June 27 - Book Design Shtuff (Patreon)

Sent my interview questions to two more of my fav strippers, for my comic about being a good strip club patron. 

Got one of the final rounds of proofs from the book designer! What you see here are two possibilities she mocked up for the "Bonus Material" preface page. I'm going with the top one, but I want her to turn the "Bonus Material" oval into a solid pink word balloon, like in the bottom example. Same size as it currently is, though. 

Today one of my friends asked me if people have started making more advances towards me since launching OJST and actually the answer is no. WHICH IS GOOD. Which is appreciated, for sure. That was actually a worry that Matthew and I talked about before I started this project-- would this be taken as encouragement to the average joe that it's ok to come on to me, since, hey, I'm That Sex Lady. 

I mean, being That Sex Lady definitely has increased the amount of strangers who volunteer their deeply private thoughts, questions, and experiences with me, which is something I honestly really appreciate. I don't just mean over email, but at comic conventions and parties people that I haven't ever met before lean in, dropping their voice to share with me-- and it means a lot. Even if it's something that's a bit startling to my pretty-vanilla-ass self, it really touches me that these people, these readers I've never met before, would trust me enough to tell me the things they do. 

But even as open as these comics make Matthew and me appear, we don't share everything about ourselves in them. We only make comics about the subjects we're comfortable talking about. Because we're comfortable talking about *some* aspects of our sex lives and sexual misadventures, people assume we're open about everything, that the internet knows all that goes on behind closed doors. 

Of course that's not true. 

There's personal sexual subjects I'd very much like to talk about in comics, but as I told my friend, if we did that then we'd essentially be signing up to be political figures on these subjects. Which isn't something we're interested in. Some labels I don't mind having, like being The Sex Lady or The Sex Toy Lady, but there's other titles that I'm not comfortable carrying, that I don't want to be defined by. 

My friend suggested doing a comic about these topics featuring "Shmerika" and "Shmatt" instead. 

She might be on to shmomething.