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.
So “VGDC Maroro” had requested a couple items from the notebooks and we started looking at them a couple weeks ago in Chasing The Roach Up the Tower. One of those items was “how Dave created a sense of heart-pounding intensity with Cerebus and Roach's "chase" up Skull Mountain.”
That chase started in notebook 9 which we saw in that last notebook entry and continues in Dave’s 10th notebook. On page 8 we see some thumbnail layouts for page 18 and 19 of the roach coming towards the camera. Along with some dialogue for the Roach and his feelings for Astoria.
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| Notebook 10, page 8 |
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| Notebook 10, page 9 |
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