EIGHTY DAYS

@eightydayscomic

EIGHTY DAYS is an alternate-1930s era adventure/romance manga about flight and freedom, told through the letters and interweaving lives of three queer Asian aviators. Book I (EIGHTY DAYS) received the PRISM Comics Queer Press Grant in 2016. The complete graphic novel was published in 2021 by Archaia Entertainment. It was written and drawn by A.C. Esguerra (@blueludebar).

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blueludebar

hello, A.C. Esguerra here. thank you so much to everyone who has recently followed this account! i'm shocked at how many of you are interested, even though i haven't posted ANY art on tumblr since roughly 2017. another lifetime, it feels like.

i'm planning to post/queue up artwork from the last few years to get this place up to speed. hopefully it's not too repetitive for those of you who have seen it on other social media before--i think it'll be kind of fun to revisit favorite pieces here, where images are displayed so lovely and big. i may also be reblogging to/from @eightydayscomic when relevant (it will often be relevant). please forgive me if i commit any posting faux pas while i re-learn the ropes! and thanks for looking at my art, as always. i hope you enjoy your stay.

-AC

blueludebar

Eighty Days is probably the only book ever to make me cry, maybe even the only story at all ever. I tend not to show emotion, but this book just got me in the perfect way. It’s absolutely beautiful and I read it all in one night- too good to put the book down. Got it from the library, not expecting much, and ended with a story I’m completely obsessed with. Thank you for writing this masterpiece. Best of wishes to you and your writing journey.

(P.s. Jay and Fix make me so happy I hope they’re happy for the rest of forever… gahh!!!!)

Thank you so much for reading, this made my day. Messages like this are the sort of thing that make me wonder whether I should come back to tumblr, haha. I cherish the memories of books that made me cry and stay up all night--it blows my mind to think Eighty Days is capable of doing that for people now, too.

Here is a piece of a postwar happiness from my sketchbook for you.

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I loved the characters and the twists and the art. I loved the prose and the interactions and arcs. I adored the handwriting and the way the little things happen, like the cartoons in the rain and the line where Sable says she wasn't subjecting anyone to Jay's sappy writing even if she had to drag him from the Heavens herself. The way everything came to a head, everything paying off. All of it means a lot to me. I'm not sure if you'll ever read this, but if you do. Thank you - Red 3/3

Thank you for reading Eighty Days, and for sharing this. I wish you all the best.

-AC

(3/3)

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It reminded me of a lot that I had forgotten, and I called my mom in the first time in weeks crying about any number of things. I remembered all the dreams I had always had about flying. About becoming a bird or a fairy or seed drifting in the wind. I wanted more then anything else in the world to feel the wind in my face and see everything be so so small. It gave me hope, and it reminded me of what I had always said I would do. Help where I can how I can as often as possible. 2/3

I’ve felt something like what you describe in the first part of your note before: lost and untethered from most everything besides fiction, books. To know that the one I wrote was able to fly to you, in that difficult place, and change something for the better--it is everything to me. It’s one of the strongest reasons I can think of to keep writing and drawing. (2/3)

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I found this book at a very odd time of my life. I'm young, smarter then I do anything with, and have no clue what to do with myself. But I do go to the library often, and this book was there. I wasn't really expecting anything, I just thought the art was lovely. I hadn't heard anything about, and at the time didn't care overly much for anything at all. But this comic, this book, it changed something. First of all, it was incredible. I loved it and didn't know what to do with myself after 1/?

What an incredible note to see after logging into this account for the first time in many years. (1/3)

#eighty days #blueludebar #it's been eighty-four years...