6 of 30

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.

It has been a year since we last saw pages from Dave Sim's notebook #8. It covers Cerebus issues #70 through 79 and had 86 page scanned.

Three of those pages are Dave writing a letter to the people who have purchased a First Fifth portfolio series. It took me years to track down one of the black and white ones (#67 of 100). There was no letter with that one.

Notebook #8, page 9

Notebook #8, page 10

Notebook #8, page 11

When I found someone willing to part with their color portfolio, #6 of 30, I was luckily enough to get not only the original packaging (yes I kept it),  but some letters from Aardvark-Vanaheim.  I couldn't find one like what we see above. What the original owner did get was a letter from A-V's administrator, Karen McKiel.

Letter from AV

If anyone has something more like what Dave wrote above, please speak up in the comments!