Fabulous Fag Hag

Happy new year everyone! My friend Ellen Forney is doing a show in NYC. I wish I could go, but I am busy directing my bellydance film. Go for me and tell her I said hi!

ELLEN FORNEY and MEGAN KELSO
Two Evenings of Multimedia Comics & Readings

Cartoonists Ellen Forney and Megan Kelso celebrate the publication of their provocative comics anthologies I Love Led Zeppelin and The Squirrel Mother (Fantagraphics Books) with two evenings of irresistible, innovative, multimedia performances.

Tuesday, January 9th at 7pm
The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway (at 12th St.)
212-473-1452

Friday, January 12th at 8pm
Rocketship
208 Smith St. (in Brooklyn)
718-797-1348

Forney performs as narrator with animated video adaptations of selected comics, including “The Final Soundtrack,” a death fantasy involving blood, glamour, and Led Zeppelin, “How to Be a Fabulous Fag Hag,” based on an interview with Margaret Cho, and “My Date with Camille Paglia.” Kelso will discuss her new book, the acclaimed The Squirrel Mother, showing panels from the book that were inspired by her own life.

The presentations will be followed with an interview by cartoonist and critic Austin English and an audience Q & A with both artists, followed by a book signing.

Praise for Forney’s I Love Led Zeppelin: “Forney’s line work is so graceful, bold and supple it’s hard not to feel like you’re ogling it.” (Salon) “Forney offers real laughter and deep glimpses of the human. Sometimes you have to trick people into happiness. Forney pulls off this trick again and again.” (LA Times Book Review) “High art.” (featured in the December issue of SPIN)

Praise for Kelso’s The Squirrel Mother: “Like the short stories of Charles Baxter or Alice Munro, Kelso’s stories resonate long after you’ve read the last line (or, in her case, panel). She’s one of the surprisingly few cartoonists who understand that visual metaphor is the medium they work with, and knows how to use it with subtlety and force.” (Baltimore City Paper)