Dave wants his business done on the streets, so I get all of these faxes that he wants posted. But don't worry, there's some purty Art here for those of you who don't care about the business side of Aardvark-Vanaheim...
Item 1: a correction to Please Hold For Dave Sim 12/2024
Item 2: Problitos.
Item 3: Cerebus the Action Figure
I'm gonna have to send Dave photos or scans of what NECA's Turtle figures packaging looks like. I'm thinking that HE'S thinking of the Playmates Turtles Figures of yore, and not what NECA does. Wait, that sounds like work...
Item 4: Dave's retirement funds?
Item 5: Diamond owes AV money
Eddie's idea to have a check sent to the US address? That's me. The GOOD news is the strike is over. The BAD news is the USPS can't send anything to Canada until they start accepting mail again after taking care of the backlog.
Item 6: AV's fate is written in the stars...
Item 8: Them crazy Brazilians
So, should I send this to Eduardo, the guy who was trying to do Cerebus and is, I believe, currently doing SDOAR?
I don't think they were hand delivering the check Dave...
Item 7: The Ninja High School/Cerebus crossover
Thoughts you guys?
Item 9: The latest...
I checked with Dallas, and the check is currently in MISSISSAUGA, ON. So the rest of this might be moot.
Got a message from my friends at the Waverly Press. They're doing Holiday Bundles for 2024. There are limited to 50 bundles. Available until December 31 or they sell out. Whichever comes first. Get 'em while they're hot. https://waverlycomics.com the site is down and getting revamped.
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Rigamarole:
35% off December 25-31.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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Heritage has an original sketch in a lot with sketches by others, and a copy of issue 6 with other comics.
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill.
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The Last Day Without nothing.
" " " " Dave's signature.
" " " " an Old Cerebus Remarque
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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".
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Next Time: Not more of this...
8 comments:
Dave possibly publishing in Brazil sounds like a great opportunity.
Dave's working on a version of TSDoAR that will be published by Aardvark-Vanaheim, correct? The TSDoAR that has already been published (by someone else) is different than the (extended) version of what Dave is working on right now? I'm confused by the different versions of TSDoAR.
So, A version of what would become The Strange Death of Alex Raymond first appeared in glamourpuss.
After that fizzled out, Dave began work on a version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond that was to be published by IDW. I believe Dave got an advance to produce the book.
I'm not quite sure how that fell apart, but in 2020, Dave started planning a tour of every California comic shop to promote The Strange Death of Alex Raymond. To fund that, he produced the California Test Market Edition, available through Patreon, which was Book One of the version Dave was producing from IDW.
COVID killed that, and Dave gave up.
Carson, who started working with Dave after Dave's hand gave out, teamed with Sean Robinson to publish all the work Dave and Carson had produced for the IDW version (Books One, Two, and the ongoing Book Three.) along with an epilogue made just for that edition by Carson.
Dave continued to make mockups of pages.
At a certain point, Dave tried to draw again, and discovered he could. So he's been drawing pages (currently on page 635, I believe.) He wants to go back and draw all the pages he mocked up that Carson produced.
But he's going to finish the book before that happens.
(Except for the mockups that are to dark to be printed on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Ashcans that Jen is producing that are going to print the mockups that Dave did after Carson's version was printed.
It's all basically the same book, just with more and more pages.
Manly Matt Dow
“DEFCON” (with an N) - short for “Defense readiness condition.”
Thanks, Matt, for the details. One final question: Will Dave's current version of "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond" be (self-)published by Aardvark-Vanaheim? Merry Christmas, everyone!
@AlNickerson
Phil Frey here. I'm doing the cleanup for the "Ashcans" of 'TSDoAR' and they, at least, will be published under the A-V banner. I assume that will be true for the fully-drawn material, as well.
How many people are trying to publish Cerebus in Brazil? Is it a matter of translation, or just licensing?
Wait, THIS "usual gang of idiots" is Dave Sim's "business roundtable?" Jeez, no wonder he lives on canned tuna and pineapple...
I'm glad that Dave finally got his Humble Bundle check. For what it's worth, the letter I sent to the San Francisco address earlier this month addressed to the CEO was returned back to me a couple days ago, "not deliverable as addressed"
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