Erika Moen

Ho-hoooooooo! DONE! The boot zipper repair comic that I started about eight months ago is now, at last, completed! As before, I started with a digital mock-up of what I wanted the panel to look like: Then I cut out each individual shape from my paper stash. I realized the original title banner ("Zip

You know the drill: I'm making a comic out of collage to explain how to replace the busted zipper in your boots. Great news, I'm up to panel 5 out of 6! This is the part of the process where you secure your new zipper replacement into place, sewing through the pre-existing holes from the last zipper

Panel 4 of my Boot Repair Comic! To recap, here's the first three panels: Panel 1 : How to Replace Your Broken Boot Zippers. Panel 2: You will need: Thread, New Zipper, Binder clips, Seam ripper, Sewing needle. Panel 3: Rip out the original stitching. Now on to... positioning the zipper in place wit

Remember that time I decided to make a simple six panel comic explaining how to replace your boot zipper and then I was like "Let's make this take one million times longer by illustrating it with collage'd paper and fabric"? There's no need to remember it like it's in the past because, baby, IT'S ST

Remember how I replaced the zipper on my boots? It was surprisingly easy and I wanted to show other people how to do it, too! The only way I know how to share information is to put it in comic form, so I made a mock-up with photos from my earlier documentation: And then I was like "Uhg, this is waaa

Remember that baller Consentacles and Consenticles faux-Ancient-Greece disk painting-thing I did for my friend, Clare? Clare requested illustrations of two characters: Consentacles and Consenticles, deities who provided consensual tentacle and testicle touching, respectively. Originally, I had pictu

I squawked in delight when I spotted the beginnings of tiny white flower buds on Lemony Snicket, my potted Meyer lemon tree! January 29 Her last two batches of flowers blossomed and died without producing any fruit, even though I diligently hand-pollinated them with an old paintbrush nearly every da