Emily Moroz is an artist, writer, cartoonist, gay outdoorslady and intermediate mushroom forager living and working in Portland, Oregon. She is the human being behind Moreohs Small Press and a founding member of the Sound Grounds Wreckin’ Crew (aka SGWC, #soundgroundswreckincru + #soundgroundswreckincrew), a Portland-based comics collective.

Emily holds a BFA in Crafts/Fibers from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, 2007) and completed a Certificate in Comics & Self-Publishing at the IPRC (Portland Oregon, 2013).

Emily's creative practice includes illustration, graphic design, hand-lettered type, menu design, bookbinding, patterning, sewing, fabric dye, crochet, sign painting, installation, audio letters and theater. She thrives in collaboration, is a co-organizer of the Portland Zine Symposium (@pdx_zines) and has volunteered for or exhibited in a handful of indie comics festivals in the west, including the Alt Press Fest, Portland Zine Symposium, The Projects, Linework NW, Short Run Comics & Arts Festival, Chicago Zine Fest and Grid Zine Fest (SLC).

Her work can be found in TWINTIMACY, WOW MOM COOL, #FOMOZINE (Vol. 1) and Words For Someone Who Has Just 'Died.' Emily’s comics also appear in the SGWC anthologies Fragile Bundle, Movie Night, Important Cats, Creatures in Orbit, Hometowns and Working Kirk - plus the 2021 Important Dogs Calendar and 2022 Important Cats Calendar printed by Portland’s own Secret Room Press.

Emily & Juli Jumprope yukking it up at the 2014 Short Run Comix & Arts Festival in Seattle, WA. John Porcellino was tabling behind us, NBD.

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S

From Time to Time, hourly comics, 26 pages B&w • 2024
Words for Someone Who Has Just 'Died,' 1970s hippie mantras illustrated, 42 pages b&w • 2015, 2024
Important Cats 2022, illustrated risograph calendar with Sound Grounds Wreckin’ Crew, 2022
Important Dogs 2021, illustrated risograph calendar with Sound Grounds Wreckin’ Crew, 2021
Important Cats, a comics anthology with Sound Grounds Wreckin' Crew, 60 pages b&w • 2016
Movie Night, a comics anthology with Sound Grounds Wreckin' Crew, 60 pages b&w • 2016
A Fragile Bundle, hourly comics with Sound Grounds Wreckin' Crew, 32 pages b&w • 2016
#FOMOZINE (Vol. 1), self-published collaborative zine, 16 pages b&w • 2014
Wow Mom Cool, self-published sketchbook zine, 40 pages b&w • 2014
Just Let Go Of That Sh*t, self-published zine, 24 pages full color • 2014
Twintimacy, self-published minicomic, 32 pages b&w • 2013

S E L E C T E D C O M M I S S I O N S
Sticker illustration, CNOC Outdoors • 2021
Hand-lettering project, Nightingale Acupuncture • 2021
Custom wedding portraits & invitation design • Ongoing
Menu board artist, Grand Central Bakery, Portland, OR • 2012-2020
T-shirt and merchandise design for Wicked Shallows, Portland, OR • 2016
Character & button designs for musical puppet show Begochiddy, Brooklyn NY • 2014-2016
Event poster for musical puppet show Begochiddy, Brooklyn NY • 2014
Spot illustration for Mamachari Kombucha, Salt Lake City, UT• 2013
Menu board artist for Salt Lake Roasting Company, Salt Lake City, UT• 2012
Spot illustrations (private gift), Salt Lake City, UT • 2011
Promotional & events posters for Higher Ground Learning, Salt Lake City UT• 2010-2012

E V E N T S & R E S I D E N C I E S
Organizer, Portland Zine Symposium, Portland OR • 2017-Present
Exhibitor, Portland Zine Symposium, Portland OR • 2014-Present
Artist, Oregon Coast Comics Retreat • Gearhart, OR • 2020-2025
Backpacking Artist, Signal Fire Arts, Portland OR • 2015 & 2016
Exhibitor, Chicago Zine Fest, Chicago IL • 2016
Volunteer, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland OR • 2015
Volunteer & Exhibitor, Linework NW Festival, Portland OR • 2014-2015
Exhibitor, Short Run Comics & Arts Festival, Seattle WA • 2014
Organizer & Breakfast-Cooker, THE PROJECTS Festival, Portland OR• 2012-2013
Organizer & Exhibitor, Alt Press Festival, SLC, UT• 2009-2012
Archivist & Events Assistant, Alt Press Collection at Main Library, SLC, UT• 2009-2012