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.
We just looked at Dave Sim’s fifth Cerebus notebook, aka Albatross #5, last week in Issue #48 Thumbnails. On the FaceBook Cerebus group, Lord Julius came up, and then issue #46, “A Night in Iest” or “Summit Enchanted Evening”. The dialogue between Lord Julius, Cerebus, and Duke Leonardi has some good lines in it.
It starts on page 25 of notebook #5:
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| Notebook #5, page 25 |
It looks like the map was going to look like “a square piece a’ my aunt’s crumb cake” instead of a fat turkey. Fat turkey is much funnier to me. And then below that a bit, the line that Leonardi was going to say “The why a duck”. Which is the line that Julius was expecting him to say.
The next page in the notebook continues the dialogue between the three of them.
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| Notebook #5, page 26 |
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