Remember yesterday when I was talking about Cerebus Archive Number Nine, and I posted this image:
Whelp...
It's not launching the day after tomorrow, like I said, it launched today:
So, there ya go.
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Also continuing from the yesterdays, my man at the Waverly Press followed up on the "Extra" High Society Regency Editions:
Hey,
Just a quick update as I get the last of the Regency books out the door.
For the sake of safety I slightly undersold the books when they went on sale in case any copies need to be replaced due to loss or damage in shipping.
It looks like there will be around 15 copies left over, a mixture of numbered and proof books.
If anyone wants one they can get on a waiting list by contacting us directly through the Cerebusoverload website.So there's your answer Bill.
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Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Volume 5 F.O.C. is coming up...
Heritage has some interesting "Dave Sim" bits (Page from issue 5, and two (count 'em) TWO! Beavers strips! And an original Diamondback deck.)
Up to 35% off site-wide:
June 23 – 27
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!
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Much appreciated, Matt! Thank you for the follow up. Also, thank you to Waverly Press for keeping the deal.
As I look at the crowdfunding campaign, it's already raised nine times its goal. So, as Dave once joked, it's very popular among people who like that sort of thing! I hope everyone who backs the portfolio enjoys it. And I note approvingly that this campaign is simple and straightforward, without complicated add-ons and revisions.
The notes presented are interesting. There's Dave's persecution complex and self-pity on display, of course; you have to expect that.
It's interesting to see him discuss his greatest skill as an artist (that is to say, the guy who draws the comics; not meaning the term as the creator of the comics): he's the Super-Adaptoid -- borrowing this bit from here, using that bit from there. It's a good example of what I've said before: Dave is not an originator, but a deployer; he always knew exactly what technique to use to get the effect he's after. (This description isn't an insult to anyone but Dave, whose narcissism demands that he be not just good, or very good, or even the best, but unprecedented.)
What's also interesting is that Dave then gets it wrong. Comics is not "an entirely visual medium", is it? The content of the words, not just their appearance, carries meaning. Dave was always a draw-er who writes, rather than a writer who draws, so this error is not surprising.
It's funny to me how much Dave resembles Cirin: "I'm on the side of Truth, unlike [...] you." To Dave, only Dave is trafficking in reality. Gave me a giggle, anyway.
Dave's grasp of science is, as usual ... well, he doesn't have one. He literally doesn't understand how it works. That's fine in his case; he's a harmless old recluse.
Richard Nixon's a bit of a hobby of mine, so I found Dave's reference interesting. Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, his ignominious fall, and his subsequent rehabilitation all stem from the same thing: Nixon's completely amoral willingness to say and do anything to advance what was good for the world and good for Richard Nixon -- two things between which he saw no distinction. Dave's a lot like that. Witness his confessions that he's always lived in Comics World and not in Reality, that he divided the world into advancing his career and everything else, that he gaslighted his wife for the entirety of their relationship, that the way to respond to propaganda is with propaganda, that he views his life as an unbroken series of hatred given and received (that sounds like "Other Dave" speaking). Witness also his ongoing attempts to rewrite history to comport with his current feelings and the Legend of Me, as did Nixon.
Dave wrote that Commander Krull was the first of his characters to be living his own autobiography, but that's not true. That distinction belongs to Dave's first and greatest fictional character: Dave Sim.
-- Damian
I pretty much just read AMOC for Damian's commentary now. Always interesting, thanks.
I read AMOC commentary *despite* Dame's commentary. But, Dame, could you please cite references for your character assassination of Mr. Sim? In particular, your assertion that Dave "admitted" to gaslighting Deni? If anything, she gaslighted him, IMHO. After all, who got whom admitted to a hospital on a (false) diagnosis of schizophrenia?
Also, Dame, how could Dave have become the most accomplished independent comic book creator (apologies to Smith, but, still) without having been a VERY good plotter/writer/storyteller?
Not to mention, winning an official (or, "official") World Record?
I almost never read it for the art (well, Ger, sometimes for the art) alone. I read it for the story. Even four pages of pissing late at night. (Been there, done that, more times than I can count.)
Your backhanded compliments become tiresome, Dame.
I have a stupid question for Damian: Does anyone who actually knows you - like, outside of an obscure Blogger site - actually call you "Dame?"
(If this question is too stupid and/or pointless to reply to I will quite understand...!)
No, Tony D.; Jeff S. is the only one, I think 'cause I called him "Jeffie". (As Pierre Trudeau is reported to have said when he heard that Richard Nixon called him an asshole: "I've been called worse things by better people.")
When I was at public school in England, some people tried "Day", but it didn't stick. And when she was very young and learning words my sister called me "Damie" 'cause she couldn't yet manage the whole word. My name doesn't really lend itself to diminutives, it seems.
Is anyone interested in watching me prove Jeff S. wrong (again) with his objections above?
-- D.
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