World Famous Comics: Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads
Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads
By: Ellen Forney Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Fantagraphics Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 168 Publication Date: January 30, 2008
Product Description: Combining the kinky world of online dating and comics in crazy explosion!
Ellen Forney's follow-up to her wildly successful I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of personal classifieds.
Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified ads by interpreting the most interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad in that week's paper, that is awarded the appellation "Lustlab Ad of the Week." "Lustlab" is the category encompassing the kinkiest personal ads in the paper, and every week the page attracts Seattle's finest lovers, kinksters, perverts, and the perv-curious, and each week, Forney chooses one ad, edits the text, and creates a comic combining that text and imagery. She uses her brushwork in many different styles—bold and graphic, fine and detailed, cartoony, or elegant, depending on the tone of the ad. She uses a variety of resource materials for inspiration, from early erotic photography to Tom of Finland to Wacky Packages-style send-ups of consumer products to original designs.
Exhibitionists, voyeurs, threesomes, moresomes, tops, bottoms, switches, rope-lovers, spankers, spankees, bi-curious men, bi-curious women, lesbians with prison fantasies, masturbation clubs—Forney illustrates them all in her bemused, affectionate, witty, and elegant style.
In addition to the text and illustrations, the author embarked upon the rare journalistic feat of interviewing six enthusiastic Lustlab subscribers, who provide background, context, and hilarity (intentional and unintentional) by discussing their participation in the Lustlab network and their lusty experiences with the lovers for whom they advertised. Thrill to their outré sexual quests! Live vicariously through their sexual adventuring! To cap it off, the collection includes an introduction by the notorious sex advice columnist and novelist (and Stranger editor), Dan Savage.
You'll meet (and love): • The female-to-male transsexual boot-loving Germanophile • The trashy fat redneck man seeking same, preferably with months-old B.O. • The erotic hypnotist's offer to give women mind-blowing "joy-buttons" • The smartass bisexual nerdy-girl rope-lover • The obedient transvestite who wants to clean women's toilets • The man organizing a private strip poker game for gay men • The butch dyke seeking a femme for erotic medieval reenactments • Three women friends seeking a male "service bottom" • The woman who wants to watch a very fat woman on the toilet • The male-to-female blonde transsexual who wants "airhead" lessons • The man who wants to be humped in public by someone in an animal costume • The woman who wants to try "pegging" for the first time.
Exhibitionists, voyeurs, threesomes, moresomes, tops, bottoms, switches, rope-lovers, spankers, spankees, bi-curious men, bi-curious women, lesbians with prison fantasies, jack-off clubs—Forney illustrates them all in her bemused, affectionate, witty, and elegant style.
pass the mouthwash Well, I wanted to like this book...as I havea largely kinky, free-spirited side...but, I wasn't that impressed. Was it edgy? Yes. Provocative? Not so much. A little TOO raunchy..just for raunch's sake? Most def. I only "liked" ( was titilated by) maybe three out of ALL of the pages!
Indulge your inner voyeur with Ellen Forney's celebration of the bizarre and beautiful For the last three years, artist Ellen Forney has illustrated selected personal ads for the Seattle-based alternative weekly The Stranger. Forney publishes the Lustlab Ad of the Week for The Stranger's adults-only personal section, selecting her material from the Lustlab postings by men and women seeking other men, women, or ?, from couples (be they MW, MM, or WW couples), from groups, and from transvestites and transsexuals. The author noted in a recent interview that she's only illustrated one ad from a woman-woman couple - they're everyone's fantasy, but they aren't out posting for dates.
Forney has an eye for the bizarre, for flying one's freak flag high with pride, as evidenced by her previous illustrated work I Love Led Zeppelin. In LUST, she gives perverted ads a playful treatment, turning odd fetishes into outrageous caricatures. She pays homage to glam pin-up style, draws from mainstream cartoon and popular culture images, and revives the style of early 1900's consumer advertising. Her bold brush strokes paint hippie-inspired images, sailor tattoos, and comic book covers. She has only one limit - Forney is uncomfortable about discreet encounters. She doesn't illustrate ads in which the poster aims to cheat on an unsuspecting partner.
This art collection is complemented by four interviews Forney conducted with Lustlab posters about their preferences, desires, and experiences. Introduction from Savage Love's Dan Savage.
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