Thursday, 19 March 2026

Notebook 21: Agreements and Illustrations

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’re continuing our look at Dave Sim’s 21st notebook used during the creation of Cerebus #164 to 187. We’ll be looking at this notebook, which there were 260 out of 300 pages scanned, until we’ve seen every single page of it. Well, the pages scanned. If you want to see all of the notebook #21 posts to date, just use the Notebook 21 tag

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For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at piles and piles of snow. Umm. No, that was me. And the snow from the Blizzard of ’26 melted finally. Well, the stuff in my front lawn did. There are still piles around  town nearly one month later after several rain storms and days of unseasonably warm weather. 

But no, for the last few weeks we’ve been looking at pages with piles and piles of words. So many words. So many. But today. Today we have mention of illustrations and a small bit of text:

Notebook #21, page 145

The page numbers circle do indeed correspond to page numbers in Cerebus #175 which have illustrations. Page 15 also has an illustration as well. Then with page 16 it switches to the comic narrative with Po, Cirin, Cerebus, and Astoria. 

The text states:

These amendments had been made necessary when a number of authors and illustrators had determined that contracts with Vertigo Horse licsenscees liscensors had been signed which covered in reprints and translations which were not covered in their original agreements.

And while the next page doesn’t have a wall of text. . .it really would’ve been better with some?

Notebook #21, page 146

If you are looking for some more text, you can look at pages 147 through 149 which we covered in Dialogue from Reads.

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #33

 



next: Margaret



Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Since Jen is nervously forgetting "that" bit glamourpuss 8: The end of glamourpuss #2

Hi, Everybody!

Life Hack: Don't hire a thespian to do blog posts for you...
"film at 11..."

Anyway, Jen's off living the High Life, so I'm back having to "do" Tuesdays until she comes back. IF she comes back... Speaking of which, I received:
Note from the Interim Head of SDOAR Division
"And then...um...'line'?!?"
You'll be fine Jen, it's just a week away...

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Man...ly:

$20,600.00 raised to date from 385 donations
127 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 22 Feb 2022, or 2/22/22 for all the numerologists
$200.00 away from unlocking page 128
If you have not donated, a $5+ donation grants you access to all 126 pages and all unlocked pages moving forward >> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
GoFundMe now offers automated monthly donations!
>> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023/donate?source=btn_donate 

During this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave said he had completed page 697 of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond on February 26th. So by next month he should have page 700 done. I'm hoping I can get him to send me a scan, so that I can share it with all you beautiful peoples...

No Note from the Senior SDOAR Remaster...master, Philip Fry this week, he better be getting me some Spider-Man pictures:
Geez Philip...Are you even TRYING?!? Those are COCKROACHES!

So, This.

Then:








Monday, 16 March 2026

Cerebus Archive (the comic) #4 (part 1)

Hi, Everybody!

Cleaning up some stuff in the AMOCave, I found I  have a digital copy of Cerebus Archive #4:








I'll post the rest next this weekend...

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Like the logo? I stole it...








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Dave's on eBay:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127720633262 Dave Sim VARKDALORIAN - LONE VARK AND CUB (#1) Signed 3/5 (#14/26) 9.8 SCARCE
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335
Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427
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And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
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Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
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Up to 35% off March 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
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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: glamourpuss.

Sunday, 15 March 2026

Well, I guess this post is 90% superfluous?

Hi, Everybody!

Well crap.

I WAS gonna post some more "missing" Cerebus Miscellany stories to get 'em all in the "Hey Kids! Comics!" section over on the right somewhere, when I discovered I had already posted them, and just didn't get 'em on the list. 

So if you wanna read all of this:

The links are in there now. But in case your "Matt" lazy:
Added bonus, the only (as far as I know) Jam for Cerebus Jam #2 (which never came out, this appeared in the back of Cerebus #91):

Wow.

I just saved you three bucks on eBay...

Speaking of, Dave's got a guy selling stuff for him on eBay:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127720633262 Dave Sim VARKDALORIAN - LONE VARK AND CUB (#1) Signed 3/5 (#14/26) 9.8 SCARCE
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335
Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427

Anyway, in his notes on the stories, Dave said that Scott and Bo Hampton's page six to their Jam (The Defense of Fort Columbia) would be in the next issue of Cerebus the Newsletter. As I don't have those (yes, the guy who got suckered into running A Moment of Cerebus doesn't have a complete collection of all the Cerebus-related ephemera... What do ya want? I wasn't gifted a collection of all things Cerebus when I took this job, I was given the log in here and for the AMOC twitter account. And a rapidly fading "Good Luck" as Tim W. ran away like his tail was on fire and his ass was catching...) (what I DO have is a Margaret. And Margaret has ALL the ephemera. So, if enough people ask her, maybe she'll grace me with a halfway decent scan, and I'll do a post 'bout it in the future...), I can't show you guys. 

Anyway, there's a Moment?
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Like the logo? I stole it...








______________
______________
And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
______________
The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
____________
Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
____________
Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
______________
Up to 35% off March 15, and 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
_______________
Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
_______________
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: Maybe I'll get my long post done...

Saturday, 14 March 2026

Cerebus: The Morning After

 

"The Morning After"
by Dave Sim, Joe Rubenstein, and Mike Higgins
(First published in Swords of Cerebus Vol 2, 1981
Reprinted in The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book 
Reprinted again in NOT The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book)

And Dave's notes from Swords Vol 2:


And Dave's notes from The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book:

And Dave's notes from NOT The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book:

Friday, 13 March 2026

The whole Megillah (Dave's weekly update #633)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:
That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
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Dave's eBay Auctions:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127720633262 Dave Sim VARKDALORIAN - LONE VARK AND CUB (#1) Signed 3/5 (#14/26) 9.8 SCARCE
New ones start at 8PM tonight:
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335

Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061

Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427

"What about them Minds pages of Original Art Dave wants auctioned?!?"

Well Imaginary-AMOC-Reader-who-what-lives-rent-free-in-my-head, they aren't up yet because there's a...complication
(That one's for you Seiler (RIP)...)

Basically, I-A-R-W-W-L-L-R-F-I-M-H, it's like this:

I MIGHT have a work-around to bypass the complications, but I gotta get other people on board with the work-around, including Dave, and that means explaining to all parties how it'd work. And if you haven't been payin' attention, doing AMOC damn near daily for all these years has rotted my brain just enough that I done don't talk to good no more, so we'll see what happens...*fingers crossed*

GOOD NEWS is that THIS is happening which means:

That's right, CAN13: Going Home is "on deck" for when the Spanish Cerebus #1/Spawn #10 Kickstarter campaign is finished. CAN13 will be paired with Cerebus in Jail? (unless I missed something, and doing this all these years has rotted the ol' brainmeats enough that I done don't read two good no more either...so I might be inadvertently talkin' out my ass again too... (Ain't I just the best newsman on the Internet?).)

Hey! And speaking of the Kickstarters, our buddy and Cerebus Remaster-er Master, Sean Robinson shared with moi (that's French for "me". (See, this shit IS educational!)):
March Movement and More Manageable Momentum!

Friends,

After a more quiet period, a lot is happening at once.

HIDE AND SEEK (Naono Yoshiko, Smudge Vol. 7) and THE RABAGOO RACE (Garresh) are both at the printer and shipping to us next week — preorders will go out the week after. If you've been waiting: almost there.

FACE MEAT and HER FRANKENSTEIN are being reprinted simultaneously and will also ship from the printer this week. Both back in stock.

The COMPLETE CHARLES DANA GIBSON V1 is ALMOST at CRWN! Orders will open (no preorders this time!) as soon as CRWN has the book in their inventory system and ready to go. It's a beaut!

And then there's this...
CONSIGNED
Earlier this year, a major comics distributor decided to solve their bankruptcy problems by stealing a bunch of our books. We put the fight in paper form.

CONSIGNED is a huge full-color art anthology featuring nearly the entire Living the Line family — and it launches on Kickstarter next week.

Who's in it? #checks notes#. Virtually everyone we've ever published. Which is a feat I'm quite proud of in and of itself!

This is a Kickstarter exclusive. It will not be available through any other distributor. (You will understand why.)

Get the jump on our Kickstarter at our pre-launch page!

More details next week. We're glad you're here.
Sean
Living the Line
I don't know if Dave will be in it, but I bet Carson will be (see above re: "me talkin' out ma ass...".)

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"...
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Please Hold For Dave Sim 3/2026. Part of the never-ending-what-the-hell-did-I-agree-to-ness of all this is that pretty much as soon as I finish all the @#&*ING work to get one of these Please Holds done it's time to start over for the next month's. So, if you gotta question, or comment, or whatever, you should probably send it to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by...I dunno Monday(?), yeah, Monday. So I can wrangle everything into a (please Jebus, pretty pretty please, oh Lord save me, not another FORTY page) Faux and send it to Studio Comix Press to print for Rolly to give to Dave, so Dave can record (please Jebus, pretty pretty pretty please, oh Lord save me, not another SEVENTEEN) audio files that he'll give to Rolly to email to me so I can spend (please Jebus, pretty pretty pretty PRETTY PLEASE, oh Lord SAVE me, not another FIVE DAYS!!!)...time...whipping everything into something that is (please Jebus, pretty pretty pretty please oh please oh please, oh Lord save me...) coherent "content"
and get everything on YouTube and FUCKSpotify. Oh, and I have to draw a strip (because the ol' rotted brainmeats have decreed that I need to make a strip every month or else...I don't even know any-damn-more...something "bad", I guess...) So, yeah...momentofcerebus@gmail.com by Monday, or else you go up in May (ya know Dave's Birthday is in May, right? You're really gonna make a SEVENTY-Year Old try to remember trivia from fifty years ago? That's SADISTIC!)
  • Sunday: It came from Dave...
  • Monday: The Monday Report is on Hiatus for Ramadan, so so is the transcripts to Please Hold For Dave Sim.
  • Tuesday: Since Jen is in rehearsals, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$70 until page 127 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. Anyway, I'ma post ALL of glamourpuss over the next how many weeks. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. 
  • Wednesday: The NEW Cerebus in Hell? issue: Cerebus in Jail, ends. MORE Weekly Strips continue next week. Follow along on Instagram. And https://www.ebay.com/itm/236664955396 (Somebody was looking for the Vardalorian...)
  • Thursday: Margaret has posted ALL of Albatross One. (If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here.) And all of The Last Notebook. Now she's gonna burn through all of Notebook #21. So sit back and get ready for pages and pages and pages of walls of handwritten text... This week,  more from Reads that isn't in Reads!
  • 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 last week on AMOC. You're welcome. I do this out of stubborn pigheadedness/pride/ because I'm not too bright for free, but if you got a couple of bucks (I don't know how that's possible, given the links to neat stuff in this post, but Hey! I've been wrong before and will probably be so again (real soon)...), and wanna leave Dave a "tip", there's these "donate to the Dave Sim Fund" buttons somewhere on CerebusDownloads.com (I didn't lay out that place, and I didn't have nothin' to do with the latest redesign, so don't come at me if you have troubles over there...), and you can give Dave all the money you care too. (There's also links there that will help you buy all the stuff...) Did I mention Dave turns seventy in May?
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Like the logo? I stole it...








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And, coming in February, who knows. Who. Knows. The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch). They've been sharing updates on the Instagram

And Tyrant. Don't forget Tyrant. Sean's remastering it. I've been sending sketches and jams I find. I should look through the Spirits stops in the AV Family Photo Album...
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And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
______________
The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
____________
Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
____________
Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
______________
Up to 35% off March 13-15, and 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
_______________
Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
_______________
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: Well, I'm working on this long post, but probably something shorter, because I deserve a break...