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| I believe the card said, "To Janis Pearl, Best Wishes! Dave Sim" |
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| Last page of High Society. Photos taken by Deni 1983 The lower left is "This was supposed to be me throwing my brush in the air in exultation." |
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MARGARET LISS:
For the last couple of months we’ve been looking at Dave Sim’s Albatross One, which is the first notebook he used during the production of Cerebus. The notebook has 194 scanned pages out of the two hundred pages that the notebook cover says it came with. What happened to those six other pages? Either blank so not scanned in or ripped out so “missing”. At this point when I was scanning them in back in April of 2005 I didn’t make a note. If you want to see all of the previous posts for Notebook One, use the Notebook One tag to see them all.
In last week’s entry, Notebook One: Cerebus #21 Material Part Seven, we looked at pages 50, 52, 53, & 54. And pages 55 and 56 were already covered in the post The Death of Elrod. So this week we’re on to page 57. Which makes it look like we’re finally done with Cerebus #21 material and fully onto Cerebus #22. We shall see.
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| Notebook #1, page 57 |
Pretty much all of the material on this page wasn’t used. The idea of Bunky dying and coming back to “life” as a parody of Deadman was used, but that was it. Even when Elrod was killed by the Sopai assassin, he fell face forward onto the ground, not face up with the Roach looking at him like the sketch shows.
Though the bit down the bottom labeled 4 for page 4 does show up in Cerebus #22. Cerebus does wake up in the “oval hideout” and complaining that he has had enough of this, and he has a war he needs to get back to, etc.
The next page of the notebook continues on with preliminary plot ideas for Cerebus #22 page 4 and goes on for page 5:
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| Notebook #1, page 58 |
Some of this material made it into Cerebus #22. Cerebus does go on a rant, a rather long one, about how he rather be fighting down sound with the T’Gitans. Down at the bottom of the page there is a bit of dialogue "I have a military report from Palnu if you like to hear it. . . .everyone obliterated.” President Weisshaupt does pull out a military report and goes over how the T’Gitans loss in Palnu. Though this explanation doesn’t happen on page four nor on page five but a few pages later.
The next page of the notebook switches from Cerebus #22 material to. . .well, take a look:
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| Notebook #1, page 59 |
Yup, Howard the Duck drawn by Dave. Dave’s story for Howard the Duck #8 makes an appearance on A Moment of Cerebus before in Howard the Duck and The Cerebus Oversize Project #5: The Duck, which I don’t recall ever coming out. And it looks like Blogmaster Bossman asked Dave about it recently and the answer is in A Refreshing Dip Into the ol’AMoC Mailbag.
Next week: Yes, more of Dave Sim’s notebook pages for Howard the Duck. Finally we’re done with Cerebus #21. Hopefully.
And you, yes YOU!, can get your own facsimile edition of Albatross 1, details here.
So Dave sent this fax:
My first thought was "Oh, it's good to see Peter David is writing again!" Last I had heard he was in the hospital. But no, this is a 2011 column from the Comic Buyer's Guide.
So why did Dave send this? I have no idea. Does Dave know Peter David is in the hospital? Again, no idea.
If you hadn't heard, Peter David is having ongoing medical issues. If you have a spare dime or two, you can throw it toward his GoFundMe HERE.
Next Week: More Comic Pros need YOUR money!
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Is there any plan to publish the NOTEBOOKS? I’d rather have that than any remastered variant cover anything, but I may be the minority.And (if you watched the video, you'll see) Dave sent Rob a facsimile edition of Albatross 1, Dave's first notebook.
The Albatross has landed! It’s real and it’s spectacular.And Dave decided to sell facsimiles:
My wife thought Dave shipped me the real Albatross notebook it looks so real, (and I was so excited). I may have squealed.
The world building here is SO cool to watch in real time, issue by issue, especially this run of issues which is very important to me.
I’m really more of an art person, and seeing all the layouts, and sketches, and backgrounds is eye-opening.
I also like the glimpse into his scheduling — when to draw issue x, pages 1-20, when to write the next issue, etc
After I was a comics retailer, I used to own THE COPY COW, a copy shop, (and I can be cheap) so I wonder if the whole thing has to be in full color?
These days 4-color is probably as cheap as 1-color on a nice paper? Most of the notebook in blue or black ink, and it makes you feel like you’re holding the actual notebook, but I’m more interested in the content than it being the exact same as the work papers.
There’s a bit more text than art, and I think anyone interested in the process AND / or the Cerebus Super Fans would love these.
I love love love the behind the scenes content in the various original art portfolios. Would love to have Dave’s commentary on THESE pages. That would add a lot of work, and not be workable in the same as notebook format, but maybe just a companion youtube video of someone flipping through it and Dave telling stories about what was going on and also showing the finished pages.
I would easily pay $67-100 USD for this content in this format. Maybe a bit more if it was signed. Or maybe collect ALL notebooks into a limited boxed set? The more old behind the scenes stuff, the better! I still buy old retailer Cerebus promo packs to relive the good old days.
Really appreciate the nice note and Cerebus sketch. I’m over the moon! — ROB SNELL
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