Electric Vehicles (Dave's weekly update #576)

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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Ha ha, just kidding that's the video for CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter. Speaking of which, more updates than you can shake a baby at:

More Chase Card Prizes;

ALL Three Cerebus High Society 2020 Campaign Buttons:

Cerebus #0 Gold Edition slabbed:

Cerebus #14 Signed and Slabbed and generally unreadable...(if that's what you're into, you do you...):

Guys Party Pack Slabbed:

Neal Adams' Cerebus birthday card Platinum Edition 12 of 30:

SIGNED Ultimate Cerebus Guide To Self-Publishing:

WildP.I.G.S. Signed Proof:

There was a question of how these chase card things work:

As of the last "backstage" update, 

There are 20 prizes and card sales are at 74 packs. That's nearly a 1 in 3 chance to win. Pretty good odds. Buy four and you have a guarantee, statistically.

And then there WERE gonna be these as prizes:

But somebody made a "boo-boo" and sold them...

"Oopsie."

And, THANKS TO ME(!!!) there are now Digital Rewards:

$25 gets you digital copies of that.

My next suggestion was for another Chase Prize: all 12 issues of Following Cerebus signed by Dave. We'll see how that goes...

ANYWAY, 12 days to go.

AND Dave's For Truly Weekly Update:

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: The first look at them Chase Card Prizes.
• Sunday: A crappy look at CAN11.
• Monday: Since Dave and I will be doing Please Hold For Dave Sim next Thursday, a Pre-Please Hold with our first Podcaster. If you got a question for Dave (or me...) get it in to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by Wednesday night. Also, The Monday Report.
• Tuesday: Jen's on the Road, and these things The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe updates might get messy, but in the meantime, Professor Sim has a new lecture for Photorealism 102. Class is in session, and I hope you brought enough pizza for everybody Mr. Spicoli... $155 until page 108 unlocks. 
• Wednesday: To celebrate the Narutobus/CAN11 Kickstarter Hobbs shows us the backcover.
• 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...
• 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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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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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off February someteenth.*

*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 doesn't have Dave Sim stuff. Carson SDOAR stuff, but nothing of Dave's (just wait until them Chase Card Prizes hit...)

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. Dave's cover to Bill's bio-comic Wanderland os available as a print on the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter. Just a head's up...

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques (one of these is a chase prize on the postcard packs available through the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter...)

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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: Bacchus.

Notebook 36: The Start

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 finally finished our look at Dave Sim’s first Cerebus notebook. All of it. So many pages. You can see all of the posts using the tag Notebook One. I asked which notebook we should look at next and couple a couple of responses:

• Larry W: "How about the notebook that has the end of the series?"
• Matt D: “Whatever notebook covers/runs up to February 4th 1985.”
• Jason T: "Notebook #21? Looks like the start of Mothers & Daughters, which is where I started my Cerebus journey..."

The notebook that ends the series, notebook #36, is only 58 pages long, and we’ve seen 12 of those pages, leaving us only 46 pages to look at. Many of those are nearly blank from my recollection.

The notebook that covers/runs up to Feb 4th, 1985 is notebook #8, which is a guestimate based on Cerebus #71 having a cover date of February 1985, and notebook #8 has material for Cerebus #70 to 79.  We’ve seen 33 out of the 86 pages in it, leaving us 53 pages to go.

Notebook #21 does cover the start of Mothers & Daughters, as it starts with material for Cerebus #164 and finishes with material for 187. It is 260 pages long which makes it the longest notebook. We’ve seen only 47 pages from it, leaving us 213 pages to go. Not impossible, but another monumental feat.

So which one will it be? Well, I’m going the easy route, notebook #36. 

The last time we saw a page from notebook #36 was way back in February of 2022 in Looking for Old Old Cerebus in the Notebooks. Well, now we’ll start from the beginning of the notebook with the first page we haven’t seen: page one.

Notebook 36, page one

For his final Cerebus notebook, Dave was counting down the issues. He put the issue box number in the upper left corner of the page, and then typically a bunch of text for that issue. Occasionally a drawing. Sometimes nothing. For most of Cerebus  #266 “Fred” is a shepherd to Mr Gurzky’s flock. While some of this inner dialogue was used, not all of it. For example, in the finished comic we hear Cerebus refer to a sheep as Elrod, but not why he named that sheep Elrod. 

We then skip a couple of pages, as pages 2 and 3 were both blank, and I didn't scan any blank pages unless the materials from the other pages came through to the other side. Dave must’ve left space thinking he might need it for planning issue #266. So on page #4 we see Dave’s notes for Cerebus #267, the Five Bar Gate issue:

Notebook 36, page four

To me as a hockey fan, it reads like the story of the Toronto Maple Leafs getting eliminated in the playoffs. Though they didn’t always make it to the finals like Fred Hammer did. The next page continues Fred Hammer’s losing streak to Paul “Coffee” Anan:

Notebook 36, page five

We have already seen page six of the notebook, in Fred Hammer Wins the Jakirbee Cup. We also saw page seven of the notebook in Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk,which starts the material for Cerebus #268.

So next week we’ll be looking at page ten of the notebook, as there was nothing else for Cerebus #268 other than page seven. In the meantime, I also starting putting the tag Notebook 36 on all posts with Notebook 36 material.

Narutobus Updated Back Cover!

Benjamin Hobbs:

The CAN11 and NARUTOBUS Kickstarter is flying high! As of this writing, it's raised over $16,000! A BIG thank you to everyone who has supported this project thus far! If you haven't backed yet, you can back it HERE.

And speaking of NARUTUBUS, here's the updated Backcover:

Next Week: Another plug for this campaign!

SDoAR 3.04: Dave Sim Teaches Photorealism 102

I am currently flying back across the Atlantic to get home, but I've been bailed out once again, this time by Michael Grabowski, Tony Dunlop, and another fax from Dave that I'm calling Photorealism 102. Take it way Michael and Tony!

Michael Grabowski sez, "I love Dave's art-on-art commentary. Great stuff! Much preferred to the metaphysics-as-conspiracy aspect of this project. And, wow! Is that how lettererers typically work? Or is that just how Dave mimics lettering styles, by treating them as artistic marks? Anyway, real neat to read this here. I hope he sends more."

And Tony Dunlop adds, "Agreed. I love reading what articulate comics professionals (e.g. McCloud, Eisner, Sim) have to say about the art form they (and I) cherish. Thanks, Dave and Jen!"

You are most welcome!

That said, don't forget to donate to the GoFundMe so Dave can keep working on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond!

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

'Cause I'm the Faxman

And now class is in session for in a little thing I like to call Photorealism 102 by Dave Sim ...

Thanks, Dave!

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $16,645.00 raised to date from 284 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

• $155.00 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 nearing the end of Month One of Year Three!

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

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 54

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, 

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, then ...

Jen x

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

Pre-Please Hold For Dave Sim

Hi, Everybody!

Next Thursday, not this Thursday (January 30th), NEXT Thursday (February 6th), Dave and I will continue the monthly discussion/Q&A/bull session, Please Hold For Dave Sim. You can get in on it by emailing any questions you have to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. And you can get a quasi-preview in this, our FIRST podcaster to ask questions since Dave wrote the Podcaster Policy:

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

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Mondays!

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And here's a thing:

So, backstage, I was reliably confirmed that there are 59 postcard packs as of now. 

In other Kickstarter news, the campaign video has been added to the main page. You should go over there and watch it (since I can't share it here...)

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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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off January 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 doesn't have Dave Sim 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. Dave's cover to Bill's bio-comic Wanderland os available as a print on the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter. Just a head's up...

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques (one of these is a chase prize on the postcard packs available through the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter...)

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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: Jen's got an Update on Strange Death of Alex Raymond...

CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter: A closer look at the Guys pages

Hi, Everybody!

As you're gonna tire of hearing about, Dave and the Cerebus in Hell? team are Kickstartering the next CiH? issue: Narutobus, along with the next Cerebus Archive Portfolio, Number 11: Guys. They're looking to raise $14,400, and have $750. Wait, I got that backwards, they're were after $750, and have (as I type this) raised $14,400. The campaign ends... on my kid's birthday, February 12th, at 8PM. They've made the Goal (and then some...), so if you haven't gotten in on it, you're guaranteed to get your rewards if you do "pull the pin".

Since we've seen a version of Narutobus before, I thought today, let's look at absolute dogcrap versions of the CAN portfolio (I don't have scans or nothing.) So, the cover to #201:

And pages 4-12. (These are just  images from the UNremastered Phonebook) (They're what I got...)

There's some pretty funny pages in there.

And you can see them life size in all their glory for $95 plus shipping. Plus, you'll get Dave's commentary on the pages. Not self-respecting Cerebus Scholar-squirrel can turn that down...

And if that's not enough, you can get any of the first ten Cerebus Archive Original Art Portfolios you missed as add-ons.

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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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off January 26.*

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

______________

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 doesn't have Dave Sim stuff.

_______________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. Dave's cover to Bill's bio-comic Wanderland os available as a print on the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter. Just a head's up...

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques (one of these is a chase prize on the postcard packs available through the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter...)

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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: Pre-Please Hold For Dave Sim?

CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter: A Closer Look at the Chase Card Prizes

Hi, Everybody!

Have you heard the news?

Dave's involved in a new Kickstarter for Cerebus Archive Portfolio Number 11: Guys and the newest Cerebus in Hell? issue: Narutobus.

Not only can you get the First ten pages (in the Cerebus Archive) from Guys as 1:1 scale color prints (the cover to issue #201 and pages 4-12 of the same issue) and three exclusive Kickstarter covers to Narutobus

There are also the Cerebus Postcard packs.

Dave had thoughts:

And then, because Dave doesn't understand how the Internet works, he sent me photos of the Swords pack:

Now, the description of these says there's SIX postcards. And all the Photos show EIGHT.

And if that isn't enough (and we all know it's not,) Dave is inserting, AT RANDOM, Chase Cards:

The prizes are (so far):

CGC Signature series Cerebus #55

CGC Signature Series Cerebus #56

Cerebus #300 signed by Dave and Gerhard

CPS Slabbed Cerebus Archive #1 Zombie Variant

Diamondback Deck

Frost Giants' Wedgie Original Trancing Paper Cerebus

Original Art to Kosplay Narutobus Kov..uh, I mean Cover

Original Art Card of Matisse and Snow

Ninja High School/Cerebus crossover Proof of the first five pages 

glamourpuss #8 pages 4 and 5 Original Art

Rabbi Card Original Art

Last Day Remarque Auction Catalog

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 with Original Sketch Cover with sketch of Matisse by Dave

Zootanapuss #5 Signed and Numbered #164 of 600

I'm sure Dave will be sending me more items as he and Rolly clean out Camp David... (isn't the 10/13 hand painted Cerebus in flames cover out there guys?)

Your chances to win go up with every Postcard pack you order from the Kickstarter.