July 8 - 9, penciling and inking (Patreon)

I'm excited about this comic. I mean, I wasn't at first. Well, I sorta was? Lemme back up. 

She Bop is a sweet local sex shop that I loved long before I started OJST and struck up an affiliation with them. Many months ago they offered to let me sit in on a couple of their workshops for free, and if I felt like it I could do a comic about it. So I sat in on two and took hella notes and photo reference of the store and detailed sketches of the presenters' outfits. But I was nervous about doing a comic on an event. The first (and so far only) time I did that was for my Queens of the Pole comic (http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/qopshow/), which Matt and a friend told me was my worst strip. I mean, they didn't say it with those words and they were hella constructive about how it could have been better, but it made me insecure to start on this comic because oh my god reporting on an event in a way to make the reader care about it is haaaaaaard. So I was intimidated! 

Matt's watching some weird anime right now and it is completely distracting me, even though he put it on headphones so I could write without the sound pulling my attention, but the TV screen is flashing and I can't stop looking up so I'm just gunna jump ahead in my story and say I figured out how to translate my notes into a solid enough comic and I'm pretty happy with it, period, the end. 

If you think the backgrounds look particularly lovely, that is because one of my super talented studiomates offered to help out in that department as a way to procrastinate working on their own project and how could I say no to that? It's definitely going to speed up production on this comic 4 sure and I am super grateful. I'd credit them, but in the past when they've lent a hand with background or inking sex machines they specifically asked not to have their name mentioned, so I'm just gunna assume it's the same situation this time around too. 

Here's one of the complications of doing comics about the products (or workshops) of companies with whom I have an affiliation: If I'm positive about them, it looks like they paid me off. But that's not how it works! Matt warns all our affiliates ahead of time that we will always be honest in our reviews, and we are. I just like the stuff I like, I can't help it. 

(If you're curious how affiliations work, it's this: When I link to an affiliate company, I use a special, unique code in the URL that tells their site that a visitor came from OJST. If that person makes a purchase on their site, I get a percent of that sale. That's it! What's boggled my mind is that even when I give a negative review of products, PEOPLE STILL BUY THEM! Like my review of the Intensity [http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/intensity/], which has been my only 100% negative review where I found absolutely no redeeming features in a product-- the day it went live, people bought it through my affiliate links! Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Anyway, so what I am saying is that it doesn't influence me to be positive in a review, since people will be purchasing the product through my links whether I said good or bad things about any particular toy) 

I wanna tell you guys some updates on the book, but I've already written seven paragraphs, I should probably wrap this up now.