A.C. Esguerra

@blueludebar.com

comics artist + writer in LA. probably inkstained. EIGHTY DAYS (GLAAD nominated, YALSA listed). blueludebar [at] gmail [dot] com | https://blueludebar.itch.io/

Today it the day, folks! The Athenaeum Five Year Zine is now available for preorder! This has been many years in the making and is a true labor of love. The Athenaeum Five Years Zine 70 plus full color pages celebrating indie/alt comics, creators, and collectors.

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.

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when i first left [other platform] i was very sorry to lose 10-12K followers, give or take a percentage of bots. in my mind, more followers and reach meant opportunity, money, stability. but the cons vastly outweighed that promise...which i doubt even translates anymore, if indeed it ever did.

whoaaa my self-published comics are on Hoopla!! now folks who can't get my zines at cons can check 'em out through most public libraries for free! courtesy of Aggregate Ink 🖤

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)

made some risograph sticker sheets! will be available @ stationery fest in in nyc @ table g13, july 30-aug 1 - will try to have any leftover online in oct/nov. sticker sheets range in size from ~3.375-4.25in by 5.5in + are 3-4 ink colors each

colorful risograph printed stickers, in small ovals & rectangles, arranged in a groupstickers on a notebook cover to show size (pretty small)4 sheets of risograph stickers: symbols, with designs like a labyrinth, looping paths, doorways, thorns; sky, with various clouds, weather, & phenomena; forest, with trees, plants, and scribbled creatures; and emotions, with scenes like a spilled vase and curtains fluttering over an open window.a translucent envelope of the stickers.