A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Saturday, 31 October 2026

A bag of Halloween treats!

Hi, Everybody!

Friend to the Blog, Gary Boyarski, shared on his Facebook:

It's been a long wait.

My apologies to any readers who have been anticipating the next chapter in my story of Jack Grimm, Harbinger of Death.

As a single creator, working on this book by myself, I let it go completely off the track. Life got busy, and life got hard. I'm not making any excuses, but in all honesty my days are right full, holding down a full time nightshift job and looking after my family's needs. My wife suffers from various disabilities and as such many of the duties that would be taken up equally in a two parent home fall on my shoulders. The little time I do find myself with, to work on comics often has been spent recovering from basic burnout. There's just no gas left in the tank.

Last year, I had finished 90% of a second Jack Grimm Halloween Special, and was planning to have a Kickstarter to fund the printing but I just ran out of time. This year was no different. You think you have all the time, until you don't. Halloween like every thing else, just came too quickly.

So here we are another year without a new Special, and what, three years since the last published issue of Jack Grimm? This year marks the 10th Anniversary and I wanted to do something special for that as well, but I just don't have the energy for it.

But it's been too long and damned if I'm going to give up trying. It's Halloween and you all deserve some new Jack Grimm comics!

So here we go! In its raw, unedited form, a special 10 page story I called... GRAVEYARD SHIFT!

Enjoy, and have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Thanks Gary!

Uh...Matt? Where's the Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard connection? I mean it was a neat comic, but how does this tie into A Moment of Cerebus?

Ah, Imaginary-AMOC-Reader-Who-Lives-Rent-Free-In-My-Head, how soon you forget. Dave once did a pin-up/cover for Gary:

Click for biggerness

And then Gerhard "finished" it:

Ditto...

I mean, it became a bit of a thing, and maybe I shouldn't be bringing it up, but it's Halloween fer cryin' out loud...

You can get a whole coffin full of goodness here.

Next Time: Daylight Savings Time, so my post will be at least an hour later...

Friday, 30 October 2026

Cerebus @ 50 Teaser (Dave's weekly update #666)

Hi, Everybody!

Anyway, like it says on the Logo:

That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

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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". 9/10 video done, 9/26 is loaded and being worked on... Dave's "finished" with his notes, and is waiting to see a revised prototype (that I have to make...), so while I'm sure the buttons are there, and that Dave'd appreciate the money, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip, so there's no more notes to be had...

But I'll send up anything I get for Please Hold For Dave Sim you wanna send to momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The past Week in AMOC:

Saturday: Speaking of Cerebus@50, I preview CAN17
Sunday: Dave has a response to MJ Sewall
Monday: The Monday Report, and more Cerebus
Tuesday: The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe post.
Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. Follow along on Instagram. Please fill out your Kickstarter surveys.
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. Then she did all of Notebook #21. And next is Notebook #29. Here she gets you pre-gamed with what already has been posted.
Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things. Have been for longer than I care to think about...)

Okay, so that was the last week on AMOC.

So next month is the fifteenth anniversary of Tim founding A Moment of Cerebus, preceded by the ninth anniversary of my beginning to ruin the place.

Which means it's time for an "AMOC Birthday Contest"!

Break out the crayons, and draw a birthday card for AMOC, and email it to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by November seventh.

I'll take a look at all the entries, and pick a winner for a fabulous prize pack from the ol' AMOC Prize Box. (Depending on the number of entries, there may be a first runner-up, second runner-up, and Miss Congeniality.)

Use whatever artistic tools or media you want, all I ask is NO AI. It's beneath you.

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I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...

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I have lots and lots of Cerebus crap in the ol' AMOC Prize Box(es). Someday soon, I'll have to have a virtual yard sale... (More details in ~~September~~ ~~October~~ November(?).) (I might just open an AMOC webstore...)

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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.

http://www.dougcomicworld.com/

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off November someteenth.*

*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...) On sale all the damn time, like for $49 on November 14th, and December 19th. And for $25 on November 30th, and December 26th (Happy Boxing Day!) all from 10AM to 2PM Eastern time. I'm telling you now, because I always forget to give the $49 sale a boost. (And honestly, I think it being a big secret is kinda pointless if you're trying to make some monies...)

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Heritage has:

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

And a list of ALL the issues they got.

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". I think I got a message that one of these isn't valid anymore, but I lost it...

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Next Time: It's Halloween, so "spooky" Cerebus?

Thursday, 29 October 2026

Notebook 29: Cerebus #240 - 250

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.

Time for another notebook to go page by page over. The notebook covers – yes, you guessed it – Cerebus #240 through 250. We’ve seen pages from Dave’s 29^th notebook already, and since I haven’t created a tag to tag all these posts yet, here they are:

Meeting F. Stop (Jan 2017): Front cover, page 3
Another Nearly Finished Page from Cerebus #240 (May 2021): p. 5
Fall And The River (Sept 2014): page 6, 15
They're On a Boat (Jun 2020): p. 7
Making a Stew (Sept 2020): p. 8
Nearly Finished Page from Cerebus #240 (Sept 2020): p. 9
Perfect Strangers Vs Pleasures Simple Life (Dec 2021): p. 10
Yes, It's Another Page from Cerebus #240 (May 2021): p. 12
Cerebus #240 Page 13 in Notebook Form (Nov 2021): p. 13
Cerebus #240 Page 14 in Notebook Form (Dec 2021): p. 14
Closing Like a Gate (May 2018): page 31
Winky, Blinky, and Noddy (Jan 20): p. 44
Going Home page 330 (Sept 2016): p. 45
She Has Her Palnu Face On (Feb 20): p. 46
Form & Void Shooting Script (July 2014): page 47, 51, 55
The Destruction of Iest (Nov 2015): page 96, 156
Dreams Part Deux (Nov 2015): page 157, 158
They Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors (Sept 2015): page 208, 209
They Brought Back Ektachrome (Jan 20): p. 210
We Haven't Got A Boat (Jan 20): p. 211

I left this note in one of those posts:

The notebook started out as a 300 page notebook broken up into three sections, and only 150 pages were scanned: section 1 had 63 pages scanned, section 2 had 65 pages scanned, and section 3 had 22 pages scanned. There were only 11 pages missing, and the rest were blank.

Before I renumbered the notebooks so all notebooks were called ‘notebook’ instead of Albatross, this notebook was #26, which is why some of the post before say notebook #26. No, I’m not going to redo the old posts.

So onto page one of the notebook which we haven’t seen yet ‘cause well, take a look:

Notebook 29, page #1

Well, page 169 of Going Home is the ‘title page’ for ‘book two’, but it doesn’t say book two. It just says Fall and the River, and the word ‘river’ is hand drawn. The next page is just as. . .entertaining:

Notebook 29, page #2

And yes, this appears on page 170 of Going Home. Word for word, though the formatting is different.

Next week: more from notebook #29. It does get better – look at the above posts if you can’t wait.

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #65

TRADING FOR BEATRICE 9 OF 16

next: Margaret will be along directly...

Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Double your pleasure, double your fun, or glamourpuss part #36

Hi, Everybody!

The vote for Choose Your Own "Jen"venture (Chapter the first, Chapter the second, Chapter the third, Chapter the fourth & Chapter the fifth) has stayed the same...at two. So no CONSIGNED The Strange Death of Alex Raymond pages this week, as a reminder:

So, here's the deal. Sean had TWENTY-FOUR SDOAR pages in CONSIGNED (not 21 like he said he was gonna have...). I'ma run three of them today. For every TWENTY-FIVE people who vote for the next chapter of Choose Your Own "Jen"venture (and not anonymously, ya gotta give me a name...even a fake one...), I'll post another page until all twenty-four are posted.

Better luck next time...

I'm putting the "Jen"venture "on hold" until November. I got a lot of stuff going on, and I don't have the time for this kinda thing currently... Go ahead and re-read all the parts and makes your choice...

If you want to seek immediate shelter, comment "Hide".
If you'd rather lay there and let the universe have it's way with you, comment "Toto".

I'll wait.

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Anyway, Big Board:

137 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
$22,395.00 raised to date from 436 donations
$95 away from unlocking page 138.
If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 136 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

The raffle continues...

An UNREADABLE copy of glamourpuss #10!

ALL GoFundMe donations of $5, between July 1st, and Halloween (October 31st) gets you in the pot. Every $5 is another entry. On All Hallow's Eve, I'll pick another number, and Jen'll tell me Margaret won again and I'll ~~cry like a bitch~~ turn her in as a witch and collect six dollars from the magistrate. And declare a different winner. I'm sure this won't piss off anybody. (Should have just let me pick #102 Jen...)

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This, then:

Told ya I'd make it up to ya...

Next Time: More of this sort of thing...

Monday, 26 October 2026

" 'EY OPPA ONNA ROOF!"

Hi, Everybody!

As we do:

Mondays!

And so Everybody! is all caught up:

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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Let us continue with the Increasingly-misnamed-"2019 Cerebus Re-Read":

Cerebus Volume 1: Cerebus #1-#25 (including the Swords shorts that take place in-between issues)