Yes, all good things must come to an end, but that doesn't mean we have to be happy when they do. So while we're glad to see she's in good spirits about it, we were crushed to hear that The Stranger decided to cut Ellen Forney's Lustlab Ad of the Week cartoon. Obviously, we were big fans. (And does this mean that the July 31 cartoon was her last? There's a trivia question in the......

We've been Ellen Forney fans since we read "I Was Seven in '75" -- back when it ran in The Rocket. Her latest project is Lust, a collection of the "Lustlab Ad of the Week" cartoons she does for The Stranger, published this month by Fantagraphics. We interviewed Forney about the cartoon at Georgetown's All City Coffee, just down the block from the Fantagraphics store where there will be a book launch party tomorrow night.......

"List.Last." by christopher575 This morning's selection from the Seattlest Flickr pool combines wordplay and Ellen Forney, two of our favorite things. (Yes, we're also fond of lust.) Thanks for sharing!......

So we woke up with no intention of getting all Gloria Steinem on you early on a Sunday morning, but after searching for the tie that bound together our first day of Bumbershoot, we couldn't help but gloat that the women of Bumbershoot were kicking ass/taking names. We started our day with Decadance Theater, an all-female dance troupe who popped, locked, flipped and B-Girled their way through a history of hip-hop, stomping all over a......

Jim Woodring and Ellen Forney at the Fantagraphics booth at ComiCon this weekend from the Seattlest Flickr Pool, compliments of, surprise, Fantagraphics.......

--The Seattle Mystery Bookshop gets sucked into a publisher's con game. [Seattle Mystery Bookshop] --BibliOdyssey stumbles across a trove of Space Needle and Century 21 sketches. [BibliOdyssey] --A's 1B Dan Johnson is out for three months. [SFGate.com] --Yeah, maybe teachers should be paid as much as athletes. [Seattle P-I] --Ellen Forney talks comics. [Inkstuds] --Should Starbucks compensate a barista who had stuff stolen from her car while she was at work? [Starbucks Gossip] Farmland......

--Looks like there will be not one, not two, wait, yes, two. There will be two separate up-or-down votes on Seattle ballots regarding the Viaduct, neither of which will eventually matter for shit. --Sunday marks the final edition of the King County Journal. A wake will be held at the Bellevue Hilton on February, 2. --The Seattle Center skate park, too. She gone. --KIRO is under new ownership. Of course you didn't know -......

DONATE: For as much as gamers earn their nerdy reputations (and thus our ridicule), Child's Play gives them a chance to both share their geek pride and help the world around them through donations to help kids in hospitals. You want to help too, right? Anytime // Child's Play // However much you can COMICS: Seattlest favorites Ellen Forney and Peter Bagge provide a double-dose of awesome with Comics Rock!, featuring Forney's "I Love......

Seattle cartoonist confederation "Friends of the Nib" will host a benefit art show at Cafe Racer Saturday night (6-8pm), and according to an email we received from one Max Woodring, "100% of all proceeds from art sales will go to Jason Gooder, who was recently injured in a fall." Seattlest has no clue who this "Jason Gooder" person is (perhaps a secret alias Max Woodring exploits for profit?), or if the fall in question......

Megan Kelso's latest graphic short story collection The Squirrel Mother Stories was a pleasant surprise to Seattlest. Far too many semiautobiographical graphic stories fail to connect with their audience, adopting an artistic style incongruent with the subject or navel-gazing to a degree that renders the story largely masturbatory. Kelso avoids those trappings and creates a collection that resonates with the audience on an undefinable level, plucking emotional strings through simple artwork and in most cases......

Yes we do. Ever since moving to Seattle in '93 and discovering "I Was Seven in '75" in, we're pretty sure, the Weekly, back when we read anything but the movie times in the Weekly. So we thoroughly, heartily, and fully recommend attending her "Reading/Video/Performance/Signing" at Bailey/Coy books tonight at 7, followed by purchasing her new book, I Love Led Zeppelin. Yes, The Stranger recommends it too, but they've worked with Forney in the past......

Results are in from partly-local food blog The Ethicurean's recent doughnut taste-off. They pitted doughnuts from Top Pot, Mighty-O, and Krispy Kreme against each other. You should read the entire taste-off account -- very entertaining -- but we'll spoil the results now: We quickly decide on our favorites. For the Butter Bitch, Top Pot’s old-fashioned is the best because it has a consistent flavor but isn’t sickeningly fake. The cake is nice and moist. Mighty-O’s......

Yeah, yeah, Amazon is using tags. But Amazon.com is soooo 20th century. Recently, Seattlest has been seduced by LibraryThing, which does for your book collection what deli.cio.us does for your bookmark collection: show them off. Entering books is ridiculously easy -- use a few title and author keywords or the ISBN and LibraryThing consults Amazon.com and a host of libraries for you. It's an exhibitionist bibliophile's wet dream. (But for heaven's sake, keep the wetness......

Fans of the "rock'n'roll" genre will presumably enjoy tonight's "Art of Modern Rock" exhibition held in conjunction with the Flatstock poster show series presented by the American Poster Institute. The Seattle Times already scooped Seattlest's team of investigative journalists on the story, but we think the show merits worth mentioning again, in so much as this may turn out to be the only part of the Bumbershoot festival certain members of Seattlest will see this......

Ellen Forney's "I Was Seven in '75" was, along with Dan Savage's advice column, one of the first things Seattlest "discovered" upon moving to Seattle. The "honest, charming, and good-natured" comic strip was one of the main reasons we picked up The Rocket. We still consider it (along with Freaks and Geeks) one of the most authentic artistic depictions of our preadolescent world. When Fantagraphics published Monkey Food: The Complete "I Was Seven in......

While Seattlest is familiar with the work of Bay Area cartoonists Eric Drooker and Keith Knight, we have to admit to a less than intimate familiarity with Flashbacks and Premonitions author Jon Longhi, an alleged "urban humorist." This California threesome will stage the Seattle leg of their "Ink, Sweat & Tears" cartoon concert and book tour this Saturday at 7pm in Capitol Hill at Confounded Books, with local cartoonist and Stranger regular Ellen Forney making......