Hi, Everybody!
Hooray! Hooray! It's the first Saturday in May*! Outdoor Please Hold For Dave Sim starts today?
Wait, that makes no sense. There are birds and shit outside. You can barely hear Dave as it is in my basement. Why would I take this outside and deal with screaming kids and barking dogs and crap like that?
This "bit" got real stupid, real fast...
*the first Saturday after the first Thursday. We record on the first Thursday.
ANYWAY! For the audio fans who don't subscribe:
And now the video bits for the people that like to stare at the AMOC Cave...
Part one:
Jeff Seiler did the phone bit so you have to watch to find out what he wanted to know.
And Dave answers. Something about Oliver Simonsen's Cerebus movie.
Part two: I asked
The lettering thing. I was wondering if Sean could make a font based on your original 1970s lettering? I thought he had “cloned” letters to fix pages. Might be a worthwhile endeavor, in fact, I was thinking, maybe Richard Starkings would want “Dave Sim” font. I dunno, just a thought. (Maybe it would come in handy for the Spanish language Cerebus comics.)
Also:
Since we’re discussing “Dead Hand” lettering, how’s about “Dead Hand” drawing? Any chance you’d be willing to try to finish Anatoli’s whozwhatsit? Or “The Challenge”? I know 2021 Dave can’t draw like late 1970s/early 1980s Dave, but you might be able to finish it in the style of end of Cerebus. Thoughts on why not? (I know how this one ends…)
This is in response to Dave faxing me about his recreating the lettering to the "lost" Cerebus story: Anatoli's Solecism. And it turns into a "you can see that coming from a mile away" question about Dave finishing Anatoli's Solecism and The Challenge.
Part three:Raymond Mountford asks:
Hi Dave...Part four:
Seeing as you’ve gone mainly towards Kickstarter...have you ever considered trying something other than comics? I ask because of the upcoming TMNT remaster. As a kid I had a ton of the 3000 figures that Eastman and Laird milked out of the book and show, I retroactively feel cheated that we never got a Cerebus (possibly the ONLY character to not transfer to plastic?) anyways...
Was there a reason why we didn’t get a Cerebus action figure back in the day and have you considered trying your hand at doing one now?
I, personally, would love to see a couple of these. Cerebus. The Goat. Lord Julius. Jaka. Etc... the possibilities are endless (Mind you, it’s probably best to stop before you get to “Underwater Grappling Hook Battle Armour Rick” (who would even need a grappling hook underwater? Swim damnit))
Thanks for you time
Raymond Mountford
Dion Turner has been doing this thing on the Cerebus FaceItBooks Group where he picks a single issue to get remastered from each phonebook (I’m not sure why…) anyway, he recently posted:
Back to our regularly scheduled pick for thePart five:
#FantasyCerebusRemasteredLeague
Issue 166 for Women.
Great classic cover, inside we have some awesome spreads of dreams (I’m a sucker for any of the dream issues). The page of Cerebus and Jaka on the chess board with the moon in the background puts this issue at the top of my list. I can completely understand someone picking some of the Roach-focused issues if that tickles their fancy more.
Like the Mind Games issues Cerebus seems to be at his most powerful or most ‘pure’ of intent when he’s unconscious or not being poisoned by his own ambitions.
Everyone dreams in Women, all characters have a vision or two that moves them around the chessboard for the start of Reads. Despite Sandman being popular I don’t think that was the reason that the Roach become Swoon in these issues.
At the back of the issue is a transcript of Dave’s address to the Diamond Seminar in ‘92, it’s a great read and a little bit depressing given the view of the comic shelves these days. It would be interesting to know if Dave had anything to add to this near enough 30 years later.
As I faxed Dave:
Erik Larsen posted on HIS FaceItBook:
Color the page using flat colors made up of 25%, 50% and 100% only. No gradients, no cheating. No black percentages. Make a copy of this and keep it always. If the other stuff looks crappy or if you decide later to print it Marvel Masterworks style--you may want a clean, perfect, beautiful version.I dunno why, but I “bookmarked” it, so it must have been as a Please Hold question/comment…
And Jen DiGiacomo posted in The Official Cerebus Facebook Group:
Is there a missing Cerebus Jam issue with the Salvador Dali-Cerebus jam? Because I would totally buy that.
And a link to an eBay auction for this piece
:Titled: Salvador Dali - Cerebus Divine Comedy Custom Framed Print
Just thought you’d appreciate the joke…
Part six:
I asked:
Lastly, I had a couple questions about the Waverly Press Hardcovers.And then AT THE LAST MINUTE! Brian West asked:
1. Are the 150 copies per trade “set in stone” or would you guys up the amount offered if there was demand?
2. As it is 150 each time a book is printed, does that count new versions of previously offered books? Or do those get “skipped”?
Where in your opinion does Cerebus return to when he dematerializes near the end of SPAWN TEN REMASTERED?There's ya go!
What are your reasonings in changing how Cerebus dematerializes from how McFarlane had rendered it in SPAWN 10 in 1993?
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3 comments:
Coupla things:
1) I couldn’t tell from the context whether Dave was saying that the next WP book offering was going to be Form & Void, or if that was just referencing a remastered trade
2) I may be in the minority, but both Form &Void and Going Hone represent not only the creative high point of the series (and by extension a creative high point in the medium), but also my ‘adult’ favorite part of the series. By which I mean that the climax of Church & State, because it came out whien I was 17, retains for me a real glow of excitement that’s partly due to nostalgia, i was in my early thirties for the whole GH/FV arc and my conception of what comics should be had... let’s say ‘matured’? So the focus on relationship dynamics, damaged authors, and self-image combined with lush art and formal experimentation just sings for me, always
Mr. Kopperman,
Both. Dave was referencing the next Remastered Trade, which, unless things change, will ALSO be offered as a High End, Limited Edition, Hardcover from the fine folks at the Waverly Press. (Much like the Regency Edition of High Society.)
The plan, unless things change, is for the Waverly Press to do a hardcover whenever a phonebook goes back to press. (I haven't asked TWP if they're gonna do repeats or if it's just for first run of a phonebook. It's on my list...)
I hope this clears up any confusion you had, and leaves you with a whole new confusion,
Manly Matt Dow
Thanks, Matt! Interesting - and definitely useful. Unless the RSHS turns out to be just junk (which seems HIGHLY UNLIKELY), I plan to buy every one of these as they come out.
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