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 last saw Dave Sim’s 13th notebook in November of 2019 in What Could You Do Forever? The notebook covers Cerebus #112 / 113 and “Jaka’s Story Overall Map”. With 80 pages scanned of the 100 pages the notebook originally started out with, it does cover bits and pieces of Jaka’s Story. Like page 82 of the notebook, which shows layouts for not only page 9 of Cerebus #114, but small thumbnails for Cerebus #114:
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| Notebook #13, page 82 |
Page 9 changes a bit from the finished page. The notebook page is a bit of Cerebus #114 pages 9 and 11, aka Jaka's Story pages 19 and 21, as Rick gives up and comes back dressed expecting Jaka to lighten up. However, in the finished page 9, Rick doesn’t listen to Jaka when she tells him to put some clothes on and he playfully teases her about the kiss she gave him, which results in the look be given. Rick still gets the look, it is just a matter of what is irritating Jaka.
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| Cerebus #114 page 9 and page layout from the notebook |
The little thumbnails on the right side of the page do match the layouts of the actual pages. From the opening page ‘prologue’ to the pages that have the text on them to the two panels of art on those text pages.
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