Updates on the things, and some "Vintage" Dave Sim Original Art.

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays:

Yep, Ramadan is over.

Anyways, Kickstarter News (because that's all I'm good for now...):

Hobbs's Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Hardcovers: is 559 bucks away from the next stretch goal.

That's it, that's all his news...

Carson and Sean's Strange Death of Alex Raymond has all sorts of news, because they's the "Chatty Kathies"...

Carson sez:

This is wild. Almost 500 backers and trucking along at a steady pace.

HUGE shout out and thank you to Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor of Cartoonist Kayfabe for doing an HOUR LONG review of the promo edition of Strange Death on their channel today. Kayfabe is one of my favorite channels about comics and a heavy inspiration for Living The Line's new YouTube venture.

Jim and Ed are great cartoonists themselves, both with awesome books to support.
Check out their commentary here https://youtu.be/jF5ykH0uH90
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Speaking of Living The Line's YouTube channel, I recorded an hour and twenty minutes of myself preparing Rip Cerebus in Photoshop today to put up, but the file got corrupted in the process of saving and is now lost forever. Ahh well. I will try again when I ink the piece in the next couple of days.

Anyway, here is Dave's faxed layout.

And the Photoshop tracing I will be printing out in blue-line to ink on top of.

This strip will be the only time both Dave and I draw on the same piece of paper, him handling Cerebus, me doing everything else. We will be releasing it as an add-on to the campaign in the next day or two. It will be a numbered print, printed at the size of a newspaper strip, on study, acid-free paper that has a newsprint look (but not feel) to it. The prints will be signed by both Dave and myself.

The original art will be auctioned through Dave's Heritage Auctions account, so keep an eye out for that. Remember, this is the only time our brushes will ever grace the same piece of paper!
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A reminder that some of my art from what would have been Volume 1 is still available for sale.

You can see a list of images here. Reach to me at clubgrubbug@gmail.com to get the stuff you want. First contact on any given page gets it.

There is also some good original work left over from the You Don't Know Jack campaign that you can grab from here.

All funds from art sales go to buying food for this rapidly growing chocolate chonk, who is warming my feet as I type this post.


Thank you all SO MUCH!!!!

And then Sean sez:

Okay, with five (!!) days left, we have a LOT of ground to cover! First things first ...

1. THE PRELIMINARY STRANGE DEATH

This 120-page book, at the same physical size as STRANGE DEATH, presents Dave Sim's preliminary drawings for both STRANGE DEATH and the STRANGE DEATH-related sequences to glamourpuss. (See the main page for a full description). It is currently available as a $30 Add-on to your pledge, OR as its own tier (for those of you who may be getting Strange Death from a different place, but still want this book!). As of Monday morning, we have sold 91 of these books! If we sell just nine more, this book will be presented in full color instead of black and white! So if you're interested in picking it up, now is the time!

2. MORE TRACING PAPER! AND A DIGITAL STRETCH GOAL.
This week, we received scans of a raft of additional tracing paper drawings, from Eddie Khanna (thanks Eddie!), and Dave's assistant Rolly as well! Dave found a folder containing a whole bunch of new drawings, from the later portion of the book. These will be incorporated into the Preliminary Strange Death book. Additionally, if we hit $60,000 before campaign's end, ALL of these scans will be sent as a digital reward, to everyone one, of every pledge tier.

3. THE SIM SALE

On Friday Dave sent us a list of rarities from the Cerebus Archive related to STRANGE DEATH and his photorealism work, which we'll be making available from now until the end of the campaign. These are each available as "Add-ons", but the availability varies quite a bit. The rarest of these items will be sold in a special sale the last 100 hours of the campaign. Please note that unlike the rest of the pledge items, these items will be fulfilled by Dave and Rolly in Kitchener, Ontario, and thus are subject to international shipping rates for U.S. delivery destinations.

I will be adding some of these items this morning, so keep your eyes peeled!

Lastly —
4. KICKSTARTER's ADD-ON SYSTEM
If we can judge from the comments and messages, about 10-15 percent of you have been running afoul of Kickstarter's relatively new Add-On system! Here's what we know so far about the issue.

How this process is SUPPOSED to work:

1. Login into KS (I would STRONGLY recommend using a desktop or laptop computer! Most of the complaints we've had about this not working are from people using Kickstarter on their phones or tablets)

2. click MANAGE YOUR PLEDGE

3. click CHANGE YOUR PLEDGE

4. then click ADD ONS

If this process isn't working for you — Add-ons grayed out or unclickable, or just not visible — then I would suggest trying a different browser. I.e. try it on Firefox or Edge or Chrome instead of what you're currently using. And as I said, most problems seem to be related to using Kickstarter on a phone or tablet.

If you're using the desktop version, you can also try this procedure instead (thanks Philip!) ""If you are on a computer and you go to your list of backed projects (your icon in the upper right), click on the "+" next to the campaign and your pledge will pop up. It should clearly show any add-ons right there. Unfortunately on the mobile app, you cannot do this. You'd need to go through the entire "change my pledge" process to see what you currently have added on. ""

5. Thank YOU!
Lastly, let me thank everyone for making this campaign an incredible success. We can't wait to get this book in your hands at last.

All the best,

Sean

Living the Line Books

I mean, both of them can post to AMOC whenever they want, so I dunno why I haveta be their lil' bitch...

(Yeah, yeah, these are both updates for backers, and they never asked me to spread them far and wide, but if you decided to "sit this one out," here's your notice that that may be a thing you regret. So, "you snooze, you lose...")

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe is gonna be on sale:

Up to 35% off site-wide:

May 20 – 21

May 27 – 31

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

Which is good news for some of youse, 'cause I added the "CROSSING OVER" logo:

This is the original art. I took it and cleaned it up as best I could, and made the image for the merch.

Don't worry, there's variants, for all you obsessives who can't handle just one thing...

Hey! You're welcome...

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Cerebus in Hell?

The Unethical Spider-Vark

Also available: Swords Of Cerebus In Hell? Volume 4

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Heritage has some interesting "Dave Sim" bits (Page from issue 5, and two (count 'em) TWO! Beavers strips! Plus a bunch of CGC "slabbed" issues...)

Geez, that's not "Moment" enough for you?

Okay, here's Dave's "original" art to that Comics Journal issue (you know the one...):

Click for bigger

Ditto

Technically, the original files are six times as big as these. So, "Original"...

Next Time: Why An Aardvark?