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Erika Moen
@erikamoen.bsky.social
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Queer cartoonist publishing TMI comics online since 1999. Member of Helioscope. Co-created Oh Joy Sex Toy. she/her
• Free Patreon: patreon.com/erikamoen
• Graphic Novel: patreon.com/posts/letters-from-71578543
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Screen print from 2013
(No more copies of it, sorry! Sold out over a decade ago)
Screenprint of two octopuses forming the shape of a heart. Left octo is purple ink, right is pink ink. Where their colors overlap, the ink color is a darker shade. Detail shot of the screenprint where the two octopus colors overlap on each other.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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New comic up, bitches!

Patrons are seeing it now, civilians can see it next week 😘
www.patreon.com/posts/143161...
A Small, Hungry Child by Erika Moen, November 8, 2025, https://www.patreon.com/posts/143161749 The comic is illustrated with a textured pen line and grainy, watercolor paper texture with a limited palette of oranges, yellows, and browns. Panel 1 A mother kneels on the floor of an international airport, interacting with her toddler. Her word balloon is twisted into loops, filled with squiggles and random letters. Her baby babbles back with the same kind of twisted word balloon and squiggles. Sitting in one of the long rows of waiting chairs, Erika peeks over her shoulder at the two. She is a white, middle-age white woman with a short poof of bangs and shaved head. Next to her sits her husband, who has salt-and-pepper hair, wears big chunky glasses, and is playing on his phone. Panel 2 "It really bums me out how much I've forgotten all my French." Erika sulks to Matt, who looks up from his phone. Text over cuts the comic panel, stating, "Read the rest on patreon.com/ErikaMoen"
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Sal.

You know not what you ask.
Teen Erika stands in a grocery aisle. The photo is completely blown out, so only her eyes show on her face. Her short hair is choppy and reddish. She wears a fishnet cardigan over a t-shirt, a black pleated skirt, maroon tights, and black flat shoes. She wears a leather purse with a red velvet flower on the front from the 70s that belonged to her mother. Teenage Erika poses in her best friend's bedroom after they'd done makeovers. Erika has red short hair with long bangs that are swept to the side. She wears a ribbon choker around her neck, a black cardigan over a shiny-lacey purple tank top, a shiny pale orange scarf(?) as a belt around her black pants. It's very MySpace profile picture. Teenage Erika dances in her living room with a black velvet ribbon choker, a red tank top, black pleated skirt, and black and white striped tights.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Post you from a different era.

2001, for my 18th birthday a bunch of my comics internet friends pitched in together to buy me my first drawing tablet (& three devil rubber duckies). It didn't have a screen, it was like a pen-mouse so you could draw on the computer it plugged in to.
A white teenage girl dressed in a black bulky sweater and black skirt kneels on the floor, holding up a Graphire 2 digital drawing tablet. Three red devil rubber ducks are also resting on it. The girl has chin-length brown hair that's pulled back by a headband.
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My first process post on making the Louvre crown jewels out of paper is now public for everyone to read! You can join my Patreon for free to automatically receive my public posts and monthly project newsletter. (I make a lot of cool shit)
www.patreon.com/posts/constr...
Photograph of the stolen Napoleon tiara overlaid with a flat drawing outlining its shapes and repeating the main motifs in a line. Photograph of a streaky black and white print out of the traced tiara motif next to black construction paper with white chalky lines that have been hand traced to the black paper using white transfer paper. Erika's hand paints silver details onto an ornate black paper silhouette design with sparkly blue/purple paper "jewels" on it. Paper recreation of the Napoleon royal necklace made with black construction paper, silver paint details, and large shiny paper jewels
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Comics, recreating the stolen Louvre jewels in paper, and a bunch of photo essays about all kinds of bullshit are some of the things I made in October!

Public post: www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
Join for free to get my monthly projects recap in your email or feed 😘
Text: Erika's Bullshit Image 1: A cartoony comic panel showing three people doing a stamp project at a table. Caption: A Really Good Artist (comic) Image 2: Photo close-up of an intricate black paper lace design with italic silver accents and "jewels" cut out of sparkly teal/blue/purple textured paper. Caption: Louvre Crown Jewels (Paper Craft) Image 3: A cartoony comic panel showing a woman resting on a couch and looking at her phone. Caption: Pitch Perfect (comic) Image 4: Photo of seed pods on a stalk with cartoony faces drawn on them digitally while they sing the Muppet Show song. Caption: Chaos Gardening (Photo Essay)
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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My first OJST comic was a review of the Magic Wand (a decade before sponsorship!), drawn with traditional media in 2013 (www.ohjoysextoy.com/hitachi) and here I am 12 years later, still on my same bullshit, but now it's all digitally drawn (www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-magic-wand...)
Erika's drawing from 2013 showing her sitting on a giant Magic Wand vibrator from the first full Oh Joy Sex Toy comic, https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/hitachi It was inked by hand with a brush and is flat colored with pink hues in photoshop. It's cartoony but lines are a big wonky, in the hand drawn way. Erika's first panel from https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-magic-wand-weekend-erika-moen showing a very cartoony version of herself, streamlined and simplified. It's entirely digitally drawn and the lines are very smooth. The coloring is paper-textured pinks.
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I dressed up as the stolen Louvre crown jewels for Halloween, so obviously I had to recreate the tiara and necklace entirely out of paper U_U

I detailed my process for patrons here (goes public next week)
1) www.patreon.com/posts/constr...
2) www.patreon.com/posts/rock-p...
Paper recreation of the Napoleon royal necklace made with black construction paper, silver paint details, and large shiny paper jewels Erika, a white middle-age woman w/ short hair, looks up at the camera wearing the paper crown & necklace, and shiny sequined dress to match. Erika poses in her short black dress covered in teal/blue sequins, along with her crown and necklace that match. A sign is attached on her hip reading "Please return to the Louvre. Merci!" Photo of a cluttered table with art detritus over it and the black paper crown partially covered in its blue paper jewels with Erika's hand painting on silver detail marks.
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Made a new autobio comic about making art with @dylanmeconis.bsky.social's five year old kid!

I also got a bit sentimental in the blog part because in the TWO DECADES I've been drawing Dylan in my comics, this is the first time I drew her as a mom 🥲

Patrons only:
www.patreon.com/posts/141989...
A Great Artist by Erika Moen, published October 24, 2025 on patreon.com/posts/141989182 The comic is illustrated with a textured pen line and grainy, watercolor paper texture with a limited palette of ranges and browns. Panel 1: Narration: Every first Saturday of the month is Erika 'n' Rebecca Day. "Erika!" Rebecca shrieks in delight, jumping in the air. She is a five-year-old white child with longer-than-shoulder-length orange hair and poofy bangs covering her forehead. She wears a long shirt that ends with a ruffle, leggings, and light-up sneakers. Behind Rebecca stands her moms, Katie and Dylan, who also hold her one-year-old brother. Katie has curly short orange hair, glasses, and sports a sweater vest with slacks. Dylan has a spikier short dark haircut, horn-rimmed glasses, and wears a long-sleeved shirt over leggings. "Hey Rebecca! Dylan! Katie!" Erika exclaims. Erika has poofy bangs, tattooed arms, and wears a black t-shirt. Panel 2: Narration: Usually we walk to get gelato but- "Aw dang, it's gross outside." Erika bemoans, looking out the window at the pouring rain. "Let's draw!" Suggest Rebecca, undeterred. Text: Read the rest on patreon.com/ErikaMoen
October 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I collected some mystery theedth from my chaos garden.
Public post on www.patreon.com/posts/140633...
One close-up photo of a closed seed pod in a pink hand. Same photo, but now the seed pod is cracked open, with little black seeds in and around it. Two photos. One shows a miniature glass jar on a white piece of paper. Tons of sand-sized black seeds are sprinkled on the paper, with a small layer in the bottom of the jar. More seed pod detritus is also collected in the jar. 2nd photo shows a handful of tiny black seeds and dried out plant detritus in a small metal sieve (probably made for steeping tea leaves?) suspended over a small bowl, which has collected a bunch of tiny black seeds that have sifted through the grating. One photo shows a close-up of a miniature glass jar which has the bottom of it thoroughly covered in tiny black and brown seeds. Its black circular lid leans against its side. There is hand writing on the lid. In the second photo, it is an overhead shot of just the lid, showing that "Tall stalk yellow flowers 10/2025" is written on it, with a little doodle of what the plant looks like next to it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I made content.

Public Post: www.patreon.com/posts/septem...
Panel 1 Text: September Bullshit. Here's a preview of the comics, projects, and bullshit I shared last month on pay-tree-on .com /ErikaMoen. Link in bio! Illustration: A cartoony woman is being mobbed by little Reddit logo aliens. 2) A comic page is displayed at an angle and lightened from its original color intensity. It shows a cartoon woman meeting the Reddit aliens. Text: The French Connection. A comic about posting on Reddit. (about French) 3) Text: Lily fan art. You know that character from the language learning app, Duolingo? Yeah, I drew her. Like, a bunch. Image: Multiple illustrations of a cartoony teenage girl sulking. She has purple hair. 4) Cartoon Erika reads over the text from the Savage Love advice column. Erika says in a word balloon: Dan Savage brought me on to answer a question in his Savage Love Column! The text of the article reads: 11. AFAB here. I’ve worn out two plug-in Hitachi Magic Wands in the last three years. (RIP. LOL.) Is there a waterproof plug-in vibrator out there that costs less? “Cheaper options exist,” said my go-to sex toy expert Erika Moen, “but your AFAB reader will burn through those cheaper options even faster because when it comes to sex toys, you really do get what you pay for: cheaper toys are of cheaper quality and they wear out much faster. Stick with Magic Wands, which are built to last (mine is 15 years old!) and come with a warranty!” Erika Moen is the genius behind acclaimed sex education website Oh Joy Sex Toy. 5) Text: Twenty-one years ago my comics were published in a book for the very first time. Here’s a look back at "Create", reminiscing about where it came from and how it wound up colored by comics legend Kazu Kibuishi! Image: Part of a comic page is turned at an angle. It shows a woman sitting on the floor, noting something by her knee, and picking it up. 6) Text: I boned my 18th century historical stays! It's not as dirty as it sounds! Image: Photograph of a historical garment being held against a woman's torso by her hand. 7) Text: Bike Crime. My bike got crime'd :C Image: Photograph of a woman hunched over by her bike, tightening its rear brakes. 8) Title: And more! Text: I post tons of art, comics, crafts, essays, and bullshit publicly. Join for free pay-tree-on .com /ErikaMoen Link in profile! Image: Shows a purple and pink watercolor maze with cartoony girls running across it and gesticulating at the text.
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Comics, illustration, historical costuming, and BIKE CRIME: here's all the bullshit I got up to in September.

Public post for everyone, and it's free to join to keep up with my upcoming projects!
www.patreon.com/posts/septem...
Text: September Bullshit (patreon.com/ErikaMoen) Five parallel image previews showing a variety of comic panels, illustrations, and photos of projects that Erika worked on in September.
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Screenshot of old Facebook pop-up for reporting photos. It states: What's going on? -It's annoying or not interesting (Checked) -I'm in this photo and I don't like it -I think it shouldn't be on Facebook -It's spam
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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20 years in and we still have plenty to talk about U_U

(Patrons got this comic a week early at
www.patreon.com/posts/comic-...)
Erika Moen draws with a cartoony, textured line against muted watercolor purples and yellows. Erika, a white woman in her early 40s with tattoos, leans against the armrest on her couch, scrolling on her phone. Matthew, a bespectacled white man in his early 40s, sits against the other armrest, doodling on his ipad which he rests against his raised knee. Panel 1 The couple are comfortably engrossed in their devices while lounging on the couch. Panel 2 Erika shifts slightly as a flowery word balloon emanates from her butt, asking "proot?". Neither Erika nor Matt react. Panel 3. In turn, Matt shifts slightly, releasing a much more forceful "rrrum PRUMP" word balloon from his bottom. Again, neither of them look up from their devices. Panel 4 Now looking at each other, Erika asks, "Did our butts just talk to each other?" "They're having a conversation." Matt agrees. Text: Join me on patreon.com/ErikaMoen for free for more comics, art, and weird bullshit! Link in profile Art: A cartoon of Erika stands with her back to the audience as she scrutinizes the text before her. The space is filled with oversize puzzle pieces.
October 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Welcome to my Chaos Garden.

Early release for patrons, post goes public next week.
www.patreon.com/posts/140633...
Photo of a cluster of seed pods on a "common mullein" plant stem. Erika has digitally drawn over some of the split open seed pods to make them look like little Muppet faces and added word balloons so they're singing the theme song to The Muppet Show, "It's time to play the music / It's time to light the lights / It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!"
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Hey Hey, ya girl is back in Savage Love talkin' with @dansavage.bsky.social about vibrators built to take a pounding 🪄😘
savage.love/savagelove/2...
Screenshot of Savage Love column from September 30, 2025, "Quickies" "11. AFAB here. I’ve worn out two plug-in Hitachi Magic Wands in the last three years. (RIP. LOL.) Is there a waterproof plug-in vibrator out there that costs less? “Cheaper options exist,” said my go-to sex toy expert Erika Moen, “but your AFAB reader will burn through those cheaper options even faster because when it comes to sex toys, you really do get what you pay for: cheaper toys are of cheaper quality and they wear out much faster. Stick with Magic Wands, which are built to last (mine is 15 years old!) and come with a warranty!” Erika Moen is the genius behind acclaimed sex education website Oh Joy Sex Toy."
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A short, stupid fart comic is up for my patrons now and will go public for the rest'a you next week.
www.patreon.com/posts/140480...
Erika Moen draws with a cartoony, textured line against muted watercolor purples and yellows. Erika, a white woman in her early 40s with tattoos, leans against the armrest on her couch, while still holding her phone but it is lowered. Matthew, a bespectacled white man in his early 40s, sits against the other armrest, doodling on his ipad which he rests against his raised knee. The two are looking at each other, mid-discussion. Text: Pitch Perfect by Erika Moen patreon.com/ErikaMoen
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Aaaand this post is now public for everyone to see my collection of Duolingo fanart.
www.patreon.com/posts/139685...
Flat color illustration of a bored teen girl with purple hair sitting at a desk with a microphone, energy drink, and voicemail playing. Erika Moen's Duolingo avatar appears in a word balloon from the voicemail machine.
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My view from the @helioscopepdx.bsky.social lunch table.
Photo of a sandwich on a plate in the foreground. Out of focus in the background is the rest of the studio and... a dog. Exact same photo, but the focus of the camera has shifted to the dog, who is named Emmet. He lays on the ground, resting his head on an extended paw, staring intently at the viewer. Exact same photo but zoomed way in so Emmet's soulful eyes that are staring imploringly at the viewer. The out of focus sandwich is still in the foreground.
September 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Just for my patrons, I made a comic about sharing a different comic on a certain French forum. This one's not going public because I would rather not get eaten alive, thankyouverymuch.
www.patreon.com/posts/140041...
The French Connection by Erika Moen, published on patreon.com/ErikaMoen on September 29, 2025 The comic is drawn with a simple, round, cartoony style with a textured line. The color palette of the comic is dark purple, pinks, oranges, and yellow, with a splotchy texture coming through. Erika is a white woman with short-cropped hair in her early 40s. She has a bit of a muffin-top that rests over her pink shorts. She is also wearing a dark purple t-shirt, leggings under the shorts, and big stompy boots. Page 1 Walking into view from off the page, Erika waves over her shoulder at her Mother-in-Law who is off the panel. "WOOPS!" Erika laughs with embarrassment, still waving off the page. "À la semaine prochaine !" (This translates to "See you next week!" in English) Her Mother-in-Law calls back, only her hand visible as she waves goodbye to Erika. "WOW, I sure made a mistake back there!" Erika laughs to herself. "LOL, I've gotta share this with someone who can appreciate fucking up in French... Oo!" She exclaims as she comes to an open entrance labeled "r/French" with a crowd of oddly-shaped silhouettes just across the threshold. "A place for people also learning how to speak French! Perfect! Hey guys!" She announces jovially as she enters the room. Inside is a sea of little round marshmallow-alien guys. They have big round orange eyes and each has a single bent antenna with a puffball at the end. They are the little alien duder from the Reddit logo. Erika crouches down to laughingly recount her story to them, while they look back blankly. "So I was practicing with my French Mother-in-Law and she was correcting my pronunciation, except I couldn't hear the difference between 'quand' and 'con', because they both sound like 'kohn' to me, and she explained that 'con' can mean 'CUNT', so I'd just unintentionally been saying something vulgar over and over to her, haha! Standing back upright, she asks the crowd, "Learning French is hard, amirite??", fully expecting them to laugh and share their own French mix-up stories back. "'Quand' and 'con' do not sound alike." One Redditor replies blankly. "Yes, that's why it's funny!" Erika explains with a laugh, leaning back down to be eye level with the Redditor. "See, I'm learning French so to my untrained ear, these two very different words sounded alike to me. Ha!" "Neither 'quand' nor 'con' would be phonetically spelled as 'kohn'." Another Redditor blankly states, as it jumps to cling to her leg. Rocking back a little but still trying to win over the crowd, Erika follows up with, "Okay, sure. I'm just showing you how my brain interpreted those sounds." "According to the International Phonetic Alphabet: 'Quand' should be pronounced /kɑ̃/ and 'con' should be pronounced '/kɔ̃/'" A second Redditor stonily announces as it, too, jumps up to grab onto Erika's arm. Knocked slightly off balance, Erika continues, "Very cool, but- I have never heard of this alphabet before so those symbols don't help me. To me, they are just squiggles." She is starting to look a little worried. Finish reading this comic on https://www.patreon.com/posts/140041330
September 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I made something ridiculous.
(Patron-only right now, will go public next week.)
www.patreon.com/posts/139685...
Illustration of Lily from the Duolingo app. On the left, screenshot of her in the her original flat style sitting at a desk with a microphone and energy drink. On the right, same illustration, but drawn in Erika's style. Lily has purple shoulder-length hair and is a perpetually unimpressed teenager. Text: Lily Fan Art (Because why not?)
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Now public for everyone: Boning (the historical costuming kind)
Back in Ye Olde Days, whale bones were used in this step (hence: "boning"), but fortunately we live in 2025 where plastic is and abundant and acceptable substitute instead.
www.patreon.com/posts/138999...
The two halves of Erika's stays (a historical corset-like garment). One is the plain backside up, the other is the decorative right side up. Little clips hold trim around the perimeter. Title: Boning.
September 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Now public for everyone, the tale of my BIKE gettin' CRIMED.
www.patreon.com/posts/bike-c...
(join my Patreon for free to get these updates automatically)
Erika hunches by her bike, tightening the back brakes. Text: Crime (dun dun DUNNN)
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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My bike bag fell, which smashed the mini pickle jar inside it, which has been a surprisingly more involved ordeal to clean up than I ever would have guessed. Various fans around @helioscopepdx.bsky.social are drying out my bag and its contents. Everything smells like pickles now.
A yellow bike bag hangs upside down on a wall with a fun blowing directly up into it. I the foreground is an indoor hose, a "Caution, wet floor" sign, and a grate where most of the water has been pushed, though there are still shiny wet spots on the sleek floor. This is the entryway of the building where Helioscope is housed.
September 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It's been two years in the making, but I finally added boning to my historical costume project (18th century stays)!

Patrons can see my process post now, scrubs (non-patrons) will see it when it goes public next week. You can join 🎵for free🎵 to see it now.
www.patreon.com/posts/138999...
Two photos showing the coil a plastic strip with wire cutters, and then Erika cutting the plastic strip with them to put into her sewing project.
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM