OhJoySexToy

Condom Basics

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/condombasics 

Matthew talks about condoms and recounts the time he bought his very first one ever.

Wherein I talk about my vulva.

My cunt is in an interesting place right now. 

Oh, heads up. A handful of you patrons are my lovely friends and studiomates In Real Life, so consider this your warning that I’m gunna talk about my junk. Turn back while you still can. 

So, my cunt. 

A handful of months ago I was diagnosed with both PTSD and a brain that is not neurotypical, and I’ve been working really hard to get on top of my shit about it. Doing the talking bit with my therapist, to learn new wa...

18th Century Side Project

Before I get into my own post, Matthew wrote a big ol' breakdown of all our expenses and profit from the Kickstarter we did in May last year to fund the first OJST book. http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/kickstarter-numberwang/ 

Ok, so. I've been doing something a bit different for me. 

Lots of artists I know engage in World Building and Character Design before they begin a new comic. They figur...

Genderplay by Mady G

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/genderplay/ 

Mady G fills in for me today on Oh Joy Sex Toy with this awesome comic on genderplay and the introduction of the world’s greatest character, Spanky the Kinkgremlin.

2014 in Review

Lordy Bagordy, I can't believe it's the end of the year already. As may be obvious from my decade's worth of autobiographical comics, I'm a compulsive chronicler of my life and year-in-review lists are a a personal favorite of mine. 

So here's the challenges and accomplishments of Oh Joy Sex Toy in 2014. 

CHALLENGES of 2014:
♥ Struggled to keep up with my schedule, had to use guest comics way more frequently than I'd like and I was never ahead. Never had time to draw side ...

Planetrise Delight by Blue Delliquanti

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bluedelliquanti/ 

Because you've all been so good, we're giving you an early Christmas gift! Please enjoy this lovely space porn by Blue Delliquanti (who also has a Patreon http://www.patreon.com/bluedelliquanti )

Erika Lust & LustCinema

ohjoysextoy.com/erikalust 

Matthew and I review Erika Lust and her LustCinema porn site!

Wired & Jezebel & The Portland Mercury

Holy moley. 

Things have been a bit full on. 

It’s good! It’s positive. It’s just… a bit overwhelming. 

So rewinding backwards! The last week was consumed with being sick while still trying to pick away at the Masturbation comic so it’d get done on time. 

My very first day out of the house post-sickness was Sunday, my book release party at She Bop! I was very anxious about getting enough people in there who would buy enough toys to justify the st...

Masturbation

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/masturbate/ 

Today’s Oh Joy Sex Toy is all about paddling your pink canoe! Twirlin’ the pearl! Shucking the freshwater clam! 

Masturbation. 

It’s a guide to masturbation for the vulva’d population.

Horrific Sex Toy Mistakes by Shing Khor

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/shing/ 

Shing Yin Khor shares with us her Horrific Sex Toy Mistakes on Oh Joy Sex Toy this week! LEARN FROM HER EXPERIENCES. Nothing goes in your butt without a flared base! 

I am entertained by the fact that I commissioned this comic from Shing from the funds I receive from this Patreon, and in turn I am a patron of Shing's Patreon ( 2014-12-03 02:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Do you got a sex question for me?

Hey guys! 

Ok, so your responses to my last post (November 20th) were SUPER helpful. And appreciated. And uplifting. 

Thank you for being helpful and appreciation-instilling and uplifting. 

I've been ruminating on your feedback and what I also need as a human being who is trying not to burn out on internet fatigue. So I'm gunna cut back to just a weekly-ish catch up or essay if I've got a topic burning a hole in my mind. 

Do you like this illustration? Mat...

The Best of Oh Joy Sex Toy

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bestof 

Matthew and I give you guys a crash course in our most top favorite bestest toys that we've tried over the last year and a half!

In Other News: 

Amanda Palmer interviewed Storm Large and me during the Portland stop on her "The Art of Asking" book tour. You can watch the video and read about my experience here: 2014-11-26 18:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post

November 20, penciling and inking

I consciously try to keep my social media accounts somewhat entertaining, so I make my dick and fart jokes and post my updates and banter with people. I keep avoiding updating here because of all the places I talk on the internet, this is kind of the one place where I feel like I can and should talk about more than the superficial aspects of working on comics. But it's harder to share when you don't have good news. The last few weeks have been really hard. Really, really hard. 

I'm not re...

Mystic Wand

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/mysticwand 

This one time I went on a reality TV show and when I got eliminated I used my meal stipend to buy a vibrator, just like the responsible adult that I am. 

That vibrator was The Mystic Wand. 

Come to the Oh Joy Sex Toy BOOK RELEASE PARTY this December 7th from 7-9pm at the brand new She Bop located at 3213 SE Divsion, Portland. They’ll be selling my fa...

November 12

Two pages and two panels on the third page inked today! I just got four panels left and then this motherfucker is DONE. Well, I mean, my part in its production is done. Matt's already started coloring the pages I've passed on to him. 

I'm inking this one all out of order, starting with the easiest pages first, so I could get them in Matt's hands as quickly as possible. Now it's down to page one, which has the most stuff to draw and most variation in camera angles. 

Matt and I w...

November 11, photo ref!

Got four pages roughly penciled and one page fully inked! It was a super simple page with just two figures and no backgrounds, so that's not really much of an accomplishment. BUT SLUTEVER, it's still a page inked so I get to brag about it U_U 

Here, I thought you guys might enjoy seeing how my photo reference gets transformed into a drawing. 

Hm. Seriously only just this last second realized how much cleavage I'm rocking in that photo. So, uh, YOU'RE WELCOME, I guess. Patreon m...

Fenrir the Wolfdragon

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/fenrir/ 

I take a ride on a Bad Dragon fantasy dick in today's dildo review! 

AND! I’m super delighted to announce that the Oh Joy Sex Toy BOOK RELEASE PARTY is happening December 7th from 7-9pm at the brand new She Bop located at 3213 SE Divsion, Portland. They’ll be selling my favorite toys for 10% off that night AND I’ll be giving away an exclusive print to anyone who ...

November 7

This entry is about making art, it just takes a while to get there. 

When my therapist told me I have PTSD last week, I laughed. Soldiers get PTSD, I told her. Rape survivors have PTSD. But a privileged white cartoonist reviewing sex toys in Portland? C’mon. 

I expected my husband and closest friends to roll their eyes at such a dramatic evaluation when I brought it up with them, but instead I got back a perfectly harmonized “What? You mean you didn’t know?” 

Consent

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/consent 

We all know consent is mandatory for engaging in sexy times, but just how do you actually go about bringing it up with a real person in front of you? Here's a super basic guide to help you get that conversation started.

Afterglow

http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/afterglow/ 

Matthew and I review Jimmyjane's Afterglow massage oil candles! They were real fun.

October 29, penciling and inking

When I started OJST in April 2013, I knew I wanted to do a comic about consent. And over the last year and a half, the number one request I get from readers is to do a comic about consent. 

But here's the trouble with that: Consent is this thing that we all know how to call out when its been done wrong, but it's really hard to inform people how to do it right from the get-go. I mean, it sounds simple! Your partner needs to willingly agree to partake in the sexual activities you two are ab...

October 24, Comic Done!

Ahhhhhhhhh the OJST books started arriving in people's mail todaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! 

Oh my gosh Oh my gosh Oh my gosh!!! 

Not gunna lie, I'm hella proud we beat our November estimated delivery date. BAM. 

AND on a completely different note:
So this Legit Mainstream Entertainment Network contacted Matt and me yesterday about appearing on their Legit Well-Known TV show to talk about sex toys. WHOAH RAD. Tell us more, we said! We want you to review this one specific pr...

October 23, Comic Inked!

Finished inking the comic today! You can see two different takes I did on this one panel (the bottom one is gunna be used) 

While Matt was coloring, I took my newely-freed time to go... WRITE. 

I'm working on a series of autobiographical stories I've wanted to do for a few years now. Stories about eloping, immigrating, cutting off all contact with my troubled mom, my complicated feelings about feminism, reuniting with my French host mother after ten years, my fear of motherhood...

October 22, Penciling and Inking

Alright! Okay! I got two more pages inked! Just one more to go and the whole lot'll be ready for Matt to color! 

I mean, I gotta re-draw this one panel. So really I've got a full page and one panel to ink. 

I'm rockin' my schedj, by the way. I'm making sweet love to it. Oh Schedule, honey, we're making beautiful music together. 

Okay, I'm gunna leave you with that mental image while I go watch my cat chase around a little red laser pointer dot on the floor. Oh god, h...

October 21 - On Schedule

Last week Matt said I was looking "a bit frayed at the edges" and since we were going to go on a little outing to a cabin that weekend, we decided that this week we'd be running a guest comic. Which meant all I had to focus on last week was getting ahead on script writing and some other things other than drawing-the-next-comic. 

Ever since Matt and I got back from our trip to visit his family in July/August, I've been off my work train. Scrambling to meet each week's deadline and feeling ...

ASMR by Grace Allison

http://ohjoysextoy.com/asmr 

Do you get head tinglies during haircuts? Do pages turning or paper crinkling give you an unexplainable buzz? Friend, you may be experiencing ASMR. 

Thank you so much to Grace Allison for this lovely, informative comic!

FetLife

http://ohjoysextoy.com/fetlife 

If AdultFriendFinder is the Ferengi, then FetLife is the Federation. Today at Oh Joy Sex Toy, I draw a ton of Star Trek fanart!

October 9, inking

I'm really proud of how this page turned out, but I'm really frustrated I only got the one done.

October 8, penciling, inking, businessing

When I came home Monday evening, Matt told me he wasn't feeling great. He felt anxious and uncertain about what his day-to-day tasks should be, as someone who's working on OJST full-time. There's plenty to do now, but what about the long term? What should he be accomplishing on a daily basis? He was feeling uneasy, not having to be accountable to anyone else. He felt unmoored, ungrounded. 

Tuesday I had lunch plans with some studiomates, but Wednesday, I told him, Wednesday he and I would...

Autoblow2

http://ohjoysextoy.com/autoblow 

My devastatingly handsome husband reviews the Autoblow2 with the help of queer porn star and cartoonist Vid Tuesday filling in as this week’s Masturbateer!