Hi, Everybody!
The Jaka's Story remaster has a Starcode! APR191258 First month orders will be signed and numbered! "However many orders there are in the next 3 weeks, that's how many signed copies there will be. Diamond will order over the initial orders by some other amount, and those will become inventory books available after the initial order...but they won't be signed." [Thanks again, Sean!-Matt]
Greg Hyland is Kickstartering the second volume of the Monster Atlas, and if he gets another fifteen hundred and fifty-eight bucks [Erk! I'm using the AMERICAN figures. in CANADIAN, he needs another 674 bucks CAD-Matt], it'll have Gerhard art like the first volume. It'll look a little something like this.
The Jaka's Story remaster has a Starcode! APR191258 First month orders will be signed and numbered! "However many orders there are in the next 3 weeks, that's how many signed copies there will be. Diamond will order over the initial orders by some other amount, and those will become inventory books available after the initial order...but they won't be signed." [Thanks again, Sean!-Matt]
Greg Hyland is Kickstartering the second volume of the Monster Atlas, and if he gets another fifteen hundred and fifty-eight bucks [Erk! I'm using the AMERICAN figures. in CANADIAN, he needs another 674 bucks CAD-Matt], it'll have Gerhard art like the first volume. It'll look a little something like this.
There's more auctions up at ComicsLink (nine days left). And last week's update has a special AMOC auction. (Seiler's winning at $100 US.)
If you're waiting for a Indiegogo live for the Postcard Kickstarter, like the one for the birthday card Kickstarter, I don't know if there will be one.
The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.
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Anyway, the solicitations for LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1 and the REMASTERED JAKA'S STORY came out, and well...
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In 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced THE X-MEN #1, and began a discussion about the blatant misogyny which results from bringing a teenage girl into an all-boys school, from the male members sexually objectifying Jean Grey when she first arrives (“WOW! She’s a real living doll!” “A Redhead! Look at that face…and the rest of her!”), to Hank McCoy committing sexual violence by kissing her on the cheek WITHOUT her consent, to voyeurism as she tries on her new costume and they all watch from around the corner.
This June, Aardvark-Vanaheim is proud to continue the dialogue with the 21st Century’s version of “The Strangest Heroes Of All” in the latest CEREBUS IN HELL? one-shot: LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1!
Diamond Order Code APR191257 (June, 2019)
LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1
(W) Dave Sim
(A) Dave Sim Gustav Dore
(CA) - Benjamin Hobbs parody of Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers' X-MEN No.1 cover (1963)
NOW WITH NO @#$%ING REPRINTS! EPIC-LENGTH ALL-IN-ONE 24-PAGE ISSUE!! MEET THE INFERNAL REALMS' MOST INCLUSIVE SUPER GROUP! LESBIANA HOMBRE™! Gay Chicano Female trapped inside the White Masculine body she never made! REDWOOD CITY™! He may look like a tree, but he’s actually a mid-sized metropolitan California tourist destination (and excretes his own pine cones!) BORDERLINE BOBBIEY™! Amazingly, he changes gender identity every time you refer to her by a different pronoun! Just watch him! You go, girl! BELVEDERE™! Tired of being a stallion centaur Belvedere demands her right to give birth as a broodmare! "No WOMB! No PEACE!” Watch, as the STRANGEST HEROES AND FEMALE HEROES OF ALL go head-to-head with Cerebus! Can the aardvark and his WAVERY HOMOPHOBIA LINES hold up against a SUPREME COURT DECISION!? Features the hit song "Don't Pine for your cone, Redwood City!" ALSO! CEREBUS GOES ON STRIKE!
B&W 24 pages………………………………………$4.00
But wait, there's more!
June also brings the expertly REMASTERED JAKA'S STORY, available to order NOW: Diamond Order Code APR191258
A-V is proud to present, at long last, Jaka's Story the Remastered Edition, fully-restored page-by-page from the original art boards. To celebrate this event, this edition will be signed-and-numbered by writer/cartoonist Dave Sim (limited to the amount of copies of the initial Diamond order).
Jaka's Story, the fifth volume of the CEREBUS series, represents a point of departure for the series, focusing as it does on a small cast of characters, living out their lives in orbital, Thoreau-like “quiet desperation”, drawn ever inward, until at last, they inevitably collide. It is a book of unparalleled intimacy and unrelentingly-detailed observation, combining Sim's unerring eye for gesture and small-scale conflict with Gerhard's groundbreaking background art and environmental design. The two artists create here a look unprecedented in the comics medium—as if the main characters were drawn by Don Bluth and Jaime Hernandez, costumed by Aubrey Beardsley, set-dressed by William Hogarth, and then rendered by Franklin Booth and Barry Windsor-Smith. In the now-decades-old “Comics as Art” discussion, Jaka's Story is arguably a long-misplaced key book. Sim takes his lifelong interests in art, desire, and power, and throws them into a mix spiced with Oscar Wilde (and a dash of Love and Rockets.) Because of its comparatively small-scale and self-contained nature, this book is recommended as a fine entry point to the CEREBUS series in general, especially for the lit-comic reader.
This new edition, painstakingly restored and printed on acid-free paper with a durable sewn binding, reveals astounding detail never before present outside of the original art itself. The carefully-textured, detail-rich art is now on full display for the first time, including delicate line work, slashing brush lines and organic texture, and some of the most sophisticated pen-and-ink rendering of the second half of the twentieth century. This volume also includes eight brand-new pages of extras, including a 6,000-word essay by restorer and critic Sean Michael Robinson, discussing the background and “secret origins” of the book, providing historical context for a whole new generation of readers.
As well, the first 4 issues of CEREBUS IN HELL? are now available for digital download through Comixolgy, along with the EXPERTLY AND LAVISHLY DIGITALLY REMASTERED CEREBUS VOLUME 1!
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Ya know, neat. But apparently...
Wherein Rich Johnston quotes people from the Twitters, where (apparently, I don't know as I'm "off" the Twitters for the next several years,) people are losing their shit over this.
Well, the Cerebus in Hell? Braintrust (Your pal and mine: Sean Micheal Robinson, Superman's Frenemy (and known Collaborator): David Birdsong, Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna, "Gee I should get around to giving him a funny title one of these days": Benjamin Hobbs, and Me (Yeah, I don't know whose brilliant idea to include me in a "BRAINtrust" it was either...) got to discussing it, and it turns out Dave Sim DIDN'T WRITE THE PROMO IMAGE OR THE PROMO TEXT. The text was written by Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna. Basically, this bit:
In 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced THE X-MEN #1, and began a discussion about the blatant misogyny which results from bringing a teenage girl into an all-boys school, from the male members sexually objectifying Jean Grey when she first arrives (“WOW! She’s a real living doll!” “A Redhead! Look at that face…and the rest of her!”), to Hank McCoy committing sexual violence by kissing her on the cheek WITHOUT her consent, to voyeurism as she tries on her new costume and they all watch from around the corner.That's all Eddie. He even dropped by Bleeding Cool, to let them know:
This June, Aardvark-Vanaheim is proud to continue the dialogue with the 21st Century’s version of “The Strangest Heroes Of All” in the latest CEREBUS IN HELL? one-shot: LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1!
Hi there.
Dave actually didn’t have anything to do with the promo piece and text. I wrote the part about the comparison with X-Men #1, and someone else did the promo image and dialogue (although the solicitation text was written by Dave). So if anyone is offended by that part of it, it’s not Dave Sim you should be directing your anger at. That being said, perhaps wait until the issue comes out before judging it? Either way, thanks for the publicity.
The promo image and dialogue was (unless I'm mistaken,) by Superman's Frenemy (and KNOWN COLLABORATOR!!!): David Birdsong.
Anywho, I was at work when this all started rolling, so I said I'd fax Dave and let him know what's up later tonight, but Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna sent over a fax, and got a response:
So, there we were. I momented. And then: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/03/famous-indie-comic-book-cerebus-will-release-queer-phobic-pride-month-issue/?fbclid=IwAR2j_vESAgjXxADTOGTZajtcdOvLpfWSKgmXggEt6avHafJESIL-7EgXOMA
Which is why I say:
I got a feeling it's gonna be another VERY interesting Please Hold on Thursday...
Next Time: Dave gives up on this "God" stuff and starts writing Feminist Poetry... Nah, I'm kidding, more Genesis Question commentary...
17 comments:
Hi Matt!
Not sure if you're aware but Dave mentions you and you're wife signing "The Petition" and the birth of your daughter, Janice.
Michael
Whoops!
On this week's CerebusTV. Episode 74
Michael
Ahh, Bleeding Cool, which bends like a willow to whatever direction outrage culture takes it. You can only slant the facts in one direction so long before you snap.
[I completely forgot about the CerebusTV downloads! When the heck is the whole shebang going to be available for like $99 or something?]
First of all, it's Twitter for G-D's sake. Nobody cares about Twitter. I mean, even Donald f***ing Trump is on Twitter.
Second of all, it's as predictable as the sunrise...proponents of feminism and its myriad offshoots earnestly reinforcing the "...AND THAT'S NOT FUNNY!" stereotype.
Thirdly: Is it really coming out (oh, sorry...microaggression there) in June? If so, was that on purpose?
Michael: That must have been before the advent of SimTV (I WANT MY SIMTV!!!), when I wasn't realy aware of what was going on with CerebusTV. And she's "Janis". (Don't feel bad, we named her after Janis Joplin, and even my Dad, who is a HUGE Janis fan, got it wrong on her first birthday card.)
JLH: Yeah, I was done with Bleeding Cool when they started doing more clickbait headlines on articles of no real substance.
Tony: 1) You didn't click "the Twitters" links did you? 2) "Sir, this IS a Feminist bookstore, we don't HAVE a 'humor' section."3) Yeah, I don't think it WAS intentional, but I'd have to look at the old publishing lists from Cerebus and Hobbs.
Matt
I did write and assemble that promotional strip. I have done everyone of them. Unless Eddie or Sean or Benjamin faxed it to him Dave has not even seen it yet. I usually send him a printed copy of each strip in batches when I send him snail mail.
I guess if you have to explain the joke you didn't do a good enough job, but what's the problem? Cerebus is being Cerebus. He doesn't like gay people. He doesn't like straight people. He doesn't like anyone.
The June release was entirely coincidental. The schedule for this year was shuffled several times when we decided to release Vark Wars the same time that the next Star Wars movie comes out. There are also two two-part issues that had to been moved around.
I'm amazed at the motivations that are assumed and then assigned. We NEVER consider when the issues are coming out, Vark Wars was the exception. We NEVER think about a target audience, we want everyone to read it. Cerebus In Hell? comics coming out this year were created last year. We are currently working on issues coming out early next year. The way things are going maybe one of those will offend someone then, but don't expect us to know that now.
A few comments from a longtime Cerebus reader who actually just finished a reread of the series and was planning to post a podcast about it, with mostly favorable comments to share about Dave and the seriss...
- This solicit will do the opposite of what it was intended to do -- it will drive down sales and cause even fewer shops to carry this book.
- Much of the solicit is absolutely incoherent to anyone who doesn't understand your in-jokes.
- The jokes I understand are just weird and/or simply not funny (Borderline Bobbeiy? Is that supposed to be clever?)
- References to X-Men comics published in 1963 was just a little out of date.
- With the reputation he has, it makes no sense to associate Dave with anything to do with LGBTQ interests.
- It's a tremendously sour note for a solicit like this to run in the same month as a celebration of LGBTQ comics.
- Most importantly, the solicit doesn't even make it clear what this comic is. Is it another in the endless stream of unfunny Dore books cluttering my house, or is it a new full fledged comic like Judenhaus or Glamourpuss?
It would help for you to respond politely to some of the legitimate concerns people are presenting about Sim. It's way too late to help redeem his legacy but a small bit of humbleness could help.
Thanks for your consideration. I'd like High Society and Coming Home to be available in quality comic shops, but I fear stuff like this will just marginalize Sim even more and prevent these great comics from being seen.
Tony: 1) You didn't click "the Twitters" links did you?
Well, of course not. It's Twitter. Nobody cares about Twitter.
Tony, click the link.
Matt
(It's the best 7 seconds of your day...)
Hi Anonymous,
- Welcome to the sales trajectory of Aardvark-Vanaheim for the last x number of years. On the plus side, it'll be a pretty good litmus test of inclusiveness!
- All the previous solicitation texts for CiH? and the upcoming ones are in the same the style and format, written by Dave. There's usually a limited amount of space to fit everything into for PREVIEWS, and they've been cutting it down anyways. Finding things 'absolutely incoherent to anyone who doesn't understand [the] in-jokes" (and sometimes even if you do) is all part of the CEREBUS experience, and probably has been since issue #1 from 1977.
-re: "the jokes I understand are just weird and/or simply not funny," see above. I think Dave's been getting this reaction since early CEREBUS.
- the issue is based around the cover to X-Men #1, and CiH? has used covers from even older comics, so using references to comics 'out of date' is pretty much normal for the series (e.g. Dave's work on this week's Weekly Update for an upcoming cover). As I've done with all the emails for the previous one-shots, I tried to write something linking the parody to its source material. e.g. for The Sim City ones I tried to imitate that Frank Miller 1st person "tough and gritty" voice. Some of them have been just very basic, "Here's what's coming out next!"
- The issue was written (mostly, I believe) by Dave, and I'm pretty sure Dave is aware of his reputation and how things are likely to be received.
- as David mentioned above, that was all a coincidence. Like the upcoming issue of CEREBUS WOMAN being solicited in Diamond's "Women in Comics" month which, again, was also a coincidence (or Comic Art Metaphysics strikes again!) Kind of implies it'll be interesting to see what's going on in the months the upcoming issues are solicited for, since these things usually happen in 3's and that's 2 so far. Or maybe it doesn't.
-The promo strip and text do say CERBUS IN HELL and 'the latest CEREBUS IN HELL? one shot" and the cover says "In the Uncanny CEREBUS IN HELL? Style," so I think you can safely assume that it'll be in "the endless stream of unfunny Dore books cluttering [your] house" category (just out of curiosity, are those all CIH? books, or is someone else trying to hitch their wagon to this diamond mine (to mix a metaphor)?)
Hope that was a polite enough response! And hope you'll pick up the Remastered JAKA'S STORY, which sounds like it's more of the kind of CEREBUS comics and Dave Sim material you find enjoyable.
"Finding things 'absolutely incoherent to anyone who doesn't understand [the] in-jokes" (and sometimes even if you do) is all part of the CEREBUS experience, and probably has been since issue #1 from 1977. "
THIS. As Dave said decades ago (I'm paraphrasing since I have no idea where to find it): Cerebus appeals to the mind that delights in obscurity more than in clarity." That was certainly a BIIIG part of the appeal for me, as I came in right in the middle of High Society.
Matt: I did succumb to temptation and click. Yes, I second what Alec "I'm only doing this film for the money" Guinness said re: The Twitters. After all, you can't say "Twitter" without "Twit."
Mr. Anonymous again... thanks for the polite response, much appreciated in these days of endless flame wars and quick anger. Just to clarify, Eddie, I get from your comments you've basically accepted the fact that Cerebus will stay a cult hit at best; in fact you lean into your comments, it seems that's "a feature, not a bug", as they say.
I've collected nearly all of the Cerebus in Hell comics out of some odd, lifelong loyalty to the series. I've only just mustered up the energy to unsubscribe from it from my LCS despite the fact that I find it only fitfully funny. I loved Cerebus Archive, OTOH, and found it an invaluable memoir and chronicle of a completely lost era in comics. Wish that was still going and it's a tragedy we can't read more stories about the Canadian and American groundlevel comics of the 1970s.
Anon? "*Coming* Home"? No offense, but I think that "you know not whereof you speak".
Just sayin'.
And, again, use your real name.
And, before you get all high and mighty again, yes, I know what the original phrase is: "Thou knowest not whereof thou speaks."
Or, you know, something like that.
The Twitters link! Ah! Priceless! Please imbed that link everytime you use the word "Twitter" from now on. Love it.
Gary,
I might. Or I'll find a better clip.
Matt
Wow Jeff...it must be an incredible experience for you to never make an inaccurate reference. Coming. Going. Who gives a crap. Anonymous made some valid points, made some personnel observations, and you decide you'll present your superiority on all titles Cerebus and a 'post yer name" statement.
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