Sunstone (comics)

Sunstone
Lisa and Ally from Sunstone
Author(s)	Stjepan Šejić, Linda Lukšić Šejić
Website	http://shiniez.deviantart.com/
Current status / schedule	Updated Monthly
Launch date	November 2011
Genre(s)	Erotica, LGBT, Fetish, Drama, Romantic Comedy

Sunstone is an ongoing adult webcomic series written and illustrated by Stjepan Šejić which was first published on DeviantArt in 2011. Šejić is assisted by his wife and fellow artist Linda Lukšić Šejić. The comic, described as an erotic romantic comedy, focuses on the relationship between Lisa and Ally and their mutual interest in BDSM culture. Sunstone has been collected by Image Comics and Top Cow Productions into trade paperback volumes.

It is the first of a planned four-part story focusing on the same group of characters but a different couple each, with the second part focusing on Alan and Anne called Mercy and the third part called Jasper featuring Alan's ex Marion and her new boyfriend, James. The fourth and final part is as yet unnamed.

The primary focus of Sunstone is on the main characters of Lisa Williams and Ally Carter. Lisa is a budding writer who has kept her submissive desires secret for years, and Ally is a dominant and successful businesswoman, who is somewhat of a loner.

Neither Ally nor Lisa have any same-sex experience prior to meeting each other, other than a drunken kiss Lisa shared with another girl, of which she no longer carries any memory. Both have had unsuccessful relationships due to their alternative lifestyles, because of their inability to ignore their fetishistic desires.

By the time both have finished college, and are in their mid-twenties, both have had limited experiences in the world of BDSM. Ally has had some decent S/M experience with a former boyfriend, Alan, and has become an expert in bondage, especially Shibari. But Ally has never had a relationship in a D/S relationship as a Domme with a true submissive, as both Ally and Alan both prefer to dominate. Lisa, on the other hand, has practically no experience in S/M, other than experimenting with self-bondage.