Friday, 17 April 2026

The Book of Habakkuk (Dave's weekly update #638)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):
Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art (I wonder if Gerhard has the last page? I bet he'd sell it to you if you offered him enough money...)

Anyway, 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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Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

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

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Cleaning out the Inbox...
  • Sunday: I was busy working, and working on:
  • Monday: The newest Off-White House Bulletin.
  • Tuesday: Since Jen did the First show, she has two more lined up, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$140 until page 130 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. And TWENTY-ONE pages of SDOAR drawn by Dave are in CONSIGNED, Living the Line's next Kickstarter
  • Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. This one is written by Dave. 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,  issue #180!
  • 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.

If we're doing Please Hold next month (see Monday above) Dave is giving Everybody! an option: He'll either work on Please Hold for May, or his notes on the '82 Tour Book. YOU can decide which he does by donating at CerebusDownloads. There are two buttons, if you want Please Hold, donate with the button labeled as such. If you want the '82 Tour Book, donate with the button labeled that. And if you want both, donate to both. (Dave never said what he'd do if there was a tie...) '82 is currently winning, so if you have a question, send it in to momentofcerebus@gmail.com AND throw a couple of bucks Dave's way by clicking the "Please Hold For Dave Sim" button. Or else it's '82 for you...
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I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...

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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 April 22-26.*
*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: 
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: Dave sent audio, Off-White House Bulletin?

Thursday, 16 April 2026

Notebook 21: Cerebus #180 & Cirin’s Left Armpit

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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A bunch of revelations from Astoria which were left out of Reads but were in Dave’s 21st notebook was what we looked at last week. Not quite a wall of text, but close. So when I flipped the page and saw what we have up next, I’m surprised I hadn’t shown these pages before:

Notebook 21st, page 163

The circled numbers are the page numbers. So these are some preliminary layouts for Cerebus #180 pages 4 through 6 (click on any of the pictures to see them bigger):

Cerebus #180, pages 4 – 6

Page six is a bit different then the final pages, but pages four and five are pretty close. The next page of the notebook has another circled 6, another try at the layout for the page, but now it looks closer to page 7 of Cerebus #180, but it also has Cirin craking Cerebus when he does go to look at her arm pit:

Notebook 21st, page 164

Cerebus #180, pages 7 – 8  

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #37



COMING SOON:
CAN 13: Going Home
(featuring the complete Cerebus #232)

NINJA HIGH SCHOOL / CEREBUS
ISSUES 2 & 3

CEREBUS IN HELL?
#87 Cerebus In Jail?
#88 The Pun Issuer

Tracing Paper Drawings, Greeting Cards, Comic Book Proofs & More
(all the old stuff has been discounted more than ever!)


next: Margaret

Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Since Jen is deep in rehearsals (again!), glamourpuss 12: who owns who?

Hi, Everybody!

So Jen's BACK working on her show Woman in the Arena. Which is her reenacting that Star Trek episode as a one woman show where she performs all the parts...


Anyway, the next performance is May 4-5, 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
"...a fortune in precious stones, and I'd give it all up for a hand phaser...or even a sharp stick...
Anyway, if you listened to the April Please Hold whatever that was, you know Dave dropped some knowledge. As I posted on the Cerebus Facebook group:
Since December of 2022, Dave Sim has drawn and finished pages 555 through 702 of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond. Sean and Carson published pages 1-205 through Living the Line's hardcover version of SDOAR (with Carson's 30 page epilogue). Pages 587-593 were included in issue #68 of Yeet Presents (Mike Jones might still have copies available...) And page 604 was a Bonus Print on CAN12. Pages 206-554 exist as mock-ups you can get from Jen's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023, and her plan (with Philip R. Frey) is to produce print ashcans of those mock-ups. Dave has gone back and produced new finished art for a few of those pages, but he's mostly focused on moving forward (His actual "tagline" is: "Either Dave Sim finishes The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, or The Strange Death of Alex Raymond will finish Dave Sim...")

Sean and Living the Line have 21 pages in their Consigned anthology (Currently being Kickstartered: https://www.kickstarter.com/.../consigned-a-living-the... ), which pages did Sean (who gets the scans of all the pages from Dave) pick?

Why not back the project and find out Spunky?

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Man...ly:

$21,060.00 raised to date from 393 donations
129 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
$140.00 away from unlocking page 130
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 

no Note from the Senior SDOAR Remaster...master, Philip Fry. 
"Gee Mr. Jameson, my aunt's sick and I was wondering if I could get an advance..."
No dice Fry. Bring me pictures of Spider-Man...

So, This.

Then:




Jeff's dead, so don't email him. And Dave doesn't have phone or fax anymore.


Obviously this deal is expired...
Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en EspaƱol (I know it's in a language you might not read, but it'll be highly collectable if they only do this one Kickstarter... Plus, you aren't a REAL Spawn completist if you don't have a copy of EVERY variant...)

Living the Line's next Kickstarter with 21 pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. Now with Archival Cerebus related offerings.

The Tyrant Kickstarter.

Next Time: Cerebus in Hell?

Monday, 13 April 2026

Off-White House Bulletin 4/9/2026

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays!

Dave sent a new Off-White House Bulletin:

And I asked Eddie about the..."contest"(?), "competition"(?), "deal"(?)... between Please Hold and the '82 Tour Book, one of which Dave will be discussing next month. YOU can decide which by donating to one of them buy clicking here, which will take you to CerebusDownloads, where you can click the button either labeled "Please Hold for Dave Sim" or "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book"  and donate to whichever (or both, no one can stop you) you want Dave to talk about next month. I'm making the videos either way...

Anyway, he said:

ANNDDDD….THEY’RE OFF! RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, PLEASE-HOLD-FOR-DAVE-SIM AND TOUR-DIARY ’82 ARE BOTH LOOKING STRONG!  STARTING DONATION BY MATT DOW SPLIT EQUALLY PUTS THEM NECK AND NECK! COMING ROUND THE FIRST BEND, AND WE HAVE ANOTHER EQUAL DONATION! REPEAT! ANOTHER EQUALLY SPLIT DONATION FOR $10 BY A DONOR! YOU CAN FEEL THE EXCITEMENT BUZZING IN THE AIR HERE AT THE KITCHENER RACE TRACK! 


BOTH HORSES ON EVEN FOOTING NOW, KEEPING THE PACE AND YOU CAN SEE THE RIDERS TAKING EACH OTHER’S MEASURE, FOCUSSING ON...WE HAVE A $50 DONATION FOR ’82 TOUR DIARY!! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ’82 HAS PULLED AWAY AND TAKEN THE LEAD!  PLEASE-HOLD IS FALLING BEHIND AS ’82 NOW GAINS THE ADVANTAGE! 


BUT WHAT’S THIS? A $28 DONATION FOR PLEASE-HOLD! FOLLOWED BY A $10 DONATION FOR PLEASE-HOLD! NEVER IN MY 5 MINUTES OF RACE-TRACK ANNOUNCING HAVE I WITNESSED SUCH SPIRIT, SUCH ATHLETICISM, SUCH GRACE, SUCH ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HUMAN (OR AARDVARKIAN) SPIRIT!! WILL PLEASE-HOLD BE ABLE TO CATCH-UP IN TIME BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST SESSION? THE CROWD IS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS!


COMING ROUND THE BEND NOW, ’82 TOUR DIARY STILL IN THE LEAD BUT PLEASE-HOLD TRYING HARD TO CATCH UP, AS BOTH HORSES ARE LOCKED INTO THEIR STEADY GALLOPS IN A RACE THAT COULD GO EITHER… A $5 DONATION FOR ’82!! JUST AS IT CROSSES THE FIRST HURDLE!

THAT’S $62(CDN) FOR TOUR-DIARY ’82 AND $45(CDN) FOR PLEASE-HOLD AT THE FIRST INTERMISSION!!


LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE’LL BE BACK FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THIS EXCITING RACE AFTER A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: DIGIACOMO LUGGAGE: “WHEN YOU CAN’T TELL IF YOU’RE COMING OR GOING, MAKE SURE YOU DO IT IN STYLE...”

Well, it could go either way, kinda depends on you guys and gals...

So, go to the Downloads and back the horse you wanna hear/see win. 

And if you're a "Please Holder", Dave has all the questions I sent for April, so if that was you, he has them, but anybody else can get in on this by sending in your questions to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. And backing the Please Hold horse, or else you're just pissing in the wind...
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Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And the Tyrant Kickstarter! 

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

Next Time: Jen's living the High Life, I'm down here doing all the dirty work...

Saturday, 11 April 2026

Dave sent stuff.

Hi, Everybody!

Things Dave sent:

If you're interested in helping out.

And Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith sent Dave:



James didn't send Dave Dave, it's just a picture of Dave...

And James, being an awesome friend to the Blog, found a guy who posted the "Not Comics" bits of issues 1-50 online. The same guy has a version of the Miscellany, and the portfolios.

Enjoy!

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Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And the Tyrant Kickstarter! Ends in six days.

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

Next Time: I'm thinking...Aardvark...

Friday, 10 April 2026

Humble origins of the direct market (Dave's weekly update #637)

Hi, Everybody!

THIS:
Click for bigger...

SOLD on the eBays for $2,552.00CAD ($1844.71USD), haven't heard when the next page is going up, so probably after I post this. You can check for yourself.

Anyway, like it says on the Logo:
That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:

You can get a copy direct from the printer here. (At a price cheaper than Amazon...)
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Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And the Tyrant Kickstarter! Ends in six days.

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

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

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Not NOT Please Hold For Dave Sim 4/2026. So Dave is giving Everybody! an option: He'll either work on Please Hold for May, or his notes on the '82 Tour Book. YOU can decide which he does by donating at CerebusDownloads. There are two buttons, if you want Please Hold, donate with the button labeled as such. If you want the '82 Tour Book, donate with the button labeled that. And if you want both, donate to both. (Dave never said what he'd do if there was a tie...)
  • Sunday: that Untitled Jam between Dave and Chester Brown
  • Monday: Fluroc!
  • Tuesday: Since Jen did the First show, she has two more lined up, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$90 until page 129 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. And TWENTY-ONE pages of SDOAR drawn by Dave are in CONSIGNED, Living the Line's next Kickstarter
  • Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. This one is written by Dave. 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,  issue #179!
  • 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 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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I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...
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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 since Dave's not "on deck", they have a new project Kickstartering soon.
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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 April 10-12 and 22-26.*
*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: 
  • Fantasy Quarterly #1 (Slabbed)
  • Cerebus #1 (Slabbed in a 8.0 grade. None of those words me $#!* to me...)
  • Coming around the 20th, 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 the cover Art to issue #39 (with the Moon Roach.)
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: I got something with an Aardvark on it around here somewhere...