Seventy.

Hi, Everybody!

It's Dave's Birthday!

Birdsong shared this on the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter:

Come Monday, the Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español will be "finito". If you're in Mexico, you can see the exhibition they're putting on:

Likewise, Telesforo and Hilario have mounted an exhibition for this historic event, the exhibition “Discovering Cerebus” in the lobby of the theater of the #ccubuap if you are in Mexico. Discover it until May 22 at @ccubuap from 9:00 hrs - 18:00 hrs, free admission.

BUAP University Cultural Complex

Atlixcáyotl 2299, Atlixcáyotl Territorial Reserve, 72810 Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Pue.

Send pics if you go.

And the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter ends in ten days, and they've discovered that Kickstarter's policy of "unlimited" Add-Ons means a hundred. You can add-on a hundred things. So some of the proofs have been removed, and more Original Art has taken their place. Act now, or live in regret...

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. HE'S added more rewards including more sketch covers which could in turn end up in future issues. That Steve's a genius...

And, while not a Kickstarter, I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch. 

And I didn't send Dave a card, I've been busy.

But here's some of the oldest photos of Dave in the AV Family Photo Album:

Happy Birthday Dave!

Next Time: Mondays!

MORE of Dave's '82 Tour Notes...

Hi, Everybody!

Well, you paid for it:

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If you want Dave to make me make more of these, then go HERE and donate to the Dave Sim 1982 Tour Book Fund. But if you'd rather hear Please Hold For Dave Sim content, same place different button. Donate to the Please Hold For Dave Sim Fund.

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Kickstarters. Come Monday, the Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español will be "finito". If you're in Mexico, you can see the exhibition they're putting on:

Likewise, Telesforo and Hilario have mounted an exhibition for this historic event, the exhibition “Discovering Cerebus” in the lobby of the theater of the #ccubuap if you are in Mexico. Discover it until May 22 at @ccubuap from 9:00 hrs - 18:00 hrs, free admission.

BUAP University Cultural Complex

Atlixcáyotl 2299, Atlixcáyotl Territorial Reserve, 72810 Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Pue.

Send pics if you go.

And the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter ends in ten days, and they've discovered that Kickstarter's policy of "unlimited" Add-Ons means a hundred. You can add-on a hundred things. So some of the proofs have been removed, and more Original Art has taken their place. Act now, or live in regret...

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. HE'S added more rewards including more sketch covers which could in turn end up in future issues. That Steve's a genius...

And, while not a Kickstarter, I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch. 

Next Time: I swear if Dave sends more Audio...

A Carol, by Rudyard Kipling (Dave's weekly update #642)

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

HAHAHA! Nah man, there's a Kickstarter going on! 

So many Kickstarters. Come Monday, the Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español will be "finito". If you're in Mexico, you can see the exhibition they're putting on:

Likewise, Telesforo and Hilario have mounted an exhibition for this historic event, the exhibition “Discovering Cerebus” in the lobby of the theater of the #ccubuap if you are in Mexico. Discover it until May 22 at @ccubuap from 9:00 hrs - 18:00 hrs, free admission.

BUAP University Cultural Complex

Atlixcáyotl 2299, Atlixcáyotl Territorial Reserve, 72810 Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Pue.

Send pics if you go.

And the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter ends in twelve days, and they've discovered that Kickstarter's policy of "unlimited" Add-Ons means a hundred. You can add-on a hundred things. So some of the proofs have been removed, and more Original Art has taken their place. Act now, or live in regret...

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. HE'S added more rewards including more sketch covers which could in turn end up in future issues. That Steve's a genius...

And, while not a Kickstarter, I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch. 

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 Please Hold For Dave Sim 5/2026... (I'm thinking since Dave's sorta changed the format, I might change the name to Please PAY For Dave Sim...) Dave begins his reconstruction of the 1982 Tour Book. And goes over some of his Birthday gifts. AND a walkthrough of the Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español Exhibition with Copyright Infringing Music that means you probably didn't get to see it, so let's try this one:

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• And 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...)
• Sunday: Henrot.
• Monday: The Monday Report, and I clear up a mistake from the Kickstarter about a couple of the '82 Tour prototypes.
• 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, $190 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. Jen *SAYS* she's gonna have an Update next week, but I'll believe it when I see it...
• 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...) And not to be "THAT GUY", but if you're doing a weekly comic strip to (in part) promote your comical bookee, wouldn't you link to the latest Kickstarter that has the newest issue? Especially since that's the only way to get the damn things now that your former distributor has gone "tits up", and therefore Kickstarter is the only way for your fans to get their "fix"? Seems like a dereliction of duty to me... Somebody should write a strongly worded letter to the Editor about this. (I know Birdsong made all these posts months ago, and therefore didn't know WHEN the Kickstarter was gonna be live. So it's not that big a deal... If only this website had an Editor in Chief or something that could handle these things... Maybe if everybody asks Santa for one this Christmas...)
• 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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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off May 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: 

•  That bit from Cerebus #82 (pages 6 and 7) that Gerhard suggested.
• The Last Six Deadly Sins page: Pride (coming soon) (After my birthday, but I won't hold it against you if that's what you wanna get me...)

And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:

• Cerebus #35 page 3 (currently $1,100 bucks)
• And a list of ALL the issues they got (including a slabbed fake #1)

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 MORE '82 Tour Audio, it's like he doesn't WANT me to get out of the apartment...

Notebook 21: Even 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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Guess what is continuing in the notebook? Pages of text for Viktor Davis. We’re getting to some sketches. At some point. Really.

Dave must’ve finished page 176 of his notebook and put it down, for the handwriting style has changed from the prior page. Well, at least at the top of the page. This text is closer to the text that appears in Reads. And this actually shows up on page 161 of Reads, aka Cerebus floppy issue number 182 page 15.

Notebook #21, page 177

Notebook #21, page 178

This next page I found interesting because I find it to be True. Not true, but True. I could more pages like this one. Just like I could read three hundred issues of material like Cerebus #244. Well, maybe not 300, but a novel’s worth. 

Notebook #21, page 179

“Can you stop reading?” Can you?”

And the next page continues this text and going on about how Cerebus would die in issue 185. The crossed out text was 193. 

Notebook #21, page 180

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #41

next: Margaret, of course!

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.

Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español cinco day-os to go-gos

And I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch. 

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 

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

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...

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.

Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español

And I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch, win fun prizes! 

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...

"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...):

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art ends today

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art ditto

Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art Sold for 26K

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.

Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español es bueno!

Next Time: Monday!

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 Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art Ends Sunday!

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art Ends Sunday!

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:

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

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A really good start:

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

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

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Remember, YOU paid for this:

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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!