A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Cerebus Around the World and Web #37 by Oliver Simonsen

Sunday, 19 July 2020

Cerebus Around the World and Web #37 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

The You Don't Know Jack Kickstarter

Heritage has glamourpuss/The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Art by Dave, and a sketch by Gerhard..

Cerebus in Hell?:
Hope you ordered: Batvark PENIS! and the "Censored for Grandma" variant: Batvark XXXXX (Final Order Cut-Off was yesterday.)
Signed copies of Vark Wars: Walt's Empire Strikes Back (Signed by Dave, Signed by Dave and me, Signed by me after I scribble out Dave's name, Signed by my kids, Signed by my mailman, however you want...)
In stores now: Attractive Cousins

And the A/V A/V Club.
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Oliver Simonsen:

Jack VanDyke is starring in a comic book and the kickstarter tripled its goal in less than 24 hours! http://kck.st/3j2Q3zx
Her co-stars are Dave Sim, Carson Grubaugh and Sean Robinson no less! Here spotlighted by the world's biggest comics news site Bleeding Cool
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dave-sim-parodies-rob-liefelds-avengylene-for-you-dont-know-jack/

Jack is an amazing artist in her own right - follow her here https://www.instagram.com/isleofjack/

Btw did you know Dave did photorealism animation for a promo/pitch idea. Partial animation anyway - he drew 6 images before it proved too much for his wrist. Need 24 drawings, or at least 12, for one second of animation. All the same here's the available 6 drawings in a cycle. I threw in the "J" roughly as Dave suggested in his notes.
(Referenced from a George Michael music video)

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We even played around with motion graphics

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There's much more but incomplete

Oh wait, so I sent the Jack team a draft of this column to get an ok and see now that they put it up on their kickstarter update - very cool
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1349357665/you-dont-know-jack/posts/2896686
I especially like the line: "Cerebus readers will recognize the central recursive event not as a Groundhog Day lift, but a Cerebus theme and recurring plot" as that applies to the Cerebus film as well. Will have to remember that one.

Another promotional idea of Dave's was to have a blog series featuring my wife's review done at Dave's behest in 2018. It was a detailed panel by panel, page by page, play by play...it was glowing and very witty to boot. She's not a comic book person and I told her to be honest and let the chips fall where they may - to sum it up she said: "I laughed out loud!!"

All that aside the Jack Kickstarter campaign is now one with the most backers of all "living the line" Kickstarter campaigns so big congrats to the "Jack" team!

Meanwhile...what is up with the aardvark? Let's see...

Robert Brian L. West got the latest "Cerebus in hell?" issue, here sporting a Cerebus T-shirt by George Gatsis
https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1284237916647174145

All around high praise for "Cerebus in hell?" in Danish - calling the covers ingenious
https://www.instagram.com/p/CClDqA3BUwN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

First Bone and now Usagi has a NetFlix deal, but the big question is...! https://twitter.com/blaksheepno1/status/1283402397671469056

Cerebus Syndrome part of the vernacular
https://twitter.com/DuckyPamuk/status/1283278149170626560
https://twitter.com/Cowloe/status/1282081667583283200
https://twitter.com/OneWordLong/status/1284169388199821312

"Cerebus'd" part of the vernacular
https://twitter.com/DuckyPamuk/status/1283285795168817152

Cerebus review of issue 6
https://twitter.com/Vnend/status/1282892946606567426

Studying and Cerebus (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/Matiasfmir/status/1282787549090664453

Praise Cerebus (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/Matiasfmir/status/1283863250900320256

Chad Bilyeu writer of indie comic sensation "Chad in Amsterdam" ala Harvey Pekar - also draws! "Trying to do illustration on a regular basis". A fan he hashtagged his sketch Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCs-BbUl-uY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Know Cerebus
https://twitter.com/thechadzerker/status/1282775370215956489
https://twitter.com/monkey__marc/status/1282081216418713601

Cerebus and webcomics
https://twitter.com/pdcawley/status/1282079966247755776

She's been a Cerebus fan since his appearance in Heavy Metal Magazine in 1984
https://twitter.com/ChristianaJoy/status/1284156774564671490

"late '88 through the mid-'90s, every small press cartoonist hoped to be the next Dave Sim"
https://twitter.com/flycojoe/status/1283873695786655744

Pablo Zambrano draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmjqcpAw11/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Keeping Cerebus collection
https://twitter.com/Blackmoor_Film/status/1282734103654268930
https://twitter.com/elfsternberg/status/1282419490249043968
https://twitter.com/RandallHead1/status/1282418788009304065

Cerebus unexpected (in French)
https://twitter.com/flurkoflurk/status/1282277657678417922

Cerebus, Transmetroplitan and Watchmen
https://twitter.com/TheJaceX/status/1282004942736232448

Dave Sim was swimming in money
https://twitter.com/tomshaps/status/1282408577488097281

Cerebus is "most influential/impactful series. Now is the time to dive deep into this series".
https://www.facebook.com/monkeysfightingrobots/posts/cerebus-the-aardvark-is-one-of-comics-longest-most-controversial-and-influential/2818175288416394/

Graphic Designer at T-Shirt company draws Cerebus as gift for cousin
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCt43JEhyO7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus cover shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmhGwNharU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus pages shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/CClPAE8h7lM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1282882212199690241

Cerebus issue #1: most spent on a comic
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrO-hqhx7T/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus issue #2: Never had an issue this early in the run (#2), my favorite independent comics of all time
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrzIqxhy9K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Charles: When I first read Cerebus issue #120 in 1989, the only thing I really knew of Wilde's was "The Importance of Being Earnest," but I was soon inspired to delve into his biography, and that led me, gradually, into the rest of his work. Needless to say, this little comic book was enormously influential.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CChNnVlpGVN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Review of Cerebus issue 7: "I would now define it as "madcap sword & sorcery parody." "a slapstick pursuit reminiscent of any old television program that would make you think of a slapstick pursuit. Maybe Scooby Doo or one of the Abbott and Costello movies.", "grades the art of Cerebus as an A and the writing as an A+"

and i missed this from a while back. Cerebus drawn by Mike at Dork Art Comics
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1f3Wgh2Ft/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus cookout
https://twitter.com/wardhillterry/status/1284254576829505538

Cerebus T-shirts
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCwucZspRNk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Oh wait one more item: there's "The Liefeldian Gazzette" controversy over "You Don't Know Jack" cover coverage! Gasp!
https://twitter.com/TheLiefeldian/status/1284498947780694016

"Oh double wait: and I'm listening to Carson discuss the animation and promo in his talk with Matt right now - it's all happening fast in real time:). Informative and filling in some gaps.

Cerebus Facebook Group

Shaun Pryszlak wants to make a Cerebus Adventure Game: he'll do the programming but hoping someone else will help with the story and graphics - whose game?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/152689141465136/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL

Baltazar Cardenas shares a new "The Comics Journal" review of "Cosmix" an early pre-Cerebus piece by Dave Sim. From the review: "...its photorealism is pure, uncut Al Williamson" and "...offers a glimpse into the creative mind of a young genius in the making"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3143084169092270/

In the comments Baltazar Cardenas offers a link to the full comic at the "Moment of Cerebus" site
http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2013/08/cosmix.html
Have to say while most of us at that age were hanging out with our friends wasting time lol it's amazing to see how much young Dave applied himself - in large part thanks to his mentor, Gene Day, I'd imagine. Dave's pre-Cerebus published output is probably more than most selfpublishers entire output.

Daniel Theacker's latest:
when Cerebus was taught in class
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3140560152678005/

High Society French language edition in hard cover
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3140133809387306/

"Following Cerebus Magazine" prices sky rocket
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3139308832803137/

Larry Wooten shares bonus sketch

Raymond Mountford's Local Comic Shop owner and friend of 20 years
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3134806516586702/

Weldon Adams shares Gerhard's drawing of Cerebus up at Heritage Auctions
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3133937440006943/
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/illustrations/gerhard-cerebus-illustration-original-art-undated-/p/122030-41069.s

Theodore Trout shares animation progress

Ron Essler shares a fav Death cameo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/152689141465136/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL

From the comments:
Author Chris Woerner spotlighted in last Friday's "Dave Sim's Weekly Update" among other times, says: "I'm number 3"
Marcus Montgomery: "Middle row, right panel looks like Dave."

Ron Essler's reread has hit 4796 of 5000...a personal milestone thing as he adds: "I got this for free from the manager of my LCS when I got into Cerebus around 1999, along with volume 1."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3132328003501220/

Joshua Even: I met Dave Sim and Gerhard twice in the early 90s on their First Half and World Tours. I was fortunate enough to buy these two (really three) pages from them.
I have a bunch of sketched headshots in my phone books, as well, and a signed/sketched First Half poster (that I cannot find any more).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3131414643592556/

[Click for bigger - Matt.]

In the comments Larry Wooten helps on getting these available for the Remastered Edition

Gilly Singh asks about the viability of creator controlled comics
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3131245670276120/

And also asks about a comprehensive list of comic books written and/or illustrated by Dave Sim. Margaret Liss provides http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/checklist/

And last week in the comments of a post from the week before Margaret Liss shared Gabriel McCann's photos from Dave's office

And for more check out Gabriel's website on his visit with the multifaceted Dave Sim
https://gabemc9.wixsite.com/website/single-post/2018/08/24/A-Day-with-Dave-Sim

here's some excerpts from the link of his time with Dave, who was a above and beyond gracious host, as they would...

https://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-was-lenny-henrys-40th-birthday-present.html

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Thanks Oliver!

Next Time: High Society, unless something else comes along...

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Sunday, 19 July 2020

Cerebus Around the World and Web #37 by Oliver Simonsen

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