Tuesday, 28 October 2025

A Moment of SDOAR: Five (!!!!!) Silverspoon Pages Up for Grabs

1) The past few months, I've had recurring thought in the back of my head that the numbering of the scanned pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond that Dave and Rolly have been referencing and the pages that I've been uploading to Dropbox don't quite line up. So over the past two weeks, I've downloaded all of the scanned pages from Rolly's secret Google Drive folders and matched them up with what I have in my own personal folder and Dropbox.

Lo and behold, I noticed a missing page from July 24, 2021. A page that is also missing from the Giant-Size Ashcan that Philip R. Frey and I have been working on under the watchful eye of Dave Sim. Er, perhaps under the not so watchful eye of Dave Sim.

Let's just go with the AMOC phrase, "Mistakes were made," and leave it at that.

I will continue a side-by-side comparison of what I have vs. what Rolly has and report back with more details next week.

2) Manly and I chatted by phone the other day and he mentioned that perhaps not everyone is aware of just how big these Silverspoon pages are from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom. So for comparison, I have the fifth and final page on the barbie, the full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #331, March 21, 1980, a.k.a. page seven and the Cerebus Bi-Weekly comic book size reprint side-by-side. Zounds!

3) Also included in the raffle is the full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #321, January 11, 1980, a.k.a. page three, and ...

The full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #325, February 8, 1980, a.k.a. page four and ...

The full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #327, February 22, 1980, a.k.a. page five and ...

The full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #329, February 22, 1980, a.k.a. page six.

4) Interested in getting your own raffle ticket for one of these pages? Simply donate $5 per ticket to the Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. Raffle ends November 18, 2025. First winner selected gets their choice of page, followed by the next winner and so forth. Any questions? Leave'em in the comments below! 255 raffle tickets sold so far! 

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $19,271.00 raised to date from 348 donations
  • 120 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 10 Feb 2022.
  • $129.00 away from unlocking page 121

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:

This, 
This, this, 
This, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, 
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 here, here, here, here, 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 

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