Uh. Not really, Dave.
No? Forgive me. Non-fasting day. It's the caffeine talking. Your question?
How will glamourpuss be collected? You have advertised a digital version of the first 25 issues and that the series will conclude (at least in print) with issue 26. Will the digital version include both the fashion satires and the history sections? Will each section be separate or will the collection closely approximate the issues as they appeared in serialized versions. Will the covers be included or any other supplementary material?
You're SURE you don't want to trash the mall? Sorry.
That
was actually one of the Hail Mary passes that Sandeep and I came up
with and he threw together a prototype of it. Beautifully, I must say,
the man does beautiful work. Basically gp #1 to 25, all the covers, the
unpublished two zombie covers, Zootanapuss covers. The idea being that
it would be my version of his MALCOLM X DVDs which don't always sell
like gangbusters, but it's a steady revenue stream. All of Malcolm X's
speeches. I mean, EXHAUSTIVE. So he can get an order in by e-mail, dub
off a copy, put it in its DVD folder, put that in an envelope and mail
it and he's ahead by whatever number of dollars.
Of
course, the Kickstarter campaign was another Hail Mary pass that REALLY
connected. So, that shifted my thinking in that direction. Now it
seems to make more sense as a Kickstarter reward -- the same package
that you saw but, say, a $75 pledge item where however many of them
sell, that's how many I sign and number. I envisioned it, right away,
as the NEXT Kickstarter campaign for THE STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND,
because it would contain all of that material to date, plus all of
glamourpuss. So it would be a way of doing a cost-effective package
that actually, hopefully, would whet people's appetites for STRANGE
DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND. The flaw was that the story isn't anywhere near
finished, so you don't want to be whetting people's appetites for
something that might not actually "land" until...well, I don't even
know.
My three-subject notebook I started back then --
in May -- is now virtually full of Kickstarter and HIGH SOCIETY
DIGITAL stuff and still only three or four pages of STRANGE DEATH OF
ALEX RAYMOND. VERY valuable pages of what needs to be done to polish
that part of the project. But that's been it since May. I'm HOPING
that when the Virtual Tour is done October 10th that I can then put in
some quality time on it. I'll have to "fess up" to the Kickstarter
pledge people. I AM going to do CEREBUS AUDIO DIGITAL but it's not ALL
I'm going to do. I'm going to have to strike a balance: here's what
people have given me money to do, and here's what I consider to be my
actual work, my, hopefully, Next Big Thing.
Sandeep
was saying "We have all this room -- you can put everything on here."
And I said, "Great! I can bring over all of my pasted together mock-ups
and three and four proof-reading copies that you couldn't WAIT to get
out of your living room and you can start scanning it all in and
retouching it in Photoshop."
You know, Sikhs don't blanche visibly, per se, but they are capable of getting that facial expression.
How does Dave fit into Cerebus' theology? In the end Cerebus never thinks to call out for Dave when the light has him. Has Cerebus forgotten all about Dave in the intervening 180+(?) years, or does Cerebus recognize God as a higher power than Dave?
Hit the link to BLEEDING COOL for the answer and be back here on Monday for more HARDtalk.
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