A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Cerebus Around the World and Web #58 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

Please stick around after Oliver's column for an important announcement.

Oliver Simonsen:

Arm still hurts and still typing left handed...getting a little worried now

CBR article: "10 things you didn't know about Cerebus"
https://www.cbr.com/cerebus-aardvark-controversial-comic-trivia/

[Oliver said I could leave this one out, but I'ma leaving it in...ya know, for posterity...-Matt]

Cerebus and CBR's 25th anniversary
https://twitter.com/KeithAlanMorgan/status/1335338791628800000

Bleeding Cool article: new hit Image comic called "Crossover" references Spawn/Cerebus crossover issue
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/crossover-2-teases-spawn-for-crossover-3/

Cerebus, Spawn and the other Image comic titled "Cross over"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUjI-FhnTV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/strangeadventrz/status/1336684850632413189

Cerebus and Spawn kickstarter rewards
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0rIWJhMb4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG1C1j6h83M/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0lFgyh7HP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Spawn
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWXIWrJBuS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHmIbRqgxs5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Spawn parody by Lethargic Comics
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHfibmsBwCS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIqU1w2BmG4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"Cerebus in hell"' comic shared in celebration of "Local Comic Shop Day"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBU1wsHaRk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"Cerebus in hell?" cover shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIOlpnahPja/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus sticker
https://twitter.com/JalekokRespawn/status/1335762441779744771

Cerebus recommended to get teens to read
https://twitter.com/CastlesofImagin/status/1337082051443322880

Cerebus recommended to read between sets
https://twitter.com/Phyrehorse67/status/1337068140270813191

Cerebus and Sonic animated show
https://twitter.com/tackxolotl/status/1337368031140474880

Cerebus in the MSU
https://twitter.com/et_jenn/status/1337211123783720960

...oh btw Instagram "recent hashtag" search is back

3 Cerebus "motion comics" (clicks links for "motion")
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJaaTXHWt1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIL_NpiHTkS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHLnaoWn_xn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
https://twitter.com/DanielKurlansky/status/1336296492458446854
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHIT7tVhYh1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/del_mutante/status/1336452656085278720

"c0micbooknerdgirl": This is One of my favorite wraparound Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles covers ft Cerebus dual signed by Kevin Eastman & Gerhard
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHMiFdJlPkj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus comics acquired: If you've never read a comic and are a more literary type, you can't go wrong with Cerebus.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHb7Z4PhsKN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Groo
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHh9diWFY3t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Aardvark Vanaheim's Normal Man covers shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRhfqIBFgd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRhaxvhJXv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus panels shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHfy03GAOA-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

A look at Cerebus and 1977
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGIUSOh59j/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Becca Heath 𝑪𝒐𝒑𝒚 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 on Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman's “The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels” shares
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG7ryIHBvww/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Bought "Following Cerebus"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIoh-H_LCMm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

that's what he said
https://twitter.com/EbowEnnis/status/1336005206627086338

Red Sophia is the best
https://twitter.com/cinema_strikes/status/1335966009895874564

Various Cerebus with Prince Mick and Prince Keef art shared (more in link)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNooMmBpQH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus the pope
https://twitter.com/HammerMoc/status/1336773521293389827

Cerebus and the latest DLC pack
https://twitter.com/Cr0ss0verB0t/status/1335622272246231046

"kollerina" draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJYORtFCEl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIG48PclOy3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

RIP Richard Corben. Corben self published "Fantagor" as early as 1970 (And years before Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal existed contributed to Warren's anthology comics Creepy, Eerie, 1984 and Comix International)

Here's a look at some of the movies he made himself
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=392026818461050
https://youtu.be/JM3hjD_W0yI
And there's currently an indie film being made via indigogo based on his comic "Fever Dreams" starring Patton Oswalt, Robert Picardo (from Star Trek Voyager) and Patrick Warburton (the Tick)
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/to-meet-the-faces-you-meet#/

Last week we looked at another similar animation production setup as ours as well and here's yet another...It's a crowded field:). It's also based on a humorous genre comic - a Franco Belgian comic called Agent 327 of which i have several European album format issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_327
They did an amazing trailer https://youtu.be/mN0zPOpADL4

Done through the awesome free open source community Blender that is open to anyone. They have actually done several incredible shorts, but 327 is to be their first feature. You can also do 2D animation and comics with the Blender software
https://cloud.blender.org/films/
https://cloud.blender.org/films/agent-327/5889c0e09595a620346e0aa0
Blender's biggest strength and why it might exceed all other software platforms is it's amazingly enthusiastic and robust community and if we had been smart we would have gone that route but at the time Blender was far from what they are now - and we were only a handful of people and nobody knew how to use it. (We actually had a vote on what software to use and i lost and had to learn how to use Maya, which was and is the biggest.)
Anyway, things have gotten quiet on the 327 front with chatter that maybe they aimed too high, not that there's anything wrong with that https://blenderartists.org/t/whatever-happened-to-agent-327/1101549/22
but i wouldn't discount the movie yet and rooting for them
https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5dkbb/a-small-animation-shop-is-trying-to-break-up-a-movie-monopoly
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1330172520750780419

As an aside with the upcoming "hitpig" movie - there's also this week a new nintendo game called "gunpig". https://www.nintendo.com/en_CA/games/detail/gunpig-firepower-for-hire-switch/

Weishaupt calls Cerebus excellent
https://twitter.com/Hyper_lexic/status/1336084346411708417
https://twitter.com/not_weishaupt/status/1336085519243997186

Cerebus spelling
https://twitter.com/tobadzistsini/status/1336799106308706304

Andrew Rilstone reviews Cerebus #1: ...a homage to the Marvel Comics version of Conan the Barbarian. The joke, if there is a joke, depends on the art looking as much like Smith’s as it is possible for art to look. But a very large amount of what made Cerebus the Aardvark great is already present in these opening pages, if only embryonically.
http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2020/12/1.html
https://twitter.com/AndrewRilstone/status/1337356144701018114
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3562481563819193/

Cerebus Facebook Group

Weldon Adams: I don't think I have ever posted this here. It's a sketch I got from Dave at a store signing in Dallas in (I think) the mid-1980s.
There's a funny story about this piece... you see, that's Moon Roach, Lord Julius, Cerebus... and ME.
I showed up at the signed in full Harpo Marx regalia. And I would not speak at all. Using mime, I told Dave I wanted a 4-person sketch. I mimed Moon Roach, and Lord Julius. Then I mimed getting out a cigarette and smoking it. When Dave said "Cigarette?" I got him to say it again...and I grabbed his face and started squeezing his cheeks as he said it until it sounded like "Cerebus". :) (It's amazing what you can get away with if you are dressed like Harpo Marx.) And for the fourth person, I thumped my chest and stood proudly.
And this is the wonderful sketch Dave produced after that light-hearted humiliation

Weldon Adams in the comments: I did find this one (horrible) photo showing me in an earlier version of that costume from my Senior year of High School.

Steve Peters: Sienkiewicz is asked about Dave Sim and talks about him for a couple of minutes. Starts around 44:45. https://youtu.be/-twcTFGY60k
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3553359041398112/

Organizing the collection part 6: this letter wasn’t sent to me, but it and the tree drawn by Cerebus are now in a binder of miscellaneous Dave Sim letters and faxes.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3552545711479445/

Organizing the collection: The hand out at ChristmasCon 1979 with Cerebus and the Roach by Dave. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3546959205371429/

Margaret Liss in the comments: And I just found a picture of the original art for this on my hard drive

Anthony Kuchar: Send this to Dave.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3552533991480617/

Thomas Bellavance: Whats everyone’s favourite arc?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3552391951494821/

Byron Dunbar: I never read Spawn before, so this is probably old news, but reading the Gaiman/McFarlane trial log had me reading the first ten-some issues, and this came as a surprise:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3552257508174932/

Larry Wooten: Road trip. One to send to Dave. 12 and 13 of 50. Missed my CAN #11. So close.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3550644501669566/

James Windsor-smith: Drawn during rehab on typing paper
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3546930135374336/

Michael Hunt: The Guardian article: "Tower of human skulls reveals grisly scale to archaeologists in Mexico City."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3564488363618513/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/mexico-templo-tower-of-skulls-archaeologists-aztec

James L Stuart shares
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3564473436953339/

Thomas Bellavance shares
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3561950523872297/

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Thanks Oliver!

As I said, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

SAM GLANZMAN ORIGINAL ART UP FOR AUCTION

Right now, ATTU Book Three by WWII veteran and comic book master Sam Glanzman, is up for auction from Heritage Auctions. There are only 2 days left, and 27 pages of original Sam Glanzman art (the complete ATTU Book Three) only has a few bids, with a high bid of only $575. It’s got cavemen, dinosaurs and a whole lot of action! Gotta be worth more than $575! Sam Glanzman's widow will benefit from this auction, so only getting $575 for 27 pages of original Glanzman art would be devastating. We are trying to get the word out to collectors of original comic book art. If you collect original comic book art, please consider placing a bid. And if not, please forward this to anyone you think would be interested.

Here is the link: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/sam-glanzman-attu-the-collected-volumes-1-complete-26-page-story-attu-jan-uk-original-art-total-27-/a/122050-13642.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Thank you so much for your time and consideration!

Sincerely,
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The auction WAS at $575, but that's jumped up to $725. But, again, Sam's widow isn't gonna get much. So, if you got some money, and wanna help a poor widow...

Auction ends tomorrow.

Next Time: Matt remembers Rich Corben

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Sunday, 13 December 2020

Cerebus Around the World and Web #58 by Oliver Simonsen

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