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Now on Patreon is a big behind-the-scenes post on One and Another, my Spera shoujo comic with @saicoink and @dirchansky, including my original script!

Hi, I’m Kat! I’ve been making comics together with Kendra for seven years. We’re a Washington, D.C.(ish)-based comic team that draws everything from erotic space shenanigans to recipe books inspired by The Rock. You can find our ongoing webcomic Spacejinx and other NSFW comics at Misadventure Central, and you can buy our all-ages stuff at Go Team KK! Kendra and I are taking turns to spotlight some works for Our Comics, Ourselves that are important to us.

Open Spaces And Closed Places by @saicoink - “high school romance/horror comedy”

Open Spaces and Closed Places is one of my all time favorite comics, and one I recommend to almost everybody. It’s hard to summarize. It’s a coming-of-age story, and it’s a romance--but also a story about all kinds of love. It’s about a cast of characters who do not fit neatly into their assigned social roles. There are supernatural horror elements juxtaposed against scenes of finely observed emotional realism as characters try to figure out how to really communicate and understand each other. There is a lot of comedy, and also tragedy. I cried so much reading this comic.

The story takes place in high school, and centers around Jirou, the leader of the delinquents and strongest person in school. He’s seen by many as a tough guy but he is also an awkward romantic trying to find the right way to confess his feelings to his crush, Oscar. Oscar was voted class president due to high academic achievement, but he constantly ditches classes and class council responsibilities and, much to his vice president’s consternation, insists on wearing the girl’s uniform blazer. The third main character is Oscar’s closest friend and the second strongest person in school, Vivien, who chooses to always wear the boy’s uniform.

I’d also like to mention the art style. There is a wonderful vintage shoujo aesthetic, and a really strong sense of design. I highly recommend buying the actual books over just reading the web version of the story. They are hand-bound works of art.

OSCP is very concerned with depicting the character’s emotional states. Flowers bloom or blow away as love and excitement waxes and wanes. Inner demons can become literal demons.

Logging into Tumblr to tell you about my newest Jeweler Richard doujinshi releasing in March. It's 100 pages! It's a story about Seigi inviting Richard to a short trip to a hot springs. It's an all ages book. Nothing happens but a lot happens 😅.

You can order a copy from my webstore: