CAN11 issues. (New Dave Art that you can't have...)

Hi, Everybody!

I WAS gonna post the letters Dave sent me scans of from Guys Prize winners, but I'm supposed to reach out to those people and confirm I CAN post that stuff, and that sounds like work. If YOU won a Guys Prize, and sent Dave a letter, and don't want me to post it here, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I WON'T share the embarrassing story about the baby goat and the yogurt. (I mean I probably wouldn't share that story anyways, since:)

So, seeking alternatives for a post, let's go through the pile Dave had sent:

Man, nothing is ever easy with this Sim guy...

Click for bigger...

No. Thing. Is. EVER. Easy. With. THIS. Sim. Guy...

I found SOME of the photographers (I have the Digital CAN11/Narutobus because I'm the G*DD*MN Interim Editor of A G*DD*MN Moment of G*DD*MN Cerebus, and if I can't have a free copy then what the f*ck is the point of this gig?!?)

Anyway:

Okay, because being Sherlock f*ck*ng Holmes is part of my job description now...

Fred Johnson

Lê Anh

also Lê Anh

Joshua Rondeau

Brian Lee

again Lê Anh

Bryan Turner

malibi malibi

And I MAY have found a couple of the models:
Cluelo

Sophia Rondolo

So, At this point, I'm posting all this so I can send a link to it to the folks involved so they can claim their Legal Pirate Copies of Narutobus. So, if you got a link to this post from me, click that Narutobus (or that one) and look the story over and see if you recognize yourself/a model you photographed, and then you can contact:

Dave Sim Care of:

Aardvark-Vanaheim

PO Box 1674, Station C, 

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 4R2

Phone: 1-519-576-0610

Fax: 1-519-576-0955

OR if you're only Internet based, you can email momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get you in touch with whoever I need to to get you your copies of the comic you/your work are printed in.

Everybody else who wants a Narutobus, here's the Comic Store Version:

Regular

Signed and Numbered

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off April 12-13, and 23-27th.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of which, as requested, The Twitter Men Logo had been put on Merch, but The Mouse sent a takedown notice and 2 of the 3 designs are NO MORE. (One of these days, I'ma put all the removed design together in one image and see what happens...):
Blue & Gold

Yellow & Red

Blue
So get 'em while they still exist...

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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has

• glamourpuss #18 page 14

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques 

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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: Cerebus pages from forty+ years ago because they are easy...

Proofreading poetry (Dave's weekly update #586)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:

The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

 

Darrell's books can be ordered here.

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: Please Hold For Dave Sim 4/2025
• Sunday: No really, Hold. For Dave. Sim...Sim. One "s". You know him...
• Monday: The Monday Report, and I'm posting the glamourpuss SDOAR pages...
• Tuesday: Jen's posted all the Dave and Carson pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, and has moved on to the mock-ups Dave produced after that. Donate to The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe to see Dave's mock-ups for the next 400 pages (eventually). $150 until page 111 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. And AND, Birdsong has donated a Carson Grubaugh original SDOAR painting (it was gonna be a cover for an early version.) Jen has all "the deets".
• Wednesday: Hobbs posts a possible future item in a future Cerebus in Hell? Kickstarter campaign.
• Thursday: Margaret's IS done with Albatross One. If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here, anyway not knowing where to head next, Margaret has decided to go with the LAST notebook, from page one to the end. Currently: Issue #286.
• 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?)

Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off April 11-13, and 23-27th.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of which, as requested, The Twitter Men Logo had been put on Merch, but The Mouse sent a takedown notice and 2 of the 3 designs are NO MORE. (One of these days, I'ma put all the removed design together in one image and see what happens...):
Blue & Gold

Yellow & Red

Blue
So get 'em while they still exist...

______________

You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has

• glamourpuss #18 page 14

_______________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques 

_______________

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: Did you  win a Guys Prize? Did you send Dave a PERSONAL PRIVATE letter? Well, it ain't gonna stay private if I don't get my Blackmail...

Notebook 36: Cerebus #286 - Not Really

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We are continuing with our look at Dave Sim’s last Cerebus notebook, notebook #36 (see all notebook #36 posts using the tag of the same name). Notebook #36 covers material for Cerebus #265 through #300 and had 58 pages scanned in. Many of those pages were just the notebook page with the Cerebus issue box number in the top corner. I scanned those pages in. I didn’t scan in the many blank pages that followed some of those pages. So far we’ve seen 42 out of those 58 pages. Only 16 pages left. Will this week be more of the same as the last couple of weeks – just pages of  text? Or will they be those pages with just the issue box number? Lets jump in and take a look with the next sequential page:

Notebook #36, page 61

The cover box number says #286, but at the top we get more of Dave’s writing on Jung. Or more like Dave writing as Konigsberg writing about Jungfrau. The Names Elisabet Vogler and Alma are from the movie Persona which goes into some Jungian theory. 

And then the next page of the notebook is Dave taking notes and writing about the book The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung. 

Notebook #36, page 62

Note that the top left corner says page 72 and last week on page 59 of the notebook we saw a reference to page 58. Either there were pages of the notebook which were ripped out or Dave just didn’t find anything interesting enough, or relevant enough, to write down notes. I’m leaning towards the latter as the issue box numbers were put in the notebook first, and those are still in order with each having three pages.

But yah, having only taken intro to psychology in college, this text is not my cup of tea. Do we get something more interesting on the next page? Eh, looks like more of the same.

Notebook #36, page 63

Since I don’t have a copy of the book Dave was reading, I can’t match up his notes to the book. Does any of this show up in Cerebus #286? If it did, it was in the small teeny tiny type that I only skimmed. As far as I recall the Jungian theory material was used in Cerebus #284 and #285. So this is just Dave’s notes extending past is previous self-imposed limit of three pages per issue. If you want to readd more on Dave’s writings on Jungian theory, check out the ‘Notes on Latter Days’ in the Latter Days phonebook.

For this week’s Latter Days tracing paper page is for Cerebus #276 page 15. Well, the top two panels of the four panels on the page:

Cerebus #276, page 15 tracing paper front (click for to see it bigger)

I only call it the front since Dave signed it on this side. Both sides of the tracing paper have pencil on them. On the above page you can see the rough for the top panel and at the bottom you can see the tighten sketch for the panel. 

Then we flip the tracing paper over:

Cerebus #276, page 15 tracing paper back

Along with flipping the tracing paper over to show the other side, I also rotated it to put the finished sketch by the panel it corresponds to. (Yes, this never gets old for me. I love looking at Dave’s process material. Just holding the tracing paper with the phonebook or issue beside it makes me ‘ohhh’ and ‘awww’ as I look at the differences between the two).

And yes, there are differences between the two looking at them. Even the text has slight differences between the finished page and the tracing paper prelim.

Varkdalorian Trading Cards

Benjamin Hobbs:

David Birdsong is making trading cards for the Varkdalorian Kickstarter campaign.  Below are two different versions of the proposed backs of the cards.  The first version features the Yellow Vark Wars cover that Matt Dow is now using for a different book. (I assume a VARK WARS book.)

Here is the second version of the card backs:

There will be a third version in the future, because the "VARK TREK" 4 piece puzzle isn't doable with trim and bleed factored in. 

Next Week: More CIH? fun!

SDoAR 3.14: Cerebus Book Plates Up for Grabs! 1 in 6 Chance to Win!

First up, I've added a set of four Cerebus bookplates, signed by Dave Sim, to the raffle this week!

2) David Birdsong provided an update on packing of the Carson Grubaugh SDOAR cover painting, "I have some thick vellum that is the same size as the board so I placed two sheets over the painting and then a few more sheets to keep it all together. I've got several large pieces of cardboard and I'll make a nice oversized package for it and it will be ready to go when the raffle ends."

In case you're new to this raffle, David Birdsong generously donated Carson Grubaugh's painting from an early version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond. Note that the frame was damaged and there was no glass in it so he removed the art. The marks made by the frame can be seen below. 16 x 20 inches, acrylic on board.

3) I am happy to report that $215 have been donated since last week for a grand total of six raffle tickets sold (I miscounted last week). So if you are interested in the painting, your chances are pretty good if you buy a ticket or three. AND I'll probably continue toss more things in the pot before the drawing on April 28.

Rules to win the Carson Grubaugh SDOAR Painting

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, April 28, 2025 at midnight, PST. I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry and have Dave pull another Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on April 28, 2025. Cool? Cool.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

4) I finished my review of the Giant-Size SDOAR Ashcan #0, but need to write up my notes for Philip, so that is at least some progress!

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $17,250.00 raised to date from 297 donations

• 89 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 8 January 2022

• 110 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages

• $150.00 away from unlocking page 111

• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 109 pages and all pages moving forward

• If you have donated, thank you. If you want to donate monthly, GoFundMe now offers such an option! Huzzah! Check it out here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023/donate?source=btn_donate 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond New Mockups Preview 

If you haven't read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond before, now is the perfect time to dive in, four pages at a time, and read the story as presented in the hardcover. 

This, 

This, this, 

This, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, 

And this.

If you want to see how Carson Grubaugh finished the hardcover, well, you're going to need to purchase a copy of your own. HOWEVER, if you want to see how Dave Sim continued the story in the blue pages -- bring me the blue pages -- mockups that appeared in blue ink in final section of the hardcover can be found here...

This, 

This, this,

This, and this.

Then in June 2021, Dave picked up the story again and it continues here, here, here, then below.

Dave's 2021 mockups, Part 4

If you enjoy the journey, you can join us for all the new pages on Dropbox by donating $5 or more. 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Jen x 

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Proto Version #6 (AKA the photorealist bits from glamourpuss #19)

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays!

Tomorrow, as she does MOST weeks, Jen DiGiacomo is gonna solicit everybody into giving a li'l something-something to The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe she set up to get Dave money to keep working on pages (Dave's drawing pages in the 650s...). And as a part of that, she posted all of the pages from the Living The Line version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (up to page 205), and now she's posting Dave's mocked-up pages.

Fun fact: GoFundMe has changed their setup so you can contribute on a monthly basis (like the Patreon...).

So, to "tee her up", I'ma run the Proto-Strange Death of Alex Raymond that Dave ran in glamourpuss.

Because I can...

First this, then:

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off April 9-13, and 23-27th.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of which, as requested, The Twitter Men Logo had been put on Merch, but The Mouse sent a takedown notice and 2 of the 3 designs are NO MORE. (One of these days, I'ma put all the removed design together in one image and see what happens...):
Blue & Gold

Yellow & Red

Blue
So get 'em while they still exist...

______________

You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has

• Cerebus #1 page 15
• Cerebus #15 Cover original art (the snake penis issue...)
• Cerebus #15 Cover original colour guide (in COLOUR...)
• Cerebus #16 page 4 (which has Lord Julius...)
• Cerebus #29 page 15
• Cerebus #54 page 8 

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques 

_______________

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: Wanna see the video of Jen driving "Alex Raymond Style"?

Please Hold For Dave Sim 4/2025 part 2

Hi, Everybody!

Keep Holding For Dave Sim & ME!

Click for bigger

Dave and I didn't get in to it, but this strip is a variation on a glamourpuss pitch I never wrote. The idea was a five page strip, where each page was written by another writer (ala Spawn #8-11). And the Alan Moore page was a wall of text with a photorealistic woman and Cerebus standing there making the same jokes I have here. The Neil Gaiman page was "Medieval glamourpuss" (a Renaissance Fair girl, basically), I don't remember the Dave Sim page idea, or the Frank Miller one (probably a girl in a trenchcoat, from a paperback cover or something...). For this one, instead of overwriting a script myself, I just grabbed the script to the first ten pages of Batman: The Killing Joke, and removed all the page directions besides "page one, panel one".

Anyway recap & notes

Part 1: Jen won't toot her own horn here, but I don't give a shit, I DO WHAT I WANT! But, she has a one woman show: Woman in the Arena she's gonna be doing in Scotland in August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. So, if you happen to be in the neighborhood, feel free to go see my friend do her thing. If you DO, and you say "SWORDFISH" to her after the performance, she'll call me up and bitch me out RIGHT IN FRONT of you! But seriously, go support my friend. (More dates and locations as she becomes a phenomenon(?)...)

Michael R. of Easton, PA (address available upon request unless Zipper pays the Ransom...) won a Guys Prize. One of the Best Ones too.

The Bastard. 

(I kid Zipper, I kid...) 

Congratulations.

I can't remember if Larry "Spatula" Wooten won a Guys Prize, but he did used to dress up as the Moon Roach. I presume for kid's birthday parties and such. Because in the 80s, nothing said "Happy Birthday Jenny!" like a stranger dressed in a black leotard entering your house thru a window and smashing your cake onto the floor while screaming "UNORTHODOX ECONOMIC REVENGE!" at the top of their lungs.

In other news, the restraining order against Spatula finally expired and he can legally go back to that Showbiz Pizza Place... unfortunately, they went out of business in 1994...

If YOU want me to dredge through your social media feeds for photos I can easily turn compromising and put on AMOC, then send your Jeff Seiler memories to momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get to you in a future Please Hold For Dave Sim

Part 2: If you really wanna read Out of the Depths #1, Margaret may have posted it to the Official Cerebus Facebook Group. I mean just because I can't find it, doesn't mean it's not there... Not on Facebook, make a profile. Your name is "Fred Hammer" and you work  at "Self-employed". We'll accept any variations on the name you think up "Ferd Hammer" "Fred Hamner" "Susan Blumquist" whatever...

Part 3: AL Nickerson can be bought. (Well, his books can be.) And you can stare at the Original Sim portfolio here (which has the wrong backstory, sorry.)

Part 4: Dave got the same Cerebus ornaments I got:

Part 5: MJ Sewall, author and restauranter, asked about The Beavers, and you can find the strips I used in the video (AND MORE) at Jeff Tundis' Art of Dave Sim site. Along with even more Dave Art that's NOT Cerebus, like this piece:

Speaking of How's Your Beaver? The Highway Book Shop closed in 2011, and is apparently "abandoned". I found a copy of How's Your Beaver? for $7, plus four times that for shipping. Should be here in a week. 

Part 6: @creative_fey got her version of last month's questions and answers from Dave done, and I forgot to link it. It can be found here. And this month's is here?

And the second half:

Part 7: Nic and Ray bring two new possible digital distributors to Dave attention.

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

Part 8: Dion won a prize, And Michael R. has a question about the Wilf Jenkins Collection:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

And if you REALLY want to see if the Wilf Jenkins Collection is gone, you could contact Lookin' For Heroes...

Rigamarole:

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off April 6, 9-13, and 23-27th.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

Speaking of which, as requested, The Twitter Men Logo had been put on Merch, but The Mouse sent a takedown notice and 2 of the 3 designs are NO MORE. (One of these days, I'ma put all the removed design together in one image and see what happens...):
Blue & Gold

Yellow & Red

Blue
So get 'em while they still exist...

______________

You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

_______________

Heritage has

• Cerebus #1 page 15
• Cerebus #15 Cover original art (the snake penis issue...)
• Cerebus #15 Cover original colour guide (in COLOUR...)
• Cerebus #16 page 4 (which has Lord Julius...)
• Cerebus #29 page 15
• Cerebus #54 page 8 

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

_______________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques 

_______________

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: Mondays!