Dave sends me stuff, and I get the weirdest stuff FOR Dave...

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has been flooding my email...

First up, from Rolly:

Hi Matt,

J.TOONS! just send me this (below). You can add his message and link to the website when you do an update, that would be great.

"Cerebus cameo.......
......in this week's Fun Facts for Fans of Fiction cartoon:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fun-facts-for-fans-of-fiction/normalman-fun-facts/viewer?title_no=777984&episode_no=214&readingLanguageCode=en "

- from J.TOONS!

Thanks,
Rolly

Normally (heh.) I'd post the image, but I can't just save the image, so just click the link and give them your social security number (I kid, I kid. It's free and without banner ads...)

Then I got:

I had gotten a message from Mr. Robinson, and did respond that Dave doesn't have a phone. But it sounds like Jeff rented (I mean if you pay for something that's going back eventually, is it really yours?) this page:

OR, possibly this one:

Either way, I'm sure Dave would like it back.

Then I got this FOR DAVE at the AMOC email:

Hi Dave,

I'm a journalist with New York Magazine. I'm working on a book about
Neil Gaiman. It's an expansion of this article I wrote last year:
https://archive.is/20250113132911/https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

The book will delve into the history of his fandom, as well as comics
history more broadly, and I've been reading some of your writing about
Neil over the years. Would you be up for a phone call?

I'd be happy to tell you more about the book over the phone, or answer
any questions you might have. Thanks for considering.

All my best,
Lila

And I responded thusly:

Hi Lila,

I'm not Dave Sim, I'm Manly Matt Dow, Interim Editor of A Moment of Cerebus.

Dave no longer has a phone or Fax Machine. His assistant does have an email set up in Dave's name, but mostly it's for sending stuff to people on Dave's behalf, but Dave is vehemently OFF-line. (I know, I know "How does someone exist without a phone or being online?" quite happily apparently, according to what he's communicated with me...)

While I can't speak for Dave, when the stories about Neil Gaiman came out last year, Dave still had a phone, and we were still doing a once-a-month interview (that I'd turn into a podcast/youtube video series) wherein Dave would answer questions from fans. I titled it Please Hold For Dave Sim. Anyway, the subject of the allegations against Neil came up, and Dave said (I'm paraphrasing here) that he would only answer questions based on court transcripts after they were generated. And that anything else was just trading in salacious gossip. So, with that in mind, I think Dave would probably decline. BUT, as I say, I can't speak for Dave.

I'll certainly pass your message along, but as Dave doesn't have a phone, we've discontinued doing Please Hold For Dave Sim as a live recording. Instead I send Dave a PDF that gets printed out, and then Dave does an audio recording that gets sent to me wherein I edit it into the videos/podcast. BUT, Dave's currently working on a book about his and his ex-wife's 1982 Tour of comic book stores across the United States. So he's only recording audio for whichever project gets the most money donated to it through a website where people can purchase digital copies of Dave's Cerebus work. If the '82 Tour gets more money (which it has the past few months), Dave records his notes for that. If Please Hold For Dave Sim gets more money (which it hasn't since March) then Dave will record audio for that. So, if you want Dave's answer, you might wanna go here, and donate some money for Please Hold For Dave Sim (it's a pay-for-play kinda deal. I have to edit whatever Dave sends either way, so it's not really a big deal for me...)

Your BEST bet would be to send Dave something at:
Dave Sim
C/O Aardvark-Vanaheim Inc.
PO Box 1674, Station C,
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 4R2

If you include an email address, he'll probably respond via his assistant, or if you mention contacting me first, he might have me pass it along to you.

Sorry for any of the inevitable confusion, but inevitable confusion is increasingly becoming my stock in trade...

Attached is a photo of Dave with Neil from their first meeting in the UK in 1986

And Dave with Neil and Colleen Doran, Jeff Smith, and Martin Wagner (I believe) at a Diamond retailer conference in the early 90s

And an unused image I made up for a blogpost about the whole Neil thing that I abandoned back when the accusations first surfaced. It's an image of Neil drawn by Dave for a lithograph donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. (I added the title, and the blurb from the cover of the Incredible Hulk #1.)

Until the next, I remain:

Manly Matt Dow

Interim Editor
A Moment of Cerebus

We'll see how THAT plays out...

Next Time: Mondays!

"IT WUZ YOR IDJIT IDEE Y'IDJIT..."

Hi, Everybody!

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)

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.

Cerebus Volume 2 "High Society": Cerebus #26-#50 (including "Goat")

First. Then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then.

Cerebus #51 "Exodus": Then, then:

Next Time: Dave has had all sorts of stuff sent to me...

Friz Freleng's Pink Panther (Dave's weekly update #654)

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:

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

Brian West found the whole thing for us. And here's the actual opening...

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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". Eddie sent in the Quasi-final:

Dave sent some audio, so I guess I know what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing...

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

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: I've finished posting Cerebus Volume 1.
• Sunday: With the Cerebus volume and High Society BOTH being posted, time for Exodus...
• Monday: The Monday Report, and and something that coulda been one of these Update videos...
• Tuesday: Jen is AWOL, so she DIDN'T post to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, I did. $110 away from unlocking page 135 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, more little handwritten lines that are hard to read...
• 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. (The amount of Cerebus crap I've had produced/made myself that's laying around the apartment is getting a little crazy... I might need to have a virtual rummage sale...)

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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 August 7-9, August 19-23 and August 27-30.*

*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 for $49 on the August 17th:

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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: 

• Nut'in'. Not a #@$*ing sausage...

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: Exodus, if I don't get the video done...

Notebook 21: Viktor Talking to the Audience

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. 

~*~~~*~

A quick one this week. Again? Well, we don’t have five pages this week. . .because after these pages are a group of pages with sketches that should be posted together. So we’ll save them for next week. This week? Yes, some more text pages. Lots of texts. And if you didn’t want to read them, just take a look – as it looks like Dave went through them at least twice – came in later with blue pen to mark them up:

Notebook #21, page 226

Yes, Viktor is still rambling on about audiences and storytellers. Though at the top of that page, he does give us the classic line: “. . .stick that up your ass if you don’t like it; stick it up a little further if you do!” 

The next page finishes up this section of Viktor’s rambling about audiences and storytellers as Viktor then turns tot the audience and asks the question: “What are you thinking about?”

Notebook #21, page 227

“It was very quiet.” 

 CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #53

next: Margaret has the words

Since Jen is Ashore With Out Leave, glamourpuss #26

Hi, Everybody!

TO! MORROW!

All 300 (not really) Issues of Cerebus are for sale digitally at CerebusDownloads.com for Twenty-Five CANADIAN Dollars.

Sale starts at 10am and ends at 2pm Eastern Time.

Act fast, or pay $49 CAD on the 17th...

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

No changes!

• 134 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
• $21,890.00 raised to date from 414 donations
• $110 away from unlocking page 135.
• If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 134 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 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 (also: the lowest...).

 
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 doing Bossa Nova and the Hokey Pokey and other signs of the Apocalypse...):

1. $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...
2. 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...
3. 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.
4. 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...)
5. 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...
6. Having read the minutes for the Graft: Boon or Blessing Panel, bribery will NOT be tolerated if it messes up my taxes...
7. "And remember, your answers must be in the form of a question..."
8. Margaret, if you win, this counts as both PTO AND year end bonus...
9. Good luck! (How and Why this is a Rule is a mystery to Everybody!...)

 This, then:

Okay, see ya'll Friday! Don't forget the sale tomorrow...

Boxes and boxes and boxes...

Hi, Everybody!

As we do:

Mondays! 

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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So Dave sent a note to Birdsong detailing the future of A-V's Kickstarterings:

And the breakdown of the revenues:

Tying into Dave's second post-it note, and the eBay store that's a-comin', Rolly sent me:

Hi Matt,

There are 3 folders inside the Jul 27 scans folder. These folders have photos in them, as Dave wanted to get rid of the Storage Unit because it was costing a lot of $$$$$ each month.

So, I cleaned out the Storage Unit when I had free time over the past month. All the boxes were put down in Dave's basement. We used the black shelving units we had in the storage unit and also used some Subfloor Membrane Panel square plywood tiles by DRICORE for concrete floors that you can buy at Home Depot.

Dave Fisher and I are oranziging the basement to how Sim wants it. As you can see the correspondence boxes are all over Dave's place (wherever he can find space to put them).

All these photos can be posted on the website.

Have an awesome day,
Rolly

The unit as it was emptied:

Camp David after the move:

These are mostly Swords of Cerebus in Hell?

And Dave's Basement:

That's a lot of boxes...

Next Time: Jen's got boxes, not THIS many, but more than two...