A Song from Rappin' Ronnie

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at Dave Sim’s notebook which covers Cerebus #114: notebook #13. The last couple of pages we looked at were near the end of the notebook, pages 83 and 84. Today we’ll look pages closer to the start of the notebook.

On page 27 are a bunch of sketches:

Notebook #13, page 27

Looks like some guy, possibly a precursor to Pud or possibly just a sketch of some random guy. Then that is definitely Ronald Regan. It’d be hilarious to see him sparing with Mrs Snatcher. Then Jaka. There is a tune:

I’d like to teach
The world to act
And look like
Every-thing’s 
Okay
Like Bush is great 
And Nancy’s mate
Can take it all the 
Way
I’d like to teach the world to play
A harmless kind
Of song
About the U.S.A.
And

There are also a bunch of Jaka’s Story logos. Those logos continue on to the next notebook page:

Notebook #13, page 28

Along with the logos is some text. The only reference to anything by Harlan Ellison with Pistolero in the title is A Punk Is Not a Pistolero. And I don’t know this Todd fellow, but I’ve blanked out his phone number. Not sure if it is still his, or someone else’s by now, but now one needs to try calling it now do we?

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