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've looked at Dave Sim's notebook #4 a couple times already, the most recent being in July of 2015 in A Plan for Church & State I. The notebook covers issues #59 to 70, and while the cover stated it had 200 pages, only 160 pages were scanned.
On page 66 we see a thumbnail and some sketches for Cerebus #63, Mind Game III & IV:
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| Notebook 4, page 66 |
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| Notebook 4, page 67 |
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| Cerebus #63, Mind Game III |
3 comments:
I only know this because of SDOAR research, but the symbols next to the giant Cerebus face are from the opening of the Ben Casey TV show: "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity" (it looks like the death and birth symbols are reversed in the first column). I remember mentioning it to Dave after I came across it, and trying to quote the symbols and sequence. He remembered it off the top of his head.
This is great! I just re-read this issue last night and wondering what the combine image would look like. Thank you for solving answering that question, however accidentally.
I have been re-reading Cerebus one a day. Amazing timing.
30 years ago I scanned the panels and had this on the kitchen wall...
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