Saturday, 7 June 2025

Please Hold For Dave Sim 6/2025

Hi, Everybody!
"Please Hold For Dave Sim? But I thought Dave's phone wasn't working?" Don't worry imaginary AMOC reader who lives rent-free in my head, we got a handle on it...

Dave flies pretty much solo this month (I'm there in spirit: I sent the questions and did all the tech work like always, I just don't talk to Dave.)

Audio:


Video:

Part 1: So, I sent Dave a package, and he plays "What's in the Box?!?"
After I made the video, I got scans from Up Nort' including this:
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Part 2: I sent Dave an update message that turned into a PRE-Hold For Dave Sim
Part 3: More Pre-Hold, Josh Even has a NECA update
Part 4: Dave finishes up with the Pre-Hold stuff
Part 5: I remember Jeff
Part 6: Dave remembers Jackson slash Butch Guice and Peter David

Part 7: Dave got a comment from Zolastraya
Part 8: Fernando H. Ramirez has done another Cerebus short
Part 9: Dave talks about the next Cerebus Archive Portfolio Kickstarter (which isn't launching until next week at the earliest. And some of Dave's plans aren't "doable" through Kickstarter, so take them with a grain of salt.)
Part 10: Dave answers April C.'s questions. 
Part 11: And Dave wraps up by answering the last questions I sent  

There's a few more Audio files, but I think they're Off-White House Bulletin stuff (this is all so new and confusing...

Rigamarole:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters latest Kickstarter funded the other day. Yay Steve!

I'm selling bootleg Cerebus trading cards featuring my art, coloring by Hobbs, and unused art of MY characters by Dave. $10 a set for 11 cards plus TWO HANDDRAWN cards (by me). Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll explain how to pay.


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...

Our very own Jen DiGiacomo is part of a film production titled The Day Elvis Died. She'll never ask anybody here, but they're crowdfunding to finish the post production on the movie. (It's set in 1977, will a certain obscure Canadian cartoon aardvark make a cameo? (No. Elvis died in August. Cerebus wasn't published until December. Any appearance in the flick would be an anachronism that would ruin the movie for everybody. EVERYBODY!).) 

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Up to 35% off June 16-23.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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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:
  • THREE pages of original art 
  1. Cerebus #3 page 21
  2. Cerebus #20 page 21
  3. Cerebus #293 page 7
  • And a shitload of unreadable comics (if that's your jam...) (I ain't linking them.)
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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: Live from The Off-White House it's...Sunday?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Totally unrelated to this actual article, but just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the "New Varks" issue of Cerebus In Hell? was supposed to have duplicate pages in it? My copy has a bunch of duplicate pages, and I'm genuinely not sure if it was a misprint or if it was a meta joke that I don't know the context for.

Birdsong said...

Hi Anonymous. There are some issues of Cerebus in Hell? that do, indeed, repeat the same art over and over and over and, yeah one more time, over again. I'm currently working on an issue where Cerebus appears in the same spot in every panel on every page. Things around him change, but he doesn't. Cerebus in Hell? has a static quality that not a lot of comics have and that may be a very narrow niche that only Dave could have come up with. Can you check to see if your issue has repeated word balloons? That would be the sign that pages have been duplicated.

Birdsong said...

That's my favorite Matt Dow strip, ever. Some of Dave's efforts to lower the prices of some items during the campaign are difficult because of Kickstarter's structure. We are enabling the option to pay over three months this time and enabling the ability to buy some items after the campaign ends, but this is the first time we're trying it so - fingers crossed.