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.
A little something different for today as this isn’t from Dave Sim’s notebooks. No more Cerebus #99 layouts. Sorry. But this item is hand drawn by Dave for use with Cerebus. Kind of. It is a mock-up for an advertisement for Cerebus Archive and glamourpuss:
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| Advertisement mock-up (click to embiggen) |
I looked in a couple issues of both titles to see if I could find the actual advertisement, but I couldn’t. You’d think it’d be on Cerebus Archive #3 or glamourpuss #8, but it isn’t.
All that lettering is hand done. I’ll upload the picture in original size so if you zoom in you can see the pencil underneath the ink. And yes, this is on a piece of 8.5” x 11” letter paper.
If you find it and let me know where it was used, say so in the comments and I'll send you some Cerebus goodies.
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