FAQ: Questions that I assume would be Asked Frequently
if this comic ever gets any readers
(Unlikely, but hey, I like to pretend)

What the hell is this?
A comic about two roommates who like sex a lot. What, you want more? Just start reading it, it gets to the point pretty quick.

How did it all start?
I drew the first panel of the first page during an attempt to make at least one random drawing a day. I liked it so much, I started coming up with a background for the person in the drawing. Pretty soon, the whole first page sprung up around that first panel, and I couldn't stop thinking about this crazy girl I'd created. That night, I thought up the entire introduction, almost verbatim, as I attempted to get to sleep.

After drawing the first 12 pages, I kinda drifted away from it all as I worked on other things. At some later time, I was watching Saving Face, and I got to thinking that lesbians are often depicted as being at odds with their mothers. I realized I might be able to get a funny comic out of that, and who better to star in it than Hatsuki and Summer? The joke seemed to work best as a 4-panel newspaper-style comic strip, so I started drawing it up, thinking it would be just a quick thing. This fell apart almost immediately as I started drawing a couch for them to sit on, and realized that I didn't want to draw it over and over along with them. Thus, I embarked on a month-long endeavor of modeling Hatsuki's apartment in 3d. This "quick thing" was suddenly a major project.

I decided, probably about a week or so into the modeling, as it became apparent just how major a project this apartment was, that using it just for a single 4-panel strip would be extremely inefficient. Further scenarios to set in this apartment popped up into my head, and before long, I had a good dozen or so strips to use it with. When the 3d was finished, I put it to use, and started drawing people over the top of it. The first few strip ideas didn't require the zoomed in depiction of glistening genitals, so I thought I might try to keep it softcore. It seemed more likely to attract a wider audience that way if I ever decided to publish it.

But then in late 2006, I saw that Slipshine, a site I quite enjoyed, was having some trouble in the form of one of its artists disappearing without a trace. Thinking it would be quite the shame if such a great site had to close down for lack of artists, I emailed Josh and offered my services. I was nervous as fuck that he would turn me down. After sending the mail, I found a post of Josh's stating that Slipshine did not accept unsolicited submissions. When no reply was forthcoming, I figured I'd been a bit presumptuous and went on with life, feeling a little foolish.

Then, a month later, Josh wrote back, said he liked my work, and offered to have me join Slipshine.

Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I realized I had a lot of work to do to get the comic into a publishable state. The introduction had to be finished, and I'd need a lot more story if I was to be a regularly published artist. So I got my ass in gear, and the rest is history. Also history was the desire to keep it softcore, which was good, because keeping it clean had started to bug me.

How is the comic made?
It used to be made in Photoshop. I had a pretty good process worked out, and it didn't take a lot of time. Then, on a whim, I decided to color one of the strips, and goddammit, it just looked a whole lot better. It soon became apparent, however, that if I was to continue it in color, Photoshop was not the ideal program for the job. After a lot of experimenting, I finally settled on Illustrator. Colored lines and Live Paint were precicely the tools I needed to make the comic quickly and without too much hassle. The only thing I can't do with Illustrator is Summer's freckles--for those, Photoshop is the only way, so I have to overlay the rastered freckles with the rest of the vectored work. This is reason that I sometimes forget to add the freckles entirely. You'd think after forgetting so many times, I'd have it down by now, but yet...

The scripts are thought out in advance. Well in advance. As in, when Josh offered me the job, I sat down and started writing as many ideas as I could think up. As of January 2010, I'm about halfway through with everything I thought up back then. Hopefully, by the time I have to start thinking up more ideas, my sense of humor won't have changed so much that the new ideas are glaringly different, but, well, we'll just have to see when that day comes.

Who's behind this comic?
Call me Woc. I'm a crazy person. More of my insanity can be found at the following fine locations:
Slipshine