Friday, 20 March 2026

Ghostly Tales (Direct Market 101) (Dave's weekly update #634)

Hi, Everybody!


Aardvark-Vanaheim and StudioComix Press Announce the Historic Kickstarter Launch of Cerebus the Aardvark #1
For several years now, Canadian publishers Aardvark-Vanaheim and StudioComix Press have been working to adapt the famous Cerebus the Aardvark comic series to Latin American Spanish. The adventures of this iconic character, created by Dave Sim in 1977, will finally be available through a Kickstarter campaign in March 2026 thanks to the support of Telésforo é Hilario and Humo Humberto Morales.

Cerebus the Aardvark (Cerebus) is a cult classic and a pioneering work of the worldwide independent comics movement. Cerebus gained global recognition for its editorial independence, the evolution of its story from a comedy adventure into complex political and social commentary, and for the tireless work of Dave Sim, earning it a Guinness World Record for its uninterrupted continuity across 6,000 pages.

This first issue of Cerebus will be published in a special limited run of only 1,000 numbered copies. Three variant covers will also be available drawn by Dave Sim, Craig Ferguson, and Antonio Alfaro, making them collector's items for alternative comic readers.

This historic release will also include, for the first time, a limited-edition collector's edition of Spawn TEN, the memorable collaboration between Todd McFarlane and Dave Sim, presented with remastered art, and incorporating previously unpublished material and new covers by Dave Sim and Humo Humberto Morales.

Both titles will be available to the public for 60 days, starting in late March 2026, in limited numbers for fans, collectors, and new readers in the Latin American market. Thanks to the Kickstarter platform, you can obtain either comic under the title "CEREBUS #1 & SPAWN TEN in Spanish" or through the following link:


We invite you to join us in this historic launch for Spanish-language comics by sharing this news and following the updates on this highly anticipated edition.


--*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Aardvark-Vanaheim y StudioComix Press anuncian el histórico lanzamiento en Kickstarter de Cerebus el Puerco Hormiguero #1
Las editoriales Canadienses Aardvark-Vanaheim y StudioComix Press han trabajado por varios años en la adaptación y el lanzamiento de la serie de comics Cerebus el Puerco Hormiguero en su edición en Español latinoamericano del icónico personaje creado por creado por Dave Sim en 1977, por lo que en el Mes de Marzo del 2026 y con el apoyo de la editorial Telésforo é Hilario y Humo Humberto Morales por fin llegara a tus manos por medio de una campaña de Kickstarter.
Cerebus The Aardvark es considerado por varias plataformas como un cómic de culto y en definitivo es una obra pionera del movimiento de edición y publicación independiente a nivel mundial, Cerebus es reconocido mundialmente por su independencia editorial, su extraordinaria evolución de la historia y el increíble trabajo de Dave Sim que le ha otorgado un récord Guinness por su continuidad ininterrumpida a lo largo de 6,000 pagines de historia.
Este primer titulo  de Cerebus será una edición histórica y contará con un tiraje limitado a solo 1000 ejemplares numerados, así mismo contamos con 3 portadas variantes dibujadas por Dave Sim, Craig Ferguson y Antonio Alfaro, convirtiéndose en piezas para coleccionistas y lectores de cómic alternativo.
Este histórico lanzamiento también incluirá por primera ocasión una edición de tiraje limitada de colección de Spawn DIEZ, esta memorable participación entre Todd McFarlane y Dave Sim, presentado en una versión remasterizada de arte que incorpora material inédito y nuevas portadas Realizadas por Dave Sim y Humo Humberto Morales.
Ambos títulos estarán disponibles por todo publico por un periodo de 60 días, comenzando a finales de marzo de 2026 con ediciones limitadas dirigidas a fanáticos, coleccionistas y nuevos lectores del mercado latinoamericano y con el apoyo de la plataforma Kickstarter podrás obtener cualquiera de los comics bajo el título : "CEREBUS #1 & SPAWN DIEZ en Español" o por medio de la siguiente liga:
Te invitamos a sumarte en este lanzamiento histórico para el cómic en español, compartiendo esta noticia y acompañando las noticias de esta esperada edición.

Uh...the only Spanish I remember from high school is: "El gato es en fuego en la casa, dos mas cervezas por favor"...

Anyway, the Kickstarter is LIVE! and after this one is the CAN13 one with the next two issues of Cerebus in Hell?

And speaking of the Kickstarters, Living the Line's next Kickstarter is gonna have...TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. No idea if they're from before the seven Yeet Presents pages, or after, or nowhere near them... Click the link and get notified when it launches.

And the Tyrant Kickstarter is live! I'm getting me one.

Anyway, it's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
___________________________
Dave's on eBay:
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335
Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"...
___________________________
A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: The Morning After
  • Sunday: Wanna read Cerebus Jam digitally for free?
  • Monday: Cerebus Archive (the comic series) #4 (part 1)
  • Tuesday: Since Jen is in rehearsals, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$200 until page 128 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. And TWENTY-ONE pages of SDOAR drawn by Dave are in CONSIGNED, Living the Line's next Kickstarter
  • 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...)
  • 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 from Reads that isn't in Reads!
  • 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. You're welcome. I do this out of stubborn pigheadedness/pride/ because I'm not too bright for free, but if you got a couple of bucks (I don't know how that's possible, given the links to neat stuff in this post, but Hey! I've been wrong before and will probably be so again (real soon)...), and wanna leave Dave a "tip", there's these "donate to the Dave Sim Fund" buttons somewhere on CerebusDownloads.com (I didn't lay out that place, and I didn't have nothin' to do with the latest redesign, so don't come at me if you have troubles over there...), and you can give Dave all the money you care too. (There's also links there that will help you buy all the stuff...) Did I mention Dave turns seventy in May?
__________________________
Like the logo? I stole it...








____________________
And, coming in February, who knows. Who. Knows. The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch). They've been sharing updates on the Instagram
______________
And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
______________
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...
____________
Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
____________
Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
______________
Up to 35% off March 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
_______________
Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
_______________
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".
_______________
Next Time: More Cerebus Archive #4...

Thursday, 19 March 2026

Notebook 21: Agreements and Illustrations

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

~*~~~*~

For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at piles and piles of snow. Umm. No, that was me. And the snow from the Blizzard of ’26 melted finally. Well, the stuff in my front lawn did. There are still piles around  town nearly one month later after several rain storms and days of unseasonably warm weather. 

But no, for the last few weeks we’ve been looking at pages with piles and piles of words. So many words. So many. But today. Today we have mention of illustrations and a small bit of text:

Notebook #21, page 145

The page numbers circle do indeed correspond to page numbers in Cerebus #175 which have illustrations. Page 15 also has an illustration as well. Then with page 16 it switches to the comic narrative with Po, Cirin, Cerebus, and Astoria. 

The text states:

These amendments had been made necessary when a number of authors and illustrators had determined that contracts with Vertigo Horse licsenscees liscensors had been signed which covered in reprints and translations which were not covered in their original agreements.

And while the next page doesn’t have a wall of text. . .it really would’ve been better with some?

Notebook #21, page 146

If you are looking for some more text, you can look at pages 147 through 149 which we covered in Dialogue from Reads.

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #33

 



next: Margaret



Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Since Jen is nervously forgetting "that" bit glamourpuss 8: The end of glamourpuss #2

Hi, Everybody!

Life Hack: Don't hire a thespian to do blog posts for you...
"film at 11..."

Anyway, Jen's off living the High Life, 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
"And then...um...'line'?!?"
You'll be fine Jen, it's just a week away...

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Man...ly:

$20,600.00 raised to date from 385 donations
127 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
$200.00 away from unlocking page 128
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 

During this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave said he had completed page 697 of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond on February 26th. So by next month he should have page 700 done. I'm hoping I can get him to send me a scan, so that I can share it with all you beautiful peoples...

No Note from the Senior SDOAR Remaster...master, Philip Fry this week, he better be getting me some Spider-Man pictures:
Geez Philip...Are you even TRYING?!? Those are COCKROACHES!

So, This.

Then:








Monday, 16 March 2026

Cerebus Archive (the comic) #4 (part 1)

Hi, Everybody!

Cleaning up some stuff in the AMOCave, I found I  have a digital copy of Cerebus Archive #4:








I'll post the rest next this weekend...

______________
Like the logo? I stole it...








______________
Dave's on eBay:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127720633262 Dave Sim VARKDALORIAN - LONE VARK AND CUB (#1) Signed 3/5 (#14/26) 9.8 SCARCE
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335
Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427
______________
______________
And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
______________
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...
____________
Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
____________
Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
______________
Up to 35% off March 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
_______________
Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
_______________
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".
_______________
Next Time: glamourpuss.

Sunday, 15 March 2026

Well, I guess this post is 90% superfluous?

Hi, Everybody!

Well crap.

I WAS gonna post some more "missing" Cerebus Miscellany stories to get 'em all in the "Hey Kids! Comics!" section over on the right somewhere, when I discovered I had already posted them, and just didn't get 'em on the list. 

So if you wanna read all of this:

The links are in there now. But in case your "Matt" lazy:
Added bonus, the only (as far as I know) Jam for Cerebus Jam #2 (which never came out, this appeared in the back of Cerebus #91):

Wow.

I just saved you three bucks on eBay...

Speaking of, Dave's got a guy selling stuff for him on eBay:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127720633262 Dave Sim VARKDALORIAN - LONE VARK AND CUB (#1) Signed 3/5 (#14/26) 9.8 SCARCE
Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335
Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427

Anyway, in his notes on the stories, Dave said that Scott and Bo Hampton's page six to their Jam (The Defense of Fort Columbia) would be in the next issue of Cerebus the Newsletter. As I don't have those (yes, the guy who got suckered into running A Moment of Cerebus doesn't have a complete collection of all the Cerebus-related ephemera... What do ya want? I wasn't gifted a collection of all things Cerebus when I took this job, I was given the log in here and for the AMOC twitter account. And a rapidly fading "Good Luck" as Tim W. ran away like his tail was on fire and his ass was catching...) (what I DO have is a Margaret. And Margaret has ALL the ephemera. So, if enough people ask her, maybe she'll grace me with a halfway decent scan, and I'll do a post 'bout it in the future...), I can't show you guys. 

Anyway, there's a Moment?
______________
Like the logo? I stole it...








______________
______________
And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.
______________
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...
____________
Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
____________
Dave also wanted me to post this:
Lots of little words, click for bigger.
______________
Up to 35% off March 15, and 25-29.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
______________
You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
_______________
Heritage has: 
  • Nothing.
  • But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
  • And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 
_______________
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".
_______________
Next Time: Maybe I'll get my long post done...

Saturday, 14 March 2026

Cerebus: The Morning After

 

"The Morning After"
by Dave Sim, Joe Rubenstein, and Mike Higgins
(First published in Swords of Cerebus Vol 2, 1981
Reprinted in The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book 
Reprinted again in NOT The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book)

And Dave's notes from Swords Vol 2:


And Dave's notes from The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book:

And Dave's notes from NOT The 1995 Cerebus World Tour Book: