MAY 12
NAME: Erika Moen
A SENTENCE ABOUT WHAT COMICS-RELATED WORK YOU DO AND/OR ARE KNOWN FOR:
I draw friendly, sex-positive comics about sex toys, sex education, and the sex industry each week at Oh Joy, Sex Toy (www.ohjoysextoy.com). Previously I drew Bucko, written by Jeff Parker and published by Dark Horse, and DAR!, which ran online for six years before I self-published two volumes. In my fifteen years in the comics industry, I’ve been well known for creating comics about sex, sexuality, queerness, and autobiographical stories, always with lots of sophomoric humor.
What are your favorite working tools?
My Winsor & Newton Series 7 #2 brush, though I’ve been working entirely digitally for the last six months on my Cintiq with Photoshop and Manga Studio.
What talent would you most like to have?
To be a good dancer and fiction writer.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Professionally: Working full time and being financially supported by Oh Joy, Sex Toy. Personally: Meeting my husband and starting a life together.
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
Right here in Portland, Oregon. But if I had to move, Aix-en-Provence, France, where I lived for seven months in 2005, or Kent, England, to be closer to my in-law.
What is it that you most dislike?
Onions, my peanut allergy (developed as an adult; I love peanuts!), people who don’t leave any room for gray in their black-and-white views.
Who are your heroes (fiction or non)
All real people: Ellen Forney, Dan Savage, Steve Lieber, my husband Matthew Nolan.
NAME: Erika Moen
A SENTENCE ABOUT WHAT COMICS-RELATED WORK YOU DO AND/OR ARE KNOWN FOR:
I draw friendly, sex-positive comics about sex toys, sex education, and the sex industry each week at Oh Joy, Sex Toy (www.ohjoysextoy.com). Previously I drew Bucko, written by Jeff Parker and published by Dark Horse, and DAR!, which ran online for six years before I self-published two volumes. In my fifteen years in the comics industry, I’ve been well known for creating comics about sex, sexuality, queerness, and autobiographical stories, always with lots of sophomoric humor.
What are your favorite working tools?
My Winsor & Newton Series 7 #2 brush, though I’ve been working entirely digitally for the last six months on my Cintiq with Photoshop and Manga Studio.
What talent would you most like to have?
To be a good dancer and fiction writer.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Professionally: Working full time and being financially supported by Oh Joy, Sex Toy. Personally: Meeting my husband and starting a life together.
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
Right here in Portland, Oregon. But if I had to move, Aix-en-Provence, France, where I lived for seven months in 2005, or Kent, England, to be closer to my in-law.
What is it that you most dislike?
Onions, my peanut allergy (developed as an adult; I love peanuts!), people who don’t leave any room for gray in their black-and-white views.
Who are your heroes (fiction or non)?
All real people: Ellen Forney, Dan Savage, Steve Lieber, my husband Matthew Nolan.