Last week we saw a page from Dave Sim’s twenty ninth notebook that turned out to be page 5 from Cerebus #240. Today we see another page from the same notebook:
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| Notebook #29, page 12 |
It turns out to be page 12 from Cerebus #240:
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| Going Home page 178 |
Out of all the pages in this notebook that are nearly complete pages, this one appears to have the most differences. The basic layout is very similar from notebook to finished page. But for example, the second row of panels, the first panel, had just Cerebus in it. All of the dialogue is the same. Cerebus is even scratching his. . .back. But in the finished page, Jaka is there looking at an earring she picked out.
Even in the next panel, Jaka goes from a face palm reaction to a sideways eye glance. And in the dialogue along the bottom of the page, Dave adds in the earrings.
Plus those backgrounds by Gerhard really tie the page together.
4 comments:
The earring-in-the-mouth effect in the word balloons. How many letterers would think of that? Brilliant.
The boat-trip up(down? is it ever made clear?) the Feld is one of my absolute favorite parts of the whole 6000 page run; nice to see how it was "rehearsed." As always, THANK YOU MARGARET!!
After a bit of reflection, it was clearly "down" the Feld, or the boat would've needed the sails up whenever it was moving, which it clearly didn't. Also, they ended up in Iest, which is only upstream from points south - which they clearly weren't.
I really notice a difference in panels 5 & 6 between the sketch and the finished page. The sketch version of Jaka looks more "Oliver Hardy Exasperated," and less "Palnu-face Irritated". I prefer the Exasperated, but perhaps that doesn't serve the story/characters as well.
Are you comparing Ger's art to Lebowski's rug, Margaret?
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