Ok, so, guess what?
More cauliflower (and Tig) heads sprung up in the garden!!!!
Now, I’m gunna do that thing where I just post a shit-ton of photos. They’re ALL RIGHT-SIDE UP on my end, but Patreon has a habit of displaying them sideways after I hit “post”, so if that is the case just go to this entry’s URL (assuming you are reading this through the email update) an...
2021-01-16 23:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night I finished the 12th block in my 2020 Quilt Thing!
Obviously, I need to do a proper post where I show each month's square on its own so you can actually tell what's going on in each illustration-- not to mention I still need to catch up on each piece's individual post that explains how and why I made each one.
But, for the moment? Here's a sweeping ove...
2021-01-15 19:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/blush-gaia/
Holy cow, somebody finally made a biodegradable sex toy 🤯
2021-01-12 08:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
....somehow.... in my previous post... adding a photo into the blog post beneath the embedded video... deleted the video? And transformed the page itself so adding a video back in was... not an option? So now I've got to make a whole brand new post??????? Oh my god. Ok. Fine.
And should anything befall the embedded video, here is just a straight-up link to it on...
2021-01-09 17:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON
EDIT:
The play button is covering up the artistry of the thumbnail image I carefully crafted for this video, so here it is by itself:
Every Frame a Painting ☺️
DOUBLE EDIT, Jan 9:
....somehow.... adding a photo into the blog post beneath the video... deleted the video? And transf...
2021-01-09 02:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/having-kids-in-our-poly-triad-sara-valta/
Sara Valta returns to OJST with a peek inside the conversations she and her two partners are having about when and how to become parents.
2021-01-05 08:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My approach for the (This Is Not) Normal comic was more experimental and I think the underlying roughs are kind of interesting in and of themselves, so here! For you. I share.
I recorded myself doing my hair totally normally, the same I would if I weren't being taped, and then took screen captures of the key poses that caught my eye the most.
After I had ske...
2021-01-04 22:09:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The last two years I’ve been doing this thing. Uh. Year-long workbook thing. It’s called Unravel your Year by Susannah Conway. Lucy Bellwood introduced me to it and it’s a nice, structured way to review the prior year, plan for the upcoming one, and then track the day-to-day developments.
It’s a massive thing, takes up a bind...
2021-01-03 23:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm wincing a little at how melodramatic my words read, but, I dunno, I kind of am melodramatic so what did you expect? I knew I wanted to do a comic documenting my daily hair-bun-tying ritual and then the ...
2021-01-02 04:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s New Year’s Eve and I finally love my cat.
I realized it yesterday after petting Tig’s little forehead and giving it a kiss while she half-snoozed in a happy cat-ball.
Her expression of perfect contentment filled up my heart and I realized, oh shit, I think I love her.
Like, a little bit.
A flicker of love.
A little flame.
When we brought her home two months ago, she was a wild party child who was literally climbing the walls and...
2021-01-01 05:10:30 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/me-ouch-that-hurts-nicnak/
I originally wrote the intro at the top of the comic to read "Nicnak likes a paddy wack" but Matt said that didn't make sense? I think it does! Paddy wack, like a whack on the butt (paddy), right??
2020-12-29 08:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(UPDATE 8:04pm: See bottom of post)
Holy cow!!!!
I GREW THIS!!!!!!
This is the most successful head of broccoli -or any brassica- that I’ve ever harvested!!!
Wowee-zowee, I’m so surprised!
A mont...
2020-12-27 23:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/opening-up-with-online-roleplay-suzana-harcum-and-owen-white/
Suzana Harcum and Owen White share their personal story about the stories they built, both fictional and in real life, from their online role playing game.
2020-12-22 08:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi.
What’cha doin?
Me?
I’m sitting in waist-deep water in the bathtub at 10:30pm because it’s the only thing that calms down the urethral burn when I habitually get another UTI.
Normally I would zone out by a rolling on Instagram but I’m trying to only use it for business stuff because, my dudes, I just scroll and scroll and scroll on there. I collect pictur...
2020-12-21 06:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Oops.
I started another embroidery project before I finished the last 😬
This is the cover to Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis (Powell’s and Amazon affiliate links), which was my favorite prose book I read this ...
2020-12-19 23:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/best-of-2020/
Dang, finishing this update practically killed us, haha ;_;
-Er, I mean:
Here is our annual shopping list for all our favorite sexy things!
You may be like "Erika, it is way too late to buy this stuff as winter holiday gifts." and to that I say: Valentine's Day is February 14, my friend.
2020-12-15 08:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Aw, dang.
Leila del Duca has been putting together these great long-distance video interviews with our fellow Helioscope studiomates. She's posted a handful already where we cover a range of topics, from Learning to Ink Comics...
2020-12-14 22:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: ADDITIONAL PICTURES ADDED TO THE END.
I was taking a reference picture of my hands and the camera went off right as Matt told me Tig had destroyed something precious in the basement and the resulting picture just... has a lot going on.
The context for this scene:
-Sometime in the 1940s(?), the previous owners of the house built a poorly insulated edition...
2020-12-11 23:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Updated January 23rd, scroll to bottom
I’m gunna do this a bit different. Instead of waiting until I’m done and then posting the finished piece, I’m gunna just continuously update this one post as I make progress. When I’ve made a significant enough update, I’ll send out a notification letting you folks know that the post has fresh images in it. Minor additions may not warrant the alert, so you might find some fresh #content if you check back to this ...
2020-12-09 05:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Hey! Matt and I are SO STOKED to announce that we have raised our page rates for Oh Joy Sex Toy comics!
$140/page!<... 2020-12-09 01:10:21 +0000 UTC View Post
For a five page comic, that's $700!
Return artists get $160/page, which is $800 for a five-pager!
Creator retains full rights & ownership of their work!
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/gender-turbulence
Oli Franey reflects on their gender.
2020-12-08 08:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Let me explain:
This is not the finished comic.
This is the digital draft that will get printed in a lighter color onto watercolor paper so that I can hand ink and paint the finished pages.
But that's not gunna happen for, like, a million years, and you know mama needs that sweet, sweet instant gratification of posting my work as soon as it's close enough to being presentable, soooooooooo:
2020-12-06 00:21:22 +0000 UTC
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I begin an inordinate amount of conversations with “Are you familiar with Lady Lovely Locks?”
She’s this magical princess franchise that existed from around 1986-1989, right when my gooey six year old brain was ready to imprint and form its first obsession.
At some point I’m g...
2020-12-04 06:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT 4:03pm: Comic removed from the site, see explanation below.
The air is crisp, the leaves have already turned colorful and fallen into decomposing piles, and the whole city feels like it's tucked in to ride out the winter weather. It's that perfect time of year... to watch some porn.
Here is Matt's review of performer Owen Gray's oeuvre on DeepLush .com!
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PLEASE DO NOT POST ABOUT THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR WHE...
2020-12-01 21:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/the-stare-lucrezia-northstar/
Cat owners will get it.
2020-11-24 20:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A publication contacted me about doing a comic about "Drugs" but I was like, my dudes, I do not have the time or energy for this. And then almost a week later I woke up at 4am and wrote-sketched out this rough comic.
My actual sketchbook pages are too illegible for anyone else to read, so here's a hybr...
2020-11-20 21:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/loveisnotenough/
I'm too worn out from being (not Covid) sick to write anything worthwhile right now.
Drawing these two panels felt really good for my heart:
While searching for something, I dove my hand into the bottom of a pouch on my backpack that I haven’t had to use even once since quarantine started eight months ago.
This is the backpack I’ve used to haul my laptop and lunch and gym clothes to my office downtown every weekday for however many years it’s been since I wore out my last one. When I still rode my bike in the rain, I’d line it with plastic bags to protect the contents while I made the 45 minute trek downtown (downhi...
2020-11-15 00:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/lingerie-confidence-boost-mariana-meira/
Mariana Meira returns to OJST with her personal story about discovering lingerie and then... BDSM gear 😳
2020-11-10 08:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostI felt nothing.
Just, a total absence of feeling.
It wasn't until my friend sent me the video of New York's skyline filled with a cacophony of people cheering and horns honking that I began sobbing.
The last four years I've spent actively willing myself to remain numb each time I read a headline (I am not very good at it), so reading the words that he's officially lost... I'm still holding my breath. I'm still waiting for the shoe to drop. Waiting for the s...
2020-11-07 18:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post