SDoAR 2.09: Anonymous Asks, Jen Answers

In the comments section of last week's SDoAR post came the following lengthy comment...

Anonymous said...

I've been meaning to post this for awhile and I guess today's the day.

I want to make sure I understand what's going on with Strange Death...

1) At some point during Glamourpuss Dave began telling the story of Strange Death, the last issue ending with the car in mid-accident.

2) Some point after this he collaborates with Carson on bridging material, You Don't Know Jack and then a hybrid Strange Death, where Carson takes over from Dave's last page of art (?) and offers his own thoughts and conclusions on the material.

3) Further after that Dave's wrist heals and he is able to resume drawing and is currently working on Strange Death once more.

4) Is this version Dave is working on going to pick up from where his work ended and Carson's began in the Living the Line edition or is it picking up after the Dave/Carson book or some other variation?

5) Dave's goal is to eventually finish Strange Death which encompasses his Comic Art Metaphysics Theory and is a very involved project with no projected end goal in site though he continues working on it and you, Jen, do your best to promote it so Dave has the financial cushion to work on it. Art auctions, the Cerebus spin-off promotions, etc. all are to keep the bills paid and Dave able to work on Strange Death, right?

Am I missing anything? Is this it? Where does the version you've been sharing pages from start, from where Carson took over to finish the Living the Line edition or at some other point?

Thanks,

A Fake Name

TL;DR version...  yes, yes, yes, some other variation, yes, no, yes, page 253.

I actually cover all of this in excruciating detail in the Notes from the Interim Head of SDOAR Division that will be in the Giant-Size Ashcans.

After Glamourpuss ended, Dave decided to publish The Strange Death of Alex Raymond comic book with IDW, the first several issues which are found complete with covers within the Living the Line edition.

At some point later, IDW believed that a hardcover of Dave's work would be more appropriate which is why the individual issue style faded away and the Living the Line version continued with more of a straight up narrative, broken down by increasingly lengthy parts.

Then Dave's wrist gave out and he tried out several artists to continue the artwork. Carson won the sweepstakes, but when the California Test Fundraising edition failed to generate much in the way of sales, Dave decided the whole venture was doomed to failure.

Carson convinced Dave to allow him to publish via Living the Line and after several mishaps the hardcover was released to critical acclaim, but so-so sales from Dave's perspective.

After receiving funds from several patrons, Dave continued with his work to pick up after the pages that Carson had printed in blue ink. Therefore, Giant-Size Ashcan #0 will reprint the 21 blue pages using Dave's mockups and effectively pick up the story from page 253 of the hardcover.

Giant-Size Ashcan #1 will begin the process of printing the new pages Dave has mocked up or drawn and pick up directly after those 21 pages.

And yes, at some point, Dave's wrist and modified drawing motion allowed him to continue drawing, hence the shift from mockups to drawn pages. What the end product is beyond the Ashcans is TBD. 

To quote Dave “As Ted Kennedy might say, we’ll drive off that bridge when we come to it”

Make sense?

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• $10,875.00 raised to date from 182 donations
• 58 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 16 November 2021
• 79 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
• $125.00 away from unlocking page 80
• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 79 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 #2 of Year 2.

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part Eight

This, this, this, this, this, this, this Oxford comma and finally ellipsis comma of which the aforementioned Anonymous duly noted colon

The Oxford Comma is an attribute of an advanced civilization. No communists. The ellipses is the most powerful form of punctuation given to us straight from the hands of God. I believe Jesus was using the ellipses is his writings during the aborted stoning.

Yes.

That's all I got!

x

Jen

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