“Beloved local artist and Stranger contributor Ellen Forney is this month’s writer-in-residence for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and today’s P-I features an original Forney graphic essay. Congrats, Ellen!”

Yeah, I know that it’s only tangentially related to Alison, but when did that stop any of us before?

I’d give links, but I’ve found that that sometimes delays the posting, and “Did you know…” changes approximately every six hours. I’ll post again with a links later.

Curious,
Sunicarus

On another note, Rubyfruit jungle came second to hearing the Indigo Girls for the first time.

And I totally agree that on the one hand it’s great that comics and graphic novels and the like are being see now as “legitimate” art and on the other hand, it sucks. Speaking as a fine artist (who is still no legitimized, mind you) from an art history perspective, it’s so easy to be both accepted and marginalized simultaneously. A lot of art is brought into the mainstream because it’s “new” and “edgey” and “kitsch” and “quaint” and “outsider”. Then rich people buy it up like crazy to be hip and before you know it something else is hip and artists end up standing on the street, stripped naked (metaphorically) wondering why their dealer never calls anymore. Jean Micheal Basquiat is a pretty good (and sad) example of this. Not that I anticipate that happening to you, because no matter what the mainstream thinks, you have the blessing of a legion of fans who will love whatever you do, because they loved you first. But my point is that in the arts, its hard to gain success because you don’t know exactly how much of it is good to have…

I hope that came out right…