Sketches of Cerebus

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We saw Dave Sim’s ninth notebook last week, and guess what? We’re going to see it again this week. Last week we saw page 106, this week we’re jumping back to pages 77 and 78. I thought they had some pretty cool sketches for Cerebus #304:

Notebook #9, page 77

“Spunky as ‘The Kraut’”, eh? We haven't seen that character since Cerebus #200, what a flashback.

Notebook #9, page 78

Wait a second, a sketch for the poster for the 1986 UK Tour? These can’t be sketches for Cerebus #304. Must character designs for the Cerebus figure in the TMNT line up from Playmates Toys 1987 release.