Notebook 21: Cerebus #175 Reads Text

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 looked at three pages from Dave’s 21st notebook that showed some really nice page layouts. And we had looked at the rest of those pages earlier. Full page layouts that are tightened up and take up most of the notebook page? Yah, those are eye catching and get posted pretty quickly. But now we’re back to the ‘walls of text’ pages. We are starting to cover Reads, so it is to be expected on some level.

And since I’m in the middle of a span of five Boston Bruins games in eight days, I’m exhausted. And I’m not even playing hockey. I finally got to see the Bruins score 10 goals – first time at the Garden since the late 70s. A whole lot of other stuff happened at that game as well. It was crazy. Never been to a game like that before and I’ve been to over 700 Boston Bruins games. By the time you read this, Thursday night the Bruins will be retiring Zdeno Chara’s number 33 and game five of five for this eight day stretch. 

What does this mean for you dear reader? You’re getting four pages from the notebook today. Don’t get too excited, they’re walls of text. Interesting text, but still a lot of text. Good news? Little commentary from me, as I’m exhausted. So, lets get at it:

Notebook #21, page 111

Notebook #21, page 112

Notebook #21, page 113

Notebook #21, page 114

As always, you can click on the pictures to see them bigger. Next week? Yah, probably more walls of text. . .Probably.