Hi, Everybody!
Continuing from yesterday, the LAST of the Northampton Summit photos
Next Time: Well, this is the last of the Northampton shots, so not that...
Sunday, 19 January 2025
Saturday, 18 January 2025
The Northampton Summit: Part 2
Hi, Everybody!
Don't worry Mags, there's only 24 more pictures in this section...
I don't wanna do the post I WAS gonna do today, so TO THE AV FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM!
We return to
And the Northampton Creator Rights Summit:
Next Time: I don't know, depends on my mood tomorrow...
Friday, 17 January 2025
Interest rates (Dave's weekly update #574)
Hi, Everybody!
Like it says on the Logo:
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| 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: J. Toons recreates a page from Cerebus #2.
- Sunday: We revisit May 1988 with the A/V Family Photo Album.
- Monday: Dave sends me stuff including The Monday Report.
- Tuesday: Jen's back with the winner of the Cerebus plush toy/doll. Who won? Was it me? (Well no, I didn't enter, I find that if I enter and win, it would give the impression of impropriety. Best to leave it for... well you're gonna have to click to see who won...) The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. $160 until page 108 unlocks.
- Wednesday: Ben Hobbs talks more about the Narutobus/CAN11 Kickstarter coming by the end of the month.
- Thursday: Margaret's ALMOST done with Albatross One. ONE MORE WEEK! You can still get a copy here. Soon, she's done with Issue #27 and has moved on to issue #28. After next week, she won't know what to do with her life...
- 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:
Josh Even has a new deal for the new year:
Happy New Year! Let’s make this the Year of the Earth Pig. I have recovered from the inaugural 2024 run of 30 ‘Deluxe’ Earth Pig Warriors.
I will start off 2024 by opening up orders for the 2025 ‘Basic Bitch’ Earth Pig Warrior.
Here’s the pricing. The two prices are for ‘unpainted’ and ‘painted’. ‘Painted’ for this run means painted heads and black-lined bodies- so the medallions swords will be the comic-style gray.
If you want gold or silver medallions or a gold & silver sword, that’s a bit extra.
Shipping to the US will be included. Shipping out of the continental US will be extra (determined at time of shipping).
All orders will come with a collector’s card and some stickers!
Basic figure (1 head, 1 pair hands- right grip/left fist, one gray sword) $90/$100. Choose from one of 4 available heads (see photo).
Extras:
Painted medallions (silver or gold) $5
Extra Head $10/$20
Hands $8/$10 - left grip/right fist or open pair
Painted sword (silver and gold) $20
Fabric Vest $20
Let’s see how this goes!
Direct message me to order.
Each order will need a $20 down payment to get going.
I’ll place an order with the printer at the end of a week if I have orders. Those will be completed in the order they are received.
Thanks everyone! Tell your friends!
If you click on Josh's name, it's supposed to take you to his Facebook post. But if that doesn't work, or you don't deal with Zuck the Fuck's bullcrap, you can always send an e-mail to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll get you in touch with Josh. You can see a video of my 80s Earth-Pig Warrior here.
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Up to 35% off January 17-19, and 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...)
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: Where Angels fear to tread?
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Notebook One: Cerebus #28 Part One
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.
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 material for Cerebus #27 from Dave Sim’s
Albatross One, aka his first notebook used in the production of Cerebus, for
over a year now. We’re at the tail end of the notebook with only seven pages to
go, and will we finally get to material for Cerebus #28? Well, how about Dave’s
thoughts on Cerebus #28 and 29?
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| Notebook #1, page 189 |
Dave had this to say on his notes for the two other issues, taken from the Audio Visual High Society, “At the bottom of the page: trying to get a jump on issues 28 and 29. Even though I usually didn’t have a clear idea of exact contents until I was actually working on the issue it was confidence-building to pretend I did.” Well, Cerebus did talk with Suenteus Po in Cerebus #28 and a lazy summer afternoon at the Regency kind of took place in Cerebus #29.
Yah, yah, I’m ignoring the Cerebus #27 material at the top
of the page.
And here it is, on page 190, Cerebus #28 material appears.
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| Notebook #1, page 190 |
Dave had this to say about the material on page 190: “Trying to distill Illusionist philosophy as Po was applying it to mining Cerebus for information and then realizing that I’s ALSO not something Po would be apt to impart either. He would have been aware of the possibility that Cerebus had either planned his own kidnapping or was allied with those who had and want to know if Cerebus was actually part of “Eye in the Pyramid” or if he just used the name to get results but not wanting to ask directly (and in a larger sense wanting to dissuade Cerebus from “hands-on” political participation of any kind – that is, to persuade Cerebus to favour Illusionism – in the hopes that Cerebus could be lured away from Cirinism, Kevillism, and Orthodox Tarimite faith: which is difficult to accomplish when you’re mostly interested in “hands-on” political realities. Something that Cerebus picks up on and gives Po a hard time about). Layers upon layers of different perceptions and possibilities.”
The material in the middle of the page winds up being mostly
used at the start of Cerebus #28, but Wenda doesn’t appear in this issue, nor
do we find out that she is the ‘Executive Cirinist for Togith’ nor is she a head
of religious movements as the text suggests.
On the top of the next page, we continue with material used
at the start of Cerebus #28 – Cerebus and Po discussing why Po goes to the eighth
sphere. And then we get a wall of text that is Po dialogue:
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| Notebook #1, page 191 |
It looks like Dave went over this text a couple of times with all of the cross out text and additions made to it, but I don’t see it in Cerebus #28. Down the bottom it looks like Dave was thinking Po had helped get Cerebus out of Togith and used Lord Julius’ influence to get him to Beduin.
We’ll wrap up Albatross One next week with the last four
pages. Whooo!
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Narutobus Kickstarter launches REAL, REAL SOON!
Benjamin Hobbs:
Last week I reported that the Dave approved the Narutobus proofs with no corrections needed. I spoke too soon. This fax arrived this week, with corrections for the Back Cover of the Kickstarter Editions.:
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
SDoAR 3.02: We Have a Winner and We Have a Fax from Dave!
$630 raised on 25 raffle tickets. Not too shabby, if you ask me! So without further ado, the winner of the Cerebus plush is ... Larry Wooten! Congrats!
Give me a week or two to see what I might be able to put into the next raffle that might entice folks, but until then, please do consider donating to the GoFundMe, because ultimately, the point of these donations is to allow Dave to continue working on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.
SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
Just the Dave Sim Facts, Ma'am
Looks like I might have failed to realize some of the faxes Dave has been sending me were actually intended to be run here. So let's see what the ol' fax machine has given us!
Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am
- $16,640.00 raised to date from 283 donations
- 86 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 3 January 2022
- 107 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
- $160.00 away from unlocking page 108
- If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 107 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 at the middle of Month One of Year Three!
The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 52
The following are links to previous updates that featured pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond hardcover. If you click on the links in order, you can begin to devour the magnum opus that is the Strange Death of Alex Raymond...This,
Monday, 13 January 2025
Cleaning out the Canadian Inbox...
Hi, Everybody!
Ha!
And rounding off:
Mondays!
I think Elrod speaks for us all...
Dave sends me stuff:
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| Will these be Rewards on the next Kickstarter? Only Dave knows for sure... |
This one is funny...
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| Click for bigger Mort Drucker goodness, including Lord Julius(?) And, is that Mia Farrow behind Frank? |
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| Click for the liner notes... |
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| wait for it... |
(Nobody make any Granpaw jokes...)
And in a Please Hold follow-up:
"Commissions are 'ON HOLD'." Everybody got that?
Now I'm caught up on the stuff from Dave.
But since this is trending...
Rigamarole:
Josh Even has a new deal for the new year:
Happy New Year! Let’s make this the Year of the Earth Pig. I have recovered from the inaugural 2024 run of 30 ‘Deluxe’ Earth Pig Warriors.
I will start off 2024 by opening up orders for the 2025 ‘Basic Bitch’ Earth Pig Warrior.
Here’s the pricing. The two prices are for ‘unpainted’ and ‘painted’. ‘Painted’ for this run means painted heads and black-lined bodies- so the medallions swords will be the comic-style gray.
If you want gold or silver medallions or a gold & silver sword, that’s a bit extra.
Shipping to the US will be included. Shipping out of the continental US will be extra (determined at time of shipping).
All orders will come with a collector’s card and some stickers!
Basic figure (1 head, 1 pair hands- right grip/left fist, one gray sword) $90/$100. Choose from one of 4 available heads (see photo).
Extras:
Painted medallions (silver or gold) $5
Extra Head $10/$20
Hands $8/$10 - left grip/right fist or open pair
Painted sword (silver and gold) $20
Fabric Vest $20
Let’s see how this goes!
Direct message me to order.
Each order will need a $20 down payment to get going.
I’ll place an order with the printer at the end of a week if I have orders. Those will be completed in the order they are received.
Thanks everyone! Tell your friends!
If you click on Josh's name, it's supposed to take you to his Facebook post. But if that doesn't work, or you don't deal with Zuck the Fuck's bullcrap, you can always send an e-mail to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll get you in touch with Josh. You can see a video of my 80s Earth-Pig Warrior here.
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Our friends at The Waverly Press are running a new Kickstarter:
FACTORY POEMS by BIBBE HANSEN
Bibbe Hansen's poetry dedicated to the people around Andy Warhol's Factory with accompanying rare photographs.Bibbe Hansen comes from a well known family of remarkable artists. Her late father was Fluxus artist Al Hansen, her son Beck is a widely known musician and son Channing a successful visual artist. Bibbe is a writer, performer and visual artist. As a teenager she was a member of the group “The Whippets” with Jack Kerouac's daughter Jan Kerouac, releasing the 7" single Go Go Go With Ringo in 1964. That same year, while visiting galleries with her father Al, she met Andy Warhol who decided then and there to make a film based on her experiences called Prison where she starred alongside Edie Sedgwick, Pat Hartley and Marie Menken. Bibbe went on to appear in numerous other Warhol films including Restaurant, 10 Beautiful Girls, 10 More Beautiful Girls, and sat for two Screen Tests.
In Case You May Be Interested.
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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...)
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
_______________
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: Jen's gonna have stuff if that Fax near the top has anything to say about it...
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