First this.
Then:
Next Time: The Monday Report!
Sunday, 22 December 2024
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Aardvark-Vanaheim Business Roundup (Old Dave Art, but you might get to own it, so you may wanna look...)
Hi, Everybody!
"Real Time" is a VERY relative thing around AMOC, since some days I just wanna "get down to the Floridia for margaritas" as fast as I can. This came in on the fourth.
Yup.
About that...
Dave wants his business done on the streets, so I get all of these faxes that he wants posted. But don't worry, there's some purty Art here for those of you who don't care about the business side of Aardvark-Vanaheim...
Item 1: a correction to Please Hold For Dave Sim 12/2024
Item 2: Problitos.
Item 3: Cerebus the Action Figure
I'm gonna have to send Dave photos or scans of what NECA's Turtle figures packaging looks like. I'm thinking that HE'S thinking of the Playmates Turtles Figures of yore, and not what NECA does. Wait, that sounds like work...
Item 4: Dave's retirement funds?
Item 5: Diamond owes AV money
Eddie's idea to have a check sent to the US address? That's me. The GOOD news is the strike is over. The BAD news is the USPS can't send anything to Canada until they start accepting mail again after taking care of the backlog.
Item 6: AV's fate is written in the stars...
Item 8: Them crazy Brazilians
So, should I send this to Eduardo, the guy who was trying to do Cerebus and is, I believe, currently doing SDOAR?
I don't think they were hand delivering the check Dave...
Item 7: The Ninja High School/Cerebus crossover
Thoughts you guys?
Item 9: The latest...
I checked with Dallas, and the check is currently in MISSISSAUGA, ON. So the rest of this might be moot.
Got a message from my friends at the Waverly Press. They're doing Holiday Bundles for 2024. There are limited to 50 bundles. Available until December 31 or they sell out. Whichever comes first. Get 'em while they're hot. https://waverlycomics.com the site is down and getting revamped.
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Rigamarole:
35% off December 25-31.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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Heritage has an original sketch in a lot with sketches by others, and a copy of issue 6 with other comics.
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill.
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The Last Day Without nothing.
" " " " Dave's signature.
" " " " an Old Cerebus Remarque
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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".
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Next Time: Not more of this...
Friday, 20 December 2024
Almost there. (Dave's weekly update #570)
Hi, Everybody!
Like it says on the Logo:
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It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
Continuing from Last Week.
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.
The Week in AMOC:
- Saturday: Red Sophia.
- Sunday: The end of issue #3, and a link to #4 in its entirety.
- Monday: The Monday Report, and I try to help a brother out.
- Tuesday: Jen's back with a post about the Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. $125 until page 106 unlocks. She's auctioning off one of the rarest of Cerebus rarities. $25 bucks gets you in the running to win this:
- Wednesday: Ben Hobbs shares an AI CiH? image that's being used in an upcoming issue. And the comments are getting more and more "interesting"...
- Thursday: Margaret continues looking at pages from the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1, YOU can get your very own BETTER-THAN-MARGARET'S-POSTS-O.-M.-G.-YOU-GUYS-SERIOUSLY copy. See here. She's still looking through the pre-material for issue #27.
- Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)
Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.
Rigamarole:
35% off December 25-31.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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Heritage has an original sketch in a lot with sketches by others, and a copy of issue 6 with other comics.
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill.
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The Last Day Without nothing.
" " " " Dave's signature.
" " " " an Old Cerebus Remarque
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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".
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Next Time: Incoming!
Thursday, 19 December 2024
Notebook One: Cerebus #27 Part Nine
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.
Maybe instead of rewriting this opener every week, I’ll be a bit more efficient with my use of time and have this standard opening . . .though Boss Man saying I'm giving the notebook away for free, I see it as a way of advertising all the good stuff in the notebook, and wouldn't it be easier to have a hard copy to flip through and read at your own leisure?
Have you got your copy of Albatross One? That is Dave Sim’s name for his first notebook used in the creation of Cerebus. If you want a copy of the notebook – and trust me, as someone who has held the actual Albatross One, it is a pretty close duplicate and looks great – you can check out this post right here. Well not this post. The one at this link. Go check it out, this post will still be here.
Please buy one so boss man stops yelling at me for "giving the store away for free". Perhaps if he sells one or two or all that he has left, he'll finally give me some PTO. Wait, why am I pushing this, boss man is on vacation. . .I should just take off. . .
And if you don’t want to buy one, you can wait as I release a couple of pages a week and check them out using the Notebook One tag. But trust me, the notebook is much much nicer then my silly little posts.
Okay, now that is done, on with this week’s Notebook One post.
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We finished last week with a look at page #179 of Dave Sim’s first notebook, so we’re picking it back up with page #180. And yes, if you guessed we’re still be on material for Cerebus #27 you’d be correct. In fact, we get the panel lay outs and some dialogue for pages #5 and 6:
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| Notebook #1, page 180 |
The writing at the top is the text of the note that the McGrew Brothers wrote, and we get the finished note in the notebook page. When Cerebus is reading it out loud on page 5 he leaves off Drew’s name. Notice in the text of the note Dave originally wrote pieces, then peeces and ended up with peesiz. The final texted ended with peeses.
The text down the bottom of the page is some of what ends up on page 6 between the inn keeper and Cerebus talking about fleecing the McGrew brothers.
Dave had this to say about the notebook page in the AV High Society: “sometimes just sketching panel designs can lead to a good idea. Like the horizontal panel at the top of the right hand page which gave me the ‘Cerebus held hostage’ gag.”
On the next page we get something similar – page thumbnails and more text:
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| Notebook #1, page 181 |
We have text for page 7, and a sketch that goes along with it – Cerebus sitting down with his back against the wall writing the ransom note. The rest of the text at the top of the page is the dialogue between the McGrew Brothers as they wonder what Cerebus is doing. One line that didn’t get used: “D’huh think he gets the conninennul breakfast too? Mebbe we gotta share ours with’em.’
On the lower half of the page we get page layouts for page 8 and 9. Page 9 is Cerebus leaping out of the window and across the alley to the next building and then running across roofs to deliver the ransom note. The dialogue to the left of the page 8 thumbnail is the dialogue for the McGrew Brothers.
The next page of the notebook continues the plot outline with page 10 and then starts with what is happening on the days Cerebus is “held hostage”. On the right hand side starting about a third of the way down is some plot outlining for page 9 and 10.
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The date and time at the top of the page – 3:24 AM Oct 18, 1931 – is the death of Thomas Edison.
Dave had this to say about page 182: “Then there are times when I would come up with a good line – ‘A HUNNERT CROWNS! WAHOO! HOW MUCH IS THAT IN MONEY, VARMIT, SIR?’ is very funny – but I would have no idea how to follow it up. ’42,000 Onliu copper pieces.’ Well, you’d have to explain to Dirty Fleagle what a ‘thousand’ is. ‘More than twelve times twelve’. Or explain it terms of gold. ‘Two chunks and some clumpy bits’. That’s funny, too, but you can’t use it with ‘money’ which is what makes the original line funny. I finally just had to give up.”
Wednesday, 18 December 2024
The return of AMOCIAIH? !!
Benjamin Hobbs:
David Birdsong and The AI return to bring you Jingles Quinn. This image will appear in the previously teased Secret Origins of CIH? :
Tuesday, 17 December 2024
SDoAR 2.49: Cerebus Wants More Donations!
Three raffle tickets sold so far. Y'all know how to give a stuffed aardvark a complex, don't you! Let's see how our gray little friend feels about it ...
Not impressed? How about a 360 degree of our little friend?
So if you have ANY interest in helping out the GoFundMe to support Dave Sim continuing his work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond *and* getting a chance to win this fabulous Cerebus plush, make a donation right now!
Rules to win the December Raffle and Help Out SDoAR
Entries (or our equivalent of raffle tickets) cost $25 each and can be donated via lump sum to the Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024 GoFundMe campaign through Monday, January 13, 2025 at midnight, PST.
I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry and have Dave pull yet another Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on January 14, 2025. Cools?
SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am
- $16,075.00 raised to date from 272 donations
- 84 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 29 December 2021
- 105 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
- $125.00 away from unlocking page 106
- If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 105 pages and all pages moving forward
- If you have donated, thank you, but if you want to donate monthly, GoFundMe does not offer that option, so please do so as we are in the middle of month #12 of Year 2.
The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 48
The following are links to previous updates that featured pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond hardcover. If you click on the links in order, you can begin to devour the magnum opus that is the Strange Death of Alex Raymond...This,
This, then...
Jen x
Monday, 16 December 2024
Paging "Glen". Paging Mr. "Glen".
Hi, Everybody!
Mondays!
On yesterday's post, Glen commented:
Does anyone know where I can buy a Prime Minister Cerebus button where he's wearing the dark buttoned coat with the fur shoulders? It's a Christmas present for someone very special.
I tried going on the Wavery Press website but I get a message saying it's a "Private Site This site is currently private. If you’re the owner or contributor, log in." Is that just me?
Any help would be appreciated.
Christon suggested eBay, and Glen said:
I looked & the buttons listed aren't exactly what I'm looking for & all prices/shipping are in USD (I live in Canada) which makes it prohibitive. I'll keep checking eBay if something pops up.
I said: Glen, Was this a button that was part of the High Society Regency Edition? If you have a picture, sent it to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll see what I can do. Manly
Then I checked my black vest:
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Glen, it's yours if you want it, email momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and we'll work something out.
And if you're in a "Secret Santa" with Glen, he wants it for somebody else. AND/OR act surprised when you get it...
And just WHAT is going on with the Waverly Press website? Usually when this kinda thing happens, they're revamping it for a sale. I mean, I didn't ask, but it's happened before...
Rigamarole:
35% off December 16-18 and 25-31.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin off my nuts either way...
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill.
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The Last Day Without nothing.
" " " " Dave's signature.
" " " " an Old Cerebus Remarque
_______________
Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".
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Next Time: Jen has got buttons...on her underwear!
Sunday, 15 December 2024
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