Erika Moen

Inktober is an annual tradition for artists across the internet, wherein every day of October they more or less produce an inked drawing. Ink + October. You get it. In the past I've done my daily drawing around a theme like octopuses (OCTOber) and Lady Lovely Locks (LOCKtober - although if you Googl

First and foremost: I'm going to be at the Las Vegas Book Festival on October 17th! Come to my 2:45 pm panel "Hard Launch: Relationships, Sexuality and Mental Health in the 2020s" with Kelsey Darragh, Janet Hardy, and me in the Empowered Tent, and then afterwards stop by my signing at 3:45 pm in the

Join Kelsey Darragh, Janet Hardy, and me at the Las Vegas Book Festival on October 17th at 2:45pm for our panel "Hard Launch: Relationships, Sexuality and Mental Health in the 2020s" in the Empowered Tent! Afterwards, I'll have a signing at 3:45pm in the Frank Wright Courtyard! Las Vegas Book Festiv

Hey remember that comic I did about the kissing booth? Wanna know how I made it? Here's some of my thought process that went into laying out these pages! Panel 1: The guy in the little hat and beard is my friend, Ben Coleman! He's the entire reason why we were there in the first place, since he was

Matt and I were unsatisfied with our makeshift shelving in the... actually, I don't know what to call this part of the house? It's an extension that was added on to the back, sometime around World War II (At least, that's what our realtor told us, I never looked into it). I guess it's kind of part o

I've got a new comic up on Oh Joy Sex Toy today! Note to my in-laws: Please skip this post! Ok, in-laws gone? Good! I'm very lucky to have awesome in-laws who are super supportive of my creativity and career... but conversations about making out with strangers in a photo booth (even when it's with m

Helioscope, my comic studio, is featured in Portland Monthly magazine right now! It's a great write-up by Ben Coleman, who really gets the studio and is basically a member in all but title. He's definitely Studio Family. We were even given the full celebrity treatment for the article with a professi

In 2012 I was honored with an invitation to participate in Projet 17 mai, a French comics anthology which was, in their words, a « Project collectif de dessinateurs et de dessinatrices contre les LGBTphobies (Lesbophobie, homophobie, biphobie et transphobie). » ("Collective project made of artists w

I have been grieving the end of summer since April. As soon as my garden started to flourish, I was already anticipating the end. I know I should just be in the moment and soak up the sunlight and green growing things while it's here. But instead, everyday: I am awash in the beauty of my garden and

Do you remember Tiny Toon Adventures? This self-aware, chaotic cartoon aired from 1990-1992 was a kind of Looney Toons reboot/spin-off featuring the hip new reincarnations of the classic cast. The new anthropomorphic teens attend Acme Looniversity where they study under the tutelage the likes of Bug

You know the drill! It's my monthly(ish) newsletter collecting all the bullshit I got up to into one place. Here's what I got up to in July: 🔒 Making Info-Heavy Comics (part 2 of 3) 🔒 You've assembled your research but how do you turn that into a comic? In part 2 of my lecture, I show one way to p

UPDATE: You can read all three of my Info-Heavy Comics posts compiled into one long mega post now! Non-patrons can buy it for just $3 In Part 1 of Making Info-Heavy Comics, I (Erika. Hi, it's Erika) explained the first steps I take to break down dense information into its visual elements. That post

From March 11th - July 7th, 2026, I documented the growth of the same raspberry branch tip. Watching my plants change infinitesimally as they grow is my #1 favorite thing about gardening. My phone is stuffed with literally thousands of pictures of my plants, documenting their tiny, incremental chang

So I did cut one of my plums in half yesterday and there was a full-on wriggling worm guy in there. It was fine! I just ate the rest of the plum that he wasn't in!!! Which, to be fair, was most of it!!!! My laissez-faire standards apply equally to all the produce of my garden, not just the plums. He

HoooooooBOY. I've, uh, I've been up to a lot over the last few months. There's more than can reasonably fit in one newsletter, so here's just the highlights: • 🔒 I thought I was bipolar. 🔒 Well, I did. (4 pages) • So. Much. Pussy. (2010) Happy Pride to all the opposite-gender partnered queers and

VINTAGE PDF ALERT. Born of a long and fruitful creative partnership, "Bombshells" chronicles the valuable contributions of cartoonist Lucy Bellwood to fellow cartoonist Erika Moen's very serious reference materials. The attached PDF contains 24 full-color pages and features guest appearances by Stev

Thanks to Quips launching, I've had a huge influx of new followers here- Hi! Hello!! If this is you, then you probably think I am primarily a gardener who mends clothing and makes bad dad jokes! While that is all true, I am actually primarily a cartoonist (who makes bad dad jokes)- and more specific

My house came with two plum trees. The way it goes is this: One year they go fuckin' nuts and overproduce plums like whoa. Like, I'm talking: the branches are straining under the weight- it even looks like the trees list to a side more than usual. So they make a gazillion plums and I have a deliciou

Have you ever been putting on an item of clothing and heard it go RRRRRRRRRRIPPPPPPP like a freaking cartoon sound effect? That happened to me recently with my (I guess very old??) jean jacket. Fortunately, I am a sewer!! ...No, not the very important infrastructure that conveys sewage >:c I AM A BI

[My original post of this comic is borked and I can't edit it so I'm re-uploading it again! Thank you for your patience! Also, if you're an in-law, please skip this one! For the sake of all of us 🙏] Happy Pride to all the opposite-gender-partnered bisexuals and the opposite-gender-partnered bisexua

The internet can still be... Good? I am as stunned as you are. Ok, so here is what happened: Patreon made their own social media thing, called Quips. I am as jaded as the rest of you, but my profession requires me to stake out a space on all the new platforms so at least my handle doesn't get gobble

My dear Clare is once again not turning 44 so I flew out to help her celebrate this not-numerically-accurate birthday! And because I'm not a complete monster, I made her a birthday gift in the form of a portrait of her beloved cats, Sara and Molly. I combed through our archive of texts to harvest bu

Comics, illustrations, dad jokes, disappointment, mending, and a whole lotta lemons: this is what comprised my March. How to Disclose your STI (Comic) Yup, I have herpes! Here's my personal advice on how to disclose your STI status in this Oh Joy Sex Toy comic. Aaaaaaaand, just for the patrons: 🔒 B

Remember how I'm gunna do a talk this Friday with Felicia Day at the release party for her graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta? March 20, 6pm / Powell's Books / 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005 Well, I painted her some fanart of her character from the tv show The Magicians, right

How to Disclose Your STI on Oh Joy Sex Toy Do you need to disclose your STI and you just don't even know where to start? Here's my personal advice over on Oh Joy Sex Toy! Oh wow, while searching for a link to my original herpes comic, I just realized I made it in 2014- twelve years ago! Man, time su

LOL I fell so far behind on making my January wrap-up that it made me late getting started on one for February so now that we're halfway through March- why not?- let's just have a double recap of all the bullshit I got up to in the first two months of the year! Gone in a Hot Flash Guess who got meno

Ok, so first things first: Join Felicia Day and me on March 20th to discuss her stunning debut graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta!* It's a ticketed event, so get your tickets while you can. *(My Bookshop affiliate link) March 20, 6pm Powell's Books 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 970

During Thanksgiving I had a conversation with an elderly uncle who is a very intelligent man with a logical and analytical mind. He said something at dinner that left me at a loss for words and now, months after the fact, out of nowhere, today my answer just bubbled up to the top of my mind. He was

It's Saturday night and I'm all out of sorts. I lost the last week of my life to a stupid cold and I'm really pretty grumpy about it. I had plans! I had stuff to work on! And instead of that, I spent the week rubbing my nostrils raw from blowing my nose into toilet paper. On the evening before I bec

The keen-eyed may have noticed a handful of decorative seaweeds and kelps I had on my old art wall in my home studio make-over post. My friend, would you believe me if I told you that I made them out of paper. Well, paper, wire, beads, and glue. ...?!?! How dare you doubt me?! I'll prove it to you!