Lustlab Ads by Ellen Forney
Lustlab ad, by Ellen Forney
Lustlab is the kinky personals section for Seattle’s alternative weekly, The Stranger. Ellen Forney is a primo Seattle-based comic & illustration artist, who’s been a fixture on The Stranger’s pages for many years now.
Each week, Ellen takes one of the actual ads running in Lustlab, and turns it into a single-panel comic. She gets really inventive with it — an ad looking for a spanking is in the shape of a handprint, an ad talking about a rather delicate piercing is depicted graphically using the words of the text, and this ad takes the “daddy” and “third wheel” refrerence where it logically needs to go: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth territory. You can see all of Ellen’s Lustlab ads here. Borderline NSFW (more for the text than the images). There’s also a book of her Lustlab ads planned for 2008 by Fantagraphics. [via Robot Action Boy]
[UPDATE: Since this got picked up by BoingBoing, Ellen Forney's web server has seized up; a kind soul has uploaded her Lustlab ads onto Flickr. Besure to check them out on her website once it's back up again, though, because she shares a lot of insight into how she created each ad.]
Hmmm … Ellen Forney’s site seems to have gone down.
I wonder if the fact that this appeared on boing boing led a surge of rubber-netters over to Ellen’s blog, causing the crash?
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