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 #239 19 pages of Original Art, you'd think I'd learn to not even waste my time bidding...
And CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...
Dave sent a new Off-White House Bulletin:
For those in the back who don't understand why "the cheesemakers are blessed", The Waverly Press was given the raw materials of Dave's 1982 Aardvark-Vanaheim First U.S. Tour Book (that Dave had saved to one day do a book of,) by Dave with the intention of doing a high-end Art Book. That got sidelined into the Regency Edition of High Society, which in turn spawned (heh.) the Remastered Cerebus #1 which turned into the Remastered Cerebus #2, and the Remastered reprinting of Form & Void, and the Remastered The Last Day, Dave's Remastered Spawn #10, and Dave's Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8. (I think I got the order right...)
So, FINALLY, circling back to the project that started it all, they reached out to Margaret and I to gather vintage (circa late 1982) Cerebus/Dave material for inclusion in the '82 Tour Book.
The thinking/planning was VERY much that this was a time capsule of where Cerebus was around late October/early November 1982. To that end, we dug up interviews Dave and Deni had done ON the Tour, sketches from the Tour, and a few other '82 odds and ends that weren't EXACTLY Tour material, but which fit the timeframe of 1982 Cerebus. The Waverly Press reached out to Deni, and got her to write an introduction. They also got material from numerous Tour adjacent comics people: Maggie Thompson, Diana Schutz, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Chuck Rozanski. With Dave's Tour Diary, Deni's Tour Pictures, the vintage interviews and the additional material, the Prototype version of the Tour Book (that I got a physical copy of...) clocks in at 224 pages. And the printed version is the THIRD version I've seen (the other two were digital.).
Dave received a copy as well...
And that's where things go "tits up"... Dave wanted a proof, and didn't get one until the third Prototype was printed. Which was more or less the version that was going to be Kickstartered.
Dave took issue with that. (And I took issue with Dave taking issue with that...)
Dave received a copy as well...
And that's where things go "tits up"... Dave wanted a proof, and didn't get one until the third Prototype was printed. Which was more or less the version that was going to be Kickstartered.
Dave took issue with that. (And I took issue with Dave taking issue with that...)
Which is when Dave got the idea of working on the book if he gets paid for it...
And starts working on his edit...
And starts working on his edit...
But since Dave's notes are basically "go back to formula", there is no point in a Kickstarter page, so that's why the link to the pre-launch page is gone.
Part of the problem is Dave's working rule of thumb is that anything he's printing is going to cost the end consumer (that's a fancy way of saying: YOU.) a dollar a page. So, a sixteen page comic? Fifteen bucks. A two hundred and twenty-four page book? $224. Not counting shipping.
Part of the problem is Dave's working rule of thumb is that anything he's printing is going to cost the end consumer (that's a fancy way of saying: YOU.) a dollar a page. So, a sixteen page comic? Fifteen bucks. A two hundred and twenty-four page book? $224. Not counting shipping.
That, in Dave's opinion is "a bridge too far" of an ask on the dwindling fan base that comes 'round here and reads my drivel (and a hearty "t'anks!" from me. (And Margaret and Birdsong...everybody else has left...)), so that'd be why he wants to get the Tour Book down in size.
I don't know how much demand the Cerebus Fanbase has for an abridged Tour Book. Dave's notes, Deni's (well, mostly Deni's. There are some photos that have Deni and Dave in them that were taken by people at Tour stops and sent to Aardvark-Vanaheim. But like I said, MOSTLY Deni's) photos, and selections of Dave and Deni's interviews from 1982, and maybe a couple of sketches. I mean it's the bones of the Prototype, but not a lot of the meat (if you're pickin' up what I'm layin' down...).
I don't know how much demand the Cerebus Fanbase has for an abridged Tour Book. Dave's notes, Deni's (well, mostly Deni's. There are some photos that have Deni and Dave in them that were taken by people at Tour stops and sent to Aardvark-Vanaheim. But like I said, MOSTLY Deni's) photos, and selections of Dave and Deni's interviews from 1982, and maybe a couple of sketches. I mean it's the bones of the Prototype, but not a lot of the meat (if you're pickin' up what I'm layin' down...).
Which, if I think about it, is an EXPANDED version of the forty-eight page ...uh, um, "economy" version of the Tour Book that The Waverly Press was planning on offering on the Kickstarter
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Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the BIG BOOK is too damn big. Maybe in trying to find EVERYTHING Margaret and I went too far.
But that was the mandate we were given: "Bring me everything you can related to Dave and Deni's 1982 US Tour..." and boy howdy did we do that...
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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: I'm just sayin', if you send me on a quest, I'ma do my damnedest to complete it...
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