Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Since Jen "Took Manhattan", glamourpuss 15: Letting down Alex Raymond (who, spoiler warning: has been dead for nigh on seventy years...)

Hi, Everybody!

Hype! Hype! Plugola! Hype!
The CAN13/Ninja High School Cerebus #2&3/Cerebus in Hell? numbers 87 (Cerebus in Jail?) and 88 (The Pun Issuer Groan Zone)/CAN29(sorta) Kickstarter.
Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.

She came. She saw. She performed like a dancing monkey...
So Jen did Woman in the Arena shows One & Two last week, and therefore has "taken Manhattan" like the human Muppet she is...
Like the guy on the bottom right, but...ya know, more "Jen" shaped...

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
"Listen Frog, you tell that walking porkchop that if she thinks she's getting the big dressing room, she's gonna get a starring role at the delicatessen on the next block. Capisce?" 
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 (probably more since I first wrote this...) 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...")

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Man...ly:

$21,210.00 raised to date from 399 donations
130 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
$190.00 away from unlocking page 131
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. 

Something about meeting his girlfriend on the George Washington Bridge... And his best friend's dad? I dunno. I dunna care...

So, This.

Then:






Next Time: Not me, Not me, Not me, Me, Me, Quasi-Not me, More of this...
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Monday, 11 May 2026

Mistakes were made...(82 Tour CAN Kickstarter Edition)

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays! 
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There are people who enjoy this:
the poor bastards...
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Over on the Kickstarter, Dave offered up prototypes of the '82 Tour Book. He had six of them (this should set off alarm bells for anybody who's been paying attention to the '82 debacle), three of version "A", and three of version "B" (seriously, five alarm "what the f*ck?!?" bells.) They all sold in less than five minutes...

Now, Birdsong (who we love dearly, don't take this as an attack on him, he's just one man doing the Herculean job of trying to A: make Dave money by B: doing what Dave wants while C: being constrained by Reality and How Things Actually WORK.), who DOESN'T have physical copies of the '82 Tour Book, and only sees what I show you guys 'round 'ere, he thought this was six copies of the 232 page big ol' Monster that Dave's been discussing at the payment of you fine people.

It was/is not.

It's three copies of the "A" prototype and three of the "B" prototype.

This is the 52 page "cheaper" version that the Waverly Press was going to offer on their planned Kickstarter as a more reasonably priced option for the "budget" consumer.

As I (thought I) explained, the differences between the "A" prototype and the "B" prototype are:

Different logos in the corner box. "A" has a diamond, "B" has an upside down Marvel M as a Waverly W. And if you "get" what this is referencing/parodying, you need to make an appointment for a colonoscopy...

The back covers are different. "A" has the mock-up of the Tour poster, "B" has the actual Tour poster.

"A" is laid out to look like a mock-up of Dave's Tour Diary (bottom), "B" is a more polished look (top).

Both have Deni's introduction, both have Dave's Tour Diary, both have a selection of Deni's Tour photographs.

NEITHER is: 232 pages long; has vintage 1982 interviews; has text from Tour associated individuals like Bill Sienkiewicz, Maggie Thompson, Chuck Rozanski, and Diana Schutz; and other fun stuff that Dave's gonna take a hatchet to in his version... (do I sound bitter? I'm not bitter. YOU'RE bitter.) AND there's no way on God's green Earth that Dave got six copies of it...

Sorry.

Any confusion is entirely the fault of... (gee, who can we pin this on? I mean I'M not taking the fall on this one... Jen? Can we blame Jen? She's been busy and therefore distracted... Mags? ALWAYS a good scapegoat in Mags. She has so much goodwill built up in Cerebus fandom I think she could kill a guy and be immediately forgiven... Hobbs? Nobody's heard from Hobbs in months... Sean? He's remastering Latter Days as we speak, PLUS he's working on Tyrant and that Consigned book. We CAN'T pin this on Sean... Rolly? Rolly's too pure to be the fall guy... We're not blaming Birdsong, it's not his fault that he didn't get a good description of what was on offer... I know! It's ALL) Jeff Seiler fault! 

Fuckin' Seiler...

Ahem:

Sorry for the confusion, if you pledged for one of these and want it removed, message Birdsong on the Kickstarter...

Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.



Dave haD things on Heritage. These were 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 Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art Sold for $11,000 ($13,750 with Buyers Premium)
Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art Sold for $16,000 ($20,000 with Buyer's Premium)
Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art Sold for $26,000 ($32,500 with the BP)
So, lemme do the math...carry the bum... FIFTY-THREE GRAND!?! I'M THE CAT!

So I guess I can ask him for that three hundred bucks he owes me for pen nibs, nu?

Next Time: I explain how JEN fucked up...
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Sunday, 10 May 2026

"You wanted them to hang to her KNEES..."

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: Then (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: Then. 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: Then. Issue 13: Then, then, then. Silverspoon: Then. Issue 14: Then, then. Issue 15: Then, then.  Issue 16: Then, then. Issue 17: Then, then. Issue 18: Then, then. Issue 19: Then,

And then:









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I'm BEGGING ya, please help a brudda out...

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...):

The CAN13/Ninja High School Cerebus #2&3/Cerebus in Hell? numbers 87 (Cerebus in Jail?) and 88 (The Pun Issuer Groan Zone)/CAN29(sorta) Kickstarter.

Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.


Next Time: Monday!

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Saturday, 9 May 2026

In October of '82, I was three, and didn't Hold nothin'!

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 Ended. Sold for $26,000 ($32,500 with buyer's premium...)

Dave sent things: 
The Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español had an Art Show...down in Mexico:

And Dave's 70th Birthday Spectacular is off to a good start:

A really good start:

An Update-ish on the newest CAN/CiH? Kickstarter :

And then since you guys would rather I relive the repressed memories of my childhood...:

And we're doing the "pay for Play" again for next month. If we're doing Please Hold next month Dave is giving Everybody! an option: He'll either work on Please Hold for May June, 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...) 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 MORE '82 for you...
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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.

Next Time: Cerebus! This is supposed to be A Moment of CEREBUS damnit!
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Friday, 8 May 2026

An Astrologer's Song, by Kipling (Dave's weekly update #641)

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...):


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

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

Well, it's been a week, and we's all now updated, right?

HAHAHA! Nah man, there's a Kickstarter going on! They's got Tracing Papers, and Stretch Goals, and CAN29 (I mean, if you think about it, each CAN is the EARLIEST Ten pages of a given phonebook in the Cerebus Archive. This is CAN13, so it's the first ten pages of Going Home, which is the first ten pages of Cerebus #232. But you can get the SECOND ten pages from the same issue, which (if Dave were to continue the CAN sequencing after CAN16, with the second set of the ten earliest pages from the Cerebus volume as CAN17) (something that isn't guaranteed, but I'm on a roll, so shut up and go with it...) would mean the second half of Issue #232 would be CAN29. (And the second set of issue #220 that was offered with CAN12 would be CAN28...) Anyway, like I said, there's all sorts of neat stuff in the Kickstarter. 
Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.

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

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: I'm begging for the moneys. 
  • Sunday: Geet-a.
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and the Transcript to Please Hold 10/2023 AND the Crazy Sale.
  • Tuesday: Since Jen was doing the next two shows, I'm back posting on Tuesdays... Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, $200 until page 131 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: 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,  More Viktor Davis!
  • 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.
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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 May 8-10, and 19-25.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

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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...)
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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 a bunch of Audio, so I'm heading to the Editing Suite...send pizza.
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Thursday, 7 May 2026

Notebook 21: Reads More From Viktor Davis

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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Last week we saw some pages that showed us some unused Viktor Davis material that were pretty different than the finished text pieces in Cerebus #181. Today we get more – YES MORE! – Viktor Davis text pieces. But before you start reading about Viktor’s views on  relationships, go back to the the Viktor Davis Notes on Reads post to read the bottom third of page 172, because page 173 picks up from it.

And yes, as always with these notebook posts, you can click on the images to see the page much larger.

Notebook #21, page 173

Notebook #21, page 174

Yes, there is more. You're getting four pages today so we can get through walls of text quicker. 

Notebook #21, page 175

Oh,  yes. There is more. . .

Notebook #21, page 176

Don’t worry, there will probably be more “walls of text” coming up. I mean it is for Reads. . .Yes, there are some more sketches. . .some of which are pretty. . .adult in nature. And if you’ve read this far, congrats, as I don’t know if anyone is ‘cause y’all aren’t leaving comments. The first three people who comment and then send me an email at Cerebusfangirl@Cerebusfangirl.com will get a special small envelope full of Cerebus goodies from Liss Lair, yes, send me you mailing address when you email me or else I can’t get you some goodies. If there is something you’re looking for, sure you can ask, but I might not have an extra. For certain you’re not getting my duplicate Cerebus #1. But perhaps there is other items. And I have stuff you probably haven’t even thought of. Bwahahahahaha! No Tundis, I’m not sending you my Cerebus pewter sculpture. I only have the one. 

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Wednesday, 6 May 2026

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #40




next: Margaret

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Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Since it's "Show Time", glamourpuss 14: Nightingale Style!

Hi, Everybody!

Hype! Hype! Plugola! Hype!
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...):

The CAN13/Ninja High School Cerebus #2&3/Cerebus in Hell? numbers 87 (Cerebus in Jail?) and 88 (The Pun Issuer Groan Zone)/CAN29(sorta) Kickstarter.

Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.



It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights:
So Jen did the "good" version of Woman in the Arena LAST night (with the talk afterwards), she's doing the "as good as the other version, no really honestly! We just don't do the talk after. It's the SAME SHOW! (Matt is such an asshole...)" version of Woman in the Arena tonight (Break a leg Jen!)

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
"Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously. And Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses. As Moses supposes his toeses to be" 
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...")

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Man...ly:

$21,200.00 raised to date from 398 donations
130 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 131
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. 

I think he forgot he freelances here...

So, This.

Then:







Next Time: Cerebus. Hell?. It's Wednesday...
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