Thursday 30 May 2019

Cerebus Has Something Else To Do

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.

In February of 2018 in Astoria! GO AWAY! we saw a page from Dave Sim's tenth Cerebus notebook. It covers Cerebus #87 through 95 with 115 page scanned.

On page 55 there is a thumbnail and dialogue for page 4 of Cerebus #92 and dialogue for pages 6 and 7 of that same issue.

Notebook #10, page 55
The thumbnail for page 4 is pretty close to the final one. Though instead of Cerebus running away from us through doors, the finished page has him running pass the mounds of bags of gold coins.

Cerebus #92, page 4
The other dialogue is from the Bill Mox character talking about what Seth could do for Cerebus' portrait. Apparently it was enough to give pause to Cerebus' thoughts of conquest.

4 comments:

Jeff said...

All these years later, and (admittedly) not remembering *all* of the context, I think, maybe, Cerebus just ... you know ... REALLY "had to go".

Just sayin'. Comic book art metaphysics colliding with aardvarkian biophysics.

Tony Dunlop said...

honk honk

Jeff said...

Nice, Tony.

Actually, the line about a big bulge in his ... pants ... reminds me of Mrs. Tynsdale-Clydes' Tea.

Sproing!

(It was his tail.)

Jeff said...

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Nah, JK. I, Jeff, am still the winner until 11:59 p.m., CT, when some ... um ...Guy outbids me. Won't that be fun, reading all of my pissing and moaning?