August 31-September 2.**Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
Saturday 31 August 2024
"Eh? Flowers?"
Friday 30 August 2024
Letraset (Dave's weekly update #554)
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- Saturday (okay, last week Saturday...): Dave's working on the cover to the Spawn #10 Script. Speaking of which, Progress:
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- Sunday: I run through all the Merch in The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe, which is on sale until Monday. Up to 35% off:August 26-September 2.**Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
- Monday: The Monday Report, and Aardvark Comment.
- Tuesday: Jen's update for us on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me. Speaking of SDOARGFM, $173 until the next page is unlocked. John Meijer won the Cerebus #3,4,&5 raffle. And Jen got the #0 & #1 Ashcans.
- Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking AI versions of AV characters. This week: Weisshaupt! *YAY!*
- Thursday: Margaret continues GIVING away the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1 for FREE! We're trying to sell the FIVE extra copies that are at Camp David Mags! And. You're. Just. GIVING! It. Away... See here if you wanna physical copy.
- 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?)
Thursday 29 August 2024
Notebook One: Cerebus #25 Part Four & a Schedule
MARGARET LISS:
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.
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’ve been looking at Dave Sim’s first notebook used in the production of Cerebus. A notebook he called Albatross One as he carried it everywhere and it held him down. So far we’ve seen pages that covered material from Cerebus #20 and we’re up to Cerebus #25. We saw a ‘schedule’ of sorts on page 83 of notebook one, back in Notebook One: Cerebus #23 Part Two & A Schedule. Well, the next page of the notebook continues that schedule:
Notebook #1, page 128 |
Let’s combine that with the schedule from page 83. The newer items are indented:
- October 23 – 27 (1980) writing
- October 28 29 30 diamondback
- November 1 – 12 #23 drawn
- November 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 Swords finished
- November 25 – 29 write #24
- December 1 – 12 draw #24
- December 13 – 20 write and rough Canuck story
- December 21 – 23, 26 – 29 write #25
- January 2 - 20: draw #25
- January: Swords #1
- Jan 5: page one
- Jan 8: page eight
- Jan 9 - 11: no work
- Jan 12: page nine
- Jan 17: page twenty
- Jan 18: Cover
- Jan 25: Canuck story
- January 21 - 26: draw Canuck story
- January 27 - Feb 3: write #26
- February 4 – 16 (1981) draw #26
- February 17 – 23 Portfolio
- February 24 – 28 write #27
- March 1 – 12 draw #27
- March 13 – 23 Portfolio
- March 24 – 31 write #28
- May: Swords #2
- Sept: Swords #3
So 45 pages later Dave was on track. We also get more material for Cerebus #25. On the next page of the notebook at the top of the page we see Dave has #26 written beside X-Women. But we all know that isn’t the direction Cerebus #26 was going to go in.
Notebook #1, page 129 |
We also get a list of items for pages 10 through 20 on this notebook page. Kind of. We’ve seen numerous pages for Cerebus #25, with only tiny bits of it showing up in the finished comic pages. And it is the same on the above page. The little bits that stand out to me as being used on the final page is Charles X. Claremont being excited about having two apocalypse beasts and the artist chap finding a new theme. Though he still doesn’t use ‘immortal romanticism’.
And the next page is just a sketch of Charles X. Claremont and a landscape that doesn’t look familiar:
Notebook #1, page 130 |
Still nothing seen for Cerebus #26 and High Society other than the incorrect X-Women.
Wednesday 28 August 2024
The Men of Cerebus: AI edition: Part Four: Weisshaupt
David Birdsong and The AI teamed-up to generate images of Weisshaupt. Some of The AI's BEST work to date:
Next Week: Thrunk! By Birdsong and The AI!
Tuesday 27 August 2024
SDoAR 2.35: Raffle Winner and SDOAR Update From Philip R. Frey!
Congrats to John Meijer for winning the Cerebus #3, 5 and 6 raffle!
Huzzah!
I need another week to come up with items for the next raffle, but anyone donating $25 between now and then will automatically be included in the next raffle.
Huzzah!
Now onto an incredibly exciting update from Philip R. Frey. Seriously. This is big news in the world of AMOC! Take it away, Philip!
Not too long ago over on the Cerebus Facebook group, I posted a cryptic message about a package from Kitchener arriving.
Well, that package was these printer's proofs for The Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024 Nos. 0 and 1.
It's taken a lot longer than we originally anticipated to get to this point. As I may have mentioned in my previous guest appearance, No. 0 proved to be a lot more work than No. 1. We knew that the project was going a bit south when Dave referred to it in a "Please Hold……" as "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2023, soon to be "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024" and also mentioned he was planning to hold it to a "Sean Robinson" standard (which guaranteed I was going to be doing a lot more work on both the then-upcoming pages and the ones I had already thought completed).
But now, at long last, I feel comfortable putting the work in front of Dave's eyes and steeling myself for the inevitable changes I expect he will want.
I'm sending along a picture of the two issues (the only difference on the covers is one version reads "Restored" and the other reads "Remastered"). Also, some comparison photos to see the differences between the versions in print.
As I mentioned, I'm expecting to still have a bit of work to do, but I'm confident that we're close enough that this won't turn into The Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2025. (Although maybe it will for issue No. 2!)
Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am
- $14,627.00 raised to date from 249 donations
- 77 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 20 December 2021
- 98 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
- $173.00 away from unlocking page 99
- If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 98 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 at the end of month #8 of Year 2.
Monday 26 August 2024
Aardvark Comment/Please Hold preview/AMOC Sale/Monday/
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Sunday 25 August 2024
The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: New Merch, Old Merch, soon to be discontinued Merch
Up to 35% (or more, they do get crazy for the Holidays...), and I decided to take a look back at all the designs, give notes where I feel they're necessary, and highlight the Merch that's going away in September (and why!)August 26-September 2.**Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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The second Spawn #10 design, "Vault of Spawn", has only sold 7 products, and is another were I stress about splitting the profits between Dave, Birdsong, Sean, and Hobbs.
The "Young Cerebus" design is another low seller (6 products sold), but I was gonna split the profits with Gerhard, but he didn't want them, so it's supposed to go to Pride Stables, but again, we're talking less than ten dollars.
"Original art to Comics Journal #82" has also sold 4 products. I have a new Roach design, so this may be retired too...
And now the one product sold stuff.
Dave's OTHER Eras Tour
August 26-September 2.**Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.