Friday, 3 January 2025

Losing the plot (Dave's weekly update #572)

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:
 
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: I finish with Bran Mak Mufin.
  • Sunday: Incoming from Dave!
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and Demonhorn.
  • Tuesday: Jen's back with a post about the Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. $200 until page 109 unlocks. She's auctioning off one of the rarest of Cerebus rarities. $25 bucks gets you in the running to win this (You have until January 13th 2025 to get in on this...):

  • Wednesday: Ben Hobbs wishes you a Happy New Year, and the AI is getting better and better. Wait, that's NOT AI? It's BH? Well damn...
  • Thursday: Margaret does the yearly look back at all TEN YEARS of Notebook posts. She's ALMOST done with Albatross One. You can still get a copy 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?)

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

Rigamarole:
25% off January 8-12, and up to 35% off January 22-26.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, the check made it to Dave and was cashed, *yay*, 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 stuff.
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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
   "      "     "     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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Thursday, 2 January 2025

Dave Sim's Notebooks: Ten Years

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.

Welcome to a new calendar year, 2025, and on to year eleven of the ‘Dave Sim’s Notebook Pages’ posts for AMoC. Yes, you heard that right, I’ve been doing this for over 10 years, as the first post was in June of 2014. You’d think I’d get some sort of tenure award, but nope. . .what we got instead was a genuine copy of Albatross One, aka Dave’s first notebook used in the production of Cerebus. You can get one for yourself as well, just click here to find out how.

Having held both the genuine Albatross One and the replica, the replica is pretty dang close to the original. Of course I had to get one for my collection, and I’m hoping we can get copies of the other 35 notebook books. Though I would rather have them bound like a book and not spiral like an actual notebook – as it makes displaying them on the bookcase easier. I mean, this is how Dave stored them at one point, and seeing this just makes me twitch (picture from Dave’s Weekly Update #125, March 10, 2016):

Dave’s notebooks in some closet at the Off White House, Kitchener, Ontario

Yes, I tweaked the colors as they were in a dark closet.

For last year’s recap I posted some metrics of what notebooks we saw pages from and how many, blah blah blah. Well, last year, 2024, it was all Albatross One. We started our look at Albatross One on December 14, 2023 and we’re still not finished. We’re close, as we only have ten more pages to look at for notebook one. Perhaps we’ll finish up this month. And then what? Just go on to notebook two? That notebook covers Cerebus #28 through 37 and has 196 pages scanned. We can spend another year just looking at one notebook if that is what y’all want. 

Since we’ve seen only pages from notebook one, there is no point in posting an updated list of what we’ve seen here at AMoC in 2024, as it is all the same except for that first notebook. You can see last year’s overview here for that list. 

Here is what we’ve seen from notebook one so far:

There is also the Notebook One tag if you'd like to see them that way. I haven't done individual tags for the other notebooks. . .yet.

And as a 10-year review, here is what we’ve seen in those 10 years, and what is left to see – I didn’t include the covers, just the pages we’ve seen as we’ve seen all the covers:


So out of the 3,281 notebook pages scanned in, we’ve only seen 547 of them, 17% in 10 years. I won’t have time to post them all, so what do y’all want to see next? Should I just go sequentially though another notebook posting every page? Please don’t ask for me to hunt down stuff – as time seems to be speeding up the older I get so I don’t have the same amount that I did when I was younger. What’s next up after notebook one?

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Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Happy New Year!

Benjamin Hobbs:

It's a new year! And my resolution for 2025 is to have LESS AI art on the Wednesday post! 

Recently, I've been making some ink wash drawings.  Here's one of Super Cerebus and Super Cerebus Girl:

This was my first attempt at rendering Super Cerebus in Ink wash.  This is a small drawing, and I've discovered that the larger the ink wash drawing is, the more forgiving the shifts between tones.

Next Week: Will my resolution still be resolute? Or will Birdsong and The AI send me some hot new AI Art that just NEEDS to be seen? Tune in to find out!

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