A.C. Esguerra (@blueludebar.com)

@blueludebar.com Oct 11, 2026, 9:32 PM

thanks for coming to my unhinged little sketchjam. seeing everyone respond to the sounds in different ways with their art was so cool. let's do it again sometime 🎼🎶

@blueludebar.com Oct 11, 2026, 9:23 PM

my drawings from Ear & Eye Jam Session #1. today's model: Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980) @cartoonist.coop

a spread of fountain pen ink drawings in my sketchbook. a heading across the top reads "TALKING HEADS-REMAIN IN LIGHT". imagery below includes: a nautilus shell and an ear, silhouetted hands reaching out, a person bowing under a theater curtain, a magritte apple guy dissolving into pixels, a snake wound around a guitar, a freeway curving into space with planets that have crudely drawn faces.

a spread of fountain pen ink drawings in my sketchbook. imagery includes: an airplane with an eyeball flying over earth held up by hands with long painted nails, a house on a cliff over crashing ocean waves carrying small stick figure guys in suits away, a clock tower and a tornado, houses with legs running with people and animals, anime lookin kids standing dramatically in front of spiralling water ripples, flying bamboo poles and a person standing on a windswept hill

a photo of a fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook showing a vast architecural structure covered with eyes looming over a figure on a narrow bridge, who looks up at an ominous dangling hook. at the bottom is my (actual) hand making a peace sign

promo graphic for EAR & EYE jam sessions at Cartoonists United showing Inkwell (an inkwell) holding Nibford (a pen nib) and drawing music notes

@blueludebar.com Oct 11, 2026, 3:13 PM

happening in just a few hours! let the chaos begin 🎻

greentext meme image reads: "*vinyl scratch sound* / YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO / *car crash sound* / 102.3 / *elephant sound* / REAL ROCK FM / *explosion* / WHERE WE PLAY NOTHING BUT ROCK, ROCK, AND MORE ROCK / *glass shattering sound* *police siren* / THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANNY'S STATION"

screenshot of a wikipedia page titled "List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response"

screenshot of a twitter post by user myelessar with two images of the same person: on the left she makes a pensive gesture and looks upwards, wearing casual clothes, eyeliner and long nails; on the right she makes a mildly shocked expression and now wears a chain mail headdress (still has fabulous nails though). the caption reads: "when i shuffle my music and the lord of the rings soundtrack comes on"

meme image of Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello with great emotion in front of a large screen showing a closeup image of his face. caption reads: "me sliding the straw in and out of a McDonald's cup"

@jametc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:48 AMReposted by @blueludebar.com

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!

pinlite.app

someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

@tshirt.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:42 AMReposted by @blueludebar.com

and honestly if it comes down to it. i'd rather lose $20 every so often rather than have a less vibrant ecosystem of diy queer art. pic related

edited the social network (2010) poster that reads "you don't get to 500 million zines without making a few enemies"

@blueludebar.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:01 PM

i just want you to know seeing this made me run to put on the Scala and Kolacny Brothers cover of Creep - Radiohead that this movie used so iconically in its trailer, and now im just cackling listening to it and thinking about yaoi zine and AF. thank you for your work.

@blueludebar.com Oct 7, 2026, 9:04 PM

drew this for the Athenaeum Five Year Zine! thank you to Sean and the collector community for treating my comics art with such care and appreciation. i can keep pickin' up the pen, thanks to that. 🖋️🖤
@athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social

@blueludebar.com Oct 6, 2026, 6:26 PM

heard that was a good show!!! happy for you!

@blueludebar.com Oct 6, 2026, 5:44 PM

signed ⚔️💪🏽 i take heart in all the union actions calling for better wages and hours + protections from being supplanted by unwanted AI--amongst many other decent, commonsense things. artists, protect the arts.

@blueludebar.com Oct 6, 2026, 5:30 PM

CONGRATS!! signed ✅💪🏽

@melwoods.me Oct 5, 2026, 3:21 PMReposted by @blueludebar.com

Today, @xtramagazine.com launches Comics Against Censorship, a series of five original comics tackling issues of LGBTQ2S+ censorship, guest edited by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social.

Original comics! About librarians and webcomics and trans Albertans and so much more!!

xtramagazine.com/series/comic...

@blueludebar.com Oct 5, 2026, 5:43 PM

promo graphic design: @cartoon_distortion (on instagram) photo credit: @juliolabra.bsky.social

@blueludebar.com Oct 5, 2026, 1:53 AM

will be tabling at LA Zine Fest 2026 (first time)!! November 7th, Angel City Derby Warehouse 🛼📚 www.lazinefest.com

a promo graphic for LA Zine Fest 2026, designed to look like a bunch of brightly colored papers spilling out of a manila envelope on top of a green cutting board. one of the papers is a black and white polaroid of me sitting on a low stone wall and wearing round sunglasses, over which is overlaid, as if gouged into the film, a scribbly white line sketch of myself. text reads "Meet Your Zinester!", then my name "A.C. Esguerra >> @blueludebar" and a list of genres of work i'll be bringing: "LGBTQ+, Comics, Illustration, Poetry, Literary".

@blueludebar.com Oct 4, 2026, 7:06 AM

thank you ⚔️🏺

@blueludebar.com Oct 4, 2026, 4:37 AM

NICE, yes!! lore keepers unite

@blueludebar.com Oct 4, 2026, 4:23 AM

Garter is actually his second run character. the first Tarnished was an Inquisitor class named Adder (left pic). got a snake naming theme going on

a fountain pen ink doodle on brown paper in a sketchbook of an Inquisitor class Tarnished (Adder) looking at the giant, legged pot, Alexander, from Elden Ring. text at the bottom reads "Radahn Festival"

a fountain pen ink doodle on brown paper in a sketchbook of a Samurai class Tarnished (Garter) standing on an anvil and looking up at Iji the giant blacksmith, from Elden Ring. text at the top reads "Taking a break from Caelid. Visiting Iji!", a speech bubble pointing to Iji says "brave Tarnished..." and text at the bottom reads "lovable sort ahead"

@blueludebar.com Oct 3, 2026, 9:33 PM

thank you 🏺🖤

@blueludebar.com Oct 3, 2026, 9:32 PM

thank you!! it's so fun! 🗡️🔥

@blueludebar.com Oct 3, 2026, 9:14 PM

while my partner plays Elden Ring, i draw his adventures in a sketch diary. his Tarnished is named "Garter"

a spread of fountain pen ink doodles on brown paper in a horizontal/landscape oriented sketchbook capturing some Elden Ring adventures. on the left a heading reads: "Garter vs Smarag" over a samurai class Tarnished making several attempts to defeat a dragon, succeeding on the third (solo) try. on the right are more vignettes showing Garter giving a shabriri grape to Hyetta, sneaking past enemies while disguised as furniture in Raya Lucaria Academy and fighting Radagon's dog with some friends.

a spread of fountain pen ink doodles on brown paper in a horizontal/landscape oriented sketchbook capturing some Elden Ring adventures. on the far left the Tarnished stands on a castle parapet aiming a bow and arrow down into a courtyard where an Iron Virgin, labelled "Zamboni", is zooming around. next to this is a two panel comic showing the Tarnished trying to drink a healing potion, only to have a Carian Knight slap it out of his hand. on the right page are two drawings showing the Tarnished fighting Rennala in the academy and during her second phase.

fountain pen ink doodles on brown paper in a horizontal/landscape oriented sketchbook capturing some Elden Ring adventures. a heading reads "Garter at Redmane Castle" and shows the Tarnished making several attempts to defer an enemy labeled "Pain-In-The-Ass Knight", who holds a flaming sword. after getting good at dodging the flames but also perishing many times, a comic shows the Tarnished accidentally dodge rolling off a cliff to a lower floor. the enemy knight jumps down to follow, but while his slow animation of getting back on his feet plays, the Tarnished anticlimactically stabs and defeats him.

fountain pen ink doodles on brown paper in a horizontal/landscape oriented sketchbook capturing some Elden Ring adventures. a three panel comic headed "Divine Tower of Caelid". in the first panel, a Tarnished stands on a narrow path broken by a chasm and looks down at a message that reads: "no something ahead". the next panel shows the Tarnished jumping across the gap anyway. the last panel shows the Tarnished facing a dead end and looking down at a message that succinctly reads: "regret".

@pantspants.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 8:30 PMReposted by @blueludebar.com