Hi, Everybody!
For the April 2026 installment, Please Hold finally lives up to it's name!
Dave has decided that with the Cerebus #1 (and Spawn #10) in Spanish Kickstarter launched, and the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter "on deck", he's either going to do Please Hold in May, or he'll work on going through the 1982 Tour Book for its Kickstarter.
How he's going to decide is up to YOU!
If you wanna hear Please Hold, donate
here. (The button on the left labeled Please Hold)
If you want Dave to work on the '82 Tour Book, donate
here. (The button on the right labeled Dave Sim 82 tour Book)
It's like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book...but with money. YOUR money. I can't say I blame Dave, he puts in three plus hours recording these things, and it's not like he can live "high on the hog" off of the money he gets selling comics, because he doesn't have a distributor anymore... (I mean, I put in two or three days assembling these things, and all I get is "more work" (It's one of my favorite lines from Weekend At Bernie's: the two protagonists are discussing their jobs, and the one says to the other, "My old man worked hard. Ya know what they gave him? More work.") Not that I'm complaining. I LOVE the little gray bastard, and spending all of my free time doing this keeps me off the streets... Plus there's "fringe benefits"...) So, Dave asking for a little something something to do this isn't unreasonable. (It's probably my fault for getting annoyed with him about the '82 Tour Book NOT launching on Kickstarter in February.)
Audio:
Video:
Part 2: An example of how Dave's
'82 Tour Book (right) work will sound
Anyway, while Dave waits for us to decide what we wanna Hold for, he checks the mail...
Part 3: The box I sent him showed up. And I KNEW the Trade wouldn't work, but "hope springs Eternal"...
Part 4: Dave talks The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, and how it got in that Humble Bundle (he doesn't know, but I suspect Sean.) and how it got in
Consigned, Living the Line's new Kickstarter
Part five: Dave got a message from George Peter Gatsis at
CerebusDownloads, that explains how the downloads work. Basically, if a new version of a phonebook shows up, you can click the link you first got and redownload the new version
Part 6: Dave talks more about working on the Strange Death of Alex Raymond (He's drawn pages 555-702. Pages 587-593 were included in issue #68 of Yeet Presents, and page 604 was a Bonus Print on CAN12. Which 21 pages are in
Consigned, Living the Line's new Kickstarter? Why don't you back it and find out Spunky?)
Part eight: Dave has an offer to
Dustin Adrian, an artist and comic store employee who lost everything in a fire
The link on Dustin's name goes to the GoFundMe his sister set up (I gave $20USD), if you wanna send something like Dave suggested, Rolly told me "At this time Dustin is looking for donations to the gofundme website only." But if you wanna ignore that and send Dustin something physical, the address Rolly also sent me (in the same email...)
Dustin Adrian
C/O Heroes Comics
186 Dundas St
London, ON, Canada
N6A 1G7
Okay, if you want me to have to spend days locked in the Please Hold Editing Suite delicately assembling the finest entertainment you've been getting for free once a month since November 2019 (excepting those time's Dave was sick, or something came up. Hey! It was FREE!),
turn to page 37And if you want me to have to spend days locked in the Please Hold Editing Suite desperately hoping the bits Dave's talking about are in the last digital version of the '82 Tour Book I was sent (see: "Fringe Benefits"), and weren't changed for the print version I was sent (see: "Fringe Benefits"),
turn to page 42No idea what Dave's gonna do if there's a tie and Everybody! donates equally to each Fund.
I mean, I have to work on 'em either way...
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