Jaka's Fuzzy Black Sweater

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.

Just last week we saw a couple pages from Dave Sim’s second notebook, which covers Cerebus #27 through 37. Those pages were walls of text for Cerebus #36. How about a page with sketches of outfits for Jaka?

Notebook #2, page 167

We have Jaka with her fuzzy black sweater holding a package for Cerebus along with a couple of other outfits. Even a sketch of her in the green house.