Friend to the Blog and Home Office Head, Michael R. of Easton, PA sent in:
Hi Matt!
I just found that Jim Shooter passed away on June 30, 2025. This is from Wikipedia page.DeathI sent you the video of me asking Jim about Wolverine/Wolveroach appearances in Cerebus 54, 55 and 56 with at the Lehigh Valley Comic Con back in April. I sent the video to Dave via Rolly, but Dave refused to watch the video.
Shooter was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2024, and died of the disease at his home in Nyack, New York, on June 30, 2025.[30][70]
Michael R.
Well, Dave won't watch it because he won't plug it in to his laptop (because that NEVER works...), but I'll see if I can get AMOC Special Friend, Jesse Herndon to transcribe it, and I'll send that up so Dave can read what Jim had to say.
Anyway, what Mike had to say "back in the day":
Hi Matt!
I was able to attend the Lehigh Valley Comic Convention on April 12, 2025 in Allentown, PA at the Ag Hall. It was packed. I had to wait over an hour to get in. I worked that morning and wasn't feeling well. I was going to back out and go home. I'm glad I toughed it out. Enclosed are some photos with Steve Peters, Scott Palochik's MARCVS #3 Lehigh Valley Comic Convention only copy, the creative team of MARCVS and the one and only, Jim Shooter.
I asked Jim to personalize Dave Sim on 2 copies. He stopped writing and looked up at me (which is funny because he's so tall LOL) and said, "You know Dave?" And I said, "Well, I've met him several times in the 80's and 90's, wrote letters and received letters back and even surprised me with phone calls." Right around here, I knew he was going to start talking about the Wolveroach/Wolverine parody covers. I quickly asked Jim if I could record his answer. He said, "Yes." It was 2 minutes and 20 seconds. He thought that there were 4 covers. I didn't want to correct him. LOL. He then signed my copies and I had someone on line which getting longer by the minute to snag a photo of us. The man can tell a story.
I edited Mike's video into AMOC A/V format:
Mr. Shooter mentioned the X-Men Crossover which has been documented on AMOC in the past. A few times. Like Dave's notes. And Marvel's contract.
Mr. Shooter has been quoted a few times on AMOC, like:
And probably most infamously,
Although that didn't stop Dave and Jim from being on friendly enough terms to get Dave work to shore up the A/V joint checking account by hiring Dave to do Original Sim, as recounted by Dave in the April 2025 Please Hold:
Chris W's comment on Please Hold for Dave Sim, January 2025, video 2. “I noticed the ‘marriage’ part of the contract too.” This is the contract that I was pitched for doing “Cerebus” through DC in 1985. “Am I misremembering? Or was Dave and Deni's divorce the reason he even started looking into working with Marvel or DC on this, just to bring in some extra money? Or am I thinking of the Epic stories or something else?” Uh, no. The only thing that Deni and I separating in 1983 that touched on Marvel and DC was, because Deni and I had a joint bank account and Deni was spending money from the joint bank account on family matters, helping out her older sister Adele who lives out in, I think it was Idaho? Yeah, I think it's Idaho. And I was going, I don't know how much this is going to happen, and I'm uncomfortable with these amounts of money flying out of here. So, I actually phoned Jim Shooter and said, can you give me a quick “here, I just have to do this” sort of thing for Marvel Comics and you can pay me your top page rate and pay me, actually, doing business as Aardvark-Vanaheim, as quickly as you can. And he said, "Uh, yeah, that's fine." He said, "Why don't you do a series of pin-ups for ‘Marvel Fanfare’?" So, that's where the original Sim portfolio that was in “Marvel Fanfare” came from. They paid a very generous page rate and “Marvel Fanfare” was one of their prestige titles where they could afford to pay more than they usually did. But, Adele got the cheque from Deni and said, “I really don't need this much” and just said, “I'll hang on to this much and you can keep the rest.” So that got reestablished in the Aardvark-Vanaheim joint account, and then that was the last time that Deni did that. So, it was one of those overreaction things, caution myself, don't you overreact to this! Just find a way to replace the money or some of the money and then let's see how do bad this problem gets before we start taking any other action. Like, don't do a stupid thing like, okay, I'm going to get a lawyer and sue you to prevent you from accessing the joint bank account. Then she would get a lawyer and just counter sue me for suing her, you know, inappropriately. And then you're in the situation where all of your money is disappearing and it's just going to lawyers, it's not doing any good for anybody else. So I think that's the part tha you're thinking of, Chris. But I did mention that at the time, I think, after the fact that this is what the original Sim portfolio was about, and I can certainly understand you going, “Okay, he was doing a multiple number of things at the time” but no, at the time it definitely wasn't “the divorce is making it necessary for me to get into bed with DC.” It was, is DC a possible viable alternative or side hustle that I can sign on to that'll do great things for me, great things for “Cerebus”, great things for the bank account, and hopefully great things for DC.
Our sympathies go out to Mr. Shooter's family, and thanks to Mike.
Rigamarole:
TwoMorrows has a new book on Marshall Rogers. Does it include the Name of the Game is Diamondback? Do they talk to Deni? I dunno. You might if you buy a copy...
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Acquaintance to the blog Travis sent in:
My Kickstarter was unsuccessful. Thank you for adding it to the blog in the last several days.
I appreciate it.
I decided to just put the comic for sale on Lulu.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/fanny-kelly-and-hal-kolbeck/my-captivity/paperback/product-459wr8z.html?page=1&pageSize=4
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And Tim Gagne sent in:
If you can link this on AMOC Matt Allsion could use the help. https://crowdfundr.com/a2Yvxb?ref=ab_3UXdKBiCFCH3UXdKBiCFCH Bargain @ $10.
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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.
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
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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!).) Here's the first trailer. And if you're going to Edinburgh Fringe, Jen's doing her One Woman show Woman in the Arena, pretty much all month. If you go, "swordfish". And send pics...
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Up to 35% off July 16-20 and 24-27.*
*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 (coming soon):
- Page 16 of issue #44
- other stuff
Thanks to Steve for sending the links.
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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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Got a message from Studio Comix Press:
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If you wanna support "local" Canadian publishers...
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April C. wanted a Cerebus Jam #1, and I only wanna do this ONCE, the AMOC Prize Box (comic box edition):
Following Cerebus #4Spawn 10 (90s original)(2)Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Hardcovers 8(2), 10glamourpuss #1 (fashion cover), 6, 22, 23(2)Zootanapuss #4 (#475/590)Cerebus Companion #2Swords of Cerebus #2(2nd print) #3 (2nd print)High Society 12th printFree CerebusCerebus World Tour Book 1995Cerebus Guys Party PackCerebus bi-weekly #1, 2(2),3,5,8,9,11,12(2),13,17,18(2),19(2),20,21,25,26Cerebus High Society: 1-11,14,15(2),16-19,21(2),22(2),23(2),24,25(2)Cerebus Church & State:1,2(2),3Cerebus: #0(gold signed by Dave and Ger),16(2),18,20,23,24(2),36-39,52,54-57,59,65(2),68,93(2),95,97,(2),115-117,165,167-169,172(2),173(2),180,184,193(2)194,195(2),196(2),197(2),198,200-203,215,235,236,238,239,245,254,255(2),256-263,264(2),265(2),266-272,273(2),274,275,276(2),277-282,284-286,288,291,294,298,#1(waverly reprint gold),
Obviously I'm not listing the Cerebus Jam April wants, and there's a bunch of Waverly Spawn #10 books in the OTHER AMOC Prize Box (along with postcards and stickers and whatnots. NO. I'm not going thru that one right now. I'm supposed to be in the Please Hold Editing Suite working on the many many videos and Audio. But, currently I'm downloading the CBZ files from the High Society Audio Visual Edition so I can get the jpgs so I have the covers to issues 26-29 for Dave's answer to Steve Peters question. (It's NOT procrastination if you can find a good excuse Margaret...).)
ANYWAY, I'm MORE than willing to trade any of this for Neat Stuff, but since mailing things is my Kryptonite, you're more likely to get me to do something by offering to trade any of this for money. The more you pay, the faster I get to the post office...
If you NEED/WANT anything from the Waverly Press/Aardvark-Vanaheim offerings, I guess you can ask and I'll go dig through the effin' box...
Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com if you're interested...
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3 comments:
Holy Crap, Matt! That was FAST! I wish I could have had more stuff that we talked about. How'd ya know that I
LOOOOVE Iron Maiden! 😉
Matt will give anyone a "NO PRIZE" for guessing both Iron Maiden songs. 😁
Thank you Michael R. for that great video. Jim will be missed. From, another Michael.
trick question...both clips are "run to the hills" - Eddie Lives!!
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