Notebook 21: Viktor Talking to the Audience

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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A quick one this week. Again? Well, we don’t have five pages this week. . .because after these pages are a group of pages with sketches that should be posted together. So we’ll save them for next week. This week? Yes, some more text pages. Lots of texts. And if you didn’t want to read them, just take a look – as it looks like Dave went through them at least twice – came in later with blue pen to mark them up:

Notebook #21, page 226

Yes, Viktor is still rambling on about audiences and storytellers. Though at the top of that page, he does give us the classic line: “. . .stick that up your ass if you don’t like it; stick it up a little further if you do!” 

The next page finishes up this section of Viktor’s rambling about audiences and storytellers as Viktor then turns tot the audience and asks the question: “What are you thinking about?”

Notebook #21, page 227

“It was very quiet.”