CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #46

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SDOAR Update for June 16, 2026: "I Want Photos of Spider-Man!"

Manly Matt sez ...

Right away!!!

Oh wait, was that a metaphor for my SDOAR post?

In that case, zero donations in the past week, meaning GoFundMe remains at ...

• $100.00 away from unlocking the next page
• 132 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
• $21,5000.00 raised to date from 407 donations
• If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 132 pages and all future unlocked pages. Donate once or set up monthly donations here > https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
• If you have donated, why not consider donating again! All money goes to Dave Sim for him to continue work on and hopefully complete The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.

With that out of the way, how is Jen doing on her hit list? 

• The first raffle page winner, Ian Kirson, has confirmed his page and address and his package will be on the way later this week.
• The second raffle winner has been emailed and once I hear back with which page, I will continue onto raffle winner no. 3, no. 4 and no. 5. 
• Reminder that the available Silverspoon strips, literally from the pages of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom are:

Next up:

• Continue mailing out the BGCF pages to raffle winners
• Update the GoFundMe main page.
• Follow up with Dave on all SDOAR progress.
• Review open questions for Giant-Size Ashcans and see if I can get answers, and get us rolling on our next proof!

And now -- this. Then:

BONUS!

Zombie:

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

Jen x

I'm doing requests now?

 Hi, Everybody!

Monday (June 22th, that's a week from now...): $25 sale:

10AM to 2PM Eastern time. Set an alarm.

Go nuts! 
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As we do:

Mondays! 

I had somebody ask about some of the earlier Monday Reports. I actually have a PDF of the first 238 Reports (I'm going to make a new version with the first 250, and start a second for the rest up until #500 (if Dave gets that far...).) If you're interested in a copy, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

And since I'm taking requests (apparently), somebody asked 'bout if I was putting this on Merch

Yes, yes I am. It's on sale because I just uploaded it, AND because:

Up to 35% off June 15-22.*

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

I think it might be 40% off, I'm not sure anymore (they email me A LOT...)

So, go nuts-er.

I dunno if I'm gonna upload the Infernal Comic Con logo ones:

I didn't even bother to revamp the preview images with the correct logo...

Dave didn't seem to like the idea, and less work for me is better. Soooo much better...

Alright. What else can I whip up here so I can get away from the computer and touch grass or something?

As you all should know by now (if you check A Moment of Cerebus more than once a month "to see if it's gotten good again..." (SPOLIER WARNING: it hasn't.).), Dave's CONTINUING the Please PAY For Dave Sim format. If you want more '82 Tour Book discussion, go HERE, and pay for "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book". But if you'd rather hear more stereotypical Please Hold (*shudder*) "content", go HERE and pay for "Please Hold For Dave Sim". Either way, I have to amuse myself in the Editing Suite assembling these things... (wanna find out how many of these I already own? Then you're gonna wanna pay for more '82...)

So, I've been "working" on my pitch for "The X-Men Digression" of Dave's version of the 1982 Tour book. Dave has been talking about eight pages of the X-Men movie posters for the movies based on Chris Claremont's X-Men books. (I reject that premise, Claremont was the writer for sixteen years. He took over the regular book when it stopped being reprints. While he may not have written Giant Size X-Men #1 that introduced the new team, he scripted their adventures for the next decade and a half. So, while he may not have created, say, Storm, he was the guy who added all the bits that made Storm into...well, Storm. Which means any X-Men movie based on any X-Men comic has a better than 50% chance of being influenced by Claremont. That's my take...) My suggestion (that I'm still working on, so this is VERY much W.I.P,) is two two page spreads that form a four page spread if you line up two copies of the book (a mini Mind Game). Here's where I'm at (so the page BEFORE this is a full bleed color photo of Deni and Chris. Then you flip the page and see):

If you couldn't tell, there's a big X.

I still need to throw the screengrabs of Claremont form the three X-Men films he was in, and character posters of the actors who portrayed the various X-Men characters Claremont either created or developed. But this is where I stopped.

I might try and get this:

on there, if I can find the room. (Although I feel Dave won't want it in the "Deni Section"...)

Okay, there HAD to have been a Moment in there somewhere...

Next Time: Jen. Good gods I hope it's Jen...

The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart of The World by Harlan Ellison

Hi, Everybody!

I know I promised Cerebus, but Friend to the Blog, MJ Sewall shared something on Facebook that sent me down a Dave-related rabbit hole, so you get that.

Especially, since, to quote the late Johnny Carson: "I did not know that."

What he shared was a post of Harlan Ellison's Author bios from a number of his books that are increasingly unhinged. But ONE of them caught my eye:

"Title logo by Dave Sim"? What the fuq?!?

A simple google search turned up this. (Don't worry, I scraped the images from the link, you don't have to click if you're feeling lazy...)

Click for bigger

That's Dave's lettering alright...

It's from this edition of the book:

When I shared the initial image to the Cerebus Facebook group, Margaret commented: "It was only used on a limited edition hardcover. One that is so hard to find and when you do it is priced out of my range for such a thing that I don't own a copy of it. . .makes me hope Dave has a copy for the archive"

Well, I found three copies.

Bezos suck machine (#411 of 500), which showed the actual cover of the hardback

Abebooks (#404 of 500) has the dustjacket. And is cheaper then Bezos...

Pangobooks (#453 of 500) has the dustjacket, and is even cheaper than Abe...

They're still $75 at the cheapest. But now I have a new rare book to look for when I'm out and about. If you see a copy, I'd snag it if you can afford it...

There's my rabbit hole for the day. (No idea if Dave ever mentioned doing this in the front/back of the comic. Margaret would know... HEY! Maybe there's a sketch in a Notebook! You should ask her 'bout that...)

Next Time: Mondays!

Aardvark Flashback: Deni and Dave @ Marvel comics October, 5th 1982

Hi, Everybody!

My kid needed some pictures printed, so I decided to get two sets of Birdsong's color corrected versions of Deni and Dave's photos of their visit to the Marvel/EPIC offices on October 5th, 1982:

So, here they are with Dave's '82 Tour notes on the visit (from the Waverly Press version of the tour book):

Dave Sim, Mary Jo Duffy, Archie Goodwin

Mary Jo Duffy

The Marvel "Bullpen" (more on this directly)

Louise "Weezy" Simonsen (nee Jones) (More on this pic in a bit)

Denny O'Neil and Dave

Archie Goodwin, Dave Sim, Mary Jo Duffy, and (possibly) Michael Hobson.

Deni Sim and Chris Claremont

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Now, I said we'd get back to this pic:

See that art on the wall by the blue dictionary?

It's either the original art, or a photocopy of the original art to the cover of New Mutants #1

Neat, huh?

There was one other photo from the Marvel visit:

It's a comic strip of some kind.

I did a Google Image search which yielded:

Folks, it's not.

It's this strip:

From FOOM #14, 1976

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Now, if you cut out the bad photo of the comic strip, there are SEVEN photos from Deni & Dave's Marvel '82 visit.

By an odd coincidence, I was hit with a targeted ad for custom ViewMaster-style photo  reels. They hold seven photos per reel...

So I ordered three reels (it was buy two get one free)

I'm keeping one (hey! I PAID for the damn things...), I'm sending one up to Dave, and the third one goes to Margaret (if you make Cerebus stuff and don't make a copy for her, the Angels cry...)

BUT, I can always order more. The pricing gets a little cheaper as you order more reels:

They don't really run the numbers well in this one,

So, if you've gotten this far and "WANT!", lemme know. If we hit high enough numbers, the price will get real cheap, but I'll still have to pay to ship them. I'll find out how expensive that is when I mail Margaret hers (domestic), and Dave his (international).

If the Waverly Press version had hit Kickstarter, I feel like this would have been something they would have done.

SPEAKING of my friends at the Waverly Press, they're moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

Next Time: Cerebus.