July 12 - 15, inking, coloring, scripting, layout (Patreon)

Over the weekend I inked and colored a four page guest comic for another site (excerpt pictured here!) which I was really proud of for, like, half a day but now I'm super self-conscious about my art. The kid changes size dramatically over the course of the comic, starting at hip-height and finishing at shoulder. Which, of course, I didn't realize until I'd turned it in. Augh. AUGH. And there were also some stiff poses that I've only just now figured out how to loosen up. 

You do the best you can in the time available 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Today I took my five interviews with my favorite strippers and compiled them into a script that was super fun but would have easily been, like, ten pages long, so I had to hack and slash it down to just five even though it broke my heart to do so. So many good quotes! I'll post their full answers as text in the blog post so people don't miss out. 

I'm really looking forward to drawing cute girls doing pole tricks. 

My husband lost his job today. 

So many years I was weighed down with the guilt and resentment that my comics income was only enough to pay for our apartment's rent and nothing --NOTHING-- more. I hated the knowledge that it was his income that allowed me the luxury to pursue my little comics passion, without it I would have had to downgrade this job to a weekend hobby while I worked at a day job that would actually pay the bills. 

OJST is not making us rich, but it's providing enough that I can keep us afloat until he finds new work. I mean, not indefinitely. There's a time limit and then we'll have to downgrade our expenses and medical insurance and I'll have to stop seeing my therapist, which would really, really suck. 

Sorry, I'm getting distracted. 

What I'm saying is that I'm finally pulling my weight. I've been pulling my weight since OJST launched. It's... it's really validating. 

I'm the bread-winner now. 

I'm winning the bread. 

Me and my porno comic, making that motherfucking bread won.