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Last week we looked at some boring pages from Dave Sim’s 36th notebook. The final notebook used during the creation of Cerebus. I only say boring because the pages were walls of that appeared to be Dave writing down thoughts on the book The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung. A step above the blank pages we had been seeing from this notebook. If you’d like to see the pages of Notebook #36 we’ve seen so far, there is a tag, Notebook #36, that you can click on.
Last week we ended with page #57, the third and supposedly last page for Cerebus #284. Now with page #58 we have the issue box number for Cerebus #285:
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| Notebook #36, page 58 |
And we’re still seeing material talking about Jung. It appears to be discussion about Jung’s thoughts on our shadow selves? The next page of the notebook shows us more of Dave’s notes on Jung.
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| Notebook #36, page 59 |
The phone number at the top left corner of the page is for a hotel in Toronto called the InterContinental Toronto Centre. That hotel may not be as nice as the Ritz-Carlton that is a block or so away, but the InterContinental is right by the Metro Toronto Convention Center so it is less of a walk if you’re going to a convention there. Cerebus #285 has a cover date of December 2002. So too early for the Toronto Comic Con of 2004 when Dave was a guest of honour (along with Will Eisner!).
The rest of the page is Dave taking notes on more of Jung’s writing. The next page of the notebook is more of the same. With a lot of mark-ups:
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| Notebook #36, page 60 |
Well, after buggids of text, how about some tracing paper drawings? I’ve wanted to get this hockey sweater. . .umm. . .Fred Hammer’s Five Bar Gate sweater for some time. Can’t find a blank one anywhere. This tracing paper is a rough sketch for the cover of Cerebus #267:
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| Cerebus #267, tracing paper rough & actual issue for scale |
If you know where I can find one, please let me know in the comments.
And then we have the tracing paper for Cerebus #280 pages #16 and 17. Like the prelim we saw for Cerebus #283 pages 3 and 4, this one goes across two pages:
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| Tracing paper drawing and Cerebus #280 pages 16 and 17 |
There is also another sketch of Cerebus in the top panel. Looks like he is giving the stink eye to Konigsberg. That drawing is from the bottom left panel on page 20 of the same issue. He is listening to Konigsberg talk about YHWH and in the final panel of the issue, Cerebus declares her Yoohwhoo.
Benjamin Hobbs:
David Birdsong has posted two updates on the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter that pertain to CIH? The first:
Hello Backers,
The best news from the last two weeks has been that Alliance Entertainment bought Diamond and they plan to retain as many Diamond employees as possible. That means the Diamond Edition of NARUTOBUS will be in stores in June. I proposed to Eddie Khanna that we solicit for our next issue, The Varkdalorian, to be released in August and the issue after, Possum At Large vs. Super-Cerebus for October and Secret Origins for December. In other words, a bi-monthly schedule.
My proposal for the CANs starting next year is a regular release in March and August (mostly to avoid major holidays). If three CAN campaigns are beyond your reach this year then you can still retain your same CAN number by informing Dave you need a pause. (I shouldn't remind you that the previous CANs are available at a lower price during the campaign for the New CAN, but too late, I did remind you.)
So, our proposal for the remainder of year's Kickstarter campaigns are these two:
The Varkdalorian was the worst culprit with too many covers. The campaign will offer ONE Kickstarter cover and in this case a variant cover as an Add-On. One cover from this campaign was commandeered by "Manly" Matt Dow and will be it's own issue. That leaves one cover dangling and we'll do something with it, but the variant covers come to an end this year.
The Possum At Large vs. Super-Cerebus cover you see is the obvious choice for comic shops, but all three variants will be available as Add-Ons as well as the Raphael Kickstarter cover, but perhaps not as actual comic books that cost you $20. Dave's idea is to print some of the variant covers on backing boards and once bagged they serve the same purpose as the full blown variant cover (unless you are one of those people that actually touches or reads your comics).
Kickstarter covers are being lowered to $20 and will be sold individually. The only bundles will be the current CIH? issue and the current CAN and if bought together the comic cost goes down to $15. If we do indeed go to two regular CAN releases going forward then they may not be so closely tied to CIH? releases.
ALL OF THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, but if all goes well then we can release Cerebus In Hell? as a bi-monthly comic book and two CANs a year on a schedule you can be sure of. You know, like we used to do it.
Opinions are certainly welcome.
David B
The second update features a fax from Dave and a note from David:
If those of you reading this would like future releases from Dave of any kind I would suggest you contact him and let him know.
phone: 1-519-576-0610
fax: 1-519-576-0955
Dave Sim, Aardvark-Vanaheim, PO Box 1674, Station C, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 4R2
Thank you all for supporting the campaign.
David B
Next Week: MORE CIH? FUN!
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Life continues to keep me busy -- I won't bore you with the details until next week, but I am finally setting aside time this week to go through the proof version of the Giant-Sized Ashcan #0 with a fine-tooth comb, so more news on that front, one hopes (again), next week!
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Jen x
Last year I had asked my buddy, who owns a 3D printer to make me a Cerebus ornament. Well, he came thru. Yes, it was several monthes after Christmas but he did finally come thru. He also made me several of the same thing. Since I don't necessarily need multiple of the same thing, I figure the best thing to do is share with someone who may actually appreciate Cerebus as I do. If you are interested at all, I'll send one to you. I need no money. You've MORE than earned it, as I appreciate your work on AMOC.
Christon
I just got this back from CGC, thought I'd share how cool it looks
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After a blank page from Dave Sim’s 36th notebook book last week caused us to look at some preliminary artwork used in Latter Days, we have three pages this week full of text. Dave’s 36th notebook contains materials for Cerebus #265 through Cerebus #300. There were 58 pages scanned and the cover says there were 108 pages in the notebook. Many of the pages were nearly blank – with only a cover issue number box, but those pages were scanned in. Dave put a cover issue box number, leave a blank page, and then put another issue box number. This would give him three pages to work with for that issue of Cerebus.
But not with Cerebus #284’s three pages. And whooo, boy. You thought there were walls of text in Latter Days, well, get ready for the preliminary writings for those walls of text:
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| Notebook #36, page 55 |
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| Notebook #36, page 56 |
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| Notebook #36, page 57 |
Yup, three nearly solid pages of text. It appears to be Dave reading The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung (as he mentions in ‘Notes on Latter Days’, back of the Latter Days phonebook, page 504). And if you haven’t read ‘Notes on Latter Days’, here are Dave’s thoughts on Jung and Freud’s writings:
“It was interesting to read Jung’s theories only insofar as I found them to be just as obscure, jargon-rich and devoid of content as Freud’s, equally unfound on anything remotely resembling scientific proof albeit skewed, as I found them to be, in a different and more mystical direction.”
So where in Cerebus #284 does any of the above text make it into the story? The final page of that issue: page 20, aka page 380 of Latter Days, in Konigsberg’s journal. My eyes are getting too old to read all that tiny text and do a gap analysis between the notebook pages and that page of Cerebus #284.
To make up for that, here is a piece of 9” x 12” tracing paper with a preliminary sketch of Konigsberg in his jester’s outfit when he is playing the fool:
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| Maine's I Scream ruler & Prelim art front |
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| Back of preliminary art |
Yes, there is pencil on both sides of the paper, so it was probably used on the artwork for Cerebus - as Dave would draw on the tracing paper, then flip it over so the pencil was on the Bristol art board he used for Cerebus artwork, and then use another pencil to transfer the drawing onto the artboard. This appears to be for page 3 of Cerebus #282, aka page 323 of the Latter Days phonebook:
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| Cerebus #282, page 3 top panel |
