A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Friday, 16 October 2026

J. TOONS! The wisdom of Frank Zappa pt 5 (Dave's weekly update #664)

Hi, Everybody!

Anyway, 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...

Kickstarters:

CAN14 and CiH? #s 89&90 and Ninja High School/Cerebus #s 4&5!!! is over. If you snoozed you losed...

I've only been mentioning it IN EVERY DAMN POST SINCE IT LAUNCHED!!!

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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". 9/10 video done, 9/26 is loaded and being worked on... Dave's "finished" with his notes, and is waiting to see a revised prototype (that I have to make...), so while I'm sure the buttons are there, and that Dave'd appreciate the money, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip, so there's no more notes to be had...

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The past Week in AMOC:

Saturday: Because I don't wanna.
Sunday: You think you know how much I don't wanna, and you'd be wrong...
Monday: The 301st Monday Report, and I clean out the inbox.
Tuesday: Choose Your Own "Jen"venture is on hold until November to give me time to get ahead on it. So's I can help Jen and The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe post.
Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. 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, the last of the notebook, and it goes out with a "bang"...
Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things. Have been for longer than I care to think about...)

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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Greg&Fake are in Baltimore, if you go and see them, tell Greg "Matt Dow says, 'hey.'" Send back pictures...

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I have lots and lots of Cerebus crap in the ol' AMOC Prize Box(es). Someday soon, I'll have to have a virtual yard sale... (More details in ~~September~~ October(?).) (I might just open an AMOC webstore...)

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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 October 16th-18th, 22nd-25th.*

*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 all the damn time, like for $49 on October 27th, November 14th, and December 19th. And for $25 on November 30th, and December 26th (Happy Boxing Day!) all from 10AM to 2PM Eastern time. I'm telling you now, because I always forget to give the $49 sale a boost. (And honestly, I think it being a big secret is kinda pointless if you're trying to make some monies...)
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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:

The Beavers strip #103
And a bunch of slabbed Dave Sim file copies, including #1, are coming...

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 mean I REALLY don't wanna...

Thursday, 15 October 2026

Notebook 21: The Cerebus Annual

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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This is it dear AMoC reader who lives rent free in Matt’s head, the last of Dave’s 21st notebook. And yes, as I promised last week, no more “walls of text”. Last week I pointed you at the post Down in A Minute, Sweetheart. It has the pages immediately before the ones I’m about to show you so go check it out if you haven’t already. I’d say I’d wait for you, but I’m not going to.

Finally a page with a sketch:

Notebook #21, page 258

Yeah, if I could draw like that, I would never leave my house. Ha-ha-ha.

The next page has a cover sketch for “The Cerebus Annual”.

Notebook #21, page 259

The Cerebus Annual probably turned into the World Tour Book. There is a reference for the Chester Brown and Dave Sim mash-up, some of which we saw in the pages immediately before these (I did say to go check out that other post).

Another look at a thumbnail for the “No. 1 Summer 1994” comic by Chester Brown and Dave Sim:

Notebook #21, page 260

The text down the bottom says:

I would be willing to bet that Jack didn’t let Marilyn ‘in’. I think Bobby did. Which only goes to prove, you should never send a boy to do a man’s work.
Jackie was an elegant cat. Jack was a Great Dog. Elegant cats are a dime a dozen. And they keep executing the Great Dogs. Jackie, Imelda, Yoko. Take a bow. I’m not sure for what exactly, but take a bow. You really seem to . . .need it somehow.

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #63

TRADING FOR BEATRICE 7 OF 16

next: Margaret

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

The Strange "Death" of the "Jen"venture?

Hi, Everybody!

CAN14 and CiH? #s 89&90 and Ninja High School/Cerebus #s 4&5!

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The vote for Choose Your Own "Jen"venture (Chapter the first, Chapter the second, Chapter the third, Chapter the fourth & Chapter the fifth) has stayed the same...at two. So no CONSIGNED The Strange Death of Alex Raymond pages this week, as a reminder:

So, here's the deal. Sean had TWENTY-FOUR SDOAR pages in CONSIGNED (not 21 like he said he was gonna have...). I'ma run three of them today. For every TWENTY-FIVE people who vote for the next chapter of Choose Your Own "Jen"venture (and not anonymously, ya gotta give me a name...even a fake one...), I'll post another page until all twenty-four are posted.

Better luck next time...

I'm putting the "Jen"venture "on hold" until November. I got a lot of stuff going on, and I don't have the time for this kinda thing currently... Go ahead and re-read all the parts and makes your choice...

If you want to seek immediate shelter, comment "Hide".
If you'd rather lay there and let the universe have it's way with you, comment "Toto".

I'll wait.

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Anyway, Big Board:

137 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
$22,380.00 raised to date from 436 donations
$110 away from unlocking page 138.
If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 136 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

The raffle continues...

An UNREADABLE copy of glamourpuss #10!

ALL GoFundMe donations of $5, between July 1st, and Halloween (October 31st) gets you in the pot. Every $5 is another entry. On All Hallow's Eve, I'll pick another number, and Jen'll tell me Margaret won again and I'll ~~cry like a bitch~~ turn her in as a witch and collect six dollars from the magistrate. And declare a different winner. I'm sure this won't piss off anybody. (Should have just let me pick #102 Jen...)

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This, then:

Next Time: More. Of. This. Kind. Of. Thing...

Monday, 12 October 2026

"Fresh" from the Faux machine to you...

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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Kickstarters:

CAN14 and CiH? #s 89&90 and Ninja High School/Cerebus #s 4&5!!!

There's all sorts of neat little limited add-ons. I'd tell you what they are, but they'll probably be gone before you get there. 10 days left.

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I'm still working on the last batch of Audio. Part of the problem is I sent a Faux with a bunch of ideas for Cerebus@50, and listening to Dave shoot them down (like he does with 95% of all my ideas) isn't my idea of a great time...

So you're not getting "Video Stimulation" today...

Plus, it's been more than a month, so there's a big pile of ~~crap~~ stuff Dave sent: