ErikaMoen

"Ew, she looks so old" (ESSAY)

Wow, this cartoon really hit me in the heart.

Intellectually, I reject the white-thin-young-cis-etc-etc beauty standards and I do see the human beauty that exists outside those restrictions. In my teens and twenties I remember j...

Letters From Space Camp: Day Two - Full Chapter

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 2023-12-23 22:36:07 +0000 UTC View Post

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

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 mental hospital program. This is m...

2023-12-22 02:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post

COLLAGE: When no one is around I...

What She Knows is  an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily  statement and I am answering  in my native language of collage. My 2023-12-20 05:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post

You Will Need (comic in progress)

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"...

If the Shoe Fits (comic in progress)

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 ...

COMIC: The Cannibal Club in The Greatest Treasure

"What ever happened to that sci-fi Twinkies parody comic Erika was making with David Levine?" I can tell you're asking yourself- and I have good news! IT'S DONE. 

After the pencils I shared with you all ...

November Posts Recap

What did I get up to in November? I'm so glad you asked!

2023-12-08 00:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post

The Kuiper Belt Job - comic in progress

In addition to his incredible behind-the-scenes support of Oh Joy Sex Toy, author David D. Levine has just released his newest book this month- The Kuiper Belt Job. To celebrate, we a...

There butt for the grace of god sew I (Patch Sewing Project)

My favorite shorts have a hole in the left butt cheek zone, BUT-

-I have leftover shiny gold fabric from a previous project, THEREFORE-

COMIC: Space Camp, Day Two (again)

This third draft is hopefully the final revision* of the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp, which will ...

These Boots Were Made For Zippin' (REPAIR PROJECT)

Some years ago I bought some cheap boots on sale at my grocery store. They were either $40 or $20, I can't remember. They served me well but they were not made to last, so inevitably the interiors began disintegrating- which was fine, I could still wear them! Nobody but me knew that the insides looked like a literal rat's nes...

Getting a handle on it (Kintsugi repair!)

My excitement at successfully registering for one of Repair PDX's very popular and very difficult-to-get-a-spot-in 2023-11-09 07:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post

One Day Sale

Today (Sunday, 11/5) only, Amazon* is having a massive bonkers sale on our sex and relationship ebook for teens- $1.99 for an ebook that normally costs $17.99.

*For Amazon alternatives, check this 2023-11-06 03:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post

October Projects Recap

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.

2023-11-02 17:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post

ART: Vulvapalooza

Matt and I were approached by an client who needed some vulva illustrations for a program they're developing around sexual issues that breast cancer survivors encounter. They'd seen my vulva drawings in Emily Nagoski PhD.'s Come As You Are...

COMIC: The Star Sweeper (2003)

One million years ago (20), my gaggle of fellow teenage girl cartoonists put together a black and white zine of short stories to sell at a comic convention. The theme was fairy tales and I adapted a short poem I found in a book collecting the old weird stuff (You know, the kind of folk stories Disney would sanitize b...

Space Camp: Making Pages 15-17

Recap For The Newbs: I am revising a chapter from Letters From Space Camp so my agent can send it as a sample to potential publishers to help them realize how much they want to pay me more than their competitors to have the honor...

Shipping Station

Matt and I made a shipping station! 

Back in the day, I used to fulfill all my orders myself- starting with my hand-folded and stapled black and white minicomics and then moving on up to the squarebound Real Books Matt and I started producing. Then our tiny self-publishing operation took off enough that we signed o...

Seed Bomb

🎵 Hello, daddy, hello, mom
🎵 I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry NATIVE WEST COAST WILDFLOWER SEED MIX bomb
🎵 Hello world I'm your wild girl
🎵 I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry NATIVE WEST COAST WILDFLOWER SEED MIX bomb

Yup, you guessed it: I took a ...

Fuck'it and Chuck'it

I chucked flower seeds into the neglected patches of my garden.

People gift me flower seeds because they know I like gardening and I mean it when I tell them I'm so excited to plant them but then they (the seeds, not my friends) go in my drawer for gardening tools and ephemera for "later" and later never comes because t...

Road Trip! A Trip on the Road!

I tricked my friend Clare into flying across the country (from Maryland!) to go on a week-long road trip with me even though I am For Reals A Bad Driver!

She won't be making that mistake again any time soon!

On October 10...

COLLAGE: I Show Up for What I Love by...

What She Knows is  an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily  statement and I am answering  in my native language of collage. My 2023-10-09 21:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post

September Project Wrap-Up

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...

COLLAGE: The time of day I feel my best is…

What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering  in my native language of collage. My 2023-10-05 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post

PROJECT: Honey, I Shrunk the...

I made something a little bit ridiculous.

Just a teensy weensy bit!

As so many things in life do, this tiny tale began...

August Project Round-Up

I keep myself busy! Collaging, comicking, obsessively diagraming- Here’s the bullshit I made in August:

What She Knows 2023-09-22 20:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post

COLLAGE: My mundane superpower is...

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering  in my native language of collage. My 2023-09-22 07:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Space Camp: Fudging the Timeline

Here's the thing: writing a memoir is different from reporting an accurate timeline of events like you would for a police report.

Yes, a memoir or autobiography is about someone's unique, real life that actually happened... and it's also a story. Stories have guidelines that help keep the reader interested and ...

COLLAGE: I am nourished by...

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering  in my native language of collage. My 2023-09-15 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post