Notebook 21: Cerebus #181 – Viktor Davis’ Introduction

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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 We finished last week’s entry with some of the last text for Victor Reid and the first text for Viktor Davis. Now we’re continuing with Viktor Davis’ section of Reads. This starts on page 144 of Reads, aka page 18 of Cerebus #181. The following three pages are the preliminary writing for that introduction of Viktor Davis. Yes, it is very different than the finished work. 

In the notebook pages we get a Viktor Davis that is more akin to Dave as we see a story of Viktor hanging out with Gene Day. The text continues on with Gene’s death, the trip to Marvel’s New York city offices, and makes mention of the players there.

As always, click on the pictures to see it LARGER.

Notebook #21, page 167

Notebook #21, page 168

Notebook #21, page 169

Don’t worry, you want to see the next couple of pages from the notebook, go to the Viktor Davis Notes on Reads post to read them.