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.
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been seeing some of Dave Sim’s thumbnails for Cerebus #99 taken from his eleventh notebook he used in the production of Cerebus: Thumbnails for Cerebus #99 and then in part two. So when I continued looking at the notebook and saw thumbnails for the next couple of pages of Cerebus #99 I thought, sure, lets take a look at them as well.
The next page in the notebook, page 76, is some text for pages 14 through 18 of Cerebus #99. The backside of the page are the thumbnails for pages 12 & 13 which we saw last week (page 75):
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| Notebook #11, page 76 |
The dialogue for pages #14 and 15 doesn’t quite match up to the finished pages.
The next page in the notebook has the page thumbnails for pages 14 and 15. The dialogue from the previous notebook page was slightly tweaked, and is on the bottom of page 77 of the notebook:
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| Notebook #11, page 77 |
The dialogue along the bottom of this page matches the finished pages. The page thumbnails are pretty closed to the finished pages as well. Including Ger getting the activity in the courtyard of Great Andrena on the pile of wood while someone reads something and the pope figure watches with the guard standing nearby.
Page 14 matches panel for panel, including word balloon placement. Page 15 is close to the thumbnail in the notebook, but the sequence of the final two panels is reversed.
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| Cerebus #99 pages 14 & 15, aka Church & State II pages 970 & 971 |
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