Death's Dark Tread

Hi, Everybody!

Well here's an interesting little item:

Coming soon to Heritage Auctions:

The ORIGINAL Art for the COMPLETE 22 page story of Cerebus #4 "Death's Dark Tread":

As they describe it:

Dave Sim Cerebus #4 Complete 22-Page Story and Cover Re-Creation Original Art Group of 23 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1978/2005). All 22 story pages are the original art from the story that first introduced Elrod of Melvinbone! His first appearance, that is. Elrod is a satire, a parody that is, of Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock by way of Warner Brother's Studios own Foghorn Leghorn. The large chicken (the cartoon character, not Elric) was himself a parody of a radio character "Senator Claghorn" from Fred Allen's 1940s radio program. Elrod is proof that "Two wrongs don't make it right". (That boy is about as sharp as a bag o' wet mice.)
The cover is a 2005 re-creation of Sim's original cover produced by Dave Sim himself. This cover is in mixed media on illustration board and signed/dated just above the 9.25" x 13" image area. The 1978 story pages were created in ink and Zipatone over graphite on illustration board with an image area of 10" x 15". They are toned with handling wear.
The cover re-creation is in Excellent condition, and the story pages are in Very Good condition. The cover comes with a letter from Sim as provenance.

All this was Imaged by Heritage Auctions. I trimmed that off the pages. Click for Bigger, like lots bigger. For the detail.

The recreated cover from 2005.

J. Michael Straczynski used to have that last panel posted to his office door. 

I put it on a T-Shirt.

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Cerebus in Hell?:
The Uncrucifiable Cerebus Goes To A Gay Bar 

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Form & Void Kickstarter:

Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.

Also, if you missed out like Al, there's an IndieGoGo.

And if you didn't wanna deal with Kickstarter or the Waverly Press, guess what's in the new previews:

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Sean & Carson have a store with TWO misprinted copies of SDOAR with "Blue Meanie" sketches.

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".

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Next Time: All the Original Art to issue #5?