Notebook 21: Cerebus #182 & TMNT in Estarcion

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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Another “quick” – well, for me. If you’re reading all the small text on these notebook pages, which yes, you can click on to enlarge them and read Dave’s notes yourself, then it’ll take you a while – notebooks post as it has been a heck of a 1.25 year. 

If that 182 issue box number looks familiar, you’ve got a decent memory for it appeared already in this same notebook, on page 186 shown in the post from last month called Notebook 21: Cerebus 182 & Viktor Davis.

We can see that Dave is continuing to edit Viktor’s diatribe about whatever is on his mind because “What are you thinking about?” And Viktor sure loves to tell us what he is thinking about. Including TMNT? Well, perhaps they don’t exist in Estarcion. Or at least Viktor’s version of it.

Notebook #21, page 204

Notebook #21, page 205

Notebook #21, page 206