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i painted cerebus into two paintings. thought you might enjoy.
both are oils. the second one is 36 feet wideAND:
if you do the instagram thing, that is the best place to see my work. i am nfnkalyan--
NFN Kalyan (NFN कल्याण )
www.nfnkalyan.com
here is the first one so you can see scale.
I didn't resize these, so you can see ALL the details.
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Strange Death Update:
Hello, amazingly supportive and patient backers!!!
Now that the printer has confirmed they are indeed going to do a reprint, their production manager has been puling all the strings to get us the paper we want.
The mill is not even going to make new paper until November, but we are supposedly at the top of the list and should be getting the books mid-November, with a projected street date of December 1st!
Goodness knows what happens between now and then, but I am hopeful everyone has their books in time for Christmas!
Until then, join Sean and I over on You Tube for reviews of other books and sneak peaks from the misprinted volumes.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAFV55Yix8nA4q45A4QWCg
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I would share a picture of Bucha but she is out back eating her own poop because she is a nasty, disgusting, bad girl.
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Which leads to Heritage, and the fact they're gonna be auctioning off the original art to the Cerebus #2 covers (5 of them,) and the NEW Cerebus #1 (just 1 of them.)
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8 comments:
It's good we have Dave around to tell us what parts of the Bible are the word of god and what parts are not. What's the word for this again ..? Oh yeah -- heresy!
Michael G. said last week that he thinks Dave's constant use of "I infer ..." is intended to be honest. True, Dave has said (repeatedly) that he thinks everyone should preface everything they say with "In my opinion ...", so I guess that's a point.
The problem isn't that Dave is dishonest (although he often is), but that Dave's inferences are not derived from the text, but from his own pre-existing emotions and prejudices. "This jibes with what I already believe and makes me feel good, therefore it's the word of god," versus, "This conflicts with what I already believe and makes me feel bad, therefore it's the word of Yahweh." Dave is not a rational person; he's a rationalizing person. He's created god in his own image.
Look at one part of this very entry: Dave objects to a word, investigates the root of that word, and then simply discards every part of the definition that he's just quoted that doesn't agree with his feelings -- all while whining about other people's crude use of translation. Of course, logic and consistency are not Dave Sim hallmarks.
And he can't leave the girls alone, can he? His unrequited teenybopper crushes and his distress when his wife dumped him after finding out he'd been lying to her their entire relationship are wounds he's never managed to get over.
Also this week: Given what Eolake S. has related about Dave's prudishness, can we assume that Dave disapproves of that painting 'cause it's got boobies in it? Those things give him weird tingles in his bathing-suit area, and that makes him uncomfortable. And of course, anything that makes Dave Sim uncomfortable is objectively evil ... and probably caused by the literal female being that literally lives in the centre of our planet. (Hee hee hee!)
The funniest part is that Dave actually feels that Cerebus will someday be heralded, not as a cartooning work, but as a religious and scientific truth. Ha ha hah! Oh, Dave ... those who say you're not funny any more are not always correct.
-- Damian
"...I am hopeful everyone has their books in time for Christmas!"
Congratulations! Happy to hear it.
Peace,
A Fake Name
I am filled with tremendous jealousy of every website that Damien does not comment on.
These biblical ramblings of Dave cannot be seen as the product of a sane, rational person. We all like Cerebus, the work, but this is truly embarrassing. Damian is right about Dave's interpretations. They're just based on what he already believes. The sanctimony is palpable. That he has spent so much time on this nonsense is a shame. It's not even serious exegesis, it's just a bunch of personal musings of no interest to his most devoted fans (exceptions duly noted) let alone serious scholars.
Of course the "serpent" to which Jesus was referring in his dialogue with Nicodemus in John 3:14 is a reference to neither of the OT "serpent" references Dave is unpacking here; rather it's to the incident in Numbers 21:9 - the Israelites who were bitten by venomous snakes are cured by looking at a "bronze serpent" cast by Moses and set up on a pole. No doubt Dave knows this; I suppose he'll make the connection after a few more weeks of "unpacking," or else in the comments to a future edition of CAN.
Yeah, Dave's faith in his own perspicacity at figuring out truths that have evaded for centuries those who literally devoted their lives to such study is amusing at best. I was especially amused during my recent Cerebus reread, because I had forgotten that, when he wrote his own version of Genesis (you know, the unified theory Dave found, that Einstein devoted his whole life to but could not solve), he did two WHOLE months (!!!!) of physics research before solving the mysteries of the universe. I mean, really, who couldn't grasp the complexities of physics in a full TWO MONTHS???? I laughed. I don't think I was supposed to, but I laughed and laughed. The self-confidence (to put it as positively as possible) is really quite impressive.
Here in the UK Amazon have dispatched my copy of TSDOAR and it should arrive tomorrow (21-Sep-2021). Does that mean they have a stock of the misprinted ones they are dispatching?
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