As with most comics, this was inspired by a real conversation.  That said, though, there are a few things you should know right away.  One….I don’t actually use my junk to draw with; though I have discovered that it is possible to use your personal touch-screen device with said, uh, digit.  No, I won’t elaborate.  So…moving on!  The second thing you should know is that it isn’t Shaun I’ve been playing with but, rather, Jennifer–my fiance, if you aren’t familiar.

The conversation in question actually went the other way, actually.  See, as much as she would protest to the contrary, Jennifer is an artist.  And not in the sense that I’m an “artist” but an actual damned artist; as in she works with real paints and shit!  Where I muck around with digital programs that allow me to mask my inadequacies with fancy effects and layers, Jenn puts paint to canvas and makes real arts!  So, it is for this reason, that I think she is better suited for a game in which you are forced to use your fingers and create something using simple colors that don’t blend (at least on the iPhone).  She has better control over her lines and shapes where I squiggle-erase-squiggle until I get something that vaguely resembles the image I’m trying to get you to see.  Now, it’s her precision that had me ask the proverbial “stylus” question, which I was able to witness via the “watch so-and-so draw” feature that the game in question has.  I watched as a magical black line crawled and slithered across a blank canvas and twist itself into the very thing she wanted me to see.  Not some disfigured beer-goggle representation of the subject, but the actual thing!  I was amazed and, well, slightly embarrassed and, as guys are wont to do when they’re embarrassed, I accused her of using a make-shift stylus that I had seen on the desk earlier that morning.

Turns out, I was wrong.  Go figure.

So, how did I get from a pencil wrapped in tin foil to a penis?  That’s a good question.  One I’m sure Jennifer would like an answer to, as well.  If you figure it out, would you please tell her?

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the strip.  As usual, I laughed to myself while drawing it.

With a real stylus!

Not my penis.

–Ray