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. Wait, why am I pushing this, boss man is on vacation. . .I should just take off. . .
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 Cerebus notebook for so long I’ve forgotten about . . .well, I can’t even remember. I do remember – because I went back and looked at the post – that last week we saw bits and pieces of material for Cerebus #26, #27, the first look at the High Society logo, and some stuff for the back up story in Swords of Cerebus #2. And those were just pages #148 – 150. What will we see on the next page, page #151? Something similar. . .
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| Notebook #1, page 151 |
There is text at the top which Dave says is “sample dialogue for ‘The Morning After’ before it became a completely silent (except for the sound effects) strip”. And the dialogue:
Clerk: Most unusual. Short grey chap just came in and brought a half-foot of fox fur. . .
Boss: What’s unusual about that?
Clerk: He rolled it up, stuck it in his mouth, chewed on it for a few seconds and spit it out.
Under all that text is a logo for Black Zeppelin, which is a Gene Day comic, and pretty close to the final logo.
Up next would be page #152, but, we’ve already looked at it, though I mistakenly called it page #151, in Out of The Depths.
So the next page up is page 153:
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| Notebook #1, page 153 |
Ahh, it looks like we are neck deep in Cerebus #27 material, and also some notes on Cerebus #28 and #29 at the top of the page. For the Cerebus #27 material, there is a sketch of a fancy cup and I’m guessing that the text “the cup of two roses” is referring to that cup. However, Dave said in the AV version of High Society: “’The Albatross’ is originally called “the Cup of Two Roses” and Cerebus asked for it specifically.”
Dave continues on the Cerebus #27 material on this page “Instead, I had him sign the ransom note from ‘The Eye in the Pyramid’, the ‘hidden name’ of the Kevillists, which led the cash-poor Iestans to use “The Albatross” to pay the ransom, assuming the Kevillists would be more happy with the substitution. Not realizing that it was Cerebus who had no idea what the “damn duck statue” was.”
The note on the side of the page under the cup had me chuckling: “has to learn to say “I” instead of Cerebus.”
The next page of the notebook is Dave plotting out page five of Cerebus #26:
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| Notebook #1, page 154 |
It doesn’t match up to page five in the finished Cerebus #27, but the plot point of a letter being written is part of the finished issue. Though Cerebus addresses it to the attention of the secretary of the treasury (city-state of Iest).
Dave had this to say about page 154: “Still trying to work it as if Cerebus knew what the ‘duck statue’ was instead of just using ‘The Eye in the Pyramid’ because he had a general idea that they were a Palnan revolutionary group.”
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