ErikaMoen

COMIC: Space Camp Revised pages 19-22

Final batch of pages! 

I edited and inked the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous b...

COMIC: Space Camp Revised, pages 16-18

I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 2023-08-09 02:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post

SPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 11-15

I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 2023-07-29 03:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post

A Touch of Cloth (Historical Costuming Project)

Matt gave me a glass with a faint yellow-y tinged transparent drink and a straw so of course I took a big ol' slurp from it, assuming it was a fruity-flavored water, but NO. 

NO. 

IT WAS NOT.

It was a canned mojito? I actually shrieked when my taste buds spiked on that weirdo fermented off...

SPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 6 - 10

As explained in the last post, I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. For fun, compare the 2023-07-22 06:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post

SPACE CAMP: Inked Pages 1 - 5 (Day Two)

My last post shared some of my progress on revising the Day Two chapter of Letters From Space Camp and now I have the first batch of ink...

SPACE CAMP: The Revisoning

Matt and I had a check-in with our book agent and I kinda-sorta out-of-my-ass estimated I'd be done revising the sample chapter of Space Camp in the next few months and she was like 'Great, I'll start shopping the pit...

June Round-Up

• Mending my ancient curtain with a stranger's skirt

I fixed our ancient curtains! ……………………………………………...or did I.

2023-07-06 01:11:46 +0000 UTC View Post

I've Been Framed (Joy Project Update)

My one goal going in to Goodwill was to find a frame for this really pretty 12" x 18" print I bought at a craft fair and suspended in its flimsy plastic sleeve on my kitchen wall. 

As you can see in my photo on the left, t...

COMIC: #IsawU

Journey back with me, dear patron, to a time long, long ago. A time when Twitter was new and used almost exclusively to make silly jokes with your friends in 140 characters or fewer.

The year: 2012

The game: Tweet fake missed connections ads (The classic "2023-06-29 23:59:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Wrap It Up In a Rainbow

For my 40th birthday, I flew across the country to spend it with some dear friends. At this moment I am on the return trip home, killing time until my connecting flight back home.

I had intended to write about Pride but…

I had a really good Pride. It’s the first one I’ve gone to in about 20 years. I associat...

Stay(s) With Me (Historical Costuming Project)

Slowly but surely I am making progress on my 18th century outfit with my Historical Costuming sewing group! Having wrapped up my 2023-06-23 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

This is How I Love You (A Jeans-Mending Project)

You wear your favorite jeans until they are shreds.

Your body rubs away denim, fiber by fiber, until the light shines through them.

It takes years, but all through the power of your body moving and living in t...

Mending my ancient curtain with a stranger's skirt

"You're the only person I know who would bring an entire CURTAIN to a hot springs." -Matt, after asking me what entertainment I was going to bring on our weekend retreat two hours away in the woods.

2023-06-14 02:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post

May Round-Up

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!

• 2023-06-07 21:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post

COMIC: Coffee to Go (2001-ish?)

My senior year of high school, I took a comics class taught by Lin Lucas. His teaching was profoundly impactful on little teenage-me and it makes my heart so happy to still cross paths with him to this day in the not-so-tiny world of comics, now as ...

Marvel at the Cabbage Flower

My brassicas are flowering.

I grew them both from seed, my cabbage and kohlrabi (on the left and right, respectively). In fact, the current cabbage may have been a seed I harvested by hand from a previous cabbage that I grew so...

Not to be nasty, but I'm digging my stink

I smell like sunblock and dirt and sweat.

Well, I smell like sunblock, except for those two patches over the bottoms of my shoulder blades, where my tiny t-rex arms can't reach. They're not sun-burnt yet, but they will be if I keep this up. "This", meaning "Biking to work in a sports bra and gardening in a halter top."<...

Space Camp - Revision

Ok.

Ok. Ok. Ok.

So I did the whole rough first draft of Letters From Space Camp, right? (My memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital in 2019)

Before my agent can ...