Hi, Everybody!
Before we do the "Friday thing", time sensitive Cerebus thing:
Dave Sim is trying an eBay experiment to see if his own (signed and numbered) comic copies from the Kickstarter will sell.
This time he is selling a total of 5 comic books over the next six weeks. There is only one comic book to start on eBay. Each week there will be another comic added to the eBay listing.
The first auction is live. Sim wanted a two week auction; the longest Dave's eBay guy can run it is 10 days, so it'll end Monday Feb 16 at 8 pm ET.
The item title is Dave Sim POSSUM-AT-LARGE VS. SUPER-CEREBUS (CIH? #85) Signed 1/5 (#104/185)
No sign of the next issue up yet...
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Ug.
Dave sent in some artwork to Heritage Auctions (the some of the Six Deadly Sins from 1981 pages. The Cover page, page 3 and page 4.
The rest of the pages will be auctioned by Heritage Auctions at a later date because those pages are just arriving there. Please let people know about this. Thanks, Dave.
So, the profits are going directly to Dave. (Not sure about the Super Secret Wars pages...)
And just in case Dave is getting paid for these...
I guess Dave might be getting squirrelly about money again, seeing as how Cerebus in Hell? is no longer monthly. Or in stores, thanks to Diamond going kaput. And the Spanish Cerebus #1 Kickstarter hasn't launched (at least nobody's told me. Nobody tells me nothing no more...) And he has..."issues" with The 1982 Tour Book. (Which WON'T be Kickstartering next Wednesday as planned.) ((What's his problem? If you REALLY wanna know...))
Having been a Junior Scholar Squirrel on this thing, I think Dave's making a mountain out of a molehill. Does the book read better if you know that the guy in this photo
No.
No, not really. It's nice added context, but Dave mentions that Mr. Rubenstein stops at the store.
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But NOT Comic Art Gallery!
To the Prototype!
Plus, given just how many "Dave Sim in front of/next to a rack of comics" photos there are in the tour material, it's easy to be confused as to if they're the SAME rack of comics in one photo to the next.
Did you recognize that this was the same rack?
PLUS plus: Dave had Rolly scan ALL the photos in the Cerebus Archive, fronts and backs (where Dave wrote notes on what the photos were), EXCEPT for the 82 tour photos. I have copies of them, but there are no notes. If Dave had gone through and annotated all those photos, then mistakes like this wouldn't have happened. (It'd just be mistakes like Dave saying a photo of him taken by Bill Sienkiewicz in Chicago in 1984 was taken in 1981. I have a photo of Dave from San Diego in 1981, and unless Dave lost thirty pounds and gained a beard in the week from Chicago Comic Con to San Diego Comic Con in 81, then they're probably not from the same year...)
Plus PLUS plus, if Dave takes issue with the content Deni provided for the book, it's an introduction (that I took issue with, since she shares the "pie-in-the-face" Harlan Ellison story, and it's not the version Dave told in Cerebus #295(? I think it was 295. It was during the Last Day. I remember that.) She has a different reason for Harlan taking the pie to the face. Not saying her version isn't what happened, but it's a whole lot different from Dave's account. Too bad Harlan is dead and we can't ask him...) (Being a child from a "broken home", I've had enough "two versions of the same story" to know that they're both not wrong, but probably neither one is a 100% right either. I sent a scan of Dave's version so that it could get tagged on near the end of the tour diary (since the meeting Harlan ISN'T in the diary! (Itself mildly suspect in my view.) Will it make it, I dunno.), a few notes, and that's it. It's not like Dave couldn't flip through the book, making notes, OR using his digital recorder, make a voice note like "Page 33, picture is captioned with the wrong store, also, that's Joe Rubinstein. He was married to Deni from whenever to whenever." He could knock it out in an afternoon. AND, after that it's a collection of period interviews. Is Dave gonna ask for corrections to interviews THAT SAW PRINT when I was three and a half? (He is, isn't he?) This is supposed to be period specific piece covering the five week tour of America from October to November 1982. Yes, mention is made of what happened after that window of time, but in a general sense of "forty-four years and a two hundred and fifty some comics, and another hundred books worth of memories...".
And/also/plus/as well, Dave said he put the tour diary together for Following Cerebus, but (in one version of the book) there's a note that Dave had Karen type it up. Karen wasn't with Aardvark Vanaheim in 2004 when Following Cerebus started.
Plus PLUS plus, if Dave takes issue with the content Deni provided for the book, it's an introduction (that I took issue with, since she shares the "pie-in-the-face" Harlan Ellison story, and it's not the version Dave told in Cerebus #295(? I think it was 295. It was during the Last Day. I remember that.) She has a different reason for Harlan taking the pie to the face. Not saying her version isn't what happened, but it's a whole lot different from Dave's account. Too bad Harlan is dead and we can't ask him...) (Being a child from a "broken home", I've had enough "two versions of the same story" to know that they're both not wrong, but probably neither one is a 100% right either. I sent a scan of Dave's version so that it could get tagged on near the end of the tour diary (since the meeting Harlan ISN'T in the diary! (Itself mildly suspect in my view.) Will it make it, I dunno.), a few notes, and that's it. It's not like Dave couldn't flip through the book, making notes, OR using his digital recorder, make a voice note like "Page 33, picture is captioned with the wrong store, also, that's Joe Rubinstein. He was married to Deni from whenever to whenever." He could knock it out in an afternoon. AND, after that it's a collection of period interviews. Is Dave gonna ask for corrections to interviews THAT SAW PRINT when I was three and a half? (He is, isn't he?) This is supposed to be period specific piece covering the five week tour of America from October to November 1982. Yes, mention is made of what happened after that window of time, but in a general sense of "forty-four years and a two hundred and fifty some comics, and another hundred books worth of memories...".
And/also/plus/as well, Dave said he put the tour diary together for Following Cerebus, but (in one version of the book) there's a note that Dave had Karen type it up. Karen wasn't with Aardvark Vanaheim in 2004 when Following Cerebus started.
Basically, what I'm saying is you can sign up to be notified when The 1982 Tour Book is gonna launch on Kickstarter, but that won't be next Wednesday. Also, I don't drink, but I may be changing my mind about that...
Anyway, with all the drama out of the way,
(Just saying, you COULD HAVE maybe done a video about your objections to the tour book Dave and had a Weekly Update that WASN'T just you reading a bit from the paper from two months ago... What? I'm not bitter, you're bitter.)
Next Time: As much of this as I get done today...
Like it says on the Logo:
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It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.
The past Week in AMOC:
- Saturday: I got mail!
- Sunday: I got my '82 Tour Book Prototypes, and unlike a certain Canadian, I liked it...
- Monday: The Monday Report, and the transcript to Please Hold For Dave Sim 6/2023.
- Tuesday: Since Jen is in rehearsals, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, $190 until page 127 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. Anyway, I'ma post ALL of glamourpuss over the next how many weeks. BUT, Philip Fry gives us an Update on how work on the Ashcans is going. (See how that works Sim? An Update should ya know...UPDATE people on how the work is going...) AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation.
- Wednesday: The NEW Cerebus in Hell? issue: Cerebus in Jail, continues with the Weekly Strip. 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, more from Reads that isn't in Reads!
- 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.
And FOR THE RECORD: I'm not mad at Dave. I'm just kinda annoyed that while I was in the Please Hold editing Suite crafting this month's videos (two and a half hours of audio, not including the bits of the Faux Dave wanted me to record), and I got the message to April (who's bits I haven't gotten to, we're still discussing Ernie Hemingway), and a separate message from The Waverly Press about what's happening, and it's a tad disappointing that instead of taking the time to look the book over and give notes, Dave's saying that he'll give it an hour A WEEK(!) over the next how many months... Dude, just take a day. It's not like it's the Torah commentaries from Latter Days where it's lots and lots of tiny type. The last hundred and eleven pages is interviews from 1982. There's not a whole lot to look over in them. Flip through and see if anything looks like it's NOT from when I was three and a half, and write notes on that. I mean: Come. On.
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And, coming inFebruary, who knows. Who. Knows. The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch). They've been sharing updates on the Instagram.
And, coming in
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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)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
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:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
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Dave also wanted me to post this:
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)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
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:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
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Dave also wanted me to post this:
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Up to 35% off February 13-16, and 25-March 1.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.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...
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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: (I talked about this up top...)
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
- Cerebus #39, page 8 (coming in February)
- And a list of ALL the issues they got
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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