Hurtling Through Dark Realms

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 last saw pages from Dave Sim’s thirtieth notebook over two years ago in Fascination with Gore. The small notebook, only 5” x 3”, had 73 pages scanned and 25 pages missing. Dave had labeled it the ‘Minds’ notebook, as it contains what he would say to Cerebus in the Minds phonebook. Last time we saw it, we saw pages 6 though 11. So about we start back up with page 12 (you can click all the pictures to get a bigger view):

Notebook 30, pages 12 & 13

Notebook 30, pages 14 & 15

Notebook 30, pages 16 & 17

Once again, it doesn’t look like much of this dialogue was used. It a bit on page 17 appears to be paraphrased – the part where Dave talks about how Cerebus surprises him many times.

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Daily Strip #2 (click for bigger)