MOM: How I became Monstrous On Main
This all started back in 2015 with just enough art prints to cover half a table. My first few times selling prints I didn’t make more than $300 in a weekend--just a little extra spending money that was hardly worth the effort to manufacture.
Later that year, someone commissioned me for a kaiju body pillow. A friend, inspired, commissioned me for a Negan body pillow. Another friend commissioned me for Gladio, and by that point I was doing them for fun. It was a rocky start at first--a lonely four or five designs my first year doing body pillows didn’t garner many sales, though they were pretty popular at cons (especially Gerudo Link--people love that little twunk).
My friend Jasper, who runs Queerest Gear, and my friends Ickah and Sammy of BoldEgoist have been my biggest cheerleaders, and they convinced me to keep going when I was about to give up. I love them all dearly. ❤️ Since then, MOM has grown & changed into what it is now--a cheeky side business with a lot of character that I genuinely enjoy producing. Not only do I get to make products that make people laugh incredulously and ask, “Is that Godzilla?” but I also get to play with the unusual eroticism of teratophilia, monsters, horror, and furries. It’s a niche that I’m both content and proud to occupy.
