Notebook 21: Spawn #10 Dialogue

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’re continuing our look at Dave Sim’s 21st notebook used during the creation of Cerebus #164 to 187. We’ll be looking at this notebook, which there were 260 out of 300 pages scanned, until we’ve seen every single page of it. Well, the pages scanned. If you want to see all of the notebook #21 posts to date, just use the Notebook 21 tag. 

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We saw material for Cerebus #166 & 167 in last week’s entry on Dave Sim’s 21st notebook. Will this week go back to walls of text or will we get more sketches? Onto page 41:

Notebook #21, page 42

Wait, what? Spawn #10? We have seen some of Dave’s material for Spawn #10 already:

• Notebook 21: End of Cerebus #164 & Spawn 10: page 24 of the notebook
• Crossing Over: pages 25, 26, and 64 of the notebook
• Crossing Over Part Two: pages 27 & 28 of the notebook

The dialogue on page 42 covers the first four pages of Spawn #10. It isn’t word for word, but a lot of it is in those pages. Though there is more dialogue in the finished pages of Spawn #10, this page captures most of it.

The next pages of the notebook continues the dialogue from the next page, page 5 of Spawn #10. The dialogue in the boxes is what shows up on page 6 and 7, the double page spread with the arms of the heroes coming out of the jail cell while Spawn screams nooooo! Though some of that dialogue didn’t make it: “Dark Knights Knights of the Darkness. Some of them are mere children. Titans. Boy Wonders.”

Notebook #21, page 43

The bottom left corner dialogue appears in a slightly altered format on page 8 of Spawn #10. The dialogue on the next page of the notebook appears on page 16 and 17 of Spawn #10. 

Notebook #21, page 44

Well, kind of. It looks like what was the first pass at the dialogue for those two pages, but it didn’t make the cut.

Next week – back to Cerebus issues, not Spawn #10. This was an unexpected but pleasant surprise.

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Hi, Everybody!

Matt here. Piggybacking on Margaret's post to let everybody know that the Pud's Tavern Logo shirt for my kid's dance team has dropped:

They're only available in pink...

Unfortunately, they're only available to order until August 26th at 11:59pm. CST. More unfortunately, they'll only ship to my kid's high school. So if you want one, email me at momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll work something out...

I bought one for Dave already. And if you need/want one bigger than 3X, lemme know and I'll see what I can do...