Erika Moen

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

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

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

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

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

The last month of 2025 was closed out with cat disaster, fanart for a magical canceled 2010s TV show, thoughts about mending and who deserves to be successful, among other things! 🔒 Pay Attention to Me 🔒 (Patrons Only) My idiot cat broke her foot and the next five weeks of our life were turned com

In November I made some autobio comics, re-discovered my love of the mid-2010s show The Magicians, dusted off some fanart embroidery I made for it a while ago, whipped myself up a new bit of fanart for it in the form of a paper-crafted crown, finished my paper recreation of the stolen Louvre jewels,

Well, well, well! If it isn't the start of a new month! Which means the previous month has just concluded. Which means it's time for a round-up of all the shit I got up to in October! And, dang, I got up to a lot more shit than usual. Pitch Perfect 20 years together and my husband and I still have p

What bullshit did I get up to in September? Plenty. 🔒 The French Connection 🔒 (patrons only) After posting a different comic on Reddit I then made this comic about the experience. Please pray for my full recovery U_U (3 pages) Duolingo Fan Art??? Lily is my favorite character on this dumb free app

You know how you blink in June, the first month of the summer, and suddenly it's August, the final month of summer, and you're like what the fuck, when did that happen? Yeah, so today you're getting a double-whammy newsletter round-up of my various online bullshittery over the last two months! 🔒 44

Comics, art, and... an oil change??? Check out the shenanigans I got up to in May! Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Beep Beep, Beep Beep) Ok, so I know nothing about cars. I don't even like driving cars. I am terrified of driving and am a legit terrible driver as a result. There's a lot of things in my l

Well, April blew right past us, didn't it? Check the bullshit I got up to in that time! 12 Years Oh Joy Sex Toy turned 12 whole freakin' years old, so I wrote a bit about that. 🔒 Pardon My French 🔒 (Patrons Only) In this single page comic, my long-suffering French Mother-in-Law makes her best effo

March was a month of comics about cats and menopause (but one already kind of implies the other, doesn’t it?), working on my historical costume, being floored by an in-depth radio documentary about Oh Joy Sex Toy, getting a mammogram, and absolutely ruining my compost. March onward to my March Bulls

February may be the shortest month but, by George!, did I make a lot of internet in that time. Comics, essays, photos, ruining French, and revisiting the turn of the century- yeah. I kept myself pre-tty busy. 🔒 My Life in Comics (Part 1) & Getting Published as a Teenage Fan Girl (Part 2) 🔒 (Free f

New year, who dis? I started 2025 off with comics, essays, and quilting- so nothing much's changed in my life priorities from the previous year, I guess. Oh hey! Announcement: March 1st at 1pm, some of the Oh Joy Sex Toy crew and I will be on the Comic Production Panel at SizeCon in Portland, Oregon

Yeah, I got some comics and I got some historical costuming done in December, but what I really delivered on last month was some good ol' fashioned blogging. What is this, friggin' 2012? Well, slap a desaturated filter on your Instagram pictures, crank up Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe, and then c

In spite of the days getting shorter and darker in November, I did, bravely (heroically!) manage to make some art. Here it is. No applause needed (but it is welcomed) A Crowning Achievement Over the course of 24 hours I went from have no Halloween costume to having having such Halloween costume! Inc

We're halfway through November so that's probably my cue to give y'all my October project round-up! Here's the stuff I made and did in the best of the fall months. 🔒 Letters From Space Camp 🔒 (Patrons/Buyers Only) Yes, I included this in my September round-up, but teeechnically I actually finished

Here's what I made in September: a ton of comics, a revamped wagon, and a patched up jacket. 🔒 Letters From Space Camp 🔒 (Patrons/Buyers Only) 🔒 Pages 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 🔒 (Patrons Only) IT’S DONE. I finished this chapter from my memoir about going through the mental hospital. Non-patron

The month was primarily focused on comics but I also made some time to reupholster my couch and get emo about the end of summer. Letters From Space Camp 🔒 Pages 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 🔒 (Patrons Only) I’m aaalmost done with this chapter from my memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient P

Gotdang, July was a month of COMICSing for me! Letters From Space Camp 🔒 page 13, pages 14 & 15, page 16, page 17 🔒 Patrons Only Not one, not two, not three, but FIVE pages of Space Camp got done this month! Only 12 more pages to go to finish this chapter - I’m really making progress on this sum’b

Letters From Space Camp 🔒Page 9 and Page 10 and Page 11 and page 12 🔒 Patrons Only Holy moley, four whole pages in one month! This chapter is going to be 29 pages long and I am stoked to be closing in on the halfway point. (For Newbs: This is my memoir about going through a mental health program)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver... defends our book??? So, uh, John Oliver praised Let's Talk About It on his show? He called our sex and relationship book for teens "...a long, thoughtful discussion..." & "...good advice!" and his graphics team illustrated a line from our book to show as a joke

Oh Joy Sex Toy 11th Anniversary (Comic) Not only did I draw up a giant comic about OJST’s past and future (see above link) but I’ve also been scrambling like a mad person to maintain and update our birthday pledge drive which features at least three bonus comics just for our patrons. 'Pausin' (Video

Block Printed Textile My friend took me to a block printing workshop and I remained extremely on-brand by producing a repeating beet print on fabric. Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Erika Moen Live at Powell's Books World famous sex and relationship expert Emily Nagoski, PhD stopped in Portland to talk with

Guess what? I'm doin' an event next week in Portland! Emily Nagoski, PhD, is kindly tolerating me as her conversation partner at the Portland release party of her newest (brilliant) book on sexual relationships in long-term partnerships, Come Together! If her name seems familiar that's because she's

Ok, so I have news that is exciting for me: Patreon finally enabled annual subscriptions on my account! Yup! Buy a year and save 16%! For instance, a year of the (mostly locked, private) Comics Tier is just $50.40 instead of $60 now! I've definitely got more than another year's worth of projects and

Collages! Road trips! Seed bombs! Unearthing 20-year-old comics! Building a shipping station! Crying on a podcast! Fixing my husband’s ratty old jumper! Yup, October had a lot going on. Here's a recap of all the shit I shared on Patreon, plus a few extra places as well. What She Knows collages: The

Ok, if I were listing my projects chronologically, then this one would have to go at the bottom of the post because it’s the last thing I made in September. But. It’s my favorite thing I made that month and I am the Queen of this Newsletter Domain, so who’s gunna stop me from showing you this first:

I keep myself busy! Collaging, comicking, obsessively diagraming- Here’s the bullshit I made in August: What She Knows is an art practice/experiment that my friend, Lucy Bellwood, is developing, which prompts you to make art in response to a daily question. I am participating in my native language o

Now that we’re halfway through August, let’s catch up on all the shit I made in July! A Touch of Cloth (Historical Costuming Project) After spending hours and hours (and hours) cutting out, sewing together, and lacing up my stays pieces (it’s sort of like a corset) using shitty fabric as practice, I

Mending my ancient curtain with a stranger's skirt I fixed our ancient curtains! ……………………………………………...or did I. COMIC: #IsawU 🔒 Patrons Only Back in 2012, when Twitter existed solely to make jokes with your friends in 140 characters, Brendan J. ran a short fiction project where he wrote fake Missed

Here's the stuff I made and/or posted last month! I got some art, I got some essays, I gotta lotta photos, man, I got a bit of everything for you! ART: The Making of Consentacles Here's how I made my big ol' faux-Ancient Greek pervert painting, from reference images to sketches to paint! COMIC: Coff

Here's my round-up of projects and posts from April! COMIC: I Miss You (2003?) 🔒 Y'all ready for some Vintage Erika Comics? This one comes fresh out of the oven circa 2003ish, when I was experiencing my very first heartbreak as a 19/20-year-old. (7 pages) COMIC: Trauma by Lux Alptraum and Erika Moe

Here's all the posts and projects I got up to in March! I Still Stand By This (drama-alert) (🔒 Private!) Locked because the internet is literally insane and I needed a place to talk about it. The Joy Project First video update on the giant collaborative fiber project I am creating with my patrons!

What the hell happened last month? Let's recap. February New eBook added! (🔒 Private!) Oh Joy Sex Toy: Volume One joins the collection of eBooks that Bookworm patrons get to download for their reading pleasure! There's now six books available, including titles that are way out of print or were neve