Notebook 21: Spawn #10 Dialogue Part 3

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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Last week we saw pages from Dave’s 21st notebook which covered dialogue from Spawn #10. I thought we were done with it, but nope, we have a few more pages of it. Why did I think we were at the end of the dialogue – other than how the writing has changed in style, but those pages from last week showed us dialogue from the end of Spawn #10. So what is up with this the dialogue on these pages? Lets take a look.

Notebook #21, page 64

This dialogue matches up with page nine and ten of Spawn #10. There are small changes, but it is pretty close to the finished pages. The next page of the notebook not only continues the dialogue from 10 but up through page 14. 

Notebook #21, page 65

Next week: Cerebus #168 material. . .Finally! Oh, sorry, you wanted more Spawn #10 material?