I started making zines and art books as a teenager and have been playing with these forms ever since. My current books straddle a line between zines, comics, and artist books. I rely heavily upon the zinesters tools still: copiers, printers, staplers and most of my books are narrative even if they have no words but the experimental nature of their assembly and construction does push them close to the artist book territory. In the end, I still call them zines mostly. Having been making zines now for the better part of 32 years it is inevitable that they would become more complicated and intricate.

You can find my currently available publications here.

Sometimes There Are Stories

Sometimes There Are Stories, is an accordion-fold art zine with pop-up elements throughout. Designed and illustrated in 2023, each copy is hand-cut and assembled by Erika. You can purchase a copy here.

To the Witch’s House

To the Witch’s House is a coloring book I illustrated and designed in 2023. It features detailed illustrations and hand-cut pages for a dynamic coloring experience. Copies of this book can be purchased here.

An Extravagant Journey: an exquisite corpse storybook

An Extravagant Journey is an exquisite corpse storybook that was started as a socially distanced community project early in the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. I recruited 8 writers to write a story together based off a series of drawings I created. Each writer received an illustration and the last sentence of the prior writer’s writing. I then took the original drawings and drew them again digitally (to give me more flexibility with printing options). I finished illustrating and hand-lettering this book in 2023. It features a fold-out page towards the end if the book. This book is available to purchase here.

Dreaming Through the Apocalypse

Dreaming Through the Apocalypse was created in response to a exhibit I had in 2022 at Lolopass gallery in Portland, OR. The show was titled Dream House and all the work was inspired by dreams I collected during the Covid-19 pandemic from people. They were all dreams where houses played a big role. Some of the dreams were more like fragments but still felt compelling to me even if I couldn’t base a whole piece off of them. So, I created this book where each page is inspired by a different dream fragment. This book features hand-cut pages. It can be purchased here.

Walking Mountains

Walking Mountains is a handpainted comic inspired by a body of ceramic work that I made of the same name. While creating the ceramic walking mountains, I felt a story building in me around these figures. To create this book, I cut out the shapes first and then painted the women into the shapes as I would with a ceramic piece. This book has pages each cut by hand for every copy. You can purchase a copy here.

In Her House

In Her House was an idea for a zine that I created over a very intensive 4 day period. The idea behind it is that it is a book but also an art object that can be displayed on a shelf or a mantle. It is an accordion-fold zine that is hand-cut. The exterior is black and white and the interior is color. It comes with 2 stand up paper dolls and a sheet of stickers. It can be purchased here.

PAGEANT

PAGEANT was created to accompany a gallery exhibit of the same name at Wolff Gallery in Portland in 2019. The book walks you through a city that is celerating a hybrid Roman War Pageant meets beauty pageant. The houses open up so you can peek inside. The pages are all hand-cut. There have been 4 editions of this zine each edition using different combinations of print methods and colors. You can purchase the current edition here.

In the Middle or the Beginning or Perhaps it Was the End

In the Middle or the Beginning or Perhaps It Was the End was the first project I did where I started pushing at the boundaries of what it meant to be a zine. This is the project that made each progressively complicated project possible. This zine is a circular story, the story starts and ends on the cover, though it is a story without words. Copies of this zine can be purchased here.