A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Sunday, 19 July 2026

"Cerebus can hardly wait..."

Hi, Everybody!

I finished resizing all the pages of the Cerebus volume for the laughably named "2019 ReRead":

Issue #1: First, then, then, then. Issue #2: Then, then, then, then. Issue #3: Then, then, then. Passage (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. 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. Issue 13: Then, then, then. Silverspoon. Issue 14: Then, then. Issue 15: Then, then. Issue 16: Then, then. Issue 17: Then, then. Issue 18: Then, then. Issue 19: Then, then. Issue 20: Then, then. What Happened Between Issues Twenty & Twenty-One. Issue 21: Then, then. Issue 22: Then, then. Issue 23: Then, then. Issue 24: Then, then. Issue 25: Then, then.

Panel 6: Cerebus says "me". A rare late slip...

You can read what REALLY happened here...

So...did we EVER get a straight answer from Dave on if Katrina was Jaka's sister, or what?

Again, a less colorful version off the story is here.

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Friend to the Blog James Banderas-Smith has launched a Kickstarter for the Seventh issue of Papa Balloon and Cactus (his Ninth issue overall).

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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 for $49 on the July 20th That's tomorrow...:

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My friends at the Waverly Press, are moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

I believe that most of the '82 Tour stuff has sold.

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Shane Foulds sent in:

Matt! I hope all is well with you. In case you or any of the SDCC attending AMOCers are interested, while the Eisner awards are Friday night, apparently the HOF ceremonies are held Friday morning (details below). Thanks as always, -Shane

Send pics/vids if you go!

Next Time: Mondays!

Saturday, 18 July 2026

Please Hold For '82 Tour Notes July 9th, 2026

Hi, Everybody!

Well I done knuckled down and edited the hours of audio into video with Dave's latest on the '82 Tour Book. As you all should know by now 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~~ fight ADHA brain and focus on getting these things done...

The latest from Eddie for the July round for August is:

So, Audio (for the poor bastards who like searching for the visuals (you people are *SICK*, ya know that, right?)...):

Videos (that I slaved over for you don't even begin to realize how long...)
Part 1:

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Part 2:

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Part 3:

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Part 4:

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Part 5:

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Matt's Notes:

So, I kept getting hit with "violations" for using authentic 1982 music in the intros for these things. I decided to revisit the robot factory and have the 'bots write a jingle. It was commented that somebody misses the clip of Benny the Bouncer I used as the intro to Please Hold For Dave Sim, well, since these things AREN'T Please Hold For DAVE SIM, I'm using the new-special-world-killing-skynet-lovin' music for '82 tour "product". Benny will be back as soon as PHFDS returns.

But speaking of the robot tunes, somebody asked about the lyrics. Part of them (a very small part, like two lines...) is AI generated. The rest comes from filler text The Waverly Press used in an earlier version of the Tour Book, that was written sometime in the past by Dave:

I edited out the Cerebus Archive (comic series bits, "Hi. Are you Harry?"), and added the chorus (which I wrote most of, after getting a few lines from the robot.). To wit:

[Verse 1]
To say that it was unusual for him to be cleaning a closet is to understate the case dramatically. Only in the most extreme circumstances of love lost, botched or mislaid did the nest cleaning urge strike. At these times, the debris of his past become the most immediate casualty. Like a paleontologist gone mad, the strata of directionless existence were stripped from their resting places, examined, and, more often than not discarded with varying degrees of vehemence. Letters, pictures, notes, phone numbers scribbled on matchbooks, a q-tip covered in sparkle paint (don't ask). Several years worth of trinkets and stuff and nonsense. A cathartic release as elemental as elimination. Layer by layer, 'til the subjects became as remote as faintly-remembered characters in last year's best-seller.
At the bottom of the pile, a cloth-covered hardbound book. A diary covering a four week period in the last year of his marriage.
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[Chorus]
Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Vintage memories and photos too
I’m flipping through the maps and notes
Twenty-five cities visited by these two

Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Wait why is there a lengthy digression on Chris Claremont?
Why are there pages and pages of wedding photos?
I guess we'll see what Dave wants?

[Verse 2]
He didn't reed the diary, just sat turning it over in his hands, riffling the pages of closely spaced scribbling. The diary had been his parent's idea. They kept diaries of Major Vacations like their Trip to England. So you won't Forget and can Relive it. Typically, he thought of it in commercial terms. A tour book filled with sketches and photos, a piece of comic book history. The tour book tried on several formats like ill-fitting clothes before being abandoned to some future day.

[Chorus]
Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Vintage memories and photos too
I’m flipping through the maps and notes
Finding old sketches as you do

Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Everybody looks like it's the seventies still
Lots of beige. LOTS of Beige
Stair too hard and you'll get ill.

[Verse 3]
The marriage had receded into those compartments of his mind reserved for periods of his life that could be encapsulated under a single title; Public School, Senior Public School, High School, The Unemployed Drop-out. "I was married for five years Barump-bump.
and they were the happiest three years of my life".
He didn't have to reed the diary to know that it would re-open several cans of worms. The fans loved the commentaries in his reprint volumes. Although they were self-serving, not well thought-out, and, consequently, embarrassing for him to re-reed, they were popular.
He would get Karen to type up the diary and then decide what to do with it.

[Chorus]
Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Vintage memories and photos too
I’m flipping through the maps and notes
And all the vintage interviews

Dave Sim’s Nineteen Eighty-Two Tour Book
Editing these things and finding fonts
Remastered photographs colored correct
I guess we'll see what Dave wants?

[Verse 4]
IN hard type it was interesting. There were a few confidants who red the typeset copy. They enjoyed it. There was something missing. Having the text typeset that quickly was a dead giveaway. This was not all it. Something was definitely missing. Until it could be located, the typeset pages disappeared into the bottom drawer of Karen's file cabinet.

[Synth solo]

[Verse 5]
Sara-bus was the name of the magazine. Her sister and brother provided the Aardvark and Vanaheim of the publishing company's name. When they realized that "Sir-ber-us" had been misspelled, he ad-libbed that Sara-bus was the name of the Aardvark mascot cartoon. Sara-bus the aardvark. It had a nice ring to it.

The 'bots have a hard time with homophones (It'll read read as read.) Hence the phonetic spellings. (Cerebus usually goes ok, but Cerberus was a nightmare...) I tried like a dozen versions before I hit on one that didn't have a ton of cyber-weirdness. Part 5 has the chorus only version I did when I was trying to get a shorter version.

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The article Eddie sent. (It's crap. It's total clickbait crap. And I had to save the photos so I could send them to Dave, THEN reformat them so the video editing software would accept them. TOTAL. CRAP.)

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I found a couple of New Mutants Demon Bear originals on Heritage (including the one Dave wanted.)

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Progress on my X-Men four page mock-up (Not Birdsong's, although I'll probably send it to him to make pretty...) continues. I just need to find character posters from the movies.

And then do it again for the Batman section when Dave realizes that the photo of him with Denny O'Neil means mentioning the BILLIONS that Batman has made at the box office. Yay.

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Friend to the Blog James Banderas-Smith has launched a Kickstarter for the Seventh issue of Papa Balloon and Cactus (his Ninth issue overall).

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I believe that most of the '82 Tour stuff has sold.

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Shane Foulds sent in:

Matt! I hope all is well with you. In case you or any of the SDCC attending AMOCers are interested, while the Eisner awards are Friday night, apparently the HOF ceremonies are held Friday morning (details below). Thanks as always, -Shane

Send pics/vids if you go!

Next Time: Old Cerebus comics. SOMEBODY has to post them...

Friday, 17 July 2026

The Book of Zechariah, Ch. 10-12 (Dave's weekly update #651)

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:

Chapters 1-3, and chapters 4-6, and chapters 7-9:

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And Dave's auctioning these:

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I have audio files from Dave about the '82 Tour Book, so if you were hoping for Please Hold For Dave Sim this month, you should have put your money where your mouth is... Because, 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... (I keep getting copyright violation hits, so I'm getting the 'droid to right a jingle...)

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The last Kickstarter has shipped, so check your mailbox. I got mine.

Speaking of Kickstarters, Friend to the Blog James Banderas-Smith has launched one for the Seventh issue of Papa Balloon and Cactus (his Ninth issue overall). He's at the Hershey Comic Con this weekend. If you go, tell him: "Manly Matt Dow sez you owe him money! Where's his TWO DOLLARS ya bastid?!?"

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"...

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The past Week in AMOC:

Saturday: Aardvark Comment
Sunday: More of the Beguiling.
Monday: The Monday Report, and the sound portion of the next installment of Please Hold For '82 Tour Book...
Tuesday: Jen is on vacation, so she DIDN'T post to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, I did. $185 away from unlocking page 134 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages has unlocks. And I got ya a Raffle Item. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation.
Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. I think 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 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. 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, Skulls! And Alan Moore!
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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I had these made:

Twenty bucks USD gets you a set. momentofcerebus@gmail.com.

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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 July 17-19, and 23-26.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

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My friends at the Waverly Press, are moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

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Heritage has:

Jailhouse Vark (3 of 9)
Cerebus #1 in an UNreadable 8.0 (The pages are so crisp you'd swear they were plastic...

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: I got them videos done...

Thursday, 16 July 2026

Notebook 21: Skulls and Alan Moore

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 it was pages of text of Viktor just rambling, and guess what? Yes, more of his rambling. What is he thinking? We don’t need to ask, he just won’t stop rambling on and on. . .

Anyhoo, yes, you guessed it, more of Viktor’s ramblings. You can see Dave’s edits of crossing stuff out, writing more thoughts in the margins, et al. And like you, I don’t have the energy to go through it this week. So instead of me rambling, you’ll get five – yes FIVE! – pages for the low low price of nothing.

Enjoy.

Notebook #21, page 211

Notebook #21, page 212

Like I can just imagine Viktor just rambling to himself. No paragraph breaks. . .But the above material does get used – page 162 of Reads, aka page 16 of Cerebus #182. Though going to the next page, there is more to this skull story that doesn’t make the finished pages of Cerebus.

Notebook #21, page 213

Huh, Viktor also had a letter printed in Superman #203, same as Dave. . .And down at the bottom Viktor writes about Alan Moore. . .which continues for the next few pages. . .

Notebook #21, page 214

Notebook #21, page 215

Hey, if you made it this far - congrats! And just think, once we've done with this notebook, we are done with it and its walls of text. . .

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #50

next: Margaret unties the knots

Tuesday, 14 July 2026

Jen says "Lucky Numbers 2, 29, 42, 47, 5, 23", so glamourpuss #...I dunno.

Hi, Everybody!

These take too long to do, so don't expect this to continue next week...

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

133 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
$21,615.00 raised to date from 414 donations
$185 away from unlocking page 134.
If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 133 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 going 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.

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 marrying livestock and walking on the grass 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 ...

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

Monday, 13 July 2026

Please Hold For Off-White House '82 Tour Commentary July 9th, 2026 (part 1)

Hi, Everybody!

As we do:

Mondays!

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

As you all should know by now 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...

The latest from Eddie for the July round for August is:

Anyway, Dave sent a couple of hours of audio, I'm working on turning it into a series of videos, but it's gonna be a minute (ADHD brain spent WAY too long having the robots make a theme song because the audio and videos are getting flagged for copyright violations, and I'ma tired of explaining parody & fair use to OTHER robots... But I'm a working on 'em!)

So, Audio (for the poor bastards who don't need/want to look at things while Dave talks...):

The article Eddie sent.

Video (to be added as I get it done, or I'll post those on Saturday...):

And if you're gonna be in San Diego for Comic Con, Dave has a request: