Mail Call Part 2

Benjamin Hobbs:

Last week I showed off half the contents of the archeological time capsule that is the package Manly Matt Dow sent me in the mail.  This week we'll take a look at the rest of it!

First, he sent 5 trading cards.  There are two copies of his TMNT8 card, and three prototype cards from High Society.  (At least I THINK they're the prototype cards. We last discussed this AGES ago, and I should have confirmed this with Manly before posting this. Maybe he'll let us all know in the comments!)

He also sent me a bunch of flat pennies from Disney World and a VERY fancy protective sleeve that the coins are currently stored in.  I'm not sure if the protective sleeve was meant for the pennies or not.  When the package arrived, the pennies were floating around the envelope, and the sleeve was empty:

He also sent a cut little outfit for Little Baby Hobbs. The tag says 3-6 months old, and Little Baby Hobbs is currently a BIT older than that. But, as Manly stated, mailing things is his Kryptonite:

Finally, he sent a copy of Brer Rabbit.  Matt suggests that it can pay to put Little Baby Hobbs through college one day. I checked on ebay, and this thing only goes for about $12 mint.  My best bet to pay for college off this book will be to forge Manly's signature and sell in on ebay as signed by "The Manly One."  I'll be sure to notify everyone here when that auction is live!

Next Week: Toning Narutabus!

SDoAR 2.44: Final Week of the Cerebus Raffle and an Ashcan Update!

Since today is a slow news day, how about a cool visual update on one of the pages from the Giant-Size Ashcans? Last week we talked about one of the original mockup that Dave Sim did for the continuation of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond...

And that Dave and decided to add new artwork after seeing the amazing remastering done by Philip R. Frey...

Well, here are all the components parts remixed and remastered by the aforementioned Philip R. Frey!

How cool is that?!?

Raffle News!

We are officially down to the FINAL WEEK for our Cerebus raffle with only 12 entries so far. Not bad odds for Cerebus #16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and Gold #0 and...

...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8, The T8 Ashcan Preview book with wraparound Green Foil cover (limited to 120 copies) and ...

... Cerebus/TMNT cards #87 and 88, Comics Journal no. 66 with Cerebus Six Deadly Sin ad within!

So if you ANY interest in helping out the GoFundMe to support Dave Sim continuing his work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond *and* getting a chance to win some cool Cerebus ephemera, why not make a donation today!

Rules to win the October Raffle and Help Out SDoAR

Entries (or our equivalent of raffle tickets) cost $25 each and can be donated via lump sum to the Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024 GoFundMe campaign through Monday, November 11, 2024 at midnight, PST.

I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry and have Dave pull one more Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on November 12, 2024.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $15,442.00 raised to date from 264 donations

• 81 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 27 December 2021

• 102 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages

• $158.00 away from unlocking page 103

• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 102 pages and all pages moving forward

• If you have donated, thank you, but if you want to donate monthly, GoFundMe does not offer that option, so please do so as we are at the beginning of month #11 of Year 2.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 43

The following are links to previous updates that featured pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond hardcover. If you click on the links in order, you can begin to devour the magnum opus that is the Strange Death of Alex Raymond...

This, 

This, this, 

This, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this,

This, this, this, then...

Ciao!

Jen xx

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023 <<-- SDOAR GoFundMe

"OH! er uh Good morning."

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays! ('mIright...)

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From the "Once More WITH Felling!" Department:

Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is BACK with Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent on the Kickstarter:

Ok everyone, I've decided to give Sparky a second chance. This one will be short but sweet: a much lower goal, and just a little over two weeks for funding this time because I don't want to go through another whole month of torture!
If everyone who backed last time backs again, Sparky will easily make it this time. If not, well, perhaps it's time to put the little guy back on hiatus for another 11 years! What do you say?

Click here to rescue Sparky from ignominy! Thanks to everyone who supported last time, and thanks in advance for coming back!

Dave's Variant Sparkybus: The Final Confrontation cover is still in the mix: 

And Dave's 8 page collaboration with Steve will be in the book (even the regular cover version.)

And my team-up with the King:

Damn, if you pass this up, you OBVIOUSLY hate fun...

Get your copies here.

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From the "Where was this Yesterday" Department:

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From the "The-only-bit-from-Jerry-Maguire-anybody-knows..." Department:

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From the "Well, the last time was popular..." Department:

This. Then:

Rigamarole:

If you missed the Legends of Indie Comics Kickstarter, good news:

THERE IS STILL TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE HISTORY! Did you miss out on the LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS: WORDS ONLY Kickstarter campaign? The one that's making history by bringing together some of the most legendary characters and creators of the indie comics era in a book of thrilling prose fiction adventures? Well, this is your lucky day! The LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS project is accepting late pledges, so there's still time for you to leap in, be all historic, and snag some spectacular rewards! Here's the link: http://kck.st/3Y11ZHu

 

Remember, thanks to the stretch goals, the book will include a DYNAMO JOE story, a SOUTHERN KNIGHTS tale, and black-and-white illustrations to accompany every story! And every backer will get a digital copy of the companion book, LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS: HISTORY AND TRIVIA.

 

Don't hesitate to jump in and help us make this book the absolute best it can be...all while scooping up fabulous rewards! JOIN THE LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS! 

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: 35% percent off:

November 6-24, and 40% off November 25-30.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has slapped copies of #1 and #2.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: Jen's gonna show us where the money is. (What?) Sorry, she's gonna do the only bit from When Harry Met Sally that anybody remembers. (My bad.)...

New Dave Art, Old Valentino Art

Hi, Everybody!

Dave sent stuff.

His work on Christon's Cerebus cover sketch:

Click for bigger.

And Dave also sent this:

Rigamarole:

If you missed the Legends of Indie Comics Kickstarter, good news:

THERE IS STILL TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE HISTORY! Did you miss out on the LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS: WORDS ONLY Kickstarter campaign? The one that's making history by bringing together some of the most legendary characters and creators of the indie comics era in a book of thrilling prose fiction adventures? Well, this is your lucky day! The LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS project is accepting late pledges, so there's still time for you to leap in, be all historic, and snag some spectacular rewards! Here's the link: http://kck.st/3Y11ZHu

 

Remember, thanks to the stretch goals, the book will include a DYNAMO JOE story, a SOUTHERN KNIGHTS tale, and black-and-white illustrations to accompany every story! And every backer will get a digital copy of the companion book, LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS: HISTORY AND TRIVIA.

 

Don't hesitate to jump in and help us make this book the absolute best it can be...all while scooping up fabulous rewards! JOIN THE LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS! 

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: 35% percent off:

November 6-24, and 40% off November 25-30.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

_______________

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has slapped copies of #1 and #2.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: The Monday Report.

"Don' menshun it..."

Hi, Everybody!

Well, a few of my friends of the blog are going through the Hard Times, and thinking about their situations has put me in the mood to revisit the Cerebus phonebook that deals with the kind of situations my pals are in: Melmoth.

And I think we all need to know that the Hard Times can and do end, and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how long and dark it may seem...

So, Cerebus: Melmoth...

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: 35% percent off:

November 6-24, and 40% off November 25-30.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

_______________

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has slapped copies of #1 and #2.

_______________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: Dave sent his weekly haul of stuff he wants me to share, so probably that...

Even the Sun does it! (Dave's weekly update #563)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:

The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

I literally thought from the title that this was gonna be Dave singing Cole Porter's hit: Let's Do It. I's wrong...

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: On Wally Wood.
• Sunday: Looking for Cerebus Trading Cards?
• Monday: The Monday Report, and Spatula got strange Cerebus mail what I ain't never seen before...
• Tuesday: Jen lets us know where we are with the Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. $198 until page 103 unlocks. More Cerebus "rarities" being raffled. And Jen runs a Fax Dave sent me that I sent her because it's SDOAR related, and I share...sometimes...
• Wednesday: Hobbs shares...my art. Ben, I could have done that... Anyway, since he don't remember what the Hell(?) the first two drawings were in reference to, you have to look at this 2019 post. Specifically, it's my response to this piece of art Ben sent me:

Click for bigger, if that's your sort of thing...

The dated drawing Hobbs posted was Take 1 (where I thought The Un-Beddable Vark was gonna screw Iguana up the butt. When I shared it with the CiH? team (back in 2019,) Hobbs clarified that The Un-Beddable Vark has an obscenely small penis, and that he was gonna shove Iguana up his own "backdoor". Which meant I had to do:) Take 2 (where Iguana has been colored brown to suggest what horrors he's endured. I still prefer the drawing in Take 1. It's just a better Iguana. C'est la vie...)

• Thursday: Margaret continues looking at pages from the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1, YOU can get your very own BETTER-THAN-MARGARET'S-POSTS-O.-M.-G.-YOU-GUYS-SERIOUSLY copy. See here. And she's *this* close to being almost at the end. Then Dave'll start selling replicas of Albatross #2, and she'll post all the pages from that. Or not...
• Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)

Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: 35% percent off:

November 6-24, and 40% off November 25-30.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

_______________

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has slapped copies of #1 and #2.

_______________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

_______________

Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: CEREBUS! THE AARDVARK!!!