Well, here we are, the final strip!
I’ve written a big long letter about my decision to end DAR and what you can expect to see from me next over here.
The entire run of DAR! plus my various other books are available through my store.
Thank you again for reading, I’m gunna go pass the fuck out now.
EDIT 7/12/11: My new comic, Bucko has launched!
Same as Matt above, finished your whole life episode in 3 sittings, laughed OUT LOUD so many times, it was wicked. (at work :O:O:O)
You are very loved and keep on being you!
All the very best to you and your hubby. Wooooot woooot!
Read them all from begining to end and they just got funnier and funnier. Thanks for sharing Erika, awesome work! :)
The accent strip was funny but I think its not just accent that changes, its the turns of phrase that you start to use when cultures collide. Damn Americans and your infectious tropes. :)
I pretty much stumbled upon this site via Penny Arcade like a lot of people up there, so yes, I’m utterly late for the show. I too read this in one sitting, coming full circle yesterday night and thinking about it for this past day.
This strip is by far the most honest thing I ever met on the Internet, and I just wish, I would have discovered it sooner. I connected with it on many issues, but especially on the artist thing.
I exploded creatively being outside of the country for half a year (German going to Vancouver in this case). I stopped drawing the second I got my first real life job. I pushed away my closest friends and my social life in general because of work.
And while work is fulfilling, there’s something missing.
You made me realize. You changed my view of my life, and for that, I’m grateful.
For you and your loved ones, all the best for the future. Thank You.
Just… Thank you.
Ditto, Penny Arcade, one hour and an interesting story to absorb. Thanks Tycho.
Funny that we got here only now. Thanks Mrs. Matt.
I love Dar
It was a great comic
It shows that love has no boundaries
be it man or women
be it lesbian/gay or straight
love is there for all who look or wait for it this comic brought a smile to me and my wife and we loved it
^.^
Thank you
fan-fucking-tastic. Just read through the archives to now in a few hours, enjoyed the ride, wish you well, and thanks for the entertainment!
Your comic made me happy. I’m so glad I stumbled across it, and then read it all in one sitting. <3
(I feel left out – I didn't find you via Penny Arcade, though I think I read your guest comic with them without knowing who you were. I found a big shiny ad for your comic via Hark, A Vagrant, just in case you were wondering who to thank for the traffic.)
Man, I don’t know if you still receive this comments, but I HAD TO write this.
I found out your comics last week, when I was suppose to be doing some college paper and I totally fell in love with your comics and with your personality.
I mean, you are SOOO FUNNY! I laugh like a maniac reading DAR (yes, I spend all my weekend reading them).
I have to say that I have a girlfriend, but still feel atracted to some boys and I understand your way of life. And it make me sooo happy to know that still are people like you in the world, who doesn’t care about the gender of the person and shit like that :)
duuude, i’m totally in love with you (in an artistic way of speak-say-whatever hahah)
You inspired me to proceed with my art and everything (yeah, I’m doing Art College).
Erika Moen, thank you for doing DAR.
ps: DAR it’s not a stupid name, I loved it!
ps: I apologize for my bad english :P
waaah! i love reading about your wacky day to day adventures. i’m gonna miss DAR! well at least there are re-runs. i wish you well.
dear erika. i followed your webcomic for god knows how long. then my internet connection got cut off and i stopped going to your site. after a disastrous formatting of my pc i also lost my firefox bookmark which more caused my losing your site. when i found it again, i am saddened by the fact that u r ending this webcomic. but all good thing must come to an end. i would like to thank you for giving me precious memories. though we are world apart i blieve that your comic have touched a primal sense in me. keep up the good work.
last……..
I just found this yesterday.
I love it!
Made me cry… the panel where you’re curled up on the floor… been there. Wonderful final strip of Dar! Thank you for sharing your life with us.
I have never in my life found anyone who was so similar to myself, in my nearly 23 years on this planet. Finding out someone else picks their skin, and finding out the name for what I do has been extremely liberating, even if it hasn’t (yet, perhaps) helped me be cured of it. I too have a resilient granny hair on my chin that likes to sneak up on me. I love to draw and have started and stopped a number of comics over the years. I have struggled with deep depression, and have taken pills for it on and off for years. I have frequent gas, but maybe not as lethal as yours :P I have a number of scars across my body, and while some aren’t as prominent or interesting as yours, they’re still there. I struggle with my sexual identity and have been treated badly for it. I too am in love with a british man, but have had much less success than you have, and it has hurt my heart to the core reading your comic, as much as it has touched me. I also, in fact, consider Portland to be my backyard, and have lived here my entire life.
There are a lot of similarities, and perhaps I know you a little better than some, even though I know I don’t really know you at all. I just feel like I have met my kindred spirit, in a way. I just want to thank you for telling your story, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I have been feeling so alone for most of my life, and now I don’t feel that way quite so much.
Thank you, truly.
Aww, feels sad that I missed its glorydays.
many laughs and i could identify myself with it, only diffrent that the dyke part is more a ‘ man’ part and… such ._. lol Im terrible at explaining ^^;
So, I started reading this site at 10 pm, just because someone said ‘Hey check this comic out, some of the stuff she went through is like what you’re going through.’
It’s 1 am, and I cried when I read this strip! Gah! Beautiful!
Found out about DAR today, read it all in one go, enjoyed it thoroughly. a bit sad that there will be no more. Looking forward to whatever it is that you will be doing.
I just found you and it is the end how sad.Good fortune in all of your future projects.
I am sad to see this comic end. I read i all in one sitting and felt really connected and I believe this is a deep and wonderful way to end the comic. Thank you for allowing us to take a deep, intimate trip in your life.
Hey, I just got pointed to your comic by my own truly wonderful queer gf. It’s been so encouraging for me — and her I’m sure! — to see someone else struggle through the identity crisis of being a queer girl dating a straight guy. Thanks so much, and good luck!
Ah rats! I got to the end so soon. Like some others here, I recently found it (via Girls With Slingshots) and read it all at once. Hope you start another web comic sometime soon!!!
Thanks ever so much for this little incite into your world. A great little emotional roller-coaster. Hope everything is going well for you both.
Love Dale.
Thanks.
I found this linked on twitter and sat here for about 3 hours clicking next like a rat in a lab pushing a button to get his next treat. 3 hours of reading that I wish I could re-live.
I love your comics and was so sad to discover that you’ve chosen to end, but so happy that you decided to write them. I enjoyed every last detail, from fart joke to tit description.
Thank you :)
I only found this comic yesterday and now I wish I’d found it years ago. It’s made me feel better/more comfortable about who I am. Thanks for writing it and looking forward to seeing what you do next.
I just read up on the last bit of your comics. I found them about I year ago and read through every one of them while babysitting. I LOVE all your comics. =) Thank you for all your hard work put into this it was amazing. Good luck in everything you do. <3 =)
Just came across this and glad I did. The story told in this one comic is amazing. It is inspiring to new artists and creators, comforting/assuring to current laborers of love, and gives hope to those in need (such as myself) who need to believe that there is happiness in the world and it is attainable.
You did the world a great service. Thank you.
Will Hightower
Writer of IDK Comics at EasierSaid.net
Can’t believe I never came across this before. Just sat and read my way through and loved it! Laughed till I cried (twice…the dog now thinks i’m insane) and was left with a lovely feeling of general happiness. Just wanted to thank you for that. :)
I just read through your entire comic tonight, and it’s delight and inspired me. I’m working on a webcomic with a friend right now, as well as dealing with a complex sexuality, and this really helped me out. And my name is Erika! :D Must be a sign. Thank you for your wonderful comic! <3333
Awwww….I just found your stuff and read it all in one day too.
I would like to let you know, you have inspired me to get back to work on my own personal comics!~ Loved reading, and thanks for giving us all a look into your life!
Well, well, what can I say? Thanks for sharing this part of your life. You’re an awesome drawer :D
So, I just Stumbled here, and took in the whole scope in the last couple hours… Loved it! You are ridiculously awesome :) I think I shot off links to half my friends over the course of reading… AND you wrote GirlFuck! <3<3<3!!!
Hey Erica, I can’t remember if we talked when you came back to your old high school, but I was one of the students in the comics class Lin taught and you really inspired me to fill my dream to do something with comics for my career. Thank you :)
I’m so annoyed I only recently found your comic, but it’s wonderful and dirty and queer and fantastic :D I’m glad I did find it ^_^
Sniff… 1st anniversary since it ended. :’)
Awesometasmic. I started and finished like ten of your comics today, so it has been a short but fond road for me :D
‘Next’ button? NEXT BUTTON!?! Waaggghhhhhhhhhh!!!
Best comic in the universe. I LOVE YOU. Lots. Stay awesome and never stop…
Ever. I mean it. Come on, NEXT! xX
p.s I fart too. Lots.
It was amazing to read through this comic and to see even this particular one and be aware of how much growth went on. To someone who is a aspiring Illustrator herself its really inspiring and thank you, very very much for sharing your story :) Looking forward to see what other work you put out there.
thankyou..thats all i can say is thankyou so much
Hi Erika, just wanted to write here to thank you.
Even if it’s been some time since you stopped updating I still like to go here and read a bit when I’m utterly depressed to see that “Yes, it’s possible” and “No there’s no reason to give up” even if life is shitty because things change. You give me hope.
So even if it’s been awhile since you stopped updating here, I’d like thank you for keeping the site up, and for sharing your story in the first place.
-Another confused, depressed, queer, (wannabe)artist
I found this comic last night from a “Bucko” reference in QC (#1912). I skipped my homework and literally read the whole thing in the last 12 hours. It was just too awesome to walk away from. I had to force myself to turn off my laptop and sleep. Bucko is pretty cool too. Not the same, but it’s my new webcomic to follow….but DAR…as a kid, I always wanted to get into comics, but i couldn’t afford them. As a teen, I thought all comics were superhero comics and those just don’t appeal to me. Now in college, I took a 1-credit comics seminar and got introduced to slice of life comics, and now I’m hooked. They’re exactly what I’ve been looking for. What I really liked about yours was that it was a comic diary. It was literally sliced out of your life. And because I read it all in one go, I got to really absorb the shift in your drawing style, subject, and more. This was one of the happiest few hours in my life….ok, I’ll stop fan-gushing now….You started this at 20…I’m 19. I’d be a complete beginner if i started now since I have NO talent with the pencil whatsoever. But I think this may be the comic that FINALLY prompted me to draw all the things i’ve wanted to draw.
p.s. transman who loved the transman comic. Yes, we are that hot. If only more people would realize it.