Twenty Years of CerebusFangirl.com

MARGARET LISS:

Unpaid intern for AMoC and the front room in my house filled of Cerebus, Dave Sim, and Gerhard memorabilia shows that yes, I'm the Cerebus Fangirl. 

I asked Matt if he could ask Dave if I could talk about what he sent me. And in Dave's words "if he sent it to me, I can post it to AMoC". So here we are.

Last week I got a comic sized bubble envelope in the mail from Ontario. Yes, Canada. I didn't remember ordering anything from eBay from Canada, and it wasn't from Dave, so I wasn't sure what to make of it. When I opened it, there was a copy of Cerebus #114, and a letter from Dave. The letter wasn't addressed to me though. . .it was addressed to Wilf, the now retired former corporate lawyer for Aardvark-Vanaheim. Down at the bottom Wilf had written a note to me:

Yeah, I did react some parts. . .

Yup, the CerebusFangirl.com domain has existed for 20 years as of 04 August 2020. The Cerebus Fangirl website existed before then - only a couple pages at first, but as it grew I knew I needed a domain name for it. And while I'm no longer a girl, as Dave says, CerebusFanWoman really doesn't have the same ring to it.

And that issue #114? It is from the Wilf Jenkins Collection. Well, no longer. Now it is in my collection. It is signed both by Dave and Wilf and has a WJC annotation on it:

The comic came bagged and boarded. I was going to toss out the board and put it in a new one as the board was slightly bent. But then I looked at the back of it:

And yup, there is the seal:

All embossed and fancy like.

Pretty cool.  Thanks Dave! Thanks Wilf!