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.
3 comments:
Dave Sim is a comic book genius. Whatever conflicted thoughts and feelings I have on Strange Death, let alone his work in general, there's no doubting his mastery of the form, and his continued efforts to push ahead, using the form to comment on the form and beyond.
It's truly inspiring work.
For North American comics I put him above everyone. It still astonishes me he did 300 issues without any revisions and managed (with Gerhard) to generate such high quality work!
cheers,
A Fake Name
So, just to clarify: #0 is previously published in the LTL hardcover and #1 is all-new Dave Sim comics - correct?
Correct.
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