A.C. Esguerra

@blueludebar.com

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comics artist + writer in LA. probably inkstained. EIGHTY DAYS (GLAAD nominated, YALSA listed). blueludebar.com

caption reads: "first up: my Shortbox Comics Fair story from 2022 and a proto-EIGHTY DAYS comic i made in college in 2014 / more releases to come! / also i do get a cut from borrows so hell yeah support the library AND indie comics at the same time!" over a screenshot of those comics available on the Hoopla website (logged in to my account with the Los Angeles Public Library)
two fountain pen ink sketches of a drag performer in a long tattered trenchcoat, large floppy hat and a full-face cloth mask posing on a stool with one leg extended out. ten minutes
screenshot of the American* Fujo* second preorder announcement on THE BEAT comics culture website, coverage by Avery Kaplan, American* Fujo*'s title type design by Alexis Rippen
a loose pencil drawing of an androgynous youth in fitted clothing and a coat draped on their shoulders pulling a rapier from the chest of a different femme youth in a dress who is in a sort of swoon, their clothes and hair billowing dramatically in the wind, a direct homage to Revolutionary Girl Utena
two polaroid 600 instant film snapshots on a black photo album page. the first shows a seagull perched on a tidepool rock with a crashing wave foaming on the horizon; the second shows my partner and sibling standing in shallow water and looking back at the camera. the sea and sky are mostly gentle, almost washed-out tones of blue, pink and purple with bits of bright green and deep blue in the shadows and algae-covered rocks
fountain pen drawings in blue ink in my sketchbook of things i saw at Leo Carrillo beach, including: hermit crabs in various shaped shells, slightly threatening seagulls, a small boat, and a frilly, slug-like California sea hare
a scan of a sheet of bristol paper covered with practice character sketches, messy lettering and ink nib linework tests
sketchy ink drawings of a figure with long black hair in a dress and a figure with short black hair in a boxy jacket and trousers, with sewing imagery, notes and triangular black and white shapes scattered throughout
a ten minute figure drawing sketch in black fountain pen ink with pink and yellow-green highlighter shading, depicting a drag performer dressed as Lio from Promare dressed in a cape made of caution tape, a checkered crop top, black jeans and combat boots
the top Youtube comment on the quoted Teen Girl Squad video, which reads "Its like The Beatles just dropped a new single"
a paisley-patterned, handsewn stuffed toy sheep, with a black face, legs and ears, wooden button eyes and a pink ribbon bow around its neck. perched on top of its head is a black leather bracelet with pointy metal spikes as a sort of crown
a fountain pen, a wood-backed rubber stamp block that looks like handwritten script from a letter and an actual handwritten note that reads "Nucleus Portland– Thank you for another year! –A.C. Esguerra, Salut! 11 2026"
my desk covered with scattered cut fabric pieces that soon become, if all goes well, a handsewn sheep stuffed with sheep wool.
a fountain pen ink drawing of a youth with disheveled hair making a princely bowing gesture; they wear a blue, gothic, ouji-style sort of outfit repurposed from bits of an 18th century european military uniform
a screenshot of my profile on itch.io with red and white text on a black background and an illustrated border of red bejeweled stained glass art running vertically on either side
two black and white ink illustrations of Inkling and Nibford, the anthropomorphic inkwell and pen nib mascots of Cartoonists United, holding comics making supplies and going to critique. the top illustration shows them wearing cat ears and paw gloves over the text "CUG-A", representing CU critique group A; the bottom illustration shows them in rugby stripes over text "CUG-B", representing CU critique group B. to the left and right, black bars run vertically under bold white text that reads "Cartoonists" and "United"
me sat in front of my laptop at sunrise with lit candles, cheetos and tea, and a Cerberus plush watching the Hades concert livestream
the poster for the Hades 2: Ballads of the Underworld orchestra concert in London on June 27th 2026.
a comic drawn in fountain pen ink on paper in my sketchbook about this one time my partner and i saw a pigeon glitching out in real life
a screenshot of six different windows open to the comics i am selling digitally on itchio: THE PRINCE, BESPOKE, DISCOORDINATE, FLYBOY, WITCH CROSSING and FAIR TRADE
my con setup out on the Fiesta Hall Patio for QCON 2026 with zines comics pins postcards etc plus large prints taped on some windows behind
my hand holding issue 3 of The Comics Courier a comics criticism journal printed on newsprint!!!
a couple stacks of my graphic novel EIGHTY DAYS on a round walnut table. two copies are open to display the black and white traditional ink and sable brush comic art inside, showing airplanes and the three main characters
a huge stack of zines handbound / sewn with multicolored thread spread out on my desk
flyer advertising my presence at Fiesta Hall Patio Table 12 of PRISM Comics's QCON in West Hollywood on Saturday June 20th from 11am to 6pm, free admission. more info at qconprism.org
a DIY poster from the Spring Arts Tower Takeover event with text "Suite 528" "LAST CHANCE TO EXIT THE BUILDING!" "5th FLOOR", a picture of a skeleton playing electric guitar on a red background with a handwritten word balloon saying "COOL Friggin' STUFF!"and a crosshatched arrow pointing left over the text "THAT-A-WAY"
a fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook of a stone lion with bat wings on the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles
a view down an old dimly lit hallway with marble tile flooring and dark wooden office doors, trim and molding
scribbly grey fountain pen ink drawings in my hobonichi weeks of various outfits.
four illustrated square coasters and assorted irojiten colored pencils scattered across my desk.
a yellow and black flyer with info about the first-ever Spring Arts Tower Takeover / vertical community market in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday June 13th
nine square colored pencil drawings on coasters for the 2026 Nucleus Portland SALUT 11 gallery show, the art is in overall soft light colors with a mix of 18th century Rococo and fantasy themes
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster for Nucleus Portland's SALUT! 11 coaster art gallery show. a man in a formal lavender suit with a green carnation corsage and a lipstick mark on his throat runs to the right, out of the composition; he pulls along the white-gloved hand of a second man, whose laughing silhouette can be faintly seen through a draped pink curtain fringed with beaded gold tassels
my hand holding open a copy of Marjane Satrapi's comic PERSEPOLIS to a spread telling the story of her grandfather's imprisonment by the Shah.
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster on top of a book cover of embroidered flowers for the Nucleus Portland SALUT! 11 Coaster art gallery show. a drag queen wears an 18th century formal gown with panniers and an enormous white cloud-like wig draped with ribbons, holding a large fan; her dress dissolves into fluffy pink flowers
the NIF marketplace page for "It Wasn't Even My Fault! So Why Do I Have To Change Rooms!?" by Jojo Oekaki
the Nib and Ink Fest 2026 art by Jackarais, showing Cartoonists United mascots Inkling (an anthropomorphic inkwell) and Nibford (an anthropomorphic nib pen) riding skateboards whilst scattered comic pages fly about in vivid bright green red and blue colors against a tie dye background
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster atop a dusty dark blue book cover, for the Nucleus Portland SALUT! 11 Coaster Art gallery show. a woman in a dark blue victorian dress with dark curly ringlets in a ponytail plays a harp; she makes reluctant but inevitable eye contact with a grinning, gold-and-white harpy with blue-black tipped feathers and claws who is perched upside down on the other half of the instrument.
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster atop the mustard yellow endpapers of a book, for the Nucleus Portland SALUT! 11 Coaster Art gallery show. a person with dark curly hair and a moss green vest over a white shirt with billowing sleeves leans their head into one hand, asleep at a wooden table before an unrolled scroll of parchment; above them are flitting dragonflies and a fairy about to whack them awake with a large wooden mallet.
a screenshot of my bsky profile with my follower count of "669" circled in red
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster on top of a butter-yellow clothbound book; for the 2026 SALUT! coaster art show at Nucleus Portland. a twinky cupid with chestnut-colored hair and gold wings flying down from the upper left, aiming a bow and arrow at the lower right corner of the composition; wrapped around him is a large light pink sash and clusters of light blue flowers.
a mini zine holder handmade by thispapercloud / Theresa Arzola
comics, doujinshi, zines, postcards, stickers and etc obtained by me and my partner at Oasis Night Market 2026. artists: decadentjackal ("The Prince of Nothing and the Lord of Nowhere", "Practice Match", "Ambition Breeds Contempt"), cathartesaurora ("Ambition Breeds Contempt", "Frau and Fraulein", LOGH brochure), zombieisok.gay ("Boyfriends"), faiell ("Bound Boys"), weibun ("Off Season"), mrbatbird (Kray Foresight zine), makohouse (OC postcards and banana charm), yiyuehua (ORV sticker pack), and an artist whose name i didnt catch but made a handbound mini zine holder
me behind my table at the Oasis Night Market 2026
a scribbly left hand drawing of a horse from nine different angles
a illustration of Laurent of Vere on my con table.
a scribbly left hand drawing of luo binghe attending a convention.
a scribbly ink drawing by my left hand of a thicc person with a cowboy hat holding up their slender partner (who is checking out their chest) by the waist
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster of two bat-winged and horned gargoyle besties chillin together casually on a cathedral ledge. one is laughing and dangling its scaly bird legs, the other is hunched over and grinning
scribbly fountain pen ink sketches of potential planned outfits for Fanime Oasis Night Market.
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster on top of a green clothbound book. a medusa looks up at the viewer from underneath the pink parasol with ruffles, bow and fringe that she is holding. the snakes that make up her hair twist in all different directions and have varying expressions, each wearing a pink ribbon tied with a bow.
a crop of a comic page from my graphic novel EIGHTY DAYS, Fix Vulpes is looking off to the side with a neutral expression and rolling back the cuffs of his shirtsleeves with bloody hands, saying: "Rules are for AVO-class. I just want to survive."
the schedule page of my website, showing upcoming events: FanimeCon Oasis Night Market May 22-24, Spring Arts Tower Takeover at The Last Bookstore LA June 13, Prism Comics QCON June 20
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster on top of a blue leather book stamped with a gold foil pattern; for the 2026 SALUT! coaster art show at Nucleus Portland. two women in 18th century European military uniforms are engaged in a homoerotic duel with rapiers; the curving gold frame of a wall opening or perhaps a mirror obscures their faces from view
a white t-shirt with black text in a magazine-cutout-collage style that reads "Daddy's Little daddy" at the LA Queer Zine Fest table of artist carvemarx.
my hand holding a bright blue flyer that reads: Los Angeles Queer Zine Fest '26 / May 17 / 11am-5pm / Free / One Archives at the USC Libraries / Trans • Form
a colored pencil drawing on a square paper coaster on top of a red leather book stamped with a gold foil patterned border; for the 2026 SALUT! coaster art show at Nucleus Portland. two gentlemen in suits and top hats walk with arms linked in a garden, the one on the left in brown and the one on the right in plum.
closeup of a square paper coasters with a colored pencil drawings on it; a work in progress piece for the 2026 SALUT! coaster art show at Nucleus Portland. a young lady with green skin and hair looks up from under a ruffly parasol trimmed with fringe, it's mainly layered shades of pink but shot through with streaks of bright yellow-green, light turquoise blue and a light wisteria purple.
closeup of two overlapping paper coasters with colored pencil drawings on them; these are work in progress pieces for the 2026 SALUT! coaster art show at Nucleus Portland. on the left is a vignette of two gentlemen in suits and top hats walking with arms linked in a garden, on the right is a cupid with chestnut hair and gold wings surrounded by a winding pink ribbon and bouquets of small blue flowers
screenshot of the Schedule page on my website, white text on a black background with links highlighted in red. info reads: TRANS•FORM LA Queer Zine Fest / Sunday, May 17 / ONE Archives at the USC Libraries / 909 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 / 11 AM - 5 PM / Free admission. Paragraph break. FanimeCon - Oasis Night Market / Friday, May 22 - Sunday, May 24 / DoubleTree Hotel Bayshore Foyer Ballrooms / 2050 Gateway Pl, San Jose, CA 95110 / 6 PM - 1 AM. paragraph break. Prism Comics QCON / Saturday, June 20 / Plummer Park, West Hollywood - Fiesta Hall / 11 AM - 6PM / Free admission. at the bottom is a very loose drawing of Jay Corvidae from EIGHTY DAYS lying on his back and smoking a cigarette.