ErikaMoen

Thready or Knot (Sewing Update - Double Whammy)

Oh jeez, you guys! 

I did volunteer work today???

These are photos from last month, though, they have extremely little to do with what I did today, except that both involve sewing. 

Ok, so to explain the photos: These are from my last 2024-03-10 07:17:09 +0000 UTC View Post

February Round-Up

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 2024-03-09 04:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post

AUDIO: Me singing to Lucy Bellwood

Buttstagram is the group chat that I share with my very serious, professional cartoonist colleagues, one Ms. Danielle Corsetto and one Ms. Lucy Bellwood. We use this as a space to talk shop, air our grievances with our profession, and share the gory details of our latest gastrointestinal disasters-- er. I mean-- provide each other mora...

Darn it! (Mending Project)

I wear my clothing till it literally falls apart.

Case in point, my bee socks that I've had for easily over a decade. I think they may have actually been a gift from someone? Maybe I bought them? Whoever paid, I definitely squeezed every last drop of dollar value out of 'em before retir...

Block Printed Textile

Last weekend, my friend Dylan Meconis took me to Wildcraft for a block print textile class!

What do those words even mean? 

Basically, you carve out a design on a block, dip it ink, and then stamp it down onto fabric, leaving your bea...

COMIC: Space Camp, page 5

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the 2024-02-21 00:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Dear January Erika

Dear January Erika, 

It's me, February Erika! I am writing from the future to tell you the good news: You are not depressed! 

Well, wait, no, you are depressed. Like hella depressed. You're tired and weak and are spending a worrying amount of time sleeping during the day, and your inner monologue is... kind of off-putting? Like: yikes. And you're comfort-eating a lot. You're not even hungry, you're just shoving good-tasting-but-not-nut...

PODCAST: Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Erika Moen Live at Powell's Books

Remember how I said I was gunna do a talk at Powell's Books with Emily Nagoski, PhD, about her brand new release, Come Together? 

Well, I did it! So everyone who doubted me? I sure proved you wrong. I proved you ALL wrong.

Muahahahah!

I mean, just look at me (on the right, ...

COMIC: Space Camp, page 4

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the 2024-02-09 23:22:35 +0000 UTC View Post

January Round-Up (+ Feb 7th Event in Portland!)

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, 2024-02-03 20:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Photo: Week Five

I ended Week Four of my Daily Photo project believing that the month had concluded on January 28th. 

Ladies. 

January goes up to 31. 

I realized my error the next day, which I thought was February 1st, but was, in fact, January 29th. "Oh!" I thought. "No worries, I'll just take a photo today like normal." The completionist in me would normally acti...

COMIC(s): My First Vibrator

Ok, so I wrote up this big ol' post on the Oh Joy Sex Toy Patreon and then I realized... it'd actually be a fitting post to share here too? If you happen to be a patron over there, first: THANK YOU, and second: Uh, you already read this update over there. There's literally nothing new here. Everybody else? Get ready for some good ol' sloppy seconds!

Ok! On to my double-dipping post!

Daily Photo: Week Four

Monday, January 22

Just'a girl, trompin' along in her yellow chicken boots in her winter garden at dusk.

Tuesday, January 23

Lemony Snicket (my lemon tree) has a moderately bad infestation of 2024-01-29 08:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post

COMIC: Letters From Space Camp (Day 2, page 3)

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my   pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my   second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the 2024-01-26 02:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Oh, just hanging out with Dan Savage, talkin' 'bout dildos, like one does U_U

Hey Hey!

Dan Savage had me hop on to his podcast to dish about dual density dildos! 

Because our chat went so long (13 mins!) it didn't fit on the shorter version of the podcast that they publish for free, so it's on the extended Magnum version that people have to pay for, starting at the 51 minute mark. 

...but not for you. 

Oh-ho, dear pat...

Daily Photo: Week Three

Monday, January 15

As is habitual, I forgot to take a self-portrait today. OR DID I? Because I did take this picture of my hand in the hole of our busted grocery bag in order to emphasize the extent of the damage and- last I knew- my hand is technically part of me so really I guess I did take a self-portrait after all. Anyway, accomp...

Red Fern Coral (paper sculpture thing? also an accidental diary entry)

I was gunna start with a disclosure admitting that I made this paper sculpture(?) "a year or so ago" but it turns out that 2019 was five years ago?????? So, uh, FULL DISCLOSURE: I made this paper red fern coral five freaking years ago. 

To guide my wire arrangement, I first drew out the main structure of my fern coral at full size on paper and th...

DARN it! (Mending)

For the last ten years, I've been saving our worn out clothing in a basket under my home studio desk. Tig likes to shove her little paws in it up to her armpits and methodically pull out the top layer of clothes to make herself a little nest, exactly where my feet should be, and then nestle herself in like Smaug on his hoard of stolen treasure.

The basket is literally overflowing, even without ...

Daily Photo: Week Two

Week Two of my January Daily Photo Project! Bonus pictures can be seen in the image carousel-thing at the top of this post. 

Monday, January 8

First ride in the rain of the year! Biking in the rain actually isn't so bad once you get going, but it's all the suiting...

Daily Photo: Week 1

Once a year or so, I like to choose a period to take a self portrait every single day as a kind of photo diary. I just set my camera down with a self-timer and do whatever I was already in the process of doing before I remembered "Oh shit, did I do my daily photo yet?" Like last year, I'm choosing the month of January to document this time- so I guess this is starting to become a bit o...

December Round-Up

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 comics a...

2023 in Review

I thought I would do a year-in-review type post to recap my projects and experiences. But

January

man, I woke up bone tired. This whole last week my brain has been absolute mush. So I thought I'd go through my photo archive and that would prompt me to remember this year which would inspire me to start writing. But

2024-01-01 01:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post