'Unsigned', 'Signed' & 'Your Name Hand-Lettered By Dave Sim' Options Available
DAVE SIM:
(from Cerebus Archive Kickstarter Update #6, 21 May 2014)
...Thanks to Alexander Hoffman of Toronto for sending me two Avery
labels to sign for him to put in a couple of his CEREBUS trades. I had a
bit of time so I sketched Cerebus on each and had him saying "Like HELL
it's yours, put it back. This Cerebus trade belongs to Alexander
Hoffman".
Hmm, I thought. I had been looking for what I hoped would be a more generally affordable pledge item.
(The
gag actually goes back almost 50 years now, back, back, into the
Vanished Mists of Ancient Times to when men used to wear…hats! See,
when you went indoors, you took off your hat. As deference to what were
then known as "Ladies".
I still do this compulsively in the winter even when I'm only going
indoors for five minutes. Anyplace that had a cloak room also had a
shelf for hats. And a lot of hats looked alike. So gentlemen tended to
put an identifying label in the inside of the brim with their name on
it. So it was not unknown for you to pick up a hat and check inside to
see if it was yours. So, my Dad got this joke label from someone that
said "The HELL it's yours. Put it back. This hat belongs to…" and then
he wrote Ken Sim in it. His hat would often get a good workout with
guys laughing and then pretty much having to show it to other guys to
explain, you know, what EXACTLY did you find particularly funny about
someone else's hat? As soon as I needed a gag for an identifying label
-- well, what could be more a more Cerebus-like sentiment regarding YOUR
personal property?)...
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