Sunday 31 July 2022

Say "hello" to my little lines.

Hi, Everybody!


Got a follow-up:

That's the scan.

When Dave sent the image, he also sent me:
It's large for you Turtle lovers. Click for bigger.

Which leads to Matt's Stupid Project #2:
So, somebody asked me if there was a way to get a copy of Pieces of Turtles #8.1?
Well, no. Dave did the Canadian and American editions, and they're limited editions, so a reprint isn't gonna happen...from Dave.
BUT, Dave did extend the offer to Josh Even's Cerebus and Barbarian Turtles artists to do their own copies. And I have the PDF. And an idea for a cover:

It's not finished. I'm still tweaking it, but when it's ready, I'm gonna print it out at 11x17 (hopefully with non-reproducible blue ink) and ink it.

Then I'm gonna figure out how many copies I want to sit on for the rest of my life and have Alfonso print them and get Dave to sign and number them.

It's not the first time I've "done" Dave. I did an ad in Cerebus Readers In Crisis #4:

The TEXT on my cover is what's gonna sell it, but I'm saving that for when it's finished...

Anyway:
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Hobbs has a Kickstarter.
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My buddy James Windsor-Smith has a Kickstarter too. You might remember him as the guy who had a stroke or two and sent Dave a Cerebus Sketchbook full of Cerebus drawings he did AFTER the second stroke. He's looking for $2000, and he needs another $556. Help a 'brudda out.
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The Kickstarter for the Cerebus #4 CAN Portfolio 6-7/78: Get your surveys in, pay if you haven't:

Hi everyone!

Wanna see what Dave sees when he sees the work in progress? All cut in half and faxed to Dave in 12 pages for proofreading. It's in black and white because that's how the faxes come in (not because Dave is color blind, excuse me, colour blind. Actually he isn't colour blind at all).

The good news is that the six pages of commentary are done and the files are in the hand of the printer. Sean Robinson will be putting the Cerebus No 4 comic book together this coming week and it will be ready to be printed. Everything else is done or has been done for a while. So now the printer will be feeling the eyes of all of Aardvark-Vanaheim's vast staff and 160 backers on him. No pressure, Alfonso.

Everyone's pledge has cleared so there are no drop outs this time and while we still await 8 responses to our survey we can see what they ordered and fulfillment can go forward. However, if we do not have an address for those 8 backers we can't send your items until you, everybody say it, fill out your survey. Only then will Kickstarter release your address to us.

But it's going and going well despite a cross-country move and a bout of insomnia and any number of technical diffculties (Adobe, we're looking at you. If you don't know Adobe, don't torture yourself, all their products are great until they aren't and your hair turns white).

If you filled out your survey you saw a question about the kind of Kickstarter campaign you would like to see. We don't have the final tally yet, but it's breaking into three camps: 1) We want it simple, 2) Surprises are fun and keep me engaged, 3) I don't care. No 1 is probably the big winner but Dave came up with an interesting compromise just today, here it is:


That's it for this time. We probably won't be updating again until we have pictures of the fulfillment in progress in a week or two. Yes, we got all the messages about the excessive emails on the last day. Emails probably do not physically impact anyone on the planet but they can drive your brain to distraction so sorry for overloading everyone on the last day. Will we do again? Maybe not.


P.S. We got a bunch of messages today from around June 24. Fortunately most were something that was already cleared up or answered. If you sent a message to us that we never answered please let us know so we can let Kickstarter know. Every little bit helps to make it all run better.
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Hey remember the Remastered Form & Void?
Greetings backers,

Form & Void is officially in the hands of the printer!

We don't have a delivery date yet but as soon as we know when they're coming we will post an update.

Everything else related to this project has been printed so it's just down to the actual books.

For those of you that are interested, we are only producing 400 deluxe books. 200 hardcover and 200 softcover. We have a limited number still available for pre-order on the Waverly Comics website in different bundle options. Link: https://waverlycomics.com

Thank you for backing this project!
If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
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Living the Line got a new series with Carson Grubaugh  The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI. Sean says:

Hello everyone!

I hope this message finds you all well.

This is just a quick message to let you all know that this Friday, Carson and I were on The Gist with Mike Pesca, discussing our new series The Abolition of Man, and the technical, social, and ethical implications of the emerging AI technology.

It was a very interesting discussion, a great introduction to the topic, and a true pleasure to participate in. You can listen to our talk here!

Lastly, we just put up a teaser video for AOM#1, which you can take a look at below. This was put together by Matt Battaglia, whose OWN Living the Line book is entering the prepress stage! More on that and other future releases in the coming months.

The Abolition of Man #1 — The world's first entirely-computer generated comic book PREVIEW

The Abolition of Man #1, a special double-size 48 page introductory issue, is available to order right now from YOUR local comic store!

They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.
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In Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".  And if you're in Brazil...
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The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 31
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!
 
Next Time: Stuff.

Saturday 30 July 2022

Eight. Eight G** D*** Faxes. Some of them Multiple pages! EIGHT!!!

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays ('Cause I don't post Wednesdays or Thursdays. I don't care if the Pope's in town, or what woods he shits in...):

More of this on Monday.                                        
Then:
Sorry, they said Brazil, so all I can think of is this... (Seiler would understand...)
And then:
Eddie responds to Dave's thing.
27 Jul 2022
cc: AMOC

Hi Dave

I think Diamond’s main benefit to AV is providing a delivery/supply line to the comic shops, especially given how expensive shipping is (especially from Canada), and seems to only be increasing. I don’t know how costly the shipping has been for AV on books offered directly through KS and CDL, but I assume it definitely wasn’t cheap.

I agree that any new orders that come in for the trades from DIA are going to be closer to the lower numbers than the higher print run numbers (CEREBUS Vol 1 and HS being the bigger sellers, and I think we have a few years before those will need to be reprinted)(CEREBUS sooner than HS). Hopefully by that point things will have stabilized more regarding the price increases and supply chain issues (it seems like almost every other month there’s an email from Marquis about price increases, supply chain issues, etc).

But for the time being, it makes sense to at least make sure DIA has SOME inventory in stock on ALL the trades (especially since FLIGHT and GUYS are almost gone from DIA’s inventory). Hopefully with THE LAST DAY order we can get DIA to do a combined PO for the 2 books AV still has in inventory (LATTER DAYS and MELMOTH) to help save on bulk shipping, since those books are below or reaching the 50 copy mark in DIA’s inventory where their system would automatically cut a PO under “normal circumstances” ( in quotes, because that almost never seems to happen, and we always seem to have to prompt DIA for it)

The next DIA solicitation deadline is next week (Aug 4) for the Oct PREVIEWS with a PO cut date of Nov 1 so the questions are:

1 Would Sean have THE LAST DAY files ready for printing and be able to do any prepress by the time the books need to be printed (I forget where Sean was with various books, but I believe he was close to if not completely done remastering all of them)

2 Would Alfonso be able to secure the paper and get the books done with that timeline

3 Is there ANY value to getting a quote from Marquis and seeing their printing schedule (which I assume is fully booked) for the kind of numbers we’re expecting

4 Any thoughts from Sean on doing digital printing for the book?

The last time DIA had THE LAST DAY in stock was the beginning of 2019. Matt reached out to Nate, who said there were only 2 printings done: signed and unsigned from 2004, so if the 2019 DIA stock was from back then, it might be a while before it needs to be reprinted for DIA’s purposes.

The original cover price for LD was $25. I was going to suggest making it $30 , to at least help offset SOME of the printing and shipping, and Matt Dow’s suggested $35. It might help if we had a quote from SCP.

For offering the book through CDL with a head sketch, I would suggest charging more for those (also adding the shipping costs, once we get a value on that from Rolly), so there’s more incentive for people to order through the shops.
-Eddie
And Dave responds (with Eddie's original, making me quoting Eddie superfluous):
He also included a message from Sean:
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And then and Then:


Okay, I couldn't make out the name, but he says he reads AMOC, so hopefully he sees this. And DOUBLE hopefully, this sketch is his:
Click for bigger. And Mags? What price this (in your opinion)?
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Okay, I'ma saving the last one for tomorrow...
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Hobbs has a Kickstarter.
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My buddy James Windsor-Smith has a Kickstarter too. You might remember him as the guy who had a stroke or two and sent Dave a Cerebus Sketchbook full of Cerebus drawings he did AFTER the second stroke. He's looking for $2000, and he needs another $556. Help a 'brudda out.
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The Kickstarter for the Cerebus #4 CAN Portfolio 6-7/78: Get your surveys in, pay if you haven't.
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Hey remember the Remastered Form & Void?
Greetings backers,

Form & Void is officially in the hands of the printer!

We don't have a delivery date yet but as soon as we know when they're coming we will post an update.

Everything else related to this project has been printed so it's just down to the actual books.

For those of you that are interested, we are only producing 400 deluxe books. 200 hardcover and 200 softcover. We have a limited number still available for pre-order on the Waverly Comics website in different bundle options. Link: https://waverlycomics.com

Thank you for backing this project!
If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
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Living the Line got a new series with Carson Grubaugh  The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI.

They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.
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In Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".  And if you're in Brazil...
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The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 30-31
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!
 
Next Time: Say "Hello" to my little lines...

Friday 29 July 2022

At the quarter-pole, Trimmer part 4 (Dave's Weekly Update #451)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave's Weekly Update:
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Hobbs has a Kickstarter.
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My buddy James Windsor-Smith has a Kickstarter too. You might remember him as the guy who had a stroke or two and sent Dave a Cerebus Sketchbook full of Cerebus drawings he did AFTER the second stroke. He's looking for $2000, and he needs another $556. Help a 'brudda out.
____________________________________
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The Kickstarter for the Cerebus #4 CAN Portfolio 6-7/78: Get your surveys in, pay if you haven't.
____________________________________
Hey remember the Remastered Form & Void?
Greetings backers,

Form & Void is officially in the hands of the printer!

We don't have a delivery date yet but as soon as we know when they're coming we will post an update.

Everything else related to this project has been printed so it's just down to the actual books.

For those of you that are interested, we are only producing 400 deluxe books. 200 hardcover and 200 softcover. We have a limited number still available for pre-order on the Waverly Comics website in different bundle options. Link: https://waverlycomics.com

Thank you for backing this project!
If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
____________________________________
Living the Line got a new series with Carson Grubaugh  The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI.

They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.
____________________________________
In Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".  And if you're in Brazil...
____________________________________
The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
____________________________________
Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 29-31
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!
 
Next Time: ALL the faxes I've gotten since Tuesday. (Last count, 8...)

Thursday 28 July 2022

Notes for a Potential Essay / Speech by Dave Sim

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 just looked at Dave Sim’s 22nd notebook last week in The Other Beatle – James Winston. The notebook had 71 pages out of 80 scanned and covered Cerebus #186 through 201.

Sometimes in the notebooks I’ve seen Dave start some writing at the end of the notebook, on the last page, and then work his way forward with the writing. This notebook did have two pages of that. It starts on the last page, page 72. Yes, not page 71, page 72. It looks like I never scanned in page 70, as it must’ve been a blank. Nothing written or drawn on it, no bleed through. Nothing. 

Notebook #22, page 72

A really rough outline of a speech? An essay? I don’t know. It looks like he starts with a big #1 at the top listed as ‘DISTRIBUTERS’, but then further down the page has another #1 listed as ‘DITCH YOUR LANDFILL’. Sounds like he is talking to comic book retailers.

The next page of notes are on page 71, and are only half of a page:

Notebook #22, page 71

The first line is “We are one nation which has its article of faith that the best comic books are the best creative expression being produced today.” This page appears to be the start of the speech / essay. The rest of the page:

As Todd McFarlane, J. O’Barr, Neil Gaiman and others move into the pop culture world they should and must be considered emigrants. 

As Jeff Smith and James Owen leave the security and real world prestige of animation and commercial a rt shall and must be considered immigrants.

CEO Spawn, Inc

The guy who writes and draws Spawn.

When he ship issue 21 before issues 19, 20 giving some vague explanation that

And that is where it ends, a half finished sentence.

Wednesday 27 July 2022

SOCIH? V11 and 12 Hardcovers On Kickstarter! Cerebus Goes To A Gay Bar at your LCS!

Benjamin Hobbs:

The Kickstarter for Volumes 11 and 12 of Swords of Cerebus In Hell? goes live at noon (EST) today! It will run until August 13th. Click below to back this project!


There is a Dr. Varkhatten Original Art card available as an add-on:


There are four stretch goal cards: The Watchvark, Hermann, Cerebus The Duck and The Whore of Babylon:




Also, it's the last Wednesday of the month, so hurry over to your LCS and pick up The Uncrucifiable Cerebus Goes To A Gay Bar!


And now available from Diamond, Hell'o Dali #1!

Next Week: V11 and V12 Kickstarter Update!

Tuesday 26 July 2022

When's The Last Day getting reprinted?

Hi, Everybody!


Sometimes I'm okay with "Grandpa" forgetting how the Fax works...

Anyway, I let him know that he "left the house without pants...again" and got this from Damnit Birdsong!:

Hey, since I'm posting Faxes, here's another depressing one:


I asked Nate "The GODDAMN Batman!" Oberstein, and The Last Day has TWO printings:
See? Over on the right...

A signed & numbered First Printing in June of 2004. And an UNsigned & UNnumbered second printing done at the same time.

So, MATT'S question to Dave/Eddie/whoever is: What was that first print run, and how long did it last?

Also, Eddie? Price it at $35 USD.

(The comments on this one is gonna be good, ain't it?)
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My buddy James Windsor-Smith has a Kickstarter. You might remember him as the guy who had a stroke or two and sent Dave a Cerebus Sketchbook full of Cerebus drawings he did AFTER the second stroke. He's looking for $2000, and he's just about halfway there on Day TWO. Help a 'brudda out.
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The Kickstarter for the Cerebus #4 CAN Portfolio 6-7/78: Get your surveys in, pay if you haven't.
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Hey remember the Remastered Form & Void?
Greetings backers,

Form & Void is officially in the hands of the printer!

We don't have a delivery date yet but as soon as we know when they're coming we will post an update.

Everything else related to this project has been printed so it's just down to the actual books.

For those of you that are interested, we are only producing 400 deluxe books. 200 hardcover and 200 softcover. We have a limited number still available for pre-order on the Waverly Comics website in different bundle options. Link: https://waverlycomics.com

Thank you for backing this project!
If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
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Living the Line got a new series with Carson Grubaugh  The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI.

They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond didn't win an Eisner. They'll tell you all about it:
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In Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".  And if you're in Brazil...
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The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 27-31
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

And here's a little preview of something I'm calling 
Matt's Stupid Project #2:
I noodled a bit, but not enough to update it...

Next Time: Ben wants your money. Dave wants your money. Me? I just want to see ya smile...

Monday 25 July 2022

"I wasn't worried--for all I care he can drop off the face of the..."

 Hi, Everybody!

The Pope is closer to Dave's house than he's ever been...


Man, I REALLY dropped the ball yesterday...






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Hey, remember how I said the Mikhail had released Cerebus #31 in Russian yesterday?

And then Dave clarified:
And I dent the first fax to Mikhail who sent another Fax to Dave as I worked on this post, and Dave replied:

And I'ma posting this before round three, today...
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The Kickstarter for the Cerebus #4 CAN Portfolio 6-7/78: Get your surveys in, pay if you haven't.
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Hey remember the Remastered Form & Void?
Greetings backers,

Form & Void is officially in the hands of the printer!

We don't have a delivery date yet but as soon as we know when they're coming we will post an update.

Everything else related to this project has been printed so it's just down to the actual books.

For those of you that are interested, we are only producing 400 deluxe books. 200 hardcover and 200 softcover. We have a limited number still available for pre-order on the Waverly Comics website in different bundle options. Link: https://waverlycomics.com

Thank you for backing this project!
If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
____________________________________
Living the Line got a new series with Carson Grubaugh  The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI.

They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond didn't win an Eisner. We're all disappointed...
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In Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".
____________________________________
The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
____________________________________
Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 27-31
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

And here's a little preview of something I'm calling 
Matt's Stupid Project #2:
Erasing the tone is a bit of a bitch...and I don't know that I like "Franken-Serna"...

Next Time: Monday report for this week part 3 of 6? How the @#$& am I gonna handle Wednesday and Thursday?