Anthony Ventura Art For Sale

As I've mentioned here before, Anthony Ventura is an artist/illustrator friend of mine, who does truly great work. A few years ago, we collaborated on a project called The Fetish Alphabet, for which I would write flash fictions about strange fetishes and for which Anth created amazing artworks for every letter. These days, Anth is selling prints of some of his amazing work in his new online store, and I just received my very own print of Kentucky Fried Woman, which is the artwork Anth created for "A Is for Anthropophagy." It is a limited edition, archival quality giclee print, and it is absolutely beautiful. In addition to his Evolve-R blog, Anth has more recently launched The Skullshire Girls blog, featuring "a gaggle of young women from the town of Skullshire." In any case, if you need any motivation in supporting the arts, read Malcolm Gladwell's "Late Bloomers," because sometimes what sustains a great artist is you.

The Art of Anthony Ventura

Artist Anthony Ventura is a friend of mine, and he dropped me a note recently to let me know that some of his amazing prints are now available for purchase online for the first time. I first met Anth several years ago, online, and for a time we worked on a project together. It was called The Fetish Alphabet. I'd create flash fictions about strange fetishes--for example, the jaw-droppingly awesome panel you see here was for a short entitled "A Is for Anthropophagy"--and he'd create the art. It was a wonderful thing. Now, he's made available a limited edition series of a select number of his works, including some from the fetish series, through Sexy Art Gallery in London. "The majority of images for sale have never been available for purchase, and I am only doing a very limited run of each image," Anth writes. "When they're gone, they're gone." Kentucky Fried Woman is one of my favorites. Other standouts include the wonderfully freaky B Is for Bukkake, the King Kong-esque O Is for Octopus, and the super-cool Major H. You can also visit Anth's website or check out his blog. And support an artist today, because underneath the clothes, we're all mutants.

Kentucky Fried Woman

Artist Anthony Ventura has created a new website, Evolve-R, featuring his amazing artwork and illustration. Awhile back, Anthony and I were working on an illustrated book project, The Fetish Alphabet. He did the artwork; I did the flash fiction. This image was for the first one we did: "A Is for Anthropophagy." The story I wrote for it was about a man who was an anthropophagiac. He was a man who wanted to eat a woman.