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Eli Bishop

@errorbar.bsky.social

Button-pushing by day, comics & theater by night. http://errorbar.net [he/him]

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey, I started a Patreon page for my comics and other art. My main reasons for not doing this before included 1. I had a well-paying job so I felt stupid asking for subscriptions & 2. I'm unproductive; 1 is now untrue, and 2 is something I'm *starting* to change. www.patreon.com/cw/elibishop...

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Fortmax Headroom @hwhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't know if anyone has any need for this information, but I just put up another one of my annotation webpages for a Thomas Disch horror novel, THE PRIEST (1994). I do this kind of stuff from time to time, unprompted, because I learn things that way. www.errorbar.net/nits/The_Pri...

The Priest

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 9 of 9, the end (of the scene). I wasn't aiming to do the whole story, just wanted to do a panel at a time of this bit for drawing practice-- deliberately working in a big hurry & just throwing down ideas. Some day I'll do a whole gothic comic.

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
The view is almost the same as panel 1: Fortunato walking a little behind Montresor, both with torches raised, as they continue in their original direction with darkness behind them. Fortunato is standing up straighter and looking semi-cheerful, and he's switched his torch to the other hand to give his arm a rest. Montresor looks like he's moving a little more energetically toward his destination now, facing away from Fortunato, with maybe a tiny smile. The slightly different composition isolates Fortunato more in the background, partly obscured by Montresor's arm and word balloon.
The word balloon is a continuation from the previous panel, as Montresor repeats: "—True."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 8 of 9.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 7 of 9. Yeah, I drew the torch handle too short. (When I started this sequence, I saw the text says they both have torches, which I knew might look more & more awkward as the dialogue goes on, especially since F. is drunk; decided to just go with it)

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
Like panel 3, it's a medium close-up of Fortunato facing us-- more alert and irritable than before, but still pretty drunk. With his left hand he's reaching up and fixing his crumpled jester hat. His right hand is still holding the torch but he's resting it lower, pretty close to his head, so the right side of his face is strongly lighted and he's squinting his right eye.
He says: "The cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 6 of 9.

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
We're back to the same framing as panel 4, looking in the direction the men had been walking, with the narrow shadowy alcove ahead. At left, Montresor has turned a little further than he was in panel 4, looking past us and away from Fortunato. His right hand is still on Fortunato's shoulder, now pushing his friend to turn toward us too. This has gotten Fortunato's attention and the gesture is clearly unwelcome: Fortunato is looking down, a little more alert and angry, and raising his own free hand to protest.
Montresor says: "For me it is no matter. We will go back--"
Fortunato interrupts: "Enough"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're not following Gabrielle Bell's diary comics on Patreon, you should throw in a few bucks and do that. I just got her new minicomic collecting some of her depression-related stories from last year and holy shit it's great. www.patreon.com/GabrielleBell

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 5 of 9.

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
Medium closeup of Montresor, face turned almost straight on to the viewer, lit much brighter than before as if he's moved the torch to make himself very clear. Behind him on one side is total darkness; on the other side, a little light on the wall. His face is gaunt, lined, and stubbly; his eyes have a glint of reflected light, and his mouth is in a tiny smile; he looks almost kind. He says, in a series of four word balloons:
"You are rich, respected, admired, beloved;"
"you are happy,"
"as I once was."
"You are a man to be missed."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 4 of 9.

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
We're now behind the two men, with Montresor on the left, turning again toward Fortunato with a concerned expression and putting a hand on his shoulder. Fortunato is looking down at that hand awkwardly. The torches are on the other side of of them so they're mostly in silhouette to us, but ahead of them we can see some of the walls and floor; the passage seems to be narrowing and there's an alcove ahead.
Montresor says: "Come. We will go back; your health is precious."
Medium close-up of Fortunato, who is straightening up and turning toward the viewer again, holding his left hand to his chest and still managing to keep the torch aloft in his right hand. His jester cap is flopping over in a different direction than before. He looks uncomfortable and drunk.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 3 of 9. Don't worry about Fortunato's cough, he'll be fine

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop. See panel 1 for context.
Medium close-up of Fortunato, who is straightening up and turning toward the viewer again, holding his left hand to his chest and still managing to keep the torch aloft in his right hand. His jester cap is flopping over in a different direction than before. He looks uncomfortable and drunk.
A small word balloon contains one more cough symbol. Then another word balloon: "It's nothing"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado", panel 2 of 9. Poe rendered this coughing fit verbally as follows: "'Ugh! ugh! ugh! —ugh! ugh! ugh! —ugh! ugh! ugh! —ugh! ugh! ugh! —ugh! ugh! ugh!' "My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 4w ago

An excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, panel 1 of 9. I haven't read all of Poe, but as far as I'm concerned this is his funniest work. I'm doing this as my daily drawing practice for the next week or so.

A single comic panel by Eli Bishop, drawn in a loose hatching style with a thin pen.
Two men are walking in a dark space, each carrying a torch. The man in back, Fortunato, is wearing a jester costume: a floppy conical hat with rows of bells, a neck ruff, big buttons on the front. Fortunato has a mustache and sideburns. He looks a little out of it. He's holding up his free hand to catch a cough. A small word balloon indicates his cough wordlessly with a little symbol, a cluster of short lines.
The man in front, Montresor, has a long gaunt face, short hair, and a little stubble. His face is lit from one side and from behind by the torches as he looks slightly back at Fortunato. He is wearing a not very fancy cloak with a little fur lining around the neck. The whole front of his body is in shadows. In a word balloon, he asks: "How long have you had that cough?"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Was watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's the documentary HUNKY JESUS (2026). [drawn in 32 minutes] Last movie drawing for now.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Was watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME (2026). [drawn in 31 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn free-form comic by Eli Bishop. Title: "Something You Should Know About Me (2026) by Andy Fidoten"
Drawing of a very anxious-looking young man with curly hair and big eyes (played by EJ Marcus). Caption: "What could make this guy happy?"
Caption: "Drawing comics?" Drawing: a more stylized cartoon line drawing of the same character (his own self-portrait).
Caption: "A best friend/crush?" Drawing: The same character, and a taller young man, smiling and standing bare-chested in a lake at night under a full moon, splashing water playfully.
Caption: "Drawing comics in a week-long workshop full of other 20-something queer and trans artists including your best friend/crush?" Drawing: Eight people with various genders and hairstyles, including the friend from the lake, all staring skeptically over at the main character who is cringing and sweating profusely. Caption: "Alas, no."
Side caption: "Suffering through the worst workshop critique session I can imagine. Seriously, do not run critiques like this."
Caption: "Movie is a little vague on who the other people are, and what drawing comics is like... but full of vivid moments of joy and awkwardness. (And very funny animation.)
Drawing: The two people from the lake, laughing and holding each other, surrounded by a mix of little hearts, little broken hearts, and little stars.
Caption: "Finding community is a start; finding a cute way to draw yourself is a start." Drawing: same simplified cartoon character as before, but looking more uncertain. Caption: "Still have to figure out what you want to show people."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's EN EL CAMINO (2025). [drawn in 30 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn free-form comic by Eli Bishop. Title: "EN EL CAMINO (2025) (On the Road) - written/directed by David Pablos"
Top: many strings of little lights dangle from the top of the panel, along with an unplugged electrical cord.
Top right: stacks of dozens of truck tires.
Caption: "An endless world of just-barely adequate stuff; hustlers, truckers, everyone's lonely and wasted and improvising."
Caption: "Lots of vehicles and ruins, lots of land"
Drawing, left to right across center of panel: inside the cab of a truck; a gaunt bearded man in a trucker hat and woolly jacket is in the driver's seat, looking over toward the passenger, a younger man with short hair and a neutral expression; a barren landscape and hills visible through the windshield; a dashboard full of many instruments.
Further down, left: drawing of several lines of cocaine. Caption: "Lots of drugs"
Drawing of a pool of blood.
Caption: "Eventually lots of flesh." Drawing: a plain black rectangle tilted at a 30-degree angle. Caption: "Use your imagination here."
At bottom, a landscape of blocky shapes suggesting trucks in a lot. Caption: "Love story, crime story, vivid and scary and humane"

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court yet again tells trans kids that their lives, safety and needs don't matter. Put aside how you feel about sports, this isn't about that. It isn't even about politics. It's about the violence of adults forcing children to be people they aren't, and punishing them for having dreams.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's CARAVAGGIO (1986). Can't believe I never saw this wild weird heap of mysterious loveliness before. [drawn in 29 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn free-form comic by Eli Bishop.
Title: "CARAVAGGIO (1986) written/directed by Derek Jarman"
Top left: four blurry figures striking various poses in a dramatic pattern of light and shadow. Caption: "Staying still for a painting is hard to do..."
Top right: pale feet stretched out on a slab. Caption: "But if you can really stay still, you might be dead."
Caption: "Our boy Caravaggio doesn't get much peace, and neither do the various misfits who form a loose family in his orbit. Is it all worth it? Yes."
Middle left: a knife with writing on it: "nec spe, nec metu"; caption translates this as "no hope, no fear"
Center: face of Nigel Terry as Caravaggio, a haunted-looking man with shaggy dark hair and a goatee, wearing a black hat. Five smaller faces are in a semicircle around him, bound together by vague shadowy textures and circular lines. At left, a rough-looking blond man wearing a headband, and a sharp-featured woman in a head scarf, labeled "young Sean Bean" and "young Tilda Swinton"; they have their own separate orbit lines around each other. At right, a serious-looking young man with a buzz cut, and an androgynous pixie-like youth. At bottom, an old man wearing the uniform of a cardinal; caption: "What's queerer than artists? The church."
Lower left: A hand with the index finger pressing on a mess of textures; caption: "toxic paint." Another hand spreading dark splotches over someone's face; caption: "blood." Shadows on the hand and face are labeled "dirt". Another "dirt" caption has arrows pointing in every direction.
Lower right: A dour person (labeled "some unhappy critic" sits in a bathtub, typing on an old manual typewriter (labeled "gloriously anachronistic typewriter"). Word balloon: "Conspiracy between church and gutter... a sad reflection of our time!"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching moves at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's SCORE (1973). [drawn in 28 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop.
Title: "SCORE" (drawn in Cooper Black typeface), "1973, written/directed by Radley Metzger". Caption: "Title isn't really in this typeface, but Cooper Black means 1970s to me."
Row of four head-and-shoulders portraits of the movie's main characters: Elvira, a haughty-looking woman with long curly hair and arched eyebrows; Betsy, a prim-looking woman with long straight hair, making a concerned face; Eddie, a hyper-wholesome-looking man with blond hair and a neck kerchief, looking a lot like Fred from Scooby-Doo; Jack, a dark-haired man with a lot of chest hair, wearing a sailor hat and a necklace and no shirt. Elvira and Jack are looking knowingly at the other two.
Caption: "Will the swinging skills of our our charming (if predatory) heroes be able to overcome the total cluelessness/denial of our other heroes? Rhetorical question."
Drawing, lower left: a smiling rugged man with medium-long dark hair and a trucker hat, holding up a chunky tabletop push-button phone.
Drawing, lower right: a cute little porcupine. Caption: "Porcupine is mentionen but does not appear in this film."
Drawing, bottom: Mediterranean-style houses and trees by the water. Caption: "Mythical town of 'Leisure', really filmed in Croatia, so if you watch 'Game of Thrones' you can imagine this is happening in some other, mellower area of King's Landing."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching moves at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's BOUND (1996). [drawn in 27 minutes, sort of... I did need some extra time to fill in the lettering because obviously all of those quotes had to be included]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop. Title, in big shadowed block letters: "BOUND". Caption: "1996, written/directed by The Wachowskis. Super dramatic title lettering because everything in this movie will be big even when small."

Caption: "The several small voices of Jennifer Tilly:"
Four horizontal panels. 1. Caption: "Somewhat seducing Gina Gershon." Drawing: Tilly's glamorous character Vivian looks shyly away from Gershon's tough plumber character Corky and says, in shaky thin letters: "The walls are so terribly thin!"
2. Caption: "Mega-seducing Gina Gershon." Drawing: Corky is using a pipe wrench under a sink while Vivian's legs & skirt are very visible behind her; Vivian is saying from above, in even more stylized letters, "If you won't take money, how about a drink?"
3. Caption: "No nonsense?" Drawing: Vivian sitting up in bed looking serious, saying, in more ordinary letters, "You make certain choices in life."
4. Caption: "Bamboozling boys." Drawing: Vivian batting her eyelashes absurdly and saying, in widely-spaced small letters: "Poor boy, works so hard"

Two side-by-side portraits. Left, caption: "Joe Pantoliano... Before". Drawing: Pantoliano's character wearing a suit, hair slicked back, saying "Baby, that's what I love about you... yer so fuckin' sensitive." Right, caption: "After." Drawing: he's wearing a tank top and freaking out, hair wet, sweat flying everywhere, saying in big shaky letters "Where is it???"

Drawing: Movie screen surrounded by darkness. On screen, Gershon is sneaking around carrying a gun. A big labrys tattoo is on her arm. Caption: "A stone cold classic that must be seen in a theater (30th anniversary screening at the Castro)... even if a fan might yell:" Word balloon from below: "Aaa she is so hot!"

Lower left corner is decorated with a crinkled-up land-line telephone cord. Lower right corner has a clothesline hung with dollar bills.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's BLACK BURNS FAST (2025). [drawn in 26 minutes... which was way too short for this one, sorry]

A scribbly pencil-drawn collage-style comic by Eli Bishop. Title: "Black Burns Fast (2026), written/directed by Sandulela Asanda."

Center column, caption: "Lesbian teen romance in an Anglican girls' school in South Africa. Things happen!" Top to bottom:
1. Two teenage Black South African girls recline on a very large beanbag. One is holding a lit cigarette, looking upward and speaking; the other is snuggled up nearby, arms awkwardly at her sides, looking at her. Caption: "smoking on a beanbag in a storage room".
2. A hand holding a pencil writing repeated lines: "mentioning apartheid in class is divisive". Caption: "detention assignment".
3. Caption: "It's a movie full of stuff! Overstuffed and bubblegummy in a good way. I ran out of time to draw the stuff. Lots of heart, the kids will be ok."

Left column, caption: "How people are decorated". Top to bottom:
1. A school uniform with a dark blazer and light shirt, and two rectangular badges on the lapel. A blow-up of the badges shows that they say "Academics" and "Choir".
2. A jaunty straw hat with a ribbon, labeled "cool hat".
3. A white frilly dress, labeled "prom dress".
4. A black bowtie, labeled "dream drag bowtie".
5. A lumpy terrycloth bathrobe with a pattern of squares, labeled "self-love bathrobe".

Right column, caption: "How the universe is decorated". Top to bottom:
1. A bunch of little paper hearts dangling down on strings. Another paper heart being held out sideways on a stick.
2. Several people sitting at tables with a big X over one table and a big checkmark over the other. Caption: "cafeteria icons"
3. A group of three horizontal-thermometer-style gauges labeled "cute", "smart", "cool". Caption: "videogame stuff"
4. A circular radar-style graphic with three little hearts on it. Caption: "literal gaydar"
5. A cucumber with a condom on it. Caption: "sex ed cucumber"
6. A placard with a portrait of a hamster named Bucky. Caption: "hamster funeral"

alex @nonmodernist.com · last mo.

i wrote about my friends, two of whom were sentenced yesterday to 50 years in prison each. hotel-florida.ghost.io/the-seeds-of... if you read it, or even if you don't, please donate to @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

The Seeds of Prairieland

The first time I met Savanna, Liz, and Ines, they gave me seeds for my garden. I don’t actually have a garden, but I love plants, and so I took the seeds in the hope that I’d get to plant them before ...

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Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's DESERT HEARTS (1985). [drawn in 25 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop. Title: "How to be very romantic as shown in Desert Hearts (1985) - written by Natalie Cooper, directed by Doona Dietch"
1. Drawing: wide shot of Nevada landscape, hills and clouds and sagebrush, crossed by a road with a 1950s car on it.
Caption: "Take a ride in a convertible, across an amazing landscape, in between your cool new young friend" [arrow pointing to right-hand character] "and the nice person you found in her bed" [arrow pointing to left-hand character].
Drawing: Three women in the front seat. The one at left is cheerful and has windblown hair. The one in the middle (Vivian, played by Helen Shaver) looks more professional, with a small hat, blond hair, and a skeptical expression; she has a little thought balloon with a question mark. At right, driving, Patricia Charbonneau's character Cay has sunglasses and dark hair and a big smile.
2. Caption: "Later, on a rainy day, when she tells you to roll down the window..." Drawing: Vivian, inside a car, looks dubious (again thinking a question mark) as Cay knocks on the window while smiling outside in the rain.
3. Caption: "...Do so." Drawing: Cay leans through the window and kisses Vivian, who is now thinking an exclamation point.
4. Caption: "But, importantly, also be wearing awesome Western shirts." Drawing: A Western shirt with floral embroidery (an arrow points to Vivian in the previous panel) and one with fringes and rhinestones (an arrow points to Cay).
5. Caption: "The movie also makes a strong case that the ideal man makes dinner and drinks for his wife and her special friend when they are taking a bath." Drawing: smiling middle-aged man in a tank top hands a cocktail to a cheerful big-haired woman who's in a bubble bath; he has another drink on a tray for Cay who is also in the bath.
6. Caption: "It's real good"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching movies at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (1987). [drawn in 24 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop. Title: "Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story".
Top: drawing of a suburban 1960s nuclear family sitting in front of the TV. They look rudimentary because they're drawn fast, but also because they're all Barbie and Ken dolls. The small young dark-haired woman near the middle, looking particularly trapped, is Karen.
Caption on the back of the TV: "1987, written/directed by Todd Haynes"
Caption below TV: "Best MFA student film I've ever seen... also, maybe best biopic?"
Next caption below: "Gorgeous miniatures and Barbie-doll puppetry (it's not stop-motion, so they're just barely alive, and it works)."
Lower left: drawing of bombs falling toward an explosion, from Vietnam War newsreels. Caption: "Also newsreels, also everything else Haynes could think of."
Lower middle, caption: "And oh my God the lighting effects." Drawing: the Karen doll standing at a microphone in a dark space, dramatically lit by the row of stage lights behind her.
Right: drawing of a box of Ex-Lax pills, saying "For gentle overnight relief."
Lower right, caption: "Lots of beautiful music which brought about a lawsuit, so good luck seeing it in a theater. But I did! At the Roxie. [little heart icon]"

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · last mo.

I was thinking about times when I am really glad to see the US flag, and... it's the post office! When you're looking for the post office and you know it's around here somewhere, and then you see a flag, yay, it's the post office! Maybe this could just be the flag of the post office.

Photo of the sidewalk in front of a small post office in San Francisco, with a US flag flying above it.

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Watching movies at the Frameline festival and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's FLAMING CREATURES (1963). I felt bad about not liking this more, but I promise to try watching another Jack Smith film. [drawn in 23 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop.
1. Upper left: An angry-looking bald middle-aged man with glasses, a mustache, and a button-down shirt, sitting in a theater seat. Caption: "At the 'Banned Retro Shorts' screening, a guy behind me was very annoyed that Un Chant d'Amour was a silent movie. At full volume, he complained..." Word balloon from the man: "This should've had a soundtrack!"
2. Caption: "Well, be careful what you wish for, because you know what does have a soundtrack?"
3. Big cursive title lettering (based on how the title card looks in the movie): "Flaming Creatures (1963), written/directed by Jack Smith." Partly overlapping the title is a word balloon saying "SHRIEK! SHRIEEK! SHRIEEEEEEEK" which is connected to a panel below.
4. Middle left. Caption: "Sometimes Flaming Creatures looks like this:" Drawing: three figures with dark lipstick and glamorous eye makeup, gazing in different directions.
5. Middle. Caption: "Sometimes it's like this:" Drawing: A screaming woman's face is poking out of a heap of intertwined bodies and limbs. Two aggressive-looking faces are visible around her. A small caption on one of them says "Judith Malina!" The word balloon of the woman's shrieks extends up to overlap with the title.
6. Middle right. Caption: "Very often, it's like this." Drawing: a mess of light scratchy pencil lines, suggesting overexposed damaged film, with some shadows just barely visible that might be a face.
7. Lower left. Caption: "There's one pretty funny (audio-only) joke about lipstick and fellatio. Maybe there's a vampire?? Maybe there's an earthquake???"
8. Lower middle. Caption: "I get why it's historically significant and trangressive but... alas, I was mostly not into this at all."
9. Lower right. Smaller head of the same man from the beginning, looking distressed, saying "Make it stop". Caption: "But still, don't talk in the damn theater, dude."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Watching movies at the Frameline festival and doing time-limited drawings about them. Here's UN CHANT D'AMOUR (1954). I know I accidentally wrote "1950" in the drawing. [drawn in 22 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic by Eli Bishop titled "Un Chant d'Amour (A Love Song) (1950), written/directed by Jean Genet."
1. Drawing: Dark-haired man in a tank top standing half-turned away from us, caressing the tattoo on his shoulder. Smoke is entering the space near him from a little straw. Caption: "Genet's only film. It's gorgeous."
2. Drawing, immediately to the right: Another dark-haired man, with harsher features, is bending toward the wall between them, blowing cigarette smoke into that straw. Caption: "(Silent) Sad attempts at connection and comfort, but better than not having them."
3. Drawing, at center below the first two: a man in a dark uniform with many buttons on his jacket and a military-style hat. His expression is neutral. Caption: "Better than being this guy - the guard - a voyeur, pathetic, but dangerous, but pathetic."
4. Drawing, to the left of the guard: four tiny panels floating against a dark background, each with one stick figure in a different pose. One is standing with a hand between his legs, one is turned away, one is dancing, one is reclining. Caption: "Glimpses of a tiny world of solitary rituals."
5. Drawing, to the right of the guard: a grove of quickly-sketched trees, brightly lit, with two figures running through. Caption: "Glimpses of a world of freedom. Dream? Memory? It's theirs."

Eli Bishop @errorbar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Maybe I'll start posting some more sketchbook/comics stuff here. I've been doing daily/semi-daily time-limited drawings, and now I'm watching movies at the Frameline festival, so here's one about the opening-night feature: LADY CHAMPAGNE (2026). [drawn in 21 minutes]

A scribbly pencil-drawn comic titled "Lady Champagne (2026), written/directed by D'Arcy Drollinger". In a loose layout:
1. Drawing: D'Arcy Drollinger as an angry drag nun brandishes a nunchaku at two thugs with 1970s mustaches. Caption on the nun: "yes it is a 'nunchucks' joke." Caption on the taller thug: "Ryan Patrick Welsh, about to get beat up."
2. Caption only: "Shamelessly goofy exploitation parody. Starring basically every drag artist around here."
3. Drawing: very squiggly street with a running stick figure, a crudely drawn car, and another stick figure on a skateboard. Caption: "Lombard Street chase scene!"
4. Caption: "They're all great but (as in their last movie) Mathew Martin steals the show as the supervillain." Drawing: Matthew Martin as a scowling drag villain, in a suit with massive shoulder pads and a low-cut blouse. Behind her is a framed portrait of herself in the same pose.
5. Caption: "Seen at the Castro Theatre of course."

Jennifer Camper @jennifercamper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m devastated over the loss of Marjane Satrapi. This is my 2004 book review of her brilliant and ground breaking comics. (Published in Women’s Review Of Books.)