Saturday, 30 August 2025

Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2025

Hi, Everybody!

It's a week early, but I'm all done, and don't feel like resizing forty-six year old comics pages today. So, enjoy!


Audio:

Video:

Part one: Dave discusses the Late Jim Shooter's remembrance of the Wolveroach affair.
Part two: MJ Sewall (who's writing a biography of Dave Sim, I know, Jeff Seiler is spinning in his grave...) has a question that Dave has a sorta answer to.

Part three:  Dave remembers the late Jim Shooter and their relationship, including how Dave's portfolio of Marvel characters "Original Sim" appeared in Marvel Fanfare #25. And how the planned Cerebus/X-Men crossover came to be.

Part four: Dave gets follow-ups to the July/August Please Hold from our resident transcriptionist @SanctuaryofReality  (Jesse Herndon)
Part five: Dave answers questions and comments from @creative_fey  (April C.)

Part six: Rodney Schroeter has a question.

Part seven: David Birdsong has some questions, and Dave has some Cerebus in Hell? ideas...

Part eight: Dave answers a number of questions from MJ Sewall relating to MJ's upcoming biography about Dave.
Part nine: Dave's dramatic reading of a short story sent in by Byron Dunbar, which ties in to the last two pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Dave has completed.
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Tim Gagne sent in:
Crownfundr for Nick Crane
Already net its goal but pretty cheap for a collection that finishes the story all these years later -
https://crowdfundr.com/nickcraine?ref=cr_3EI341_ab_18OUE1
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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:
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Zipper calls in a favor:
Hi Matt!

I stopped in a JAF comics this afternoon after work and had nice conversation with John. John is the owner of JAF Comics and publisher of Dreamscape Comics. He asked me for a favor. So, I'm asking if you for a favor. Can you please kindly promote John's new book, Lady Savage, through the Rigamarole. It's live on Kickstarter now and need a little push to get the book fully funded. Most of the creative team has gone to the Joe Kubert School of Art.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreamscapepub/lady-savage-footsteps-in-eden-by-gary-petras?ref=discovery&term=Lady%20Savage%3A%20Footsteps%20in%20Eden%20Comic%20Book%20%231%20by%20Gary%20Petras&total_hits=1&category_id=250

Thank you, Matt!

Michael R.
Wait a minute...I don't owe Zipper a favor...
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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
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Up to 35% off August 30-31.*
*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:
  • Page 16 of issue #44
  • Page 5 of Cerebus #20
  • Inside Back Cover art from Cerebus #3
  • The covers to Issue #74 and #76
  • other stuff
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
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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Next Time: Isn't this a Holiday Weekend? Why don't you get of your phone and touch some grass or something?

3 comments:

ChrisW said...

Trash Can Man was in "The Stand," not "It."

ChrisW said...

I typed that before I got to the next part of Dave's anecdote.

ChrisW said...

And another coincidence, just a couple days ago, I had a question about how far Dave and Claremont got on the crossover, if there had been discussion on the characters or if they'd just planned to have Cerebus fight Wolverine and they'd fill in the rest later. I meant to ask that question but didn't get a chance before the end of the month, and here you go.