The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart of The World by Harlan Ellison

Hi, Everybody!

I know I promised Cerebus, but Friend to the Blog, MJ Sewall shared something on Facebook that sent me down a Dave-related rabbit hole, so you get that.

Especially, since, to quote the late Johnny Carson: "I did not know that."

What he shared was a post of Harlan Ellison's Author bios from a number of his books that are increasingly unhinged. But ONE of them caught my eye:

"Title logo by Dave Sim"? What the fuq?!?

A simple google search turned up this. (Don't worry, I scraped the images from the link, you don't have to click if you're feeling lazy...)

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That's Dave's lettering alright...

It's from this edition of the book:

When I shared the initial image to the Cerebus Facebook group, Margaret commented: "It was only used on a limited edition hardcover. One that is so hard to find and when you do it is priced out of my range for such a thing that I don't own a copy of it. . .makes me hope Dave has a copy for the archive"

Well, I found three copies.

Bezos suck machine (#411 of 500), which showed the actual cover of the hardback

Abebooks (#404 of 500) has the dustjacket. And is cheaper then Bezos...

Pangobooks (#453 of 500) has the dustjacket, and is even cheaper than Abe...

They're still $75 at the cheapest. But now I have a new rare book to look for when I'm out and about. If you see a copy, I'd snag it if you can afford it...

There's my rabbit hole for the day. (No idea if Dave ever mentioned doing this in the front/back of the comic. Margaret would know... HEY! Maybe there's a sketch in a Notebook! You should ask her 'bout that...)

Next Time: Mondays!