A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Wednesday, 5 August 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #53

next: Margaret has the words

Notebook 21: Viktor Talking to the 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.

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A quick one this week. Again? Well, we don’t have five pages this week. . .because after these pages are a group of pages with sketches that should be posted together. So we’ll save them for next week. This week? Yes, some more text pages. Lots of texts. And if you didn’t want to read them, just take a look – as it looks like Dave went through them at least twice – came in later with blue pen to mark them up:

Notebook #21, page 226

Yes, Viktor is still rambling on about audiences and storytellers. Though at the top of that page, he does give us the classic line: “. . .stick that up your ass if you don’t like it; stick it up a little further if you do!”

The next page finishes up this section of Viktor’s rambling about audiences and storytellers as Viktor then turns tot the audience and asks the question: “What are you thinking about?”

Notebook #21, page 227

“It was very quiet.”

Tuesday, 4 August 2026

Since Jen is Ashore With Out Leave, glamourpuss #26

Hi, Everybody!

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 on the 17th...

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Jen's "oot" (as the Canadians say), so I'm back filling in... Big Board!:

No changes!

134 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
$21,890.00 raised to date from 414 donations
$110 away from unlocking page 135.
If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 134 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 donate again! All money goes to Dave Sim to continue his work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.

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

Since Jen is on vacation, I'ma have to do this "solo", which means I'ma have to find something around the AMOCave to throw to "the wolves" to get more money for the GoFundMe. So I'm offering up:

An UNREADABLE copy of glamourpuss #10!

A 9.8 SLABBED gp #10. Which, according to the CGC Census is the ONLY copy they've slabbed. So it's the HIGHEST graded copy they've dealt with (also: the lowest...).

AND, I'll include cheap-o printouts of the interior so you CAN read the issue while you stare at your prized collectable...

RULES (gotta have RULES...otherwise it's all Anarchy, and people doing Bossa Nova and the Hokey Pokey and other signs of the Apocalypse...):

$5 per entry. The only money that counts is money donated to the GoFundMe SINCE July 1st, 2026. All that money you've been throwing at Dave via Jen for the past how long won't help you here...
No limit on the number of entries you can have. As long as you remember it's only NEW money that counts. While Dave (and Jen) deeply appreciate all the money you've donated over the years (I don't give an aardvark's taint sweat...), it's just money that comes in NOW that gets you unreadable glamourpuss...
Raffle ends on Labor Day (that's September 7th 2026 for the "calendar challenged"). That gives Everybody! time to donate, and Jen and I time to determine who wins.
International winners might be asked to kick in for shipping (it cost me $43 to ship a VIEWMASTER Reel to Canada... the USPS ain't what it used to be...)
Bonus entries will be made available to the winners of the swimsuit/private interview/talent/health & fitness/evening gown/& on-stage conversation categories. So choose your outfits and performances wisely...
Having read the minutes for the Graft: Boon or Blessing Panel, bribery will NOT be tolerated if it messes up my taxes...
"And remember, your answers must be in the form of a question..."
Margaret, if you win, this counts as both PTO AND year end bonus...
Good luck! (How and Why this is a Rule is a mystery to Everybody!...)

This, then:

Okay, see ya'll Friday! Don't forget the sale tomorrow...

Monday, 3 August 2026

Boxes and boxes and boxes...

Hi, Everybody!

As we do:

Mondays!

I had somebody ask about some of the earlier Monday Reports. I actually have a PDF of all of them. If you're interested in a copy, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

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So Dave sent a note to Birdsong detailing the future of A-V's Kickstarterings:

And the breakdown of the revenues:

Tying into Dave's second post-it note, and the eBay store that's a-comin', Rolly sent me:

Hi Matt,

There are 3 folders inside the Jul 27 scans folder. These folders have photos in them, as Dave wanted to get rid of the Storage Unit because it was costing a lot of $$$$$ each month.

So, I cleaned out the Storage Unit when I had free time over the past month. All the boxes were put down in Dave's basement. We used the black shelving units we had in the storage unit and also used some Subfloor Membrane Panel square plywood tiles by DRICORE for concrete floors that you can buy at Home Depot.

Dave Fisher and I are oranziging the basement to how Sim wants it. As you can see the correspondence boxes are all over Dave's place (wherever he can find space to put them).

All these photos can be posted on the website.

Have an awesome day,
Rolly

The unit as it was emptied: