An Audio/Visual Moment of Cerebus: "If it's NOT the original cover art to issue #80, WHAT THE HECK IS IT?!?"

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Hey, it's Monday:

Okay, it's Not what it looks like:

"Then what the HECK IS IT MATT?!?"

Well, I'll let AMOC Special Friend of the Day: Steve Swenson

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explain it. 

And now from the ACTUAL AMOC Cave (located below Stately Dow Manor) An Audio/Visual Moment of Cerebus: "If it's NOT the original cover art to issue #80, WHAT THE HECK IS IT?!?":

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And then we just kept talking...

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For an hour and a half...

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Okay, if you dinna wanna watch that crap, you can get it as a podcast, or on Spotify, or PocketCasts. Future Please Hold For Dave Sims will be available like this too (Supposedly they publish to Spotify, Apple, and other platforms. I dunno, I just record this stuff.) (And I recorded an ad for them, because I can conceivably get paid for them.)

If you want to hear more of me talking to other Cerebus Fans, sound off in the comments, and I'll see if I can find another schmuc...um, I mean, Fan who wants to talk.

ANNNND for the "cool kids" hanging out behind the gym smokin' smokes, instead of coming down to the A/V A/V club:

Steve Swenson emailed me:

Sir Matt -

So, I have something I'd like to send you (Cerebus related, of course), please be so kind as to email your address.

Steve Swenson

So I sent it to him, and then a package arrived and when I opened it I said: "That CAN'T be what it looks like!" So I emailed Steve, and (because this gig has all sorts of perks) Gerhard. And Gerhard responded first:

Hi Matt,

You're right, it's not.
...well, it IS... but it's a copy of Dave's part before I did my part.

I was contacted about it recently:

Hello Gerhard -

So, I bought this off eBay recently, and after asking Brian Coppola if he'd ever seen anything like it (he hadn't), and at his suggestion, I'm asking you if it looks familiar.

Brian thought maybe a print of Dave's art would be made for you to work off of, before committing your art to the original art board.

Any thoughts?

As for the 'signature', Brian's guess was "If that's Dave's, he signed with his feet".

Thanks!

Steve
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Hi Steve,

Hmmm...

The colour of the paper is very odd.
If it's a photocopy, I don't know why the paper would look like that.
I've got copies from back then that still look white.

I used to make copies for a number of reasons and purposes.
Can't exactly say what the purpose of this one would have been.
It may have been as a "backup" in case I ruined the original while I did the backgrounds and colour.
It may have been used just as a "place holder" so that Dave wouldn't have a blank spot on the wall while I worked on the original.

That signature definitely does not look like Dave's to me.

Sorry I can't be more help.
But, really... autumn of 1985... hmmm... let's see...
...nope...
gone.

Now, where did I put my glasses?
***crunch***
oh, there they are.
-G
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Thanks, about what I was expecting - that you'd make copies, so my guess this is one of those copies that 'made it into the wild'.

I neglected to mention: prior owner had it mounted to a foam board and must've been exposed to direct light over the years.

Thanks for the memories!

Steve
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I didn't realize it was mounted on foam board.
It's probably the glue that turned the paper that colour.

Best wishes to y'all at AMOC,

Ger

So THAT'S what it is. A photocopy of Dave's part to the cover of #80, that Gerhard had made that "got loose" (My personal speculation (that I haven't checked yet,) is that this might be from when Dave and Ger were living in Hawaii, and it may have been given away to somebody (remembering that any extra stuff like this was looked on as "junk" and Dave and Ger would just toss it away (like the tracing paper drawings... or the second batch of negatives for the first three phonebooks,) and that somebody mounted it on foamboard and hung it on a wall...).)

Thanks again Steve,

And Thanks as always to Gerhard,

And AND, youse guys should really quit smoking, it stunts your growth. We got all sorts of neat stuff in the A/V A/V Club...

Next Time: I know I said I was gonna post more High Society, but Adam Beechen sent something to Dave, and Dave sent stuff back...