Rigmarole:
This week's Auction is at $20 (US) from Jeff Seiler, and ends NEXT Saturday at noon!
COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Pester your enemies.) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)
Wanna give Team Cerebus In Hell? the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is out now, it's funny, but it's no League of Extraordinary Cerebi...)? Well, we've got you covered They're even having a sale right now...
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The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.
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Carson Grubaugh:
Hi all,
Dave wants to do a YDKJ/SDOAR sales-pitch tour of every comic-book shop in California in the summer of 2020. As far as I know this is NOT a signing tour. The idea is to spend about a half-hour in each shop with Dave doing some kind of sales pitch for both series. I will be driving and hovering around awkwardly during the sales pitches like a kid whose dad is being embarrassing.
We would start at the northern-most shop in the state and work our way down to San-Diego, aiming to be there during Comic Con.
Dave is looking for fan input on the best possible way to approach this, places to stay, help crystallizing a day-by-day, shop-by-shop plan.
Some factors to consider:
My spring-semester will end May 1st. I typically teach one of the two summer-semester sessions, which should run May 4th - July 10th and June 8th - August 14th.
Dave will not start the trip until after Ramadan ends on May 23rd, so it seems best for me to take an early summer class, but this means the trip would have to start the July 11th and give us very little time to make it to SD by the 23rd when Comic Con is predicted to begin.
If I forego teaching a Summer class I need a way to recoup the $6,800 loss in pay.
We also need to factor out Sunday's for Dave's religious obligations, holidays and other shop closures.
We spent $50 to generate a route that connects all 185 CA comic shops in the most efficient rout possible but this does not end with us in SD, so we are going to have to use the map to identify an order of "home-base" hubs that will get us near as many stores as possible in as few stops as possible.
I have an excel file of all of the shops in the order shown above, if that would be of use to anyone.
Any suggestions on how we might pull all of this off are much appreciated.
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Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim!
Carson Grubaugh:
Hi all,
Dave wants to do a YDKJ/SDOAR sales-pitch tour of every comic-book shop in California in the summer of 2020. As far as I know this is NOT a signing tour. The idea is to spend about a half-hour in each shop with Dave doing some kind of sales pitch for both series. I will be driving and hovering around awkwardly during the sales pitches like a kid whose dad is being embarrassing.
We would start at the northern-most shop in the state and work our way down to San-Diego, aiming to be there during Comic Con.
Dave is looking for fan input on the best possible way to approach this, places to stay, help crystallizing a day-by-day, shop-by-shop plan.
Some factors to consider:
My spring-semester will end May 1st. I typically teach one of the two summer-semester sessions, which should run May 4th - July 10th and June 8th - August 14th.
Dave will not start the trip until after Ramadan ends on May 23rd, so it seems best for me to take an early summer class, but this means the trip would have to start the July 11th and give us very little time to make it to SD by the 23rd when Comic Con is predicted to begin.
If I forego teaching a Summer class I need a way to recoup the $6,800 loss in pay.
We also need to factor out Sunday's for Dave's religious obligations, holidays and other shop closures.
We spent $50 to generate a route that connects all 185 CA comic shops in the most efficient rout possible but this does not end with us in SD, so we are going to have to use the map to identify an order of "home-base" hubs that will get us near as many stores as possible in as few stops as possible.
I have an excel file of all of the shops in the order shown above, if that would be of use to anyone.
Any suggestions on how we might pull all of this off are much appreciated.
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Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim!
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| Larry Wooten sent in the card he PAID to have beat to @#$% |
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18 comments:
Hmm...apparently nobody in California thinks Dave is a misogynist!
Okay, for around 20 years or so, I have been adamantly refuting (based on my extensive training in psychology) anyone who would say that Dave Sim was crazy.
Now? Dave Sim is nuts if he thinks he can pull this off. Hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of miles in 12 days, plus meal stops (at least, for Carson), bathroom breaks, prayer times five times a day, 4 to 6 hours of sleep per night (at least), refueling stops (which would mostly be tied to bathroom breaks), and sundry other unexpected delays. I know that Dave has said for many years that he is ready to meet his maker at any time, and this would probably seal the deal. Dave & Carson's Excellent(?) Adventure.
But, hey, if you're serious, I'll try to help. I can do some research and work up a list of inexpensive hotels along the way, unless you're thinking of renting an RV, plus anything else I can think of. Hey, I'll even fly out to one of the cities and be a cheerleader at each store. After a couple of decades working in psychology, crazy is my kinda thing.
Okay, folks, the clock is ticking. We've gotta year and a coupla weeks to set this up.
Wouldn't it be better to try a livestream fundraising type of thing? It seems like it could connect to a wider audience than a tour of California.
A Fake Name
There is this very egalitarian approach that all 185 stores are created equal and the opportunity cost of actually executing on that egalitarianism.
Really...are some of those outlying stores worth the effort to get to? Will the 30 minutes visit + the time to travel result in comparable sales? I'd think probably not so much.
Conversely, that San Francisco - San Diego (and corridor) is prime. San Francisco has amazing indie publishing support (Isotope, Comix Experience, Mission to name a few). LA is no slacker (Golden Apple, Blastoff, Meltdown, Secret Headquarters). Forget the 30 minute approach - study the stores in the area, and the ones that could best support are the ones to spend the time with.
James Sime (Isotope) and Brian Hibbs (Comix Experience) alone are MasterClass comic owner/entrepreneurs.
I get Dave's method to the madness...I just don't see the value in 185 stores * 30 minutes over 12 days as the best use of time to promote the work. Travelling 4 hours to get to that 1 stop shop off...how many copies would that store need to order to make this worth that effort?
On a more serious note, I;d be willing to contribute to a Go Fund Me or other fundraising operation to cover Carson's lost teaching income so they could have more time. I'm wondering if the sheer crazyness of this voyage might get more publicity than just visiting "select"/"prime" comix shops?
This really ought to be a documentary.
I really hope you guys rent a car with a backseat large enough to fit Werner Herzog and a boom operator!
Can I come and help? For 12 days this sound like the experience of a lifetime.
VERY clever, Sean! Made me LOL!
"We also need to factor out Sunday's [sic]for Dave's religious obligations"
The Sabbath is Saturday.
Yes, Mitch, in Judaism, the Sabbath is observed on Saturday, but Dave observes it on Sunday. I suspect, but do not know, that he subscribes to the (very) long-standing European and American idea that Sunday is the last day of the week, and, therefore, it is the day on which "God rested". Which, of course, explains the Christian establishment of attending church (or, Church) on Sunday. Plus, he is, secondarily, a businessman. It's hard to conduct business on Sunday.
But, I wanna talk more about The Excellent Adventure. Carson, have you advanced so far as to figure out in which cities you could expect to stay overnight at motels? Or, pointedly, do you plan to rent an RV?
I am just passing on the info and asking for input, as Dave asked me to.
I assume I will drive, using my car. We will stay with people where we can and use a cheap hotel chain where we cannot.
Dave said no Sundays, so I assume he observes on Sundays.
Beyond that?... I am not sure I even understand the purpose of the trip. It would be a singular experience, for sure.
Dave could pull a Sheldon Cooper of the 'Big Bang Theory" & do this tour remotely as a robot from his favorite chair in Kitchener, ON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4
Now that has Facebook Live written all over it.
Make it so.
Another thing to consider is that, at least in my area, some comics stores are closed on Mondays as well, and even Tuesdays. So keep that in mind.
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