A coming-of-age story from the kink community by Rude Rumps, a digital artist with a lifelong spanking fetish, COUNTING THE STARS takes readers on a wild ride through her goth-punk college years in the 1980’s.

As she explores her sexuality and discovers what it means to be an artist, we’re introduced to a cast of memorable characters including her slightly off-kilter spanko boyfriend from Germany, an ageplayer housemate with a bad attitude, Marxist plumbers, and a polyamorous chemist who makes designer psychedelics.

Erotic, humorous, heart-breaking, subversive, and poetic, this stunningly illustrated graphic memoir sheds new light on the boundaries of human intimacy.