Sunday, 26 April 2026

"Caaaannn you feeeeelllll the HYPE toooniiiigght?" Cerebus Archive portfolio Number 13 launches TO-Morrow!

Hi, Everybody!

Launching TOMORROW, 
(but you can click the link and get an email telling you it's Live so you're backer Number One and therefore the bestest Cerebus fan EVER! Not like those scum Manly Matt Dow (hey wait a minute...), or Margaret Liss (HEY!), no, you're Cerebus Fandom is purer and truer and better!) CAN13 and Cerebus in Jail! and The Pun Issuer Kickstarter

CAN13 consists of the first 10 pages of Cerebus #232 (including page one, the title page which has NEVER been reprinted)


   

   









Obviously, click for biggerness...


Also on offer are the two NEW Cerebus in Hell? Issues:
                            

Cerebus in Jail? and The Pun Issuer.

AND, Issues two and three of The Ninja High School Crossover
     

And as BONUS Prints, you can get pages 11-20 of Issue #232:
     
    


































And, there's Backing Board covers from the last campaign (CAN12) and this one.

And if you missed out last time, there's gonna be a second printing of Issue #1 of the Ninja High School crossover:

  

And because Michael R. asked...:

There's all sorts of other fun stuff in the works, and you'll be able to see it all tomorrow.

Go ahead and join the queue and you'll know as soon as this baby launches...
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Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):


Also Kickstartering:
Living the Line's next Kickstarter has ended. There is an option for late backers, so if you were waiting for the last minute, you messed up, better click over there and hope you can get in...
And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."
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And JUST IN TIME for the next year's fundraising push, I FINALLY got around to making Pud's Tavern Merch:

Yup, it's time for me to find a Sponsor for my kid's High School Dance Team. They placed fifth at State last season (the team has made it to State the last six years), and are gonna make a go of it again.

One of the problems (it's a girls High School Dance team, there are many...) this year, is that they're getting a new Athletic Director for the school district, which means the "niggardly sum"


that the team gets to pay for everything might go "bye-bye" like *that*. So, they're really pushing the fundraising this year.

As long time readers/viewers/visitors to AMOC may recall, last year I, and a merry band of Aardvark lovin' malcontents, got a logo for Pud's Tavern:

 onto the Team's banners, t-shirts, and whatnot.

Well, I'ma try to do it again. But this year the deal is slightly different:
Each dancer's family is expected to bring in at least $200 in sponsorships, but if I can raise $300, they'll announce Pud's Tavern as a Sponsor at all halftime performances when the girls dance. And the logo will be bigger on everything.
Bigger is, as we all know, BETTER!

If you wanna help (and I hope you do,) shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and we'll work it out. Everyone who kicks in will receive a special A Moment Of Cerebus item that has the AMOC Logo on it. (I will tell you more if you chip in...) Also, if you chip in, you get a vote on if "Buggid" goes on there, or Pud's Ale Mug.

Thank you for your attention in this matter...

Next Time: Mondays!
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Saturday, 25 April 2026

Off-White House Bulletin 4/20/2026: True-Man The Maximortal review

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):


CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...
Living the Line's next Kickstarter has ended. There is an option for late backers, so if you were waiting for the last minute, you messed up, better click over there and hope you can get in...
And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

Dave sent a new Off-White House Bulletin:

You can get your very own copy here. And in case you missed it, Boy Maximortal. And if you're new: The King Hell Heroica. And always a good idea to plug Rare Bit Fiends.

I like the King Hell Heroica so much I bought a copy of the collected Brat Pack even though I have the individual issues, because Mr. Veitch went back and fixed some of the story telling points. If you've never read, I highly recommend it.

And since I just spent thirty minutes remaking this from the AV Family Photo Album, just to discover I  had ALREADY made it months ago, ALL the Rick Veitch photos in the album:


Yup, BOTH of them.

Next Time: Dave sent more stuff... Or maybe old Aardvark...
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Friday, 24 April 2026

"The Looking-Glass" by Rudyard Kipling (Dave's weekly update #639)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):


Anyway, like it says on the Logo:
That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:

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CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...


Living the Line's next Kickstarter has ended. There is an option for late backers, so if you were waiting for the last minute, you messed up, better click over there and hope you can get in...

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

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

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Off-White House Bulletin.
  • Sunday: Nate had Cerebus for free, I think they're all gone now. More coming.
  • Monday: Dave sent things.
  • Tuesday: Since Jen did the First show, she has two more lined up, I'm back posting on Tuesdays, I mean I didn't this week, but in general... Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, $140 until page 130 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,  issue #180!
  • 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.

If we're doing Please Hold next month (see Monday above) Dave is giving Everybody! an option: He'll either work on Please Hold for May, or his notes on the '82 Tour Book. YOU can decide which he does by donating at CerebusDownloads. There are two buttons, if you want Please Hold, donate with the button labeled as such. If you want the '82 Tour Book, donate with the button labeled that. And if you want both, donate to both. (Dave never said what he'd do if there was a tie...) '82 is currently winning, so if you have a question, send it in to momentofcerebus@gmail.com AND throw a couple of bucks Dave's way by clicking the "Please Hold For Dave Sim" button. Or else it's '82 for you...
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I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...

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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.
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Up to 35% off April 24-26.*
*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.
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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...)
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Heritage has: 
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
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".
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Next Time: Dave sent audio, Off-White House Bulletin.. This is my life now...
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Thursday, 23 April 2026

Notebook 21: Cerebus #180 Page 2 Unused Material

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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Whelp, back to walls of text. We’ve reached the section of notebook #21 which is material for the phonebook, Reads. Last week we saw two pages which were Dave sketching out Cerebus asking to see Cirin’s armpit. Today we are on material that I think was meant for page 2 of Cerebus #180, aka Reads page 108.  That is the final page of text from Victor Reid before we switch to Viktor Davis in Cerebus #181.

Notebook 21, page 165

At the top of the page is a small bit on  Viktor Davis, it says: “Doing something Viktor Davis thinks is good. .  .Not doing something because they understand it. . .Doing something you want to do.” Note that it was Victor originally, but the C was turned into a K. 

Then the text about Victor in his large house thanks to his Ascension series, a royalty check for a good sum of money that he just tosses in a pile with the others, and talking with his wife Sarah. With whom he doesn’t talk to in the finished issue. In Cerebus #180 his wife just asks for him, tells him he hasn’t finished feeding the baby, and then yells at home as he walks away. He goes upstairs and read a bit of the literary magazine, Reads Informer, that he had already read three times before. Then he pours himself a glass of cognac.

The conversation that occurs in the notebook page is much different. More amicable between him and his wife. It almost reads like the lead up to page 108 of Reads:

Notebook 21, page 165

As we get to hear him reading the paragraph and the two off them discussing it. And ends with Victor doing “what was important in life; spooning strained spinach into the fruit of his loins.”

Then after another quick blurb, we see some text for Viktor Davis. It appears to be an alternate take for the opening to Viktor’s text on page 18 of Cerebus #181, aka Reads page 144. But the main part that is left out is “was now writing these words in room 1185 of the Hyatt Regency hotel on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.” Which is a real hotel in our world and you could stay at if you’d like. If that is where Dave was back when he was writing this, I could not say as I’m too tired to look it up. 

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Wednesday, 22 April 2026

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #38




next: Margaret Strikes Again!

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Monday, 20 April 2026

Cleaning out the inbox...

Hi, Everybody!


It's 4/20:

YOU could own these pages if you win the Auction...

Okay, Dave sent a bunch of images with the last Off-White House Bulletin, and I was gonna post them yesterday, but things, so lemme clear these out (don't worry Jesse, the Please Hold Transcripts WILL return...)








And then:





Dave responds:

Wait...I gotta write this thing?

I mean I've not ever read the Santos Sisters... but Cerebus has hearing problems (post Reads and or The Last Day), so he thinks they're elves from the North Pole "Santa's Sisters? Cerebus didn't know Santa had siblings." (Definitely The Last Day Cerebus...) He spends the whole crossover thinking he's helping deliver presents. "Cerebus has to skip the milk, ladies. But if they have snickerdoodles, Cerebus calls 'dibs'..." But who is the villain? Necross? Charles X. Claremont? Yeah... That'd work... The Santos Sisters get hit with magic or sci-fi rigamarole (whatever their villains would use), and they get blasted into Cerebus' world (like TMNT #8), but they keep skipping through time. So  it's a series of three to four page shorts where they have to keep teaming up with Cerebus. BIRDSONG! Get more ink! See if Hobbs wants "in" on this! 

Wait, Dave was what?

"Joking"?

He knows I don't NOT take these things seriously...

Anyway, the note said these were: 
Photos have Dave with an image of Batman and Deadman page from HA.com. Dave did check to see if Batman was spelled as "Batam" in the comic. Yes, it was. Dave says it's interesting to see that!!!!



HOLY PROOFREADER BATAM!!!


Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art, I have "anger" that you guys have more money than me...
Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art, Dave's Alan Moore parody (seen above), Guest appearance by Roarin' Rick Veitch (seen above) 

CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...


Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood... THREE DAYS and then you WILL be $#!*. Out. Of. Luck!

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."
 
Next Time: SDOAR... (I hope)
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