So, I faxed Dave questions, and the Astoria/Cerebus posts, and got back this:
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| For Auction as soon as I mail it to Dave. |
We begin with Dave's reading of John's Gospel 1-1 through 1-18, Dave explains why. And then we move to Steve Peters' questions:
Anyhoo, here's a couple questions for the next Please Hold For Dave Sim if you want them:
Dave- You recently speculated that people such as Lovecraft and Stephen King, who write about the infernal, do so with potentially harmful impact on their souls. Does it concern you that you've done a couple dozen comics depicting the infernal realm?
On a corollary note, should I be worried about making a magical Chinese dragon a central character of The Comicverse? This has been in the back of my mind since you wrote the Bone commentaries. You wrote that, in Christianity, "dragons are, CONCEPTUALLY, metaphorical distillations of the malign, devouring presence of paganism".
Part 2: Dave continues answering Steve:
Part 3: Dave answers MY question:
I wanna know what you think of Vark Wars (so we can plug the new issue). Favorite strip? Least favorite strip?
AND, Randy Gray's questions:
Do you guys want creamed honey or liquid? Comb in? Never mind, we'll send both. Just finished harvesting late summer so now we can send a proper thank you for the boxes of Cerebus you sent me.Dave kinda gets the story wrong. I told him about how Randy's house got flooded.
He also asks: Here's an oddball question, probably someone here can answer it : was Connie Lingus ever identified? When was her first and last appearance in the letters page?
Margaret answered: Here are the issues with a letter by either Connie Lingus or just Connie, so I'm not sure if it is the same author or not (one might be able to tell by getting out the issues and reading the letters if one wants): 72, 73 (only 'Connie'), 74, 77, 86, 140, 151, 163 (only 'Connie') Her first letter is actually in 67, but only attributed to C. Lingus
Part 4: Okay, T.M.I. about Dave and Connie Lingus. Seriously, T!M!I!
Then Dan Nitzani asks:
It's always been a frustration that 51, 112/113, and 137/138 are excluded from the phonebooks. Please consider putting these into a square bound collection, basically cerebus 0 plus the world tour book. Perhaps throw in random covers/pinups/sketches to round it outThis has been asked before. This time Dave doesn't say "no":
So if you wanna be the new Sean, read Paper to Pixel to Paper series. More on this as it develops.
Dave teases what he's been doing on SODAR, and goes back to that fax from the top of this post.
Pablo Martinez asked on the faceybooks:And, Raymond Mountford asks:
I finished the last few "Typings" of Dave Sim destroying Cerebus last month and I was wondering, was there any sign or commentary of Dave about what was originally going to be the conclusion of Cerebus before he retconned 70% of the lore introduced in Church and State?
He clarified:
Dave used "Typist" pejoratively to refer to Hemingway. I use that term to describe Going Home and Form & Void.
Mark Brett commented:
I can't remember Dave ever discussing his original themes in any detail, other than that they were part of his former feminist perspective.
I always thought it was significant that he'd made Cerebus a hermaphrodite, though. At the time, before the "Male Light / Female Void" essay, I thought we might see some kind of cosmic union of the sexes (at least on a symbolic level).
Does he have any copies of “Zootanpuss” #1 and Glamourpuss #13 lying around, and how much does he want for them? My Glamourpuss set shivers uncontrollably like a chihuahua without those two 😉
Part 7: More with Astoria and Cerebus and their marriage (my phone got another call around the six minute mark):
Part 9: More Astoria, and then we bring it on home. (Also, Dave reveals something about Cerebus' first Ascension that I believe has been previously unrevealed):
Next Time: I'ma getting a pinch hitter... but remember to check back for Part 6!
3 comments:
Manly, here's the CIH? Strip Dave alludes to in PART ONE of this month's PLEASE HOLD FOR DAVE! http://www.cerebusdownloads.com/cih/005/cih0030.html.
Happy One Year Anniversary of "Please Hold For Dave Sim"!! Listening to it now - YAY! My one and only strip which serves as the Earth Two ending is among Dave's favorite Vark Wars strips!! What a great day - I also just found out my a1c blood sugar is now 5.7! Almost there. (Normal is 5.6. It was 5.8 six months ago and 6.1 initially.)
-Oliver
Oh wait that wasn't my gag. Lol. Well, that's how good the issue is there's better gags than mine!:)
-Oliver
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