Tuesday, 4 November 2025

A Moment of SDOAR: Real GS Ashcan Updates; Another Page Unlocked; FIVE Giant Silverspoon Pages STILL Up for Grabs

Last week I talked about the missing Strange Death of Alex Raymond page from July 25, 2021. 

I'm happy to state that I've now reviewed every single page that Rolly scanned/uploaded and have come to following conclusions and taken the following actions:

1) The July 25, 2021 SDOAR page is the only page I missed. 

2) However, I never uploaded a page last year on November 6, 2024 when Philip R. Frey unlocked a new page. I think I was still hung over from my birthday celebration the day before. 

3) In the meantime, we unlocked another SDOAR page (thanks, John Mosher) and that has been uploaded to Dropbox for GoFundMe donors. Not sure what I'm talking about? Why not donate $5 and get access to all 121 unlocked pages!


4) Getting back to the July 25, 2021 SDOAR page. I have written up what transpired for Dave's review. Hopefully he'll get to it this week, but two questions seem to arise from all of this. 

5) Was there a reason that page was missing? In other words, was it intentional, meaning the page was never intended for publication? Or was it a classic case of, "Mistakes were made" and it was intended for publication, meaning our GS Ashcan is suddenly one page too long?

6) If it is the latter, then GS Ashcan #1 now has 25 pages of SDOAR storyline, the four additional pages originally included to wrap of the section with a nice bow. But five additional page feels like a lot and would perhaps better be moved to the eventual GS Ashcan #2. Which begs the second question which I posed to Dave, what say you? Well, when I say posed the question, I wrote it out to be printed with the hope that Dave will see it this week, and get me a response next week.

7) The good news is that Philip R. Frey and I are working the on the Giant-Size Ashcans again. We have three versions of the covers for GS Ashcan #0 and three versions of the covers for GS Ashcan #1. Studio Comixpress will be printing those this week, so Dave should have those in his hands as well on Thursday for feedback.

8) Hopefully once we get an answer from Dave, we'll be ready to send over the next proofs for GS Ashcans #0 and #1, and perhaps even be nine pages into Ashcan #2!

9) Enough with the Ashcans! Let's talk raffles. 283(!) raffle tickets purchased so far for the five SUPER GIANT-SIZE Silverspoon Cerebus pages from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, circa 1980. Reminder that there will be FIVE winners selected, the first winner gets their choice of page, followed by the second winner, and so forth. Raffle ends November 18, 2025. More on that in a moment, but let's talk about the NEXT raffle. I have me an idea!

10) I don't know about you all, but I have quite a few extra Cerebus cards, postcards and bookmarks floating around. And I'm still trying to finish my card collection. But what if the next raffle followed the same rules as this time, only every raffle ticket got to receive a Cerebus card/postcard/bookmark of their choice, going in the random winners order. And to make things better, if you all have duplicate Cerebus cards cluttering up your collection, why not mail them to me so we have even more cards, postcards and bookmarks up for grabs. Essentially, everything that is flat and could easily fit in an envelope. Heck, everyone who mails in stuff could get free raffle tickets in exchange! If you are intrigued, why not leave a comment below or better yet, email me at jen@typingmonkeys.com with a list of your dupes and your wants, and I'll get you my mailing address pronto! 

Or just tell me the idea blows and I'll save myself a ton of work.

11) A friendly neighborhood reminder that 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!

12) 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.

13) 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! 

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $19,410.00 raised to date from 354 donations
  • 121 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 10 Feb 2022.
  • $190.00 away from unlocking page 122

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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