Thursday, 25 June 2026

Notebook 21: Viktor Ponders Creator, Creation, and Audience

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

~*~~~*~

Yes, more pages of text. Surprise surprise, this is the notebook for Reads. The next couple of notebook posts will be ‘quick’ ones. You gets what you gets. And I gots one of those books coming. Thanks for the find Boss Man!

Anyhoo, the pages for this week:

Notebook #21, page 201

Notebook #21, page 202

Notebook #21, page 203


Wednesday, 24 June 2026

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #47




next: Margaret Knows Best

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

SDOAR GoFundMe: Jen, Making Progress! Manly Matt, What a Guy!

Progress! Look at Jen make progress!!!
  • Ian Kirson's Silverspoon page - MAILED on Friday is en route to Florida, by way of Colorado?!? Don't ask me, it's USPS.
  • John Mosher's Silverspoon page - PACKAGED and should be mailed on Wednesday now that the rains in NYC have come to an end. Please note that living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan means Jen has to walk to the Post Office. Uphill. Both ways! And refer to herself in the third person.
  • Chris Hill's Silverspoon page - PACKAGED. Ditto.
  • John Vera's Silverspoon Page - PACKAGED. Ditto.
  • The final raffle winner was none other than our very own Manly Matt Dow who has decided to allow someone else to take home the final Silverspoon page!
  • All together, now!
  • That final Silverspoon strip, is literally the oversized, The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom yellowing newsprint page below:

  • What to do? What to do, indeed! 
  • I could select a name from the remaining 13 folks who previously donated or ...
  • ... open up donation for another week and and select from the previous folks and the new donors, especially since there have been zero donation for the past two weeks!
  • Thoughts? Anyone? Bueller?
So yeah, the 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.
Next up for Jen:
  • 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 this. Then (from Manly Matt. What a guy!):

Jen x

Monday, 22 June 2026

If I'm using a vintage View-Master to look at forty+ year old photos, is it really Retro?

Hi, Everybody!

Did ya get the $25 sale?
10AM to 2PM Eastern time. Set an alarm.

Go nuts! Next one is...the Fourth of July.
________________
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...

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...)

Speaking of 1982, I got my "retroviewer" reels:

The first thing is that instead of a series of seven photos in a cardboard sleeve, it's a solid translucent piece of plastic.

You can see my kid through the Aardvark...

Overall, it's better than a vintage reel, and I can see looking through the AV Family Photo Album for another seven photos and doing more in the future (Moondance Comics and the first meeting with Eastman and Laird. Creators Rights Summit. UK Tours. Spirits of Independence. There's A LOT of photos in the album... (NO Mags, I'm not doing a "Connie Lingus" reel just for you.) (I sent you all the photos, you can make your own damn reels. I'm NOT your slave Liss!).)

Anyway, if you saw the pics and are interested in getting a reel for yourself, the deal is:

So, if you've gotten this far and "WANT!", lemme know by sending a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. 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...

And Dave's  auctioning these:

Next Time: Jen has a post in the kitty awaiting me glamourpussin' it up...

Sunday, 21 June 2026

"Well... at least--I say-- at least we're in a safe location..."

TO! MORROW!

All 300 (not really) Issues of Cerebus are for sale digitally at CerebusDownloads.com for Twenty-Five CANADIAN Dollars.

Sale starts at 10am and ends at 2pm Eastern Time.

Act fast, or pay $49 CAD next month...
____________________

The laughably named "2019 ReRead":
Issue #1: First, then, then, then. Issue #2: Then, then, then, then. Issue #3: Then, then, then. Passage (in part. I REALLY need to get a decent version of Passage up here one of these days...). Issue #4: Then. Issue #5: Then, then, then. Demonhorn. Issue #6: Then, then, then. Issue #7: Then, then, then. Issue #8: Then, then, then. Issue #9: Then, then, then. Issue 10: Then, then, then. Issue #11: Then, then, then, then. Issue 12: Then, then, then. Magiking. Issue 13: Then, then, then. Silverspoon. Issue 14: Then, then. Issue 15: Then, then.  Issue 16: Then, then. Issue 17: Then, then. Issue 18: Then, then. Issue 19: Then, then. Issue 20: Then, then. What Happened Between Issues Twenty & Twenty-One. Issue 21: Then.

And then:









______________
Dave's  auctioning these:
Get 'em while they're hot!

Next Time: Mondays!

Saturday, 20 June 2026

"The TOUGH part is finding someone GULLIBLE enough to work at it for six months..."

Hi, Everybody!

The laughably named "2019 ReRead":
Issue #1: First, then, then, then. Issue #2: Then, then, then, then. Issue #3: Then, then, then. Passage (in part. I REALLY need to get a decent version of Passage up here one of these days...). Issue #4: Then. Issue #5: Then, then, then. Demonhorn. Issue #6: Then, then, then. Issue #7: Then, then, then. Issue #8: Then, then, then. Issue #9: Then, then, then. Issue 10: Then, then, then. Issue #11: Then, then, then, then. Issue 12: Then, then, thenMagiking. Issue 13: Then, then, then. Silverspoon. Issue 14: Then, then. Issue 15: Then, then.  Issue 16: Then, then. Issue 17: Then, then. Issue 18: Then, then. Issue 19: Then, then. Issue 20: Then, then. What Happened Between Issues Twenty & Twenty-One.

And then:










Next Time: More old Cerebus?

Friday, 19 June 2026

The Book of Haggai (Dave's weekly update #647)

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:

____________
Please Hold VS '82 Tour book. As of last night, no change from last week,
I guess the '82 brigade has run out of cash...

As 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...) 
_______
The last Kickstarter is to the printing/backing/and shipping stage. You might wanna log in to Kickstarter and review that your address is correct (and will stay correct for the next month or so while the packages are "in transit"). And maybe verify that your payment went through, and that you ARE getting something. 

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

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Photos from forty-three years ago...
  • Sunday: I found something of which I was previously unaware from thirty-two years ago...
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and I took a request, and worked on an idea for the '82 Tour Book, and maybe something else...
  • Tuesday: Jen did Fry's job. And she posted to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, $100 until page 133 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. 
  • Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. I think 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 also 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, Viktor Davis makes coffee...
  • 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.
__________________________
I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...
______________
I had these made:

Twenty bucks USD gets you a set. momentofcerebus@gmail.com.
______________

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 June 19-22.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99 CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

On sale for $25 on the 22nd:
Next $49 day is next month.
_______________
Heritage has: 
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".
_______________
Next Time: Dave sent some stuff, but unless something else comes down the line, old Cerebus pages...