A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.
We've looked at Dave Sim's notebook #26 only twice before. First in Cool's Right and last in Pig's Ear. It covers Cerebus #224 through #230 and only had 58 pages scanned.
Most of the notebook is hand written notes - either bits of Rick's Book, dialogue between Cerebus and Dave, etc. So when I saw a couple of pages with sketches of Joanne, I stopped on them.
The first one I saw was on page 16. I love the hunched look and clenched fists, and the sound effects and dialogue - one gets the sense that she is highly irritated while the other party is glad to be done with an upset Joanne.
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| Notebook #26, page 16 |
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| Notebook #26, page 26 |
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