Demimonde: The Live Drawing of Suzanne Forbes

Hi! I'm Suzanne, and my biggest, deepest dream has always been to have a book of my art. In twenty years of live drawing people in LGBTQ+ community, I've been able to make a historical record of people in a way a camera could never capture.

The goal of the Demimonde book project is to preserve and share these portraits of kinky queers, trans sex workers, drag performers, dominas and burlesque beauties.

I went all in on putting my art online in 2005, and for twenty years my archive of almost 3000 drawings and paintings has been free to download, use and share. But online spaces that support sex-positive and gender-affirming art are shrinking fast.

And I am very sick and at the end of my workin… Mehr anzeigen

I'm asking you to support this project because it's the only way to make a book of my art happen. It's the only way to buy a book of my art.

As a former comic book artist, I have never been welcome in galleries (except Madison Young's Femina Potens!) and publishers don't want to work with a sick, fat, old queer lady. I am just barely able to do this now, and if I don't do it now, I never will. The people I have made portraits of are so beautiful. They dese… Mehr anzeigen

The money being raised is to pay for the design, layout, proof-reading, print-readiness, print tech, and printing by professionals at Gorham Publishing, a very well-established short-run printing house in the US Pacific Northwest.

The artwork is all completed, the manuscript written, the artwork scanned at high resolution. Gorham's team will handle all the details, making sure the printing is perfect. I have already paid for preproduction work by Berlin cr… Mehr anzeigen

The Demimonde Team is me, Suzanne Forbes, and my dear husband, who is a programmer and digital privacy activist. He does not like having his picture published on the internet, but I am a cute fat sick old lady and I like it fine.