Strange Death Of Alex Raymond Update

Hi, Everybody!

Carson Grubaugh:
Hi all, now that the You Don't Know Jack campaign has come to a close Sean and I are making plans to bring you a "completed" version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.
The book will be re-named The Strange Death of "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond." It will include all two-hundred-fifty-seven pages of content from SDOAR V1 and V2, an additional twenty-one pages that were mocked-up by Dave for V3 before he quit working on the book, and another thirty-one pages created entirely by me that are intended to bring the reading experience to a narrative close.

Dave has requested the right to provide an intro and/or outro essay, which is a no-brainer "YES, PLEASE". I will probably write some commentary as well, and Sean is such a darned good essayist it would be a travesty if he didn't contribute, so I am guessing that the book will be up around three-hundred and fifty pages in total.

Here is one of Dave's V3 mock-ups, tweaked by myself to ready it for the next step.

 

 

A page of ready-to-ink mock-ups written and designed by myself, intended to bridge V2 and V3

And a mock-up from my post Dave's-V3-material conclusion.

The ending is entirely written and mocked-up. It was almost eerie how the final pages put themselves together, revealing meaning I wasn't consciously intending to embed in them.

The finished art is underway and I am refining the script as I go.

Sean is getting the information he needs regarding the production of the book as well as working on the design elements, like the cover.

We have agreed that the book will be hardcover, printed on the same paper as the restored Cerebus books, produced by Marquis, with sewn case-binding so the book can lay flat when open and the spreads won't get lost in the gutters.

Give us something like 6 months.

Best,
Carson
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Thanks Carson!

As a reward, have the $200 from David Birdsong for this:

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It's:

This was the painted cover I did for SDOAR V1, based on mock-ups by Dave. Four months of work that we both agreed was just too cluttered to serve as the actual cover. The work is a 20" x 16" oil painting on board. It already has a frame.

Highest bidder in the comments after one week gets the work. Buyer will pay shipping, and if desired, insurance. If no insurance is purchased any awful thing the USPS does to the work on the way is the buyers loss."

Congratulations David, and Carson!

And this stuff:

Cerebus in Hell?: order the new one: The Amazing Batvark Final Order Cut-off is December 27th. And, on Wednesday, the 25th, pick up Spider-Whore.

And if you haven't gotten your surveys in for the Spawn #10 Kickstarter, you really should, so I can get my stuff. Which will get printed once the second chance IndieGoGo ends on today (supposedly...).

Also, Original Cerebus Pages/ Remastered Spawn #10 Preliminary Art/ Other goodies. And Kevin Eastman's original preliminary cover to Turtles #8.

The AMOC Cerebus Merch store: Check out the new Cerebus masks and whatnots.

And Dave's calling on Thursday, and Margaret has so many questions... But I'll squeeze you guys in if you got something...

Next Time: @#$& I gotta come up with something?