NEW(!) Dave Sim Art round-up!

Hi, Everybody!

As promised yesterday, NEW Dave Sim Art!

Dave sent me:

Matt Dow

A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

stevekeeter@gmail.com

18 February 21

Hi Matt!

Attached! Ultimate DeadHand THE RAVEN illustration for the new UFO (United Fanzine Organization) Chairman, Steve Keeter (succeeding STRAW MAN's David Branstetter just as he -- Steve -- succeeded Carl Gafford back in 1973).

Talked myself into it as an "end of working day" excuse (insert chorus of "My Right Wrist Can Rest…Tomorrow" from ANNIE: I literally sleep on it) to channel my inner Bill Sienkiewicz because there are virtually no costume details. Just black and white shapes and muscles. "You aren't getting paid for it -- it's a freebie. So genuinely don't care what it looks like: ULTIMATE DeadHand". It only took an hour (including the handful of Neal Adams/Bill S. pen-lines).

So then I got sort of ambitious and photocopied Ben Robinson III's THE RAVEN logo from the back cover of #2, enlarging it 200% and adding Ultimate DeadHand dry-brush wings. Then photocopied the cityscape background from the glamourpuss splash page "When Avant Garde Went Retro". Slapped in chunks of that, retouched with pen lines and DeadHand whiteout. Two hours total. Cover? Back cover? Pin-up? It's proportional to 5.5." x 8.5" -- that's the important part.

THE RAVEN is one of the earliest black super-heroes (and THE earliest Small Press black super-hero if I'm not mistaken -- one of the story hooks is that no one knows he's black because his costume covers his whole body) appearing in OM #2 (1973), SPECTRUM #3 (1974), SATYR #2 (1975), OM #6 (1999), THE RAVEN #1 (2003) which Steve has just reprinted $2.50 postpaid stevekeeter@gmail.com and, yes, he does accept paypal COSMIC MAN #2 (2009) and MAIN ENTERPRISES #3 and 4 (ca. 2011), THE RAVEN #2 (2021) $2.50 postpaid stevekeeter@gmail.com and, yes, he does accept paypal

Thus proving that the time is ALWAYS right for any Small Presser to revisit a character he created. Even 48 years later.

Dave      

Dave also sent a whole bunch of scans of THE RAVEN, and this picture of Steve:

And then his Raven drawing:

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And, then, as a matter of course, Dave sends me scans of stuff. All sorts of stuff. Including process art of his covers for future Waverly Press projects:

Like this Cerebus #2 cover I've shown ya:

Here's the next one (click for bigger):

And:

And AND:

AND AND AND:

And, yes, Renet has a balcony you can do Shakespeare from...

You...you okay there?

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