About the Artist


Alice Eris Urchin
(Born H. C. Combs)
23. From St. Louis, living in New Orleans.
B.A. in English/Writing, Women's Studies from Loyola University New Orleans (2012)

In addition to doodling, painting, illustrating, drawing, photography, and making comics I write fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, essays, scripts, and basically whatever else pops into my head. 
I'm a copyeditor/proofreader so that I can pay my bills. 
I'd like to get more into performance art, particularly slam poetry. 


I'm a feminist/humanist and a member of the LGBTQ community, and I think that it would be really amazing if all humans could treat each other with respect, kindness, and love. I try to put these sentiments into my work.


I like to make clothing out of things that aren't really supposed to be clothing—leaves, beads, caution tape, wrapping paper, and cookies, for a few examples. I also like to do elaborate makeup for costumes, special effects-type things, and just for the everyday. 


Common themes in my work: sexuality, objectification, gender roles, diversity, oppression, heartache, abuse, otherness, alienation, loneliness, unconventional love, searching for a sense of belonging.


I create on the off-chance that something that I put into words or pictures will touch someone, stop someone from hurting, make someone feel like they are not alone, make someone understand something that they previously could not, inspire someone, or at the very least entertain someone on a rainy day.


Some writers/artists/awesome people that I admire and am influenced by: Alison Bechdel, Miranda July, Lorrie Moore, Aimee Bender, Amy Bloom, Skottie Young, Pendleton Ward, Natasha Allegri, Andrea Gibson, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Allison, Marjane Satrapi, Sarah Waters, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Kate Bornstein, David Sedaris, Sylvia Ji, Ben Loory, Jan Saudek.


I'm kind of a catlady. I have two kitties, Krumm (unhappily pictured here) and Ickis. They often inspire me to draw cat-related things.