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 last saw Dave’s 22nd notebook last July in Notes for a Potential Essay / Speech by Dave Sim. The notebook covers Cerebus #186 through 201 and only had 71 out of 80 pages scanned as there were 8 blank pages and 1 missing page.
On page sixty-two of the notebook, Dave put the issue number box in the upper left corner: 201. Then three page thumbnails. One for page one, which is just the word, guys. Then we have pages two and three of Cerebus #201:
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| Cerebus #201, pages 2 & 3 |
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| Notebook #22, page 62 |
Even though those thumbnails are pretty dang small, they do resemble the final pages. They include the word balloons along the edge of both pages. And Dave put the word balloons and dialogue below the thumbnails. The dialogue is similar, but it is different on the final pages.
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