Sunday 7 March 2021

Cerebus Around the World and Web #70 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

As we do on Sundays, sometimes click for bigger, sometimes click for nothing, it's a gamble!

Oliver Simonsen:

Can an aardvark get a little privacy as he trades his "Northern Barbarian Helmet" for a "Merchant Vest"?
As usual this week's wrap up covers from Saturday morning to Saturday morning.

Luis in Madrid got the first Cerebus Phonebook Remastered Edition
https://twitter.com/dskzero/status/1367855152657469440

William shares his Cerebus #1
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMCzm_jB5bc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Dave shares his latest "Cerebus in hell?" purchases
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLzSzeGhJLP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLwfXnshhFF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Dave Sim, one of the best writers ever, on Spawn
https://twitter.com/JuanAlbarran75/status/1365616158565687297

I'd given up on posting from the "Cerebus Facebook Group" https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus as it got too overwhelming - having said that...

Artist and Cerebus fan James Smith has started "Cerebus month" at his Comic Book Facebook Group: "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Excellence". Below are a few highlights - to see everything join his private facebook group here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/340056510686015

Some videos of James Smith drawing Cerebus


Here's indie Comic Artist and founder of the Darshan group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/220928537964384 )
Brian Payne drawing "Characters From Cerebus That Aren't Cerebus"






Tricia McDaniel: I realize that this should PETUNIA brand... and I am ashamed...

Jerome Cabanatan's Moon Roach drawing

Keith Perkins draws Lord Julius

Cerebus is a favorite twitter thread (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/PuchalskiVictor/status/1366867458947219457

Alex continues his mission of reading a Cerebus a day (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/ClockworkAIex/status/1366859053947904003
https://twitter.com/ClockworkAIex/status/1366453779533545472
https://twitter.com/ClockworkAIex/status/1366090081581355009

Reading 25 Cerebus issues a month
https://twitter.com/TBRAMBLIN/status/1366140024991940613
https://twitter.com/TBRAMBLIN/status/1366138644705259526

Cerebus highlighted in French
https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4i3Z9BlhS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus joins Legion of Superheroes
https://twitter.com/AidanSolsten/status/1366780143247654913

Cerebus and Love and Rockets
https://twitter.com/kylepinion/status/1366186454788022274

Cerebus a favorite comic cover
https://twitter.com/DericMiller/status/1365897570200023041

Cerebus the Bardvark
https://twitter.com/ConstructorCrit/status/1366705851705274370

Cerebus Syndrome part of the vernacular
https://twitter.com/TheStellarator/status/1366450447771262977
https://twitter.com/BFHVersatile/status/1366071776153919493
https://twitter.com/BFHVersatile/status/1365811927016955904

European Cerebus, Asterix, NetFlix announcement - will it do for Franco-Belgian comics in the US what Sailor Moon did for Manga?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-animation-series-asterix-obelix

Asterix was very popular in Canada - afterall French is their national language...and here from early 1970s there's a storyline where the barbarians become acclimated to high society:). They recently did a very good movie based on it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOIp4aAWPc

While having fun speculating on the wide array of influences (aside from the well known like Barry Windsor Smith)...howabout Dick Van Dyke? In a recent episode of WandaVision much was made of the seminal “It May Look Like a Walnut" Dick Van Dyke episode. The episode is "...one of the series’ best-remembered and most highly regarded entries".
"Rob wakes up the morning after watching this movie to find its facets overtaking his reality. His wife and child gorge themselves on walnuts; his friends gradually develop strange behavior and robotic cadence; he discovers a glowing gem inside a walnut shell; a British-accented Danny Thomas refers to Rob as the last remaining Earth human. And then Rob himself, through a manner of visual effect rivaled by the MCU itself, loses his thumbs; this solidifies his fate as “one of them.”"
https://nerdist.com/article/wandavision-dick-van-dyke-episode-aliens/
If i remember correctly Dave Sim said he was a Dick Van Dyke fan - hence why maybe "The Flame Jewel" transforms into a walnut, of all things, at the end of issue 1?

Dave Sim did a great parody in Cerebus
https://twitter.com/DavidLucarelli/status/1367963305134891008

Obsessed with Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Thicket23/status/1366236499172352001

Phantacea Phase One with early Dave Sim art
https://twitter.com/ClarkKentJeans/status/1366178681488617477

Dave Sim comic in Star Reach
https://twitter.com/PeteDoree/status/1365980555985182720

Best comic cover ever: Dave Sim and Gerhard elevated the comic cover (and the comic and comic book lettering) to the very highest levels
https://twitter.com/Kercal/status/1365753076666269699

Dave Sim is a master
https://twitter.com/HuhWhatUhHuh/status/1365505952611528705

Italian review of Cerebus Church and State 2: "Taken in the entirety of its sixty chapters, Church & State represents perhaps the highest point of the series" "...also important for the experiments that the author carries out..." "Church & State II proves that Cerebus, in particular, and comics, in general, are an effective vehicle for telling something deeply personal and with an intensity and continuity rarely seen later in North American comics."
https://twitter.com/la_quasi/status/1367493250936881159

Eric Hoffman's book about Cerebus spotlighted
https://www.instagram.com/p/CL_XdmnD449/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Charles shares spoiler that Cerebus is a hermaphrodite
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDVFdisZWy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


And ok this from the Cerebus Facebook Group (see comments):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/3784816091585738/
Raymond Mountford:
I was lucky enough to to have a signed #4 sent to me after sending a blank cheque to Dave...he sent the comic, the cheque torn up, and a note saying “congratulations to the winner of the nicest letter I’ve read all week prize” lol what a guy
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Thanks Oliver!

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