Monday, 17 November 2025

"What IS Cerebus the Aardvark?" AMOC Day 2025

Hi, Everybody!

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And as it is the seventeenth of  November, we must celebrate Tim W's founding of A Moment of Cerebus.

To celebrate (and to tee up Jen), I was gonna run Dave's The Strange Death of Alex Raymond pages that are in YEET Presents #68, but Mike Jones still has 30 copies of the second printing available, and I'm not stepping on his toes until they are gone. Ya gotta back them on Patreon to get it.

Speaking of, I just got the submission guidelines for YEET Presents, and since some of youse are of the artistic type, I thought they may be of interest:
YEET is always looking for talent. We have been giving artists and writers the opportunity to see their work in print for over 35 years.....and what a thrill it is to see your work in print for the first time. If you have a story or maybe just a pin-up, we'd like to see it. Not every submission makes it into the book for different reasons. Mainly, they get lost in my computer but sometimes they don't fit our "mold".

Here are a few guidelines that will assist you in getting in to our little comic book.

  1. We are mostly black & white but occasionally we will print in color. If you submit a story in color, don't be disappointed if it appears in grayscale.
  2. Page size is 6.7" x 10.25". Page numbering (at the bottom of each page) is very helpful. I like PNG files but PDF, TIFF and others will work. I use GIMP to edit most pages so I can always covert. Dropbox or google files are a headache. I prefer downloading files on wetransfer. Send it to: yeetpresents@gmail.com
  3. Keep it old school. We like hand drawn work. NO A.I. Computer lettering is fine, but personally I like to see the flaws of hand lettering. Keep your lettering font and size consistent.
  4. We try to spread the word of YEET and the comic book hobby in general. Getting young readers involved is a priority. Keep your material PG13ish rated. A great story doesn't need excessive violence, language or ....well you know. NO politics!
  5. Material is printed as needed. We don't have a schedule, or a deadline so take your time. Make sure your submission is just the way you want before sending it. Getting updated files piecemeal is a real pain. You may be asked to submit everything as a total package again. We like to keep our stories under 12 pages. If you have more, try to break it down into parts. Page count may be a deciding factor if it makes it into a specific issue. All genres are accepted, superhero, western, horror, etc.
  6. This is a one-man-show. If you send me something and you don't hear from me or it's not printed....shoot me a reminder.
  7. All characters should be original or Public Domain....no Batman.
  8. If you are not sure how to go about making a comic book story, we can help. Our FB Group has many pros and amateurs willing to lend a hand. Don't be afraid to ask. If you have a story and need an artist or if you’re a penciller or letterer or inker and want to contribute, just ask.
  9. Get involved. Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236613970397789 Check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@yeetpresents7707 subscribe to the book: www.patreon.com/yeetmagazine
  10. Have fun and keep on YEETin’!

I hope this helps and feel free to reach out with your questions.

So with NEW Dave Art off the table, I figured why not "remaster" a classic?

Which means it's:


Cerebus #1 (December 1977)
Art by Dave Sim

DAVE SIM:
(from the introduction to Cerebus #0)
Easily the most common (and difficult) question I'm asked about Cerebus is to describe what the book is about. In an age when most movies, novels and television shows can be distilled to a sound byte (High Noon In Outer Space, West World Done With Dinosaurs), a description of Cerebus becomes an ever-more daunting task.

Put as simply as possible, Cerebus is my attempt to document a life for twenty-six years and three hundred issues. Cerebus began in December 1977 and concludes in March 2004 at issue 300, with the death of the title character. It is my attempt to by-pass one of the major faults of comic books (and strips, for that matter); the fact that the characters never age or change and that most attempts at change can be summed up as gimmicks and temporary modifications introduced for the purposes of boosting sales.

Sometimes the Cerebus story-line is funny.
 
Sometimes it is sad.
Sometimes it crawls along month to month with very little happening
and sometimes it flies by at breath-taking speed with everything happening at once.
I create the book consciously this way because this is the way I see life; my life and the lives of those people that I know. In some story-lines, Cerebus is a central figure and a driving force behind the events taking place.
At other times he is a secondary figure, observing rather than participating.
Again, this is very much like my own life and the lives I see around me.

...Cerebus is a six thousand page story-line, documenting the ups and downs of a single character's life (as well as those around him). Cerebus, like Howard the Duck,
is a funny animal in the world of humans. Everyone, whoever they are, feel themselves to be unique and, more often than not in the last half of the twentieth century, feel themselves to be out of place where ever they are. Documenting that, to the best of my abilities, seemed (and still seems) a worthwhile use of twenty-six years of my life. Cerebus is not a hero, a villain, an anti-hero, or an everyman. He is capable of being each of those and he is most often none of those.

He's Cerebus. An aardvark in the world of humans.

(Man, I should do this to ALL of Tim's stuff... Nah, that sounds like work...)

Happy AMOC Day Everybody!
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Like the logo? I stole it...









And, coming in February, The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch).
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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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Dave also wanted me to post this:

Lots of little words, click for bigger.
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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 November 17-23. And 40% off the 24th-December 2.*
*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:
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: It's been ALMOST three years since Jen started posting, so she's gonna try to ride AMOC Day's coattails...
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