What does one do when they take a break from their long-running, deeply personal and frequently autobiographical comic series? One starts a new deeply personal, entirely autobiographical graphic novel, of course! Well it’s been a while and I thought it was about time I gave you all an update on where I’ve been and why!Īfter nearly a decade of working on OJST non-stop, I was feeling preeeeetty burnt out so I’ve been taking the last seven months to switch gears for my creativity and health. Hey! Erika here! You still remember me, right? …I drew all the pink comics on this site for the first, like, 8.5 years of its existence? Yeah, that was me!