Heeeeeeey! Our friend Dabe Alan came over to our house last night to take photos of Matthew’s and my hands for today’s PAR article, How Artemis became a $40 indie game with die hard fans willing to support ongoing development. So that’s pretty neat! (I’m the hand with the sleeve)

AND! THIS weekend, May 11-12, Dylan Meconis and I are going to be exhibiting at the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival in Canada! It’s free to the public inside the jaw-dropping Toronto Public Library (789 Yonge St). I’ll be selling my books and prints (such as the OctoLove one seen above!) at table 247 on the second floor as well as speaking on a panel!

PANEL: Queer Comics
Sunday, May 12th, 12:15 – 1:15
Pilot Tavern
Second floor
22 Cumberland Ave

Hope to see you there!

Got a brand new comic up today talkin’ about my experiences being a contestant on Strip Search!

Go read it!

Oh man, I’m rushing out the door, but here real quickly is my elimination strip from episode 19 of Strip Search! The challenge was to create a comic combining the words “Naughty” and “Mystery” in just 90 minutes.

You can buy it here as a print, if you’d like! This is the original comic, no clean-ups were made.

Later today I’ll have a BRAND NEW comic for you about this episode :)

From 11:30 – 1pm on Saturday, May 4th, I’ll be signing at Things From Another World for Free Comic Book Day along with my studiomates, Terry Dodson and Jeremy Barlow!

Things From Another World (Facebook Event)
I’ll be there 11:30 – 1pm, but the event goes from 9 – 7pm.
2916 NE Broadway Street
Portland, Oregon

TFAW is offering some goodies to visitors:

Choose up to 10 free comics while supplies last, save up to 60% on thousands of items, and shop $5 doorbusters.
FREE Donuts (while supplies last) from Coco Donuts!
Coupons and a 15% discount all day at Skyline Burgers (show them your TFAW receipt)!
Enter our raffle to win a skateboard deck from Rip City Skate with an original sketch by Terry Dodson!

You guys, I cannot even begin to articulate how excited I am about debuting my new, weekly review comic, Oh Joy, Sex Toy.

Today is the culmination of four months of preparing, researching, interviewing, website-building, affiliate-courting and, of course, comic-making and I just could not be happier with the results. I truly feel this is my best work.

So… what is this all about?

Oh Joy, Sex Toy (OJST) is a weekly comic that updates every Tuesday to bring you reviews of everything that relates to sex, sexuality and the sex industry. From toys to workshops to birth control and much more, no stone will be left unturned, no vibrator left unused, no nipple left unpinched. With the aid of guest reviewers, this comic will cover products for ALL the different anatomies people posses, from vulvas to penises and beyond. OJST strives to be relevant to all different genders, body types, and sexualities.

DANG! Exciting! I hope you enjoy :)

(Credit to Amy T. Falcone for coming up with the title and Scott Kurtz for inventing “A celebration of fornication” You guys are better at this than I am.)

Good golly, I’m going to be live on KGW’s The Square tonight at 7pm PST!

I’m honored to join Stumptown Comics Fest director, Kaebel Hashitani, to talk about the tenth anniversary of my favorite convention– and my tenth anniversary of exhibiting with them.

UPDATE: Dang, that was fast! They’ve already made a clip of our interview!

Woo-hoo, Next weekend it’s the 10th Anniversary of the Stumptown Comics Fest! Not only have I attended at every single one (starting as a wee 19-year-old visiting Portland on a break from my freshman year of college) since it began in the lobby of a church, but this year is extra special because they are honoring me as a Special Guest.

Here’s the Deets:

DATE: April 27 – 28
LOCATION: Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE ML King Blvd., Portland, OR 97232
TABLE: L10
PANELS: (Two of ‘em!)
-Freelancer Panel, April 27, 5pm, Room B116
-Queer Culture in Comics, April 28, 4pm, Room B114

And, of course, I’ll have a plethora of books and screenprints waiting to go home with you!

Not to mention, I’ll be debuting my newest screenprint (just printed yesterday!), OctoLove.

But the biggest and bestest news is that this Friday… I’ll be debuting my new weekly comic! Oh yes! April will conclude with the release of my weekly sex toy review comic! I’m so excited to be throwing myself headlong into illustrating my favorite subjects: sex, sexuality and everything related to the sex industry. There’ll be toy reviews, event coverage, interviews with sex industry professionals and maybe a little sex ed thrown in for good measure. Want a sneak peek? YOU GOT IT.

I can’t wait to share my new comic with you and see you all at Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend!

Beyond Categories: Non-Binary Sexuality from Erika Moen on Vimeo.

One of the highlights of exhibiting at the Emerald City Comic-Con for me was getting to be a speaker on the Beyond Categories: Non-Binary Sexuality panel!

Randall Kirby, Leia Weathington, Charles “Zan” Christensen, Ellen Forney, Jason Thompson and myself gathered together to discuss having bi/pan/queer sexualities in a monosexual world where both the straights and the gays don’t accept you (or straight up view you as The Enemy) and our experiences with biphobia– all with a healthy dose of dick jokes and wise-crackin’.

The anthology on non-binary sexuality that Zan is putting together through his publishing house, Northwest Press, is titled “Anything That Loves”, look for it in July.

(The video may take a bit longer than normal to load because I accidentally made the file gigantic? Try unselecting “HD” in the bottom right hand corner and also I’m a cartoonist not a video editor sorry I have no idea how to do anything! ;)

EDIT: If the above talk only whet your whistle for lectures on sexuality and comics, I have actually done several more! Queering Up Comics at Yale University last month, My talk at Pacific University in 2011, and my talk at Haverford University in 2010.

If you would like me to come speak at your school or event, please contact me at erika.moen (at) gmail.com

Oooooooooh dang! It is that time of year again! EMERALD CITY COMIC-CON TIME!

My BFF Dylan Meconis and I will be booth-ing it up again at booth 2615. We’ve co-tabled at every single ECCC, I think.

My table will be spilling over with copies of my books, prints and limited edition screenprints.

And then, of course, there’s the panels and signings. Oh! What glorious signings and panels there shall be!

Saturday, March 2nd

Panel: Strip Search
1:30 – 2:25pm
Hall A (611-614)
Fellow Strip Search contestant Mackenzie Schubert and I will be joined by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, creators of Penny Arcade, and their business man, Robert Khoo, to talk about our experiences on the first webcomics-based reality TV show and, according to rumor, there may be some advance screenings of stuff and things relating to the series.

Sunday, March 3rd

Signing at Dark Horse Comics
3 – 3:30pm
Booth 1102
Jeff Parker and I will be signing copies of our book, Bucko!

Panel: Beyond Categories – Non-Binary Sexuality
4 – 5pm
Room 2AB
Moderator Charles “Zan” Christensen, Ellen Forney, Randall Kirby, Leia Weathington, Jason Thompson and I will be talking about the oft-ignored “B” that’s overlooked and outright dismissed by both queers and straights in LGBT. Boy howdy, have I got a thing or ten to say about that.

As if all that weren’t enough to shock your eyelids, my workplace Periscope Studio and Sock Dreams have teamed up to bring you SOCKS AND COMICS AT ECCC!

Dang, that is a whole helluva lot going on right there. I absolutely love ECCC and am really looking forward to this year’s! Hope to see you guys there :)

Queering Up Comics – Erika Moen Talks at Yale University from Erika Moen on Vimeo.

PHEW! It took me ages and it’s not perfect, but here is the recording of my Queering Up Comics talk I gave at Yale University earlier this month!

And here are the comics I referenced (Some of them you can only read in books, not online, sorry!):

What Does DAR! Mean?	I Like Girls
GirlFuck	Vibrator Introduction
Zit Face	Six Year Summary
Labels	I Like a Boy (Only in DAR! Volume One)
Lesbian Until Graduation	Identity Evolution
A Queer Marriage	So Much Pussy (Only in DAR! Volume Two)
Queer	Boxed In (Only in The Letter Q)

The DAR! strips can be read online or in DAR! Volume One and DAR! Volume Two.

GirlFuck and I Like Girls can be read online or as minicomics.

If you would like to bring me out to your high school or university to talk, please contact me at erika.moen (at) gmail.com!