Hi, Everybody!
Even though his phone and fax aren't working, that doesn't stop Dave from making me post stuff on his behalf...
INCOMING!
Dave said Monday that he didn't care about this, and things keep happening with Diamond (I've decided until I hear from Dave what HE hears is happening, I'm not reading anything anybody posts on the Internet about any of this...) I don't think Diamond was in arrears to Aardvark-Vanaheim for any money, so Dave really doesn't care until it is "Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss" time. But he sent it, so if maybe you're a creator who needs their ka-ching from Geppi & Co.:
Which leads to the "Back-up Plan" (one of my favorite gags from the Flying Kkaramazov Brothers was when they were doing a flaming juggling trick and they said, "Don't worry, we have a Back-up Plan. Everybody BACK UP!") and Dave's notes/thoughts:
Enough business, let's talk Art:
In a follow up to the last Please Hold:
And since the next CAN (#12 for those of you playing at home...) is a'comin':
OFF-WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN. 8 May 25
519-576-0610 LAND LINE and FAX LINE are FRIED. PERMANENTLY?
Stay tuned.
AMOC
BIRDSONG
c/o Rolly
CAN 12/VARKDALORIAN (projected June launch)
subject line: From
Dave Sim re: CAN 12
1) Hello, CAN 11 Backers! We’re going to be trying something different
this time to accomodate those of you who are in some form of financial distress
(only a handful in February but this is May which is, like, a thousand years
later in 2025 terms):
Everyone who participated in the last Kickstarter is going to get everything on CAN 12/Varkdalorian ahead of time in digital form for free. The Digital Package will be offered for $20 on the Kickstarter to everyone else
2) Varkdalorian
[CAN 12] and Possum-At-Large vs. Super-Cerebus
[CAN 13] are both written by
Chad Lambert. Rather than trying to explain Chad Lambert I got Rolly to scan his Kill Me & Other Curiosities and this will be e-mailed to you as soon as I make sure
that this isn’t a Tragic Luddite Mistake that’s going to make anyone go
ballistic. Always a danger with we Tragic Luddites (:
Chad won two Harvey Awards in 2015 for “Breaking Out” (Best Single Issue
or Short Story) and “Kill Me” (Promising New Talent), both of which appear
here.
So him doing two Cerebus in
Hell? comics is kind of a
big deal. And this seemed like the
easiest way to explain it.
3) I’m hoping Chad has a deal with Dark Horse where he can buy copies of Kill Me at a discount so he can offer them autographed on the
Kickstarter. Basically wait and see how
many Backers want them and then order that many, get Chad to sign them and ship
them to Rolly to include in your packages or ship them directly from Chad’s
home Somewhere In Ohio if that makes more sense
4). As I said, Chad is the writer which means if all of the artists also
sign
- Tom Williams
- Christine Larsen
- K CZAP
- Apri Kusbiantoro
that would be a) really cool b) possibly a logistical nightmare (depending
on where they all are).
Fallback position: KILL ME THE
BACKING BOARD with space for everyone to sign
Which is why this is the first thing you’re hearing about CAN 12 VARKDALORIAN because this is
the one that has logistic nightmare written all over it.
5). Please
a) don’t share your digital KILL ME with others since it’s just a personal
FYI for you and definitely borderline illegal even if it’s copyright Chad
Lambert and Chad is (hopefully) cool with this.
b) do buy a copy from your local comic shop if they have a DIA order code
for it and autographs aren’t really your thing.
It just came out in December 2024 which is i) a thousand years ago and
ii) recent enough it should theoretically work.
NEXT: The CAN 12 side of this which
should be easy-peasy (famous last words)
I haven't heard if that phase of the project is "GO!" If I hear anything, I'll let y'all know...
Dave continued a few days later (my philosophy now is: wait until somebody questions if I posted it/they do something first. That way it is never possibly my fault when things go wrong. As I frequently say, "I didn't do it, unless it had to get done, in which case I did it twice.")
Would have been nice if Dave had had that page sent to me...
Ya know...I have a short box FULL of Vark Wars and Walt's Empire Strikes Back that my wife has stopped acknowledging as existing, that has some of them lower #ed Walt's Empire issues (I'd have to look which ones.) (Vark Wars was BEFORE they started numbering the print run on the covers.) I COULD grab a bunch and sign them and send them to Dave to sign so you could get a copy with two of the...eight(?) creators signatures on there. I also have a couple of the hardcover Swords of Cerebus in Hell? collections (volumes 8 & 10 that have the Vark Wars issues in them) I could sign and sketch in and send to Dave to use as add-ons or Postcard prizes. I guess I have to find a box...
Anyway if you made it this far, Original Dave Art time (click for bigger):
Sans notes:
I THINK that's everything from the past 8 days...
Rigamarole:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has launched his latest campaign:
Comicverse #6. He's got all sorts of neat stuff on offer, some of it from previous campaigns, meaning "
there's Dave Art in them there add-ons!" I dunno, click around and see what he's offering. The campaign has met it's goal, but he followed KickStarter's advice and lowballed that. So more money would mean he doesn't lose money on the deal.
I'm selling bootleg Cerebus trading cards featuring my art, coloring by Hobbs, and unused art of MY characters by Dave. $10 a set for 11 cards plus TWO HANDDRAWN cards (by me). Email
momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll explain how to pay.
The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs
Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney
Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...
Our very own Jen DiGiacomo is part of a film production titled The Day Elvis Died. She'll never ask anybody here, but they're
crowdfunding to finish the post production on the movie. (It's set in 1977, will a certain obscure Canadian cartoon aardvark make a cameo? (No. Elvis died in August. Cerebus wasn't published until December. Any appearance in the flick would be an anachronism that would ruin the movie for everybody. EVERYBODY!).)
The current thinking is that CAN12/The Varkdalorian will launch in June. Dave has ideas, more on this as I figure out what the hell Sim is planning...
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Up to 35% off May 21-26.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
One of those is the Mother's Day Sale. Show Mom you care with a T-Shirt of the comic she doesn't understand why you like so much...
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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at
CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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- Nothing. But there are THREE pages of original art coming soon...
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Next Time: Well that WAS everything except the Monday Report, but I'm saving that for tomorrow...
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