Sunday 15 September 2024
"COMNE YE TAMA STET FEGRIA!"
Saturday 14 September 2024
I dunno...stuff (this daily blog thing is for the birds...)
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Revisit your favorite heroes from indie comics of the 1980s and beyond in this collection of prose fiction stories written by their legendary creators! They set the industry on fire in comics from indie publishing pioneers like First, Capital, Eclipse, Dark Horse, Pacific, Aardvark-Vanaheim, and Vortex. Now, more than ever, we need them to remind us how fun and exciting comics can be. Along with a cover by Pat Broderick and an introduction by First Comics co-founder Mike Gold, Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only features new tales starring a roster of top indie comics characters and talent, including:
Badger by Mike Baron
Cerebus by Dave Sim
Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Desert Peach by Donna Barr
El Muerto by Javier Hernandez
Flaming Carrot by Bob Burden
Grimjack by John Ostrander
Jon Sable by Mike Grell
Luther Strode by Justin Jordan
Megaton Man by Don Simpson
Michael Mauser by Joe Staton
Mr. Monster by Michael T. Gilbert
The American by Mark Verheiden
Those Annoying Post Bros. by Matt Howarth
Whisper by Steven Grant
Friday 13 September 2024
Letraset part 3 (Dave's weekly update #556)
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- Saturday: Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2024
- Sunday: Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2024, part two. (Because making two hours of videos takes me forever if I'm not "feeling it". And I was VERY much not feeling it...
- Monday: The Monday Report, and Dave starts a discussion on how much money he wants to send me... (I'm not taking it, even though only an idiot turns down $700.)
- 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. She's added even more Auction items. Check it out. Please?
- Wednesday: Hobbs is creating CiH? strips with AI versions of AV characters.
- Thursday: Margaret continues looking at pages from the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1, YOU can get a your very own BETTER-THAN-MARGARET'S-POSTS-O.-M.-G.-YOU-GUYS-SERIOUSLY copy. See here. And she's FINALLY up to High Society.
- 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?)
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Thursday 12 September 2024
Notebook One: Cerebus #26 Part One
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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Dave Sim’s first notebook, which he entitled Albatross One, covers Cerebus #20 through 28 and has 194 pages out of 200 scanned in. Since we’ve started our chronological look at this notebook back in December of 2023, we’ve seen quite a few pages. We’re up to page 134 today, and material for Cerebus #26. Yes, we finally made it to material for High Society. We really haven’t seen anything for High Society yet.
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At the top of the page Dave starts with how Cerebus #26 starts, Cerebus with a sack of stuff from the Artist. Though the Regency is called the “Aardvarkian Age ‘Holiday Inn’”. Which in the digital version of High Society – the one that came with selected pages from Notebook #1 – Dave said this about the page: “Original idea was to do an “Aardvarkian Age” Holiday Inn, a middle class hotel. Then I thought that having a bath in your room would be a distinctly “upper class” thing at the time.”
Well, the Regency is a bit more than ‘middle class’, the sketch of the bed with the tub next to it does show up – kind of – in the finished issue as the desk clerk has a fresh bath drawn for Cerebus in his room, the tub just a curtain away from the bed.
The little chair in the bottom left corner of the page with a barely noticeable Cerebus sitting on it is something I wished was used.
The next page shows us Dave working through some potential dialogue for Cerebus #26:
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On the next page of the notebook, Dave had this to say about the text near the bottom of the page: “Manservant in the original plotline (“smart ass kid but he knows what’s going down”) who later become the desk clerk of the “Holiday Inn” in issue 27. Plot problem: “businessmen, merchants, bankers, traders” would stay there, but not “politicians and bureaucrats” which were needed to drive the plot forward.”
We also get a taste for the Desk Clerk’s reaction to hearing Cerebus’ name: “You’re that Cerebus?!” Though the desk clerk at that point doesn’t mention knowing that Cerebus was the Kitchen Staff Supervisor.
At the top of the next page is some dialogue which Dave had this to say: “Sample exchange of dialogue on WHY Cerebus is seen as a key figure. I decided to skip that and leave it a bit of mystery. There was no reason anyone would discuss it with him except in terms of their personal experience (Skorz of Skorz, Skorz & Sons).”
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There are a couple of sketches of the private dining table Cerebus would be sitting, that didn’t end up being so private as everyone came by to try and make a deal with him. At the bottom of the page is the plot for pages 1 through 8: “Mostly, the young manservant is trying to get across to Cerebus how much money can buy. Cerebus explains that he just gets money when he needs it. . .what about banks. . .banks take your money and give you pieces of”.
Next week will be more – yes, you’ve probably guessed it – notebook 1 pages.
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Cerebus in AI Hell?
Benjamin Hobbs:
This is the first mock-up of Cerebus In AI Hell? The fourth panel will be a Dore image.
Next Week: Something in Ink, hopefully.
Tuesday 10 September 2024
SDoAR 2.37: Jen Ups the Ante! Diamondback! Buttons!
Remember last week when I reported that the black back covers of the Giant-Size SDOAR Ashcans were rubbing off onto the front covers underneath? Well, the StudioComix Press solution is too pricey, so Philip R. Frey will be redoing the back cover. Stay tuned!
Also, no donations since August 18 when the last raffle ended. You all are going to give this gal a complex.
So...
Let's see if I can't up the ante on the September SDOAR raffle with...
- Cerebus the Aardvark button set #23 of 99 (7 of 10 buttons)
- Diamondback deck (swindle your friends!)
- Petunia Con 1984 program (do y'all know how cool this is?)
- (2) Cerebus bookplates signed by Dave Sim (signed!)
- Cerebus #11 through #15 in pretty good damn shape (Five issues!)
Rules to win the September 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, September 23, 2024 at midnight, PST.
I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry and have Dave pull one more Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on September 24, 2024.
SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
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 in the middle of month #9 of Year 2.
Monday 9 September 2024
As pretty much always, Dave does his business in the streets...
Hey Matt sending you the final version of the spreadsheet with the calculations for the Aug Diamond purchase order. Let me know if you have problems accessing it or formatting issues, understanding it, etc.
The 2 sheets I think Dave wants posted are
DIA 8-24 SOCIH? royals and DIA 8-24 GER royals
which show the breakdown for contributors share from this PO on AV books using a) 4% vs b) an equal split with AV. Dave probably faxed you the sheets already, but here they are in electronic format.
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And here's my fax to Dave
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08 SEP 2024
Hi Dave (and Matt Dow)
I’m sending the full spreadsheet to Matt Dow to post on AMOC (I take it as a sign that UPS sent a bill to Diamond for $113.82, which Dia will be charging back to AV, as part of the answer to your question about AV’s storage fees) (hopefully you got the info about this UPS bill when I sent it on Thurs, but I just heard that the AV fax was having glitches on PLEASE HOLD) .
So, Basically we have $11,400 cdn - $1361.82 cdn PT’s cost - $225 cdn (approx) Rolly’s cost - $153 cdn UPS scam charge to Dia = about $9,660 cdn (about $7100 USD)
Using the calculations with the gross DIA PO
Total SOCIH? 4% payout = $80.04 USD vs
Total SOCIH? equal split = $704.80 USD
Total Ger 4% payout = $216.72 USD vs
Total Ger equal split = $2,709.00 USD
I don’t think there’s any way to do the percentages of which trade is taking up how much space at how much cost/month. Just part of the AV overhead.
(It would be NICE if AV could clear at least $5000 USD on a $8400 DIA Po that only came once after God knows how many years) ( and who knows when it will again; I’m not holding my breath).
Any update on the HumbleBundle payout? Or did we need to, like prompt them or something?
-Eddie
Sunday 8 September 2024
Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2024, Part 2!
Saturday 7 September 2024
Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2024, part 1
Friday 6 September 2024
Letraset part 2 (Dave's weekly update #555)
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- Saturday: Cerebus #1, because why not...
- Sunday: seriously, why not? Cerebus #1 continues.
- Monday: The Monday Report, and couple of faxes from Dave, and the last of Cerebus #1.
- 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. She's got *NEW* Auction items.
- Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking AI versions of AV characters. This week: Thrunk! Who's supposed to look a little like:
Thanks as always Steve!
- Thursday: Margaret continues looking at pages from the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1, YOU can get a your very own BETTER-THAN-MARGARET'S-POSTS-O.-M.-G.-YOU-GUYS-SERIOUSLY copy. See here.
- 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?)