Okay. Am I
just trying to make a quick buck off the younger generation of comic
book reader? Well, yes, in a sense. More of a STEADY buck than a QUICK
buck. CEREBUS is not and never will be a HARRY POTTER kind of thing.
So I need as many different small streams of revenue as I can come up
with. So that's what I started with with the HIGH SOCIETY DIGITAL.
Basically get enough money at Kickstarter so I could pay Sandeep to
scan all the pages and do an audio book side -- a revenue stream. Maybe
when it exists someone will buy it. Well, okay. Actually raising
money to make it happen was HUGELY successful. But that's just the
first step. The second step was saying, Okay, there's enough money here
to do a VERY thorough job of this. What I hadn't realized was HOW
thorough a job. I've been AWOL from the HARDtalk interview because I
hadn't been doing the annotations on my Notebooks. Plenty of time for
that. Just "here's what you're looking at". Boom I'm done.
Well,
as I started actually READING the Notebooks -- and I'm unquestionably
the only person who CAN read my Notebooks -- I found a lot of
interesting stuff that I had forgotten. Things like alternative
dialogue between Cerebus and Jaka in No.36. I don't remember writing
it, but I'm -- you know-- familiar with the material to say the least.
So in reading it, I go, Oh, okay, that's why that didn't work. That's
what I saw at the time and that's why I stopped there. In No.37 when
Bran Mak Mufin comes in and talks to Cerebus in the Oak Room...well,
originally I had Suenteus Po. So there's a couple of blocks of dialogue
between A Suenteus Po (not THE Suenteus Po) that is very
good background on Illusionism. It wasn't usable for a different
reason, but it is authentic writing from CEREBUS from that time period.
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| Cerebus #37 (April 1982) Art by Dave Sim |
See,
people want me to go back and do that stuff again. Well, I can't. I'm
56, I'm not 26. But I CAN dig through what I was working on back then
and decipher my hand-writing and tell you who I wrote the dialogue for
-- and there you go: that's as close as you're going to get to NEW HIGH
SOCIETY stories.
But, it's VERY time-consuming. I
have to first read it, then decipher what I can't read and then figure
out what I was doing and then type out an explanation of what I was
doing. So, it's taken me all week to annotate the Notebooks from No.26
to No.36. This with the "9.12.12" ( or "12.9.12" if you're in the UK)
deadline for release of the free HIGH SOCIETY NO.1 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
(No.26) bearing down on us all. Sandeep's a CEREBUS fan and he'd LIKE
to read the annotations as he's e-mailing them to George. But he can't.
He's scanning negatives from the time he gets up in the morning until
he goes to bed.
So, now I'm recording me performing
all the voices in an issue -- No.37 -- and then recording Aardvark
Comment and then annotating the Notebook entries for that issue (which
is easier when I've just performed it -- I know what Notebook entries
are IN the issue and which entries AREN'T) and then annotating all of
the Cerebus Archive documents. Also from the moment I get up until the
moment I go to bed.
So what's my point? I'll get to that tomorrow. SAME Moment Of Cerebus Time. SAME Moment Of Cerebus Channel.
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