Cerebus Around the World and Web #59 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

As always, some of these are click for bigger, and some aren't. Ain't Life a gamble?

Oliver Simonsen:

Still nursing my right arm - not good for much these days except scrolling the internet which is good for this column if nothing else:)

Theodore Trout's Cerebus animation progress for the 2D portion of our film - see gif in links
https://twitter.com/CerebusFilm/status/1338513730133319680
http://www.islandnet.com/~trout/Archive/Cerebus%20rises.gif
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3569078923159457/
Tried converting the gif to a movie clip - worked pretty well I think

CBR article on new hit Image book referencing the Cerebus/Spawn crossover issue https://www.cbr.com/crossover-spawn-easter-egg/

The Bridge season 3 and Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Sadpad21/status/1339173388443668480

Cerebus and Spawn
https://twitter.com/metalgearbeard/status/1340091278961373186

Cerebus and Howard the Duck
https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1338736158088470528

Cerebus graffiti by Mr. Conerski in Sakhalin Island, Russia
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIuIkdbgYtO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Wonder Warthog
https://twitter.com/BlackLionAuthor/status/1338873454108413952

Cerebus and Fone Bone
https://twitter.com/onlyizzyjones/status/1338854717045272578

Cerebus the #1 comic for Rock fans
https://twitter.com/Shamele44599621/status/1338456025263960064/photo/2
https://twitter.com/cepmurphy/status/1338853389690576896

She quotes Cerebus Red Sophia comic
https://twitter.com/curiouser_alice/status/1338306770893148162

She lost Cerebus
https://twitter.com/ChristianaJoy/status/1338873739858104320

kollerina draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIsmCVDlSG9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI8SvD7lhqP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus a fav
https://twitter.com/drgonzo369/status/1339905210144223234

Read Cerebus the most
https://twitter.com/CastlesofImagin/status/1340013587839000579

James Smith draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIyHBEFB_XG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/jimeato/status/1338594830809698308
https://twitter.com/jimeato/status/1338613327862374401

Reading Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIngSt3lBTb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Has entire original run of Cerebus
https://twitter.com/ROKiTcomics/status/1339655265033932800

"Swords of Cerebus" coming
https://twitter.com/CastlesofImagin/status/1340102503468306432

First Cerebus Canadian tour. Fun fact: Comic store "Captain Quebec" is now "Institut Métapsychique"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI9-NxvlQTP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus Syndrome part of the vernacular
https://twitter.com/Lochlan_S/status/1338745901418999810

Literary Hub excerpts new book "Hemingway in Comics" by Robert K. Elder: I’ve discovered that Hemingway by far exceeds other authors in number of appearances. Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature, one that extends into comic books.
https://lithub.com/why-ernest-hemingway-makes-a-great-subject-for-comic-book-artists/

I believe I missed the following two Cerebus art works:

Cerebus statue sculpted with Super Sculpey and acrylic painted by "moonshdw8"
https://www.deviantart.com/moonshdw8/art/Cerebus-857404050

Borgy Borgonia
https://www.deviantart.com/giumabei/art/Cerebus-860151382

And we close off with Andrew Rilstone's Cerebus experience "At college, everyone Andrew knew read Cerebus. They wore t-shirts and had photocopies of their favourite pages on their walls; they referred to each other as Most Holy. Andrew’s flatmate Eddie made Andrew a life sized Cerebus stuffed toy for his birthday."
http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2020/12/2.html

Cerebus Facebook Group

Margaret Liss: Huh. Some how the Cerebus tree I got isn’t quite as good as the one shown here. Umm.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3567995373267812/

Margaret Liss: Dave also did some work that appeared in the fanzine Legion Outpost.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3567260140008002/
(see comments in the link where Margaret shares a letter from Dave published in #8)
From issue 5. That address is his childhood home and not the location of the Off White House. I wonder if anyone won that original art and I’d they still have it.

The back cover to #5.

Illustration from #4. Summer 1973.

The Comic Report. Published by Jeff Zinger in 1976. Dave has work in all these issues, either art and/or articles. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3567159806684702/

Margaret Liss in the comments: These are all reprints from Jeff Zinger. He has an ebay 'buy it now' type auction up for issues #2 - 7. These are pretty hard to ffind nowadays, and I've never seen 7 outside of his auction for the reprints. They are all in mint as opposed to the hard condition some of my copies are in: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1975-1977-56-PG-SET-OF-THE-COMIC-REPORT-FANZINE-DAVE-SIM-GENE-DAY-CEREBUS/293853686088?uPLEV8ZN_LGfv7VSTqk2WWDBt6omk1aweNG_AoCM
I was surprised to see that issue 7 was a regular fanzine size, not the letter size of the other issues.

Margaret Liss: Collection organizing part Fanzine.
Some of the fanzines I have are letter size, so I put them in archival sleeves with a backer board and put them in the three ring binder entitled fanzines.
Some Dave Sim drawings dated 1973.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3567112650022751/
In the first printing Dave’s drawing of Batman is on the back cover.

The original front cover.

Dave’s drawing of Batman made the cover of the second printing of the fanzine. The other drawing didn’t make the reprint.

I wonder if Dave drew the art for this ad.

Colin Sims: Here’s a story, I was at the exchange and found this comic so I bought it like any sane person would. I get home and open it up and see a signature, now I am no professional signature inspector so I can’t tell if it’s printed on there or if it’s actually signed. I assume it’s signed because it’s overlapping the text but not sure. If anyone knows that would be cool
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3567869269947089/

Larry Wooten shares signatures
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3564695493597800/

Christopher Woerner: I got a letter from Dave! And he sent me "Hermann" #1. Yay me!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3570900159644000/

Lee Bentley: Better advice than you'd get from most comic books.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3566096576791025/

Lee Bentley in the comments: As might be evident, I'm doing my own little read-through these days, and it's been my perception that at this point in the series, Dave's expressing some insights that bespeak of an awakening awareness of some larger truths (or "truths" or TRUTHS) and is keen to express them to his readers. I think Po's personality was originally as portrayed in the earlier "Mind Games" issues - comical and irreverent - but at this point Dave "promotes" him in a significant way.

Byron Dunbar: Neil Gaiman puts High Society/Church and State on the same level as Watchmen in terms of how much influence they had on him and how often he rereads them
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3579928172074532/

Larry Wooten: Putting some comics in new bags and boards and noticed Cerebus hanging with the Beavers.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3578215898912426/

Terry Austin expands on his "Squinkeye" parody from Cerebus Jam.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3574390682628281/

Lee Bentley in the comments:
Here's the explanation from Terry Austin:

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Thanks Oliver!

THAT'S RIGHT!!!

I'm leaving on a jetplane, and won't be posting for the rest of the week. 

But I'ma not gonna leave y'all hangin'. I rounded up the usual suspects and got somebody to post everyday next week.

Or not.

I'ma be on vacation, so if they drop the ball, how'm I gonna know?

Next Time: Beats me... boobs?