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Erika Moen
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Queer cartoonist publishing TMI comics online since 1999. Member of Helioscope. Co-created Oh Joy Sex Toy. she/her
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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 17h
Space Camp is my memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital and you can read the nearly 200 page story for just $5.
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Crudely drawn stick figure stands in an empty classroom where all the chairs are stacked. She holds the straps of her backpack, looking lost. Text: In 2019 I went through a mental health program at the hospital. Now I've turned that experience into a graphic novel memoir. Text: Obviously, it's about struggling with mental illness... A stick figure doctor holding a clipboard sits across from Erika, who stares into space looking haggard. The doctor says, "You scored 69 for Depression, 39 for Pain Interference, 70 for Anxiety, and 69 for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors." Erika thinks to herself with a blank look, "TWO 69s?" Giant sunglasses suddenly appear over Erika's face as she cradles the back of her head against her intertwined hands confidently and smirks, "...nice." Text: ...but it's not a total bummer. Text: Plus, there's a surprising amount of collaging. "Would anyone like to talk about their piece?" A stick figure art teacher asks a table of patients. "This collage is my soul." Erika replies self-importantly, holding up her collage. Real life magazine cuttings are collaged in the background, showing photos of beets and ferns and tomatoes. Text: Download the nearly 200 page graphic novel Space Camp. $5. patreon.com/ErikaMoen Stick figure Erika is curled up against the edge of a couch, holding a mug. Her husband sits at the other end, tentatively reaching out to her and looking stunned. She stares into space, saying blankly, "My psych wants e to enroll in an Intensive Outpatient Program. That, or she wants to hospitalize me."
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erikamoen.bsky.social
Space Camp is my memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital and you can read the nearly 200 page story for just $5.
www.patreon.com/posts/comple...
Crudely drawn stick figure stands in an empty classroom where all the chairs are stacked. She holds the straps of her backpack, looking lost. Text: In 2019 I went through a mental health program at the hospital. Now I've turned that experience into a graphic novel memoir. Text: Obviously, it's about struggling with mental illness... A stick figure doctor holding a clipboard sits across from Erika, who stares into space looking haggard. The doctor says, "You scored 69 for Depression, 39 for Pain Interference, 70 for Anxiety, and 69 for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors." Erika thinks to herself with a blank look, "TWO 69s?" Giant sunglasses suddenly appear over Erika's face as she cradles the back of her head against her intertwined hands confidently and smirks, "...nice." Text: ...but it's not a total bummer. Text: Plus, there's a surprising amount of collaging. "Would anyone like to talk about their piece?" A stick figure art teacher asks a table of patients. "This collage is my soul." Erika replies self-importantly, holding up her collage. Real life magazine cuttings are collaged in the background, showing photos of beets and ferns and tomatoes. Text: Download the nearly 200 page graphic novel Space Camp. $5. patreon.com/ErikaMoen Stick figure Erika is curled up against the edge of a couch, holding a mug. Her husband sits at the other end, tentatively reaching out to her and looking stunned. She stares into space, saying blankly, "My psych wants e to enroll in an Intensive Outpatient Program. That, or she wants to hospitalize me."
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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ohjoysextoy.bsky.social
Save 15% when you buy an annual membership to our Patreon! You get behind-the-scenes bonus content and your patronage keeps this independent adult publisher hiring diverse creators to create the kind of comics that are censored and forbidden on mainstream platforms.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
erikamoen.bsky.social
Space Camp is my memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital and you can read the nearly 200 page story for just $5.
www.patreon.com/posts/comple...
Crudely drawn stick figure stands in an empty classroom where all the chairs are stacked. She holds the straps of her backpack, looking lost. Text: In 2019 I went through a mental health program at the hospital. Now I've turned that experience into a graphic novel memoir. Text: Obviously, it's about struggling with mental illness... A stick figure doctor holding a clipboard sits across from Erika, who stares into space looking haggard. The doctor says, "You scored 69 for Depression, 39 for Pain Interference, 70 for Anxiety, and 69 for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors." Erika thinks to herself with a blank look, "TWO 69s?" Giant sunglasses suddenly appear over Erika's face as she cradles the back of her head against her intertwined hands confidently and smirks, "...nice." Text: ...but it's not a total bummer. Text: Plus, there's a surprising amount of collaging. "Would anyone like to talk about their piece?" A stick figure art teacher asks a table of patients. "This collage is my soul." Erika replies self-importantly, holding up her collage. Real life magazine cuttings are collaged in the background, showing photos of beets and ferns and tomatoes. Text: Download the nearly 200 page graphic novel Space Camp. $5. patreon.com/ErikaMoen Stick figure Erika is curled up against the edge of a couch, holding a mug. Her husband sits at the other end, tentatively reaching out to her and looking stunned. She stares into space, saying blankly, "My psych wants e to enroll in an Intensive Outpatient Program. That, or she wants to hospitalize me."
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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ohjoysextoy.bsky.social
You can also just pick and choose which of our eBook series you want to buy individually! The full run of OJST books are $16, the Drawn to Sex series collects JUST our sex education comics for $10, plus bonus autobio books for $5-8!
www.patreon.com/c/ohjoysexto...
A row of four Oh Joy Sex Toy book covers, each featuring a cover full of people dancing. Each book has a different color tone: pink, peach, teal, blue.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ohjoysextoy.bsky.social
While you're scooping up Black Friday sales, may we direct you towards our own year-long discount on ✨ALL 9✨ of our eBooks for just $25. In stores, these books sell for around $20 a pop, so you're basically getting 9 whole books (~2k pages) for about the price of 1.
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Illustration of a full bookshelf in peach colors. Text: All the eBooks! Nine FULL comic books. Nearly 2,000 pages, new and old.
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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ohjoysextoy.bsky.social
No splitting hairs about it: being a Puerto Rican with PCOS is a hairy experience for @tessquibbs.bsky.social. Society's deep-rooted shaming of being a furry girl but she still manages to come out ahead in this comic from our archive! 1/2
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"Body Hair Blues by Tess Thompson, published July 28, 2020 on ohjoysextoy.com/body-hair-blues-tess-thompson Tess Thompson's art looks like it's painted with thick, bright acrylic paint. Her art is cartoony, somewhat angular, and always energetic. Tess speaks in a teal-colored word balloon, while others have their own colors. "Ever since I was a kid, I've always had so much hair." Tess stands in front of a mirror wearing only her underwear and holding a razor. She has light-orange skin with an assortment of tattoos across her body. Her dark hair is just short of shoulder-length, and it turns into a bright teal color about half-way down. She has extra tufts of short, black hair on her arms and legs, with individual hair sprouting up on her face, and her eyebrows connect in the middle to form a majestic unibrow. "Being mixed Latina and with polycystic ovarian syndrome made me, like... A one woman wig factory! This includes:" An illustration depicts each item on her list. "Toes, feet, knuckles, nipples, AND excessive pubic hair." Brandishing her razor plugged full of thick hair, she continues, "Eventually I got so SICK of shaving all of that! It was WAY too much." "So one day, I decided to stop bothering with it entirely..." She says, throwing the razor into the trash with a THWACK! "I wanted to force myself to accept my body hair." Now sporting a tank top, she holds her arms wide, exclaiming, "AND BOY DID PEOPLE NOT LIKE THAT!" In a green panel: "It's your body, and you can do whatever you want, but it's not beautiful." Tess's ex-girlfriend confides in her. Tess furrows her brow, replying "..." In a gray-maroon panel: "You're so beautiful, Tess!" Tess's mom marvels at her. "Awww." Smiles, Tess. "If only you didn't have a unibrow!" Her mother quickly follows up. "MOM!" Tess exclaims in exasperation. In a tan panel: "You can shape my brows, but I really don't want my unibrow touched, please." Tess explains to a person holding scissors while she sits in a chair. "Well... okay." the standing woman replies. "As long as I don't have to wear that thing! Haha." In a black panel Tess looks not quite at the audience with her eyes round in disbelief as she thinks to herself, "Did God give you that mouth?" Narration: It gets really bad sometimes... Tess stands on the sidewalk, typing away on her phone while a stranger walks back, looking over their shoulder at her. Narration: It sucks when strangers sneer and double-take. The stranger cartoonishly distorts so their neck extends long enough to loop back over their shoulder to stare, bug-eyed, at Tess's hairy legs. Addressing the audience, Tess declares, "Even when I was a kid! I just wanted people to-" A flashback takes us to a younger Tess sitting in a hallway with a row of other young people who are all staring at her legs. She throws her arms in the air and kicks one leg up dramatically, shouting, "STOP STARING!" Present-day Tess stands, facing the reader. She closes her eyes and presses the palms of her hands together, attempting to remain calm as she says, "It can be really alienating and frustrating. But you know what? It's worth it." Looking mischievous, she leans in more closely to the reader to say, "Because the unity that body hair brings... Is far more valuable to me!" "Your unibrow is cuuuuute." Tess's current girlfriend coos, teasingly squishing herself against Tess from behind. Her girlfriend has short dark green hair, a black t-shirt, and an earring of a silver cross. Her skin is a lighter peach color from Tess's. "Aww!" Tess teases flirtily back. Later on in a store at the checkout, the person working the register throws their arms in the air exclaiming, "HEY! You're like me! You're a furry girl!" "Whw-hw?" Gulps Tess, startled. "Your arm hair?" The cashier asks, holding her own hairy forearm up. "We're furry!" Tess looks at her own hairy forearm in surprise and then with happy conviction she exclaims back, "We're furry!!" Outside a couple from the other side of the street stop so one person can shout out, "HEY! Are you mixed Puerto Rican?" From Tess's side of the street, she startles, asking, "LITERALLY how did you...?" "We are too!" The stranger calls. "It's the arm hair!" "Huh!" Tess marvels, looking at her forearm. "Weird!!" Narration: Sometimes... Tess continues walking confidently, admiring her hairy arms and legs. Narration: That kind of weird and unexpected connection is just what I need.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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terridrawsstuff.bsky.social
What IS Helioscope, you may be wondering? We are a group of friends who share a workspace. We are freelance artists and cartoonists. We have no boss or leader, we are just a bunch of artists who have mutually decided that we can stand one another long enough to sit in the same room and be creative.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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terridrawsstuff.bsky.social
Found some time-lapse video of me painting an ungodly number of little blue flowers at @helioscopepdx.bsky.social - the only way I get through tedious things like this is because I love my friends there and they are infinitely entertaining while I work.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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ripleylacross.bsky.social
Thinking fondly of the crew at Helioscope today. For the past 8 years they've been like family to me, through good times, bad times, weird times, and great times. I wouldn't be where I am today without any of them, and for that I'm extremely grateful.

@helioscopepdx.bsky.social
Photograph of an open sketchbook. On the showing page is an inkwash drawing of myself sitting on a rock with a backpack, water bottle, and sketchbook, looking fondly at a mountain. Text: I never thought there could be a place out there in the world that both validates my passions and ambitions and offers me the tools to grow and move forward. But here it is. Right in my backyard. Thanks, Helioscope. Ripley LaCross. Sept '18 - '19
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
erikamoen.bsky.social
Feeling grateful for the home I've made with my husband, the family I've made with my studio Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social, my friendships, my goblin of a cat, my garden, my career, for all of it, this whole cobbled together jumble of a life.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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helioscopepdx.bsky.social
Happy birthday to our amazingly talented studiomate, the mighty Jack T Cole! He’s on here as @newjackcole.bsky.social but he’s most active on patreon at patreon.com/newjackcole.
helioscope artist Jack T Cole and a friend
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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erikamoen.bsky.social
Oh, French U_U

Full comic up for everyone to see now!
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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. Panel 3 "When I did my study abroad as a 21-year-old, I wasn't fluent but I used to be, like, mostly proficient." She wails at him. Panel 4 Patting her comfortingly on the shoulder, Matt reassures her, "It's still in there, buried deep." while Erika sulks. The type twisty word balloon from the beginning of the beginning of the comic pops up behind them. It asks, "Are you hungry?" Panel 5 "You want to eat? [indecipherable squiggles] Would you like a banana?" The French mom asks her toddler, who shrieks and stamps his foot. "GASP!" Erika gasps, popping her head over the chair to take in the mom and child. "I understood almost all of that!" She marvels. Panel 6 "See, you still know French!" Matt assures Erika, giving her a friendly punch on the arm. "As long as it's spoken like you're talking to a small, hungry child." She agrees, far more proud of herself than is warranted.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"Bauhaus Blocks" A tricky twist on a 1923 Bauhaus school poster! chrisyates.net/collections/...
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
erikamoen.bsky.social
Oh, French U_U

Full comic up for everyone to see now!
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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. Panel 3 "When I did my study abroad as a 21-year-old, I wasn't fluent but I used to be, like, mostly proficient." She wails at him. Panel 4 Patting her comfortingly on the shoulder, Matt reassures her, "It's still in there, buried deep." while Erika sulks. The type twisty word balloon from the beginning of the beginning of the comic pops up behind them. It asks, "Are you hungry?" Panel 5 "You want to eat? [indecipherable squiggles] Would you like a banana?" The French mom asks her toddler, who shrieks and stamps his foot. "GASP!" Erika gasps, popping her head over the chair to take in the mom and child. "I understood almost all of that!" She marvels. Panel 6 "See, you still know French!" Matt assures Erika, giving her a friendly punch on the arm. "As long as it's spoken like you're talking to a small, hungry child." She agrees, far more proud of herself than is warranted.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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explodingarrow.bsky.social
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!

My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
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2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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kelsijosilva.bsky.social
Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
Comic of a woman picking flowers and then having a nice kiss. Text reads: slow down. Take your time. When you're ready, you'll bloom, too.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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keefknight.bsky.social
Him doing it online! Sign up at www.keithknightart.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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lastwater.net
One from last night's Community Life Drawing session at Daydreamer in St Johns.
Started as a ten minute pose, but the model agreed to extend to fifteen (not my idea, but I was grateful someone asked).
Soft color pencil portrait sketch on blue toned paper of a young woman resting her chin on her crossed arms, as those arms, in turn, rest on the back of a chair. Her eyes are closed, partly covered by her bangs.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
erikamoen.bsky.social
Buy affordable original art from real life artists! I've got a couple inked pieces in here for just $30, along with other illustrations from my @helioscopepdx.bsky.social studiomates.
stevelieberart.bsky.social Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 3d
Apologies for so much etsy posting, but it’s a big part of how we operate. Anyhow, there is a TON of original art on sale rn for pre-Black Friday. Go take a look! helioscopepdx.etsy.com?section_id=6...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
erikamoen.bsky.social
@joabaldwin.com I just saw Zootopia 2 with a bunch of gay furries and we all got excited when we saw your name!
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Not Chinese American and I don't want to take away from Brandon's point which is very good, but I'll always have a fondness for the animated short for the 2008 Olympics that was directed by James Hewlett of Gorillaz fame:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5Z...
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
erikamoen.bsky.social
I have reached the point of my bisexual middle-ageness where I'm researching bike street sweeping (A kind of cart that pulls behind my bike and clears road debris from bike lanes). It's only several thousand dollars! Matt will understand. I need this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=obM4...
Bike lane sweeper for safer cycling
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November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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splatter.bsky.social
I like my humping like I like my martinis... dry
Screenshot of Gandhi from Clone High
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ohjoysextoy.bsky.social
Who'd have thought dry humping could get someone so wet? Join Ene as she searches for a solution to the boring, routine sex she finds herself having. Turns out that to get off, she needs her boyfriend to keep his pants ON.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-humping-st...
A Humping Story by Ene published November 25, 2025 on https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-humping-story-ene Ene draws with an elegant, fixed-width pen line that is simplified but still includes expressive details. Here color palette is shades of blue. Ene is a cis woman with hair down to her back that curls at the bottom. She wears round rimmed glasses, small hoop earrings, and a t-shirt with jeans. Narration: As with a lot of AFAB people I was raised to be as selfless as I could be. Ene, dressed up as a nun with a holy halo alight over her head asks with a cheeky expression, "Mother Teresa who?" Narration: Of course it ended up having an impact on my sex life. "Oops" she exclaims as her nuns habit falls to the floor, leaving her naked with only her word balloon to cover her pubic area. Narration: On the other hand, some of the guys I hooked up with didn't seem to have the same issue and had no difficulties requesting pretty much anything from me. Back in bed and nude again, Ene's boyfriend asks with a seductive look, "So I thought you could try to do the splits on me. Ya know just like in the video I sent you... And maybe you could also yodel a Bowie song and juggle while doing it." Ene looks at him in disbelief. Narration: Faced with the unfair realization, and since I had no desire to run a charity, I turned to my sexual history to find practices that were more centered around me to add to my hookups. Returning to the present, a fully clothed Ene picks up a book titled "History of MY Sex Life" with an intensely studious expression. "This!" She exclaims, pointing at a page in her book. "This was lit!" A pink ribbon unfurls across the page, reading, "Read the rest on Oh Joy Sex Toy .com"
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM