Friday, 5 December 2025

Longfellow's Haunted Houses (Dave's weekly update #619)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:
That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
Hi Matt,
Please put this information on the website. Thanks. There is a link to the auction page and there are links to Dave Sim's artwork.

Larry Shell Benefit Art Auction on Heritage for Taxes & House Repairs

Longtime collector and comics professional, Larry Shell, is having a difficult time right now. Due to his being disabled from two spinal surgeries over the past ten years, he is unable to work and earn a living anymore. This has caused his home of close to 50 years to fall into disrepair and the township he lives in has given him a limited time to make at least some of the repairs or face consequences of thousands of dollars in fines. which could ultimately lead to the house being condemned. It is livable and just needs a lot of work.

In addition, property taxes for 2025 are overdue and non-payment would result in the township putting the house up for tax sale!

To this end, Larry has contacted many of his comic book and strip cartoonist friends to donate a piece of Original Art for an auction to help pay the taxes and for the repairs, starting with his front porch which is falling apart and needs to be completely rebuilt! This needs to be dealt with asap!
The auctions are part of the weekly Heritage Wednesday Comic Art & Animation Select Auction #322550 and will be live and open for bids later today, Wednesday, December 3rd at 7pm CST and end on Wednesday, December 10th.

Among the artists whose work will be auctioned are:
Dave Sim, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Morrison, Geof Isherwood, Peter Bagge, Shannon Wheeler, Rick Parker, Mark Schultz, Mitch O’Connell, Gary Panter, Doug Latino, Mark Bode, Steve Mannion, Timothy Truman, B.K. Taylor, Joseph Michael Linsner, Fred Hembeck, Kim DeMulder, Ron Randall, Gary Hallgren, Hunt Emerson, Bob Smith and others!

To view all the auctions being held for the benefit, click on the link below!

https://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=322550&collection=90&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0

Dave Sim's Artwork:
https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/portfolio/dave-sim-cerebus-archive-number-ten-signed-limited-edition-portfolio-2-150-aardvark-vanaheim-2004-total-19/a/322550-47374.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/dave-sim-and-gerhard-cerebus-200-story-page-11-original-art-aardvark-vanaheim-1995-/a/322550-47372.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/dave-sim-and-gerhard-cerebus-200-story-page-14-original-art-aardvark-vanaheim-1995-/a/322550-47373.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

Thank you,
Larry
So bid big. It's for charity...
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: Cleaning out the Faux machine...
  • Sunday: "Goin' on down to Palnu, gonna have myself a time..."
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and the Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2022 transcript.
  • TuesdayJen is back (and on her way to London) and did her post to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$140 until page 125 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. And she's got FIVE Silverspoon strips Winners! AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. Details at the link... 
  • Wednesday: The NEW Cerebus in Hell? issue: Cerebus in Jail, continues in the weekly strip post. Follow along on Instagram
  • Thursday: Margaret has posted ALL of Albatross One. (If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here.) And all of The Last Notebook. Now she's gonna burn through all of Notebook #21. So sit back and get ready for pages and pages and pages of walls of handwritten text... This week, Cerebus #171 and 173!
  • Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)
Okay, so that was the last week on AMOC. You're welcome.
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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...

Over on the Facebookees, Mike Jones shared that Dave has a five SEVEN page Strange Death of Alex Raymond story in YEET Presents #68. Mike Jones still has 30 copies of the second printing available, ya gotta back them on Patreon to get it.

And I got my copy of #69, and it has a Journey story in it. I think it's new:
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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 December 5-18th*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
And I've been instructed to say:
Make sure to remind your customers to place their orders by the shipping cutoff dates to ensure their goodies from your shop arrive before Christmas! (*Note: These dates apply to all regions.)
  • Standard Shipping: December 14th
  • Ground: December 16th
I don't think any of you care, but as the TeeGods command...

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gamil.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...
Back and front.
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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:
I highly doubt I'ma get the December Please Hold done. My kid has a thing, and I have to be there. But the ol' AMOC Mailbag has some neat stuff. I'ma be in the editing suite, so ya never know...

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