Thursday 4 April 2019

True Romance

MARGARET LISS:
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 only looked at Dave Sim's thirty-third Cerebus notebook twice before. Mostly recently in April of 2017 in Salad Fork Stuck to His Face. While the notebook was labeled as mostly containing material for Cerebus #251, there is some other Going Home items in it.

Take for example these two pages from the notebook. Dave writing about Ham, Mary, and Jaka in Going Home:

Notebook #33, page 18

Notebook #33, page 19



1 comment:

Jeff said...

Matt, ya gotta update (no pun intended): Apparently, my AMOC auction bid has been doubled. And, I ain't doublin' down. Congrats, John!