Ellen Forney will be at Seattle’s Central Library tonight, reading from her new graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me.  Her work has a hold on me that has everything to do with the photo above. It’s from 2008. I emailed her after shooting it: I learned of your work through the podcast you did with Jen Graves. Right around that time, I was photographing in Georgetown and saw a poster at (or near) Fantagraphics, promoting an appearance. Somehow the podcast and that one poster made a strong enough impression that today I recognized the torn-up remains of one of your posters. Remarkably (and here’s the part I hope you’ll take pride in, rather than focusing on someone having torn one of your posters) this fragment of your art was still so compelling that I left my car, took out my camera, and spent five minutes shooting. I had a great time.

Ellen Forney will be at Seattle’s Central Library tonight, reading from her new graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. 

Her work has a hold on me that has everything to do with the photo above. It’s from 2008. I emailed her after shooting it:

I learned of your work through the podcast you did with Jen Graves. Right around that time, I was photographing in Georgetown and saw a poster at (or near) Fantagraphics, promoting an appearance. Somehow the podcast and that one poster made a strong enough impression that today I recognized the torn-up remains of one of your posters. Remarkably (and here’s the part I hope you’ll take pride in, rather than focusing on someone having torn one of your posters) this fragment of your art was still so compelling that I left my car, took out my camera, and spent five minutes shooting. I had a great time.