SARS Digital Art Series, Exhibit X: Laurenn McCubbin

Xeni Jardin 3:38 am Sun Jun 15, 2003

Link to full-size image. This installment was created exclusively for BoingBoing by Laurenn McCubbin, author and illustrator of the Xeric Award Winning XXXLiveNudeGirls and XXXLNG:Pretty Like A Princess (with Nikki Coffman), as well as the Creative Director for Kitchen Sink Magazine. She lives in West Oakland, California and writes at www.laurennmccubbin.com.

About this piece, she explains: "The title is kind of obvious. I was just thinking about how all these stories in the papers about how local Chinatowns were becoming deserted, bad for SF, a tourist town. And how people are just kind of closing recent immigrants into these city centers, isolating them and reverting back to a century old racist practice without even realizing it. And I am wondering about local 'Koreatowns' and 'Japantowns', if they are affected by our sudden American contraction from all things unlike us… I know the hookers in the Tenderloin are still doing a swinging job outside all the Vietnamese restaurants."

Her recent projects include "No Goodbyes" in Kitchen Sink Magazine, and "Harvest Gypsy" for ARTBOMB.
Upcoming projects include "Perfect," due out in TRUE PORN this month, and "Click" in PROJECT:TELSTAR. For details on Laurenn's work, including a forthcoming graphic novel, visit her web site.

Discuss, visit the SARS Art Project Archives at www.sarsart.org.

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