Sunday 22 November 2020

Cerebus Around the World and Web #55 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

As we do every Sunday:
Oliver Simonsen:

Cerebus kickstarter mail arrived for webcomic "Poison Ivy Gulch" creator Max West
https://twitter.com/poisonivygulch/status/1328887525566541826
https://twitter.com/maxwestart/status/1328887018961690625

"Cartoonist Kayfabe" interviews lead to Cerebus purchase
https://twitter.com/CastlesofImagin/status/1329583137530195968
Check out "Cartoonist Kayfabe" with hosts Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg here
https://www.youtube.com/c/CartoonistKayfabe/featured

Short youtube video showcasing Cerebus 

[It's David Birdsong's copy. He sent me the YouTube link with the following. -Matt]
Look Ma, I'm famous!
Award winning comic creator Tim Sale posts several Cerebus pages with commentary - here's a few snippets:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134617493385873/permalink/1702240866623520/

Sim was the single biggest influence on my understanding storytelling.
One of two pages that I owned. I still have the other one, but this was lost/stolen in a move. My father adopted the line, "Locally, that is" as one of our bonding phrases.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134617493385873/permalink/1702250383289235/

I'd never seen anything like this layout before. How to make a conversation page work through writing, timing, silent expression, and simplicity.
Trying to think of other comics artists who indulged in slowing down the tempo of what film does to this extent before Sim. It was one of the biggest revelations for me, when I saw what could be done if the creator owned the character and story.
I am drawn to in Sim's approach is that he understood how well it reads if you drop out any backgrounds. How well you read and enjoy the important stuff - what's happening between the characters.
You have to balance that elsewhere in the issue, but for talking heads - set the scene with an establishing shot with some detail (for lack of a better term) elements, then dig into 'just the characters'.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134617493385873/permalink/1702240906623516/

One of my favorite of all Sim's pages. The timing, the cartooning (panel seven!) the layout, the horizontal pages he did for a number of issues all linked with the black gutters just wowed and wows, me.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134617493385873/permalink/1702240903290183/
[Click for bigger. -Matt]

I made and wore to shreds a t-shirt of this panel.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/134617493385873/permalink/1702240886623518/

Cerebus is amazing says writer/artist/creator of Saving the World comic Tonic Mole
https://twitter.com/TheTonicmole/status/1328881366709268480
https://twitter.com/TheTonicmole/status/1328786146797760513

Comic creator Rob Price takes as huge compliment to be compared to Cerebus
https://twitter.com/robgprice/status/1328119728477442050

More Spanish Cerebus translations requested
https://twitter.com/EduMcGuinness/status/1328776922881548290

No wonder Cerebus has a huge following
https://twitter.com/robgprice/status/1328369984054190080

Cerebus recommended
https://twitter.com/SylentWulf81/status/1328120309321383936

Like a young Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Deathrayzeta/status/1329993803231477760

Cerebus featured among favorite Sword & Sorcery comics from Marvel’s Epic Illustrated.
http://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/favorite-sword-sorcery-from-epic-illustrated/

Elric and Elrod
https://twitter.com/IstillMissShiva/status/1328668886527569923

Sees Cerebus ad?
https://twitter.com/elfsternberg/status/1328105943196831744

Judge Dredd drawn by Dave Sim
https://twitter.com/justinhamilton_/status/1328677465535909889

Jules Feiffer black comedy basis for Cerebus character
https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1328083684092649472

Cerebus and the President
https://twitter.com/NotAChef1/status/1328061466986110979

Mystery solved
https://twitter.com/Cr0ss0verB0t/status/1327938189663801344

Cerebus acquisition
https://twitter.com/TheTonicmole/status/1329904486467457026

Reading Cerebus issue #25
https://twitter.com/JusticeTrek/status/1330003820190044162

Cerebus on CBR's list of "Top Comic Book Runs". From the article: "...one of the most intelligent ongoing comic book series out there, with a great deal of wit and wisdom." https://www.cbr.com/top-comic-book-runs-100-97/

Disney Creator Rights and Dave Sim
https://twitter.com/Remow2112/status/1329299965403828229

Rock Hudson and Cerebus
https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1329213215658524672

Conan and Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Deathrayzeta/status/1329992184502730752

Remembering Dave Sim's in store signing at "Now and Then Books
https://twitter.com/industristudios/status/1329411572318556162
https://twitter.com/Tim_Pilcher/status/1329392625582006272

Still no instagram posts

Cerebus Facebook Group

David Hartman: Comparison
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3490143447719672/
[Click for bigger. -Matt]

David Branstetter: For some reason my son can’t say Cerebus.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3497940843606599/

Jean Paul: Hello. I have been trying to track down this drawing for years. Does anyone on the list know its whereabouts? (I asked the question already some time ago but I ask again in case some of the last few months' newcomers might know about it).
Thanks ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3490318101035540/

Margaret Liss in the comments: The only place I see it is on Comic Art Fan were I think OP is asking if anyone has seen it: https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1497931
Being that it appears to be a commission / con drawing from 1984, unless the current owner steps forth, I don't think Dave or Ger will know its location. Perhaps post it on AMoC doing a 'hey, who has this?' and if you do that, I'm looking for the original art of Cerebus #162 page 2. I have page 3, but it isn't my holy grail.
Jean Paul responds: I (predictably) am the one who has been looking for it on ComicArtFans for years. The story behind this drawing is quite bizarre: about fifteen years ago, it was listed on eBay and I won the auction. The rest of the transaction turned into an eBay-ish nightmare: I paid for the piece... and the seller never sent it. I asked politely, waited, asked again. The seller strung me along, repeatedly saying s/he was about to ship it. Finally I filed a complaint through Papyal and managed to get his Paypal account blocked. However (I forget the details why), I never managed to get my money back, the seller never sent me anything and eventually vanished into the eBay ether--and for that matter s/he may not even have been its rightful owner in the first place. Unless the drawing has actually disappeared, I am surprised that no heavy-duty Cerebus fan (and there seem to be quite a few on this list) has ever seen it or heard of it.
Sean Robinson: If the whole thing was a scam then is it possible the seller just found a scan elsewhere and pretended to have the original?

William Hoffknecht:
Recent trade got me an extremely clean copy of #6. Inching closer to my complete run.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3490017704398913/

John Glismann: I love a successful treasure hunt, especially when it doesn’t actually cost me too much treasure. Dave mentions this first major review of Cerebus in the introduction to the Palnu Trilogy in Swords Volume 4. I finally tracked it down recently for less than the price of a pizza. This internet fad can sometimes be a good thing. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3495493990517951/


Interview by Dave Sim with Skywald editor Al Hewetson in 1973! (thanks Larry Wooten!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/319180844901673/permalink/1841641019322307


Theodore Trout shares video clip of baby aardvark (click link to see video)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3507622239305126/

Margaret Liss in the comments: You sure that just isn't some kid in a bunny suit?

Margaret Liss:
From Comics International issue 32 from June 1993. I love buying a bunch of cheap comics magazines for one particular issue and then finding random Cerebus / Dave Sim stuff in one of the other issues.

Margaret Liss: A few things found during the reorganization of my collection.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3493021844098499/
[Click for bigger -Matt]

[Click for bigger -Matt]

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Thanks Oliver!

Carson Grubaugh is auctioning off this:
Click for Bigger.
It's:
This was the painted cover I did for SDOAR V1, based on mock-ups by Dave. Four months of work that we both agreed was just too cluttered to serve as the actual cover. The work is a 20" x 16" oil painting on board. It already has a frame.

Highest bidder in the comments after one week gets the work. Buyer will pay shipping, and if desired, insurance. If no insurance is purchased any awful thing the USPS does to the work on the way is the buyers loss."
Current HIGH bid is to Cerebus in Hell?'s own David Birdsong for $200. By Executive Fiat, the Auction ends on Cyber Monday (November 30th).

Speaking of Cerebus in Hell?!!! Order the new one: The Amazing Batvark Final Order Cut-off is December 27th. And, on Wednesday, the 25th, pick up Spider-Whore.

Spawn #10 Kickstarter, has ended, but much like the Remastered Cerebus #1, AND You Don't Know Jack, there's a second chance IndieGoGo. (It ends on the 27th.)


Check out the new Cerebus masks and whatnots. PENIS and XXXXX added. And there's a sale:
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales will be running:
Nov 26 – 27
Nov 29 – 30
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off! That means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more.
Ya done been told fans!

As you all know, Wilf Jenkins was the Aardvark/Vanaheim lawyer for years, and during that time he was on the comp list. Wilf saved all his copies. Dave and Wilf have signed them, and there's a certificate of authenticity. The books will be available from Looking For Heroes, for $10 (CAD) plus $4 dollars shipping to Canada and $5 dollars shipping to the USA. All the money goes to the Food Bank of the Waterloo Region. (I have no idea what's going on with these...)

Next Time: More CEREBUS!?!?!
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