Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Jen's back! (In the states, not at AMOC) So Matt pimps Steve Peters again!

 Hi, Everybody!

Jen's show is DONE. I think she's back in the States, but she's busy in the Madison Square Garden parking lot. You can get reports straight from Jen's mouth if you follow her on the 'gram.

Anyway, that means I'ma still doing her bit:

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $18,800.00 raised to date from 332 donations
  • 118 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 21 Jan 2022.
  • $200.00 away from unlocking page 119


As Jen has copy/pasted from her last post:
3) The next raffle is for a full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #321, January 11, 1980. These are really hard to come by so, I hope everyone considers joining the raffle. Speaking of which ...
4) Last time I posted, I discussed raffle tickets were going to go for $5 a pop and no one complained, so let it be written, so let it be done. I also mentioned that all donations since the last raffle will be included, meaning we have 97 raffle tickets sold so far. If we break 150 tickets, I'll toss another Silverspoon page into the bucket.
And Jen always says:

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond New Mockups Preview 

If you haven't read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond before, we have an eight-page trailer that Dave did back in 2018: Part One | Part Two

Then the Dave Sim portion of the hardcover, presented four pages at a time:

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And this.

If you want to see how Carson Grubaugh finished the hardcover, well, you're going to need to purchase a copy of your own. HOWEVER, if you want to see how Dave Sim continued the story in the blue pages -- bring me the blue pages -- mockups that appeared in blue ink in final section of the hardcover can be found here...

This, 
This, and this.

Then in June 2021, Dave picked up the story again and it continues herehereherehere, and here.

If you enjoy the journey, you can join us for all the new pages on Dropbox by donating $5 or more. 

Jen x 
During the last Please Hold, Dave had a bit of a The Strange Death of Alex Raymond spoiler:

And since I got you here, Friend to the Blog Steve Peters is back with the next Tails of Sparky #6, the next in the "Seasons of Sparky" series. Why you care (besides that Steve's a pal and does good comics...) is that he has a LIMITED number of 
Tails of Sparkybus #6 Signed Variant
Signed by Dave Sim (Dave Sim 2025) on a tipped-in plate. It will also be signed by Steve Peters and numbered, and features a 6-page collaboration with Sim that will only appear in the variant.
It's limited to TWENTY-FIVE copies (of which, as of this writing, there are THIRTEEN left.)

Steve also has copies of Dave's variant covers to the two previous issues, so you can get the set if you missed out. 

He's also got the Sparkybus prints Dave did that I had printed up.

You can't say I didn't warn ya!

Next Time: Cerebus in Hell?

1 comment:

Steve Peters said...

Thanks, Matt! There will actually be 32 copies of the signed variant. I made 25 available initially because I usually get requests for a bundle package, and I'll probably give a couple to the Cerebus Archive, etc.