a golden knack for making even the fringiest, most squick-inducing sexual practices look fun, funny, sexy and human (if not exactly “normal”), without robbing them of their edge.

In Lust, rather than poke fun at the advertisers, which would be easy, or exaggerate their kinkiness, which would be hard, she takes a wholly individual approach that celebrates the kinksters without slavishly illustrating the ad copy. …

Now this is a sexual education, and one that can’t help but bring a smile to the face of all but the most uptight readers.

AND!! I’ll be doing another Lust reading in Seattle, at Bailey Coy Books, on Thursday, February 28, at 7pm. This one is more of a sit-down affair, and there’ll be more sexiness, with dancer Fuschia FoXXX, and cute, scantily-clad persons distributing chocolates. Please come!!

Happy Valentine’s Day, movers and shakers!

LUST, the “Lustlab Ad of the Week” book collection, is out and on the shelves! 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.

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.)

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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.

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!