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Hi, Everybody!

Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art, I "envy" the eventual winner...

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art, I have "anger" that you guys have more money than me...

Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art, Dave's Alan Moore parody, Guest appearance by Roarin' Rick Veitch (who did some guest lettering), Double bag FIRST appearance of Zombie Red Sophia, Face it Effendi! This ONE has it ALL (except page 20 it doesn't have that...)!

And CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...

See, it's the Thirteenth Cerebus Archive Portfolio, and Birdsong made this the last Friday the 13th. It was kismet...

Speaking of Cerebus in Hell?, here's the latest Checklist:

Click for bigger. (Of course, the variants aren't listed. Like the Batvark: PENIS "Censored for Grandma" XXXXX, and the second printing. Or the Covid books had two covers. Not to even THINK about the Kickstarter books... Eh. you'll figure it out...) 
Made by Birdsong, colored by me. (Don't it "POP!"?)

And speaking of Birdsong, he was looking up Phonebook prices on eBay, and realized some of them are:

"getting more scarce on there. There is one copy of the remastered Church & State I going for $80. Going Home is still high despite being remastered. Jaka's story is pricey. The only cheap ones are the well read copies. Dave might consider hanging on to his copies as they will only go up in value."

 And then he realized he has a few that he's willing to part with. He's got:

High Society - 9th printing - the first phonebook I ever bought, still looks pretty good
High Society - 11th printing (remastered)
High Society - 12th printing with Red State signed Bookplate (remastered)
High Society - 12th printing with Blue State signed Bookplate (remastered)
Church & State I - 10th printing - my original, all my original phonebooks are well read, but look good for old guys
Church & State I - 12th printing (remastered)
Jaka's Story - 7th printing - November 2004, the first phonebook reprinted after Cerebus ended, takes me back
Form & Void - 2nd printing - same as the 1st printing, but not signed and numbered
The Last Day - 2nd printing - same as the 1st printing, but not signed and numbered
I have a 1st printing of Minds that I got from Dave years ago. 311/2100 and signed by Dave and Gerhard. I'm going to leave that one for my daughter ("Listen, honey, trust me, just put it in your gun safe and look up what it is worth in 20 years.") I'd like to get these in the hands of Cerebus fans not comic shops so if you guys know any desperate fans...

 I know all sorts of fans. Including Cerebus Super Fan (did he get one of those, he SHOULD have.) Nate "The Goddamn Batman" Oberstein

I'd explain this, but I don't think I have to. Nate's "The Goddamn Batman". He just is...

whom Birdsong wanted to have first crack at his phonebooks before I offered them up to you guys. 

Nate has all those. He's got pretty much all the versions of all the phonebooks. But when I asked him, he said:

My friend Logan killed himself about a year ago and now I have his Cerebus issues. He had 16-300, I gave a bunch away, but I still have #16,18,21-26, 28,32,37,41,49,51-53,58-62,64-66,69,74,76,80-111,114-146,148-151,155-156,160,162-214. Let me know if any fans need them.

Nate just wants the price of shipping. Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll get you in touch with "The Goddamn Batman" (it's like I'm Commissioner Gordon. Up on a roof with my private spotlight...)

Birdsong on the other hand, well you should "grease his palm with silver...", same address and I'll get you in touch with him.

Speaking of "greasing palms with silver"...

Welcome back to the next round of the race here at the AMOC Race Track, where our motto is: “You’ll Probably Like Our Nags A Lot Better Than The Ones You Get At Home”

Both horses are taking up their starting positions from where we left off: ’82 TOUR-DIARY at $61 with a $17 dollar lead against PLEASE-HOLD, sitting at $44. Jockeys are readying up, waiting for the bell…looks like both horses are ready..annndddd….<ding!>  THEY’RE OFF!!

’82 TOUR-DIARY still in the lead, but PLEASE-HOLD is holding steady. Both horses sticking to their paces with no discernible change in position.  Coming around the bend and it’s ’82 TOUR-DIARY at the front, with PLEASE-HOLD struggling to catch up..AND WE HAVE A $5 DONATION FOR PLEASE-HOLD, BRINGING IT TO $49, within a $12 gap from ’82 TOUR-DIARY! 

Ladies and Gentlemen, at this point it’s still anyone’s game to win or lose! Overconfidence has been the cause of many a lost horse race since the Greeks..

( and some minor trivia for all our spectators: ’82 TOUR-DIARY’s Maternal Granddam was actually the horse Frodo rides across the river to get away from the Black Riders, in the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. So we have a bit of an interesting connection there with the lineage…)

You can see the determination in both riders' faces. PLEASE-HOLD seems energized by the donation, gaining ground! In this precarious spot neither rider wants to exhaust their horse too early in the race, leading to burn-out and allowing the other horse to..A $50 DONATION FOR ’82 TOUR-DIARY!!! ’82 TOUR-DIARY HAS THROWN CAUTION TO THE WIND AND CHARGED AHEAD, GAINING  A STRONGLY DOMINANT LEAD IN THE RACE!  AND WE FINISH THE ROUND WITH  ’82 TOUR-DIARY at $111 and PLEASE-HOLD WITH $49!!

What a race! I tell you, Ladies and Gentlemen, you won’t get this kind of excitement sitting at home watching reruns of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER!  It looks like PLEASE-HOLD is going to need a miracle (or a donor with deep pockets) to win, but anything can happen (and usually does) around these parts! Come back next week for the next round, and we’ll be back after a word from our sponsor: LISS HOCKEY-STICKS (“When you want to put that b*stard puck right between their b*stard eyes. You won’t miss with LISS!”)

Eddie is a strange man. I mean, most of us around here are weird, but Eddie is STRANGE...

If YOU, yes YOU!, want that blue pony to win, then head over here, and click "Please Hold For Dave Sim" and give all the money you want to help that little blue pony beat the snot out of that red horse-faced bastard...

BUT, if you want that Raging Red Stallion to continue to...THRUST(!) harder...and uh...deeper towards the uh, "finish" line... um... then head over here and click "82 Tour Book" and keep throwing money at the lawn ornament in yellow so he can keep driving that little blue ball of suck into the mud.

You have until the end of the month. Then it's champagne in the Winner's Circle followed by Stud Service at premium prices for somebody and the Glue Factory for the other guy.

The horses will be there too...

And before I get to the ACTUAL POST for today, this JUST came in:

Hi Matt,
Sim's original art auction No.200, page 17 is going live for auction starting tonight (soon, 10pm ET):

Link: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127819296106

Thanks again!
Best regards,
Dave Fisher

 Aw, hell. That's like a Moment-a-palooza right there.

See ya tomorrow...

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Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español es bueno!

Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

Next Time: Mondays! and what Dave sent that I WAS gonna post today...