100 Butches
by Elisha Lim

“From Elisha Lim’s finely-drawn-and-written portraits, a picture begins to emerge of the elusive and indefinable quality of butchness itself.”-Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

Up-and-coming queer graphic novelist and Alison Bechdel protégée Elisha Lim presents fifty portraits—some lovers, some friends, some relatives, others strangers and missed connections—from around the world in this celebration of butch sexuality. Fully illustrated in color throughout, these fifty illustrations and accompanying mini-memoirs of the artist’s encounters with her subjects brings together a diverse array of queers whose lives and work have had a special impact on the author’s life. The first volume in a two-book series.

Advance praise for 100 Butches

"Elisha Lim’s shy approach to a discussion of the various butches she’s met, loved, lost and held so dearly is one of the highlights of the show. Her book, 100 Butches, is complete with hand-written tales accompanied by an authentic Lim drawing of each of her memorialized muses. Each butch is canonized, numbered, yes, but celebrated. From admiring androgyny to loving the way someone can lean… Lim’s re-imaginings of the perfections and flaws of those she’s desired and been changed by can make an audience go 'uhhhhhhh.'"-Bitch Magazine

About the Author

Elisha Lim’s comics have run in Diva Magazine, LOTL Australia, and the Canadian queer magazines NMP and Xtra! Elisha was Curve’s “Artist in Residence,” praised in Bitch Magazine and named one of Afterellen.com’s “Queer Women To Watch.” Elisha has collaborated with Ivan E. Coyote and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Elisha lives in Ontario, Canada.