Anyway, ROLL IT!
Matt Dow
15 April 21
Hi Matt!
Please run these on AMOC at or around the SOCIH? VOL 1 ship date (whenever that is)
Dave
Sandy Atwal
13 April 21
Hi Sandy!
Promo for SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL?
OPTIONS:
1) add some annotations/funny remarks a la XEN and VERSUS when you get a minute and forward the results to Matt Dow at AMOC. Funny might help sales. Depending on how funny the remarks are, it could hurt sales. We've never let hurting sales stop us from being funny before so why start now?
2) Wait until these are posted and add your own funny remarks in the COMMENTS section
3) Just ignore this, if you're seriously swamped
STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE: THE SECRET ORIGIN OF
CEREBUS IN HELL? PART ONE
The CIH? book introduction you won't get in SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL? because it's traditional -- never do anything with CIH? that actually makes money. Give it away for free on AMOC where 1) the trolls can rip it to pieces in real time thus leading all the non-trolls to say 2) "I thought I wanted to buy one of these! How wrong I was!"
Dave Sim: I was ill over Christmas and New Years December 2015, January 2016. Back when we just called it "I feel like crap" instead of The 21st Century Black Plague That's Going To Kill Us All! So, I went to my bookcase to try to find something Funny to read, Laughter being the best medicine as the Reader's Digest assures us (like THEY would know).
It was a toss-up, my personal "funniest options" being Stephen Notley's BOB THE ANGRY FLOWER collections: 1) COFFEE WITH SINISTAR or 2) IN DEFENCE OF FASCISM (you can see that Stephen and I share a warm affection for career-immolating guy humour) and 3) David Malki's THE BEARDS OF OUR FATHERS Wondermark collection.
[Does anyone know if Stephen Notley -- who is from Alberta -- is any relation to Rachel Notley, the former premier of Alberta and current opposition leader? See what I just did there? Interrupted my introduction that was off to a flying start to ask a pointless question about a political leader from a geographic jurisdiction no one in the United States -- pretty much the sole CIH? market -- has ever heard of or would care about if they had. Alberta is a western province. It's, like, Canada's Texas. We call "states" "provinces" in Canada for the same reason we use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Or prime minister instead of president or premier instead of governor or opposition leader instead of minority leader. Because it means we have to translate everything into American when we're talking to Americans, so it's impossible to get up any momentum in a conversation or a book introduction. What's weird is that Canadians think that makes them sound sophisticated to Americans, instead of making of us a dominion (our word for "nation") of Poindexters with pocket protectors who say things like "ACTUALLY Humphrey Bogart DIDN'T say 'Play it again, Sam' in Casablanca". You know the guys I mean. Imagine a whole country like that. 24/7]
I picked the latter. David Malki's THE BEARDS OF OUR FATHERS Wondermark collection, I mean (sorry to wake you up after my giant parenthetical digression). It's basically a collage of late19th century, early 20th century engravings with High Ironic modern word balloons and captions. Partway through, I had my eureka moment. "I should buy the California port city. The one on Humboldt Bay. Just tell the 27,025 residents to take a hike." Realizing that even a town the size of Eureka was out of range of my current finances, I kept reading. And had another eureka moment. Eureka originating in the Greek term heureka meaning "I can steal this concept and David Malki will never find out." I hadn't been aware that that was the definition of the Greek term. It did have a definite comic-art metaphysics predestination vibe to it.
I done could have sworn Dave sent me some images from THE BEARDS OF OUR FATHERS, but they're not where I thought they'd be...
Despite everyone's best efforts in the comic-book field to the contrary, a new volume of SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL? will be published on a monthly basis throughout 2021and into 2022. In fact VOLUME ONE, reprinting the four-issue mini-series may be in stores even as you're reading this. Kind of like the way that COVID-19 went from a "where the hell is Wuhan?" story to a "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!" story without a lot of observable transition. Speaking of observable transitions:Well, thanks Dave!
TO BE CONTINUED something you wouldn't ordinarily read in a book introduction.
Speaking of Swords of Cerebus in Hell?, Hobbs sent out an Update on his Kickstarter:
Hello everyone!
A GIANT THANK YOU to everyone one of you! Without your support, this campaign would not have been the success that it has been.
Surveys have gone out, so if you haven't yet filled one out, please take the time to do so! Thanks to everyone who filled them out already!
I sent the files for the bookplates to the printer, and they sent back these images to confirm the size:
They should be arriving this week or early next week!Ya know, so GET YOUR @#%&ING SURVEYS IN!!!!
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4 comments:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah! Yes, Dave, that's why Justin Trudeau isn't the president of Canada. You go, girl.
-- Dame
I'm beginning to think Dave is liberally (see what I did there? See, "liberally" means "freely" - "liberal" coming from the same Latin root as "liberty," which for you Canadians, is American for "hockey") inserting "I infer" in his Bible commentaries just to troll Damian.
Ha! I'm not (quite) egotistical enough to think that Dave spends time thinking about me at all. Maybe when Jeff S. makes one of his spy reports. But it's an interesting point: How much of this stuff does Dave actually believe? He's on the record as saying that the way to counter propaganda against one's views is with propaganda for one's views (not with, y'know, facts and truth and stuff, but whatever). Dave seems to feel that religious believers are under attack everywhere, so is he countering with propaganda beyond what he believes?
-- D.
It’s actually titled Beards of Our Forefathers.
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