Eli Bishop

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

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Eli Bishop@errorbar· 29d

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· Jul 14

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· Jul 11

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· Jul 10

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· Jul 5

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· Jul 3

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· Jun 30

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"

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Jun 29

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· Jun 27

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· Jun 26

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· Jun 25

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"

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Jun 23

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· Jun 23

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· Jun 23

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· Jun 21

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· Jun 21

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· Jun 20

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."

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Mar 21

Jeff Goldblum wearing an enormous white cowboy hat in Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Oct 15

You know how sometimes you copy text from a webpage and some ad material shows up in the middle of it, so you end up with a nontraditional version of "O Death" that has a couple of jarring shifts in tone and subject (even though the first line of the ad weirdly has the right meter)?

Screenshot of part of the lyrics to "O Death" (as sung by Ralph Stanley), interrupted by some ad text from the website the lyrics were copied from. "Death, I come to take the soul / Leave the body and leave it cold / To drop the flesh off of the frame / The earth and worms both have a claim / See upcoming country shows / Get tickets for your favorite artists / You might also like / Oh Death - MercyMe / Take It Off - The Donnas / [Chorus] Oh, Death / Whoa, Death / Won't you spare me over till another year?"

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Aug 6

And estrangement is a thing that really has to be done from an uncomfortably close distance.

Simpsons screenshot of Principal Skinner saying "I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there." (from "Bart After Dark")

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Aug 5

Here's what you wrote. Nothing about commenting on homophobia. Just Thiel is gay and he's evil, and Vance is one of "his boys." Your other explanation, after someone asked, doesn't make it *not* inflammatory to talk this way. Which I guess you're going to keep on doing since you think it's so clear.

Screenshot of Funkybat's first two comments from the thread.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· May 29

Bay Area: so much special SF Neo-Futurists theater real soon! This weekend, our mysterious site-specific HOLE. Next month, the first ever BLACKEST WRENCH on Juneteenth; then, our reliably fabulous Pride special! It's all here: www.sfneofuturists.org (and I'm back in the regular show June 13)

Collage of three theater posters for the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. Upper left: photo of a large hole in sand with the captions "HOLE", "workshop performance", "May 31/June 1". Lower left: photo of several African-American SF Neo-Futurist ensemble members on stage, including Jordan Williams joyfully raising her hands, with the caption "June 19: Blackest Wrench." Right: collage of stage photos with the captions "Infinite Pride: 30 Gay Plays in 60 Gay Minutes", "June 23 - El Rio, SF - Doors 7 pm, Show 8:30 pm", "June 24 - Oasis - Doors 6:30 pm, Show 7 pm, and Doors 9 pm, Show 9:30 pm", "50% of all tix proceeds benefit LGBT Asylum Project".

Eli Bishop@errorbar· May 2

Actually five times:

Screenshot from a section of p. 306 of the HHS "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Identity Dysphoria" report PDF, showing five bibliographic entries. The first three are for pieces by "Byrne, A." in Archives of Sexual Behavior: "More on 'gender identity'", "The origin of 'gender identity'", and "Another myth of persistence?" The fourth is for a book by "Byrne, A.": "Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions", from Polity Press. The fifty is for an article co-authored by "Byrne, A., & Gorin, M.": "A deafening silence: Bioethics and gender-affirming healthcare", in "The War on Science" from Post Hill Press.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Apr 12

My two best self-published comics, BUSYBODY #1 and NINE FACES OF NOTHING, are now for sale as e-books on itch.io instead of the crappy place where they used to be. There are still a few paper copies of these available, but I'm unlikely to print more. eli-the-bishop.itch.io

Cover image for the comic book "Busybody 1" by Eli Bishop. A pencil drawing, with digital flat colors, of the exterior of a small Victorian-style two-story house like you might find in San Francisco. In the upper bay windows, a cranky-looking person is writing something elaborate on a giant sheet of paper. A big brightly colored bird is perched outside looking in. Instead of showing the same room, the left side of that bay window shows a tree, and the right side shows a dark room with a telescope pointing out. The lower left bay window has the shades drawn; the window is slightly open at the top, with a naked leg trying to get out. The lower right bay window shows a dark room illuminated by a disco ball; a large amount of hair is coming out of the bottom of the window. The lower middle bay window is blocked by a curtain, and has signs taped to the window saying: "In this issue: true love; bad dreams; physical assessment; urban fashion; personal growth; Shift Report", and "mature readers." On the roof, a large crow or raven is trying to look in the window from above, a dove is sitting on an air vent, and a cat is stretched out asleep above the attic window. A rope ladder leads out of a door on the roof. The top and sides of the house are disappearing into fog, with just some tall plants visible on the side.

Cover image for the comic book "Nine Faces of Nothing" by Eli Bishop. The background is a medium warm gray square. The left two-thirds of the cover have the nine letters of "Nine Faces" shown as cut-out capital letters within square black and white images that are excerpted from different images in the book, but shown in extreme close-up so they look like abstract black and white lines and textures. At the right, the letters in "of nothing" appear as smaller white capital letters arranged in a two-column grid. The subtitle "(depression comics) by Eli Bishop" appears in smaller white capital letters.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Apr 7

Perfect series of faces as Dern's character starts to realize "oh no, could it be... he just doesn't give a shit??"

Film still from The Master (2012) with subtitles. Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, a satisfied-looking man in a business suit, at a publicity event for his cult, is saying "We are invoking a new, wider range to account for the new data." Sitting next to him, Laura Dern is listening with a slightly uncertain smile.

Another dilm still from The Master (2012) with subtitles. Hoffman continues: "'Can you imagine?' allows for a more creative pathway to the mind." Laura Dern is still listening patiently but looking away for a moment as if trying to process this.

Another film still from The Master (2012) with subtitles. Dern started to ask "But if the new..." but Hoffman has interrupted with an impatient hand gesture, saying "What do you want?" Dern is taken aback, eyes wide, mouth open.

Another still from The Master (2012) with subtitles. Hoffman puts his face in his palm, exasperated by this exchange, and says "Helen..." Dern is looking away with a very uncomfortable expression as if starting to realize that things are worse than she thought.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Apr 5

This is the start of my 4th year writing & performing with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. Other than meeting my spouse, there aren't many life changes that have been so important to me. It's a joy & an honor to know these people & make stuff with them. That's all! www.sfneofuturists.org

Photo of Eli Bishop in a stage production by the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. A middle-aged white man with short hair in a button-down shirt is sitting in a chair in front of two black wooden stage blocks, in front of a black backdrop, gesturing and looking up at the audience a little anxiously. On the shorter block there is a laptop computer. On the taller block, a large computer screen connected to the laptop is showing some bright blue text in a large font, which the man was in the process of typing. The visible part of the text says "WHY? WHO? WHY? WHO? WHY"

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Mar 18

Because it's important to imagine that a better world is possible, here's my homage to the cover of STARSLAYER (THE LOG OF THE JOLLY ROGER) #2 (1982), after Mike Grell. #comiccovercover #fanart #coloredpencils #spacepirates

A reimagined comic book cover image for STARSLAYER #2 - ink drawing plus colored pencils in a textural cartoon style, by Eli Bishop. Two heroes, both with long black hair, and both scantily clad— a grimacing man with a mustache and a golden space-eyepatch, and a stern woman with a top-ponytail and high-heeled boots— are fighting off a group of monsters, in a spaceship. The man is wielding a glowing sword and a ray gun; the woman has two ray guns. They are firing the guns in various directions without looking. The monsters include a green lizard-person with red eyes and fangs, wielding a knife; a werewolf, wielding a knife; and a mottled orange lizard-person with a long scaly tail. TV screens inside the spaceship show the faces of some unknown observers. In the background outside, a futuristic monochrome city and glittering stars. The title says "Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger" but it is partly obscured by the sword so we only see "Starslar: The Log of Roger." In the foreground, a panicky robot is running around and saying "For the NEW Era in Comics." The cover price is $1 US, $1.25 Canada.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Mar 1

Revised the coloring a little, after figuring out one of the 50 things that was bothering me. This is still a ridiculous approach of course—don't do any of these things! (unless you want to)

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Mar 1

Got an urge to draw some goofy drama, so here's my homage to the cover of CAPTAIN MARVEL #51 (1977), after Al Milgrom & Irv Watanabe (original at right). I took the liberty of recoloring Mercurio and creating a more intimate fighting style. #comiccovercover #fanart #gratuitouscursive

A reimagined comic book cover image for Captain Marvel #51 - ink drawing with digital colors in a clear-line cartoon style, by Eli Bishop. A square-jawed blond superhero in a bright red and blue costume is wrestling, in a very close and somewhat suggestive pose, with a space alien who is jet black on one side and gray on the other and who wears skimpy white armor. They are on a roof, with vague skyscrapers in the background. The alien's grip is causing one of Captain Marvel's arms to catch fire and the other to freeze. The captions say "The Hour of Flame and Frost" and "Cosmic Power versus Mercurio the 4-D Man." A caption on Captain Marvel's head indicates that he is "spaceborn." Some of the captions are in elaborate cursive lettering for no reason.

A 1977 comic book cover image for Captain Marvel #51 - ink drawing with process colors in an action comic style of the time, by Al Milgrom and Irv Watanabe. A square-jawed blond superhero in a bright red and blue costume is wrestling, about two feet apart, with a space alien who is blue-black on one side and red on the other and who wears skimpy white armor. They are on a roof, with vague skyscrapers in the background, and Captain Marvel is accidentally kicking chunks of concrete off of the roof with one foot. The alien's grip is causing one of Captain Marvel's arms to catch fire and the other to freeze. The captions say "The Hour of Flame and Frost" and "Cosmic Power versus the Fantastic Force of Mercurio the 4-D Man." A caption above the title calls Captain Marvel "Marvel's Spaceborn Superhero!" One word in the captions is in cursive lettering for no reason.

Eli Bishop@errorbar· Feb 25

I wonder if Batman ever manages to zip up to a high precipice that he can't figure out how to get down from, so he just yells and yells until Superman shows up to help, in the middle of the night. Unrelated: here's a picture of a darling cat who lives with me