tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post8660582347424202668..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: "Cerebus Cover Art Treasury" Reviewed!A Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-50960040176227745412016-12-09T20:15:20.804-06:002016-12-09T20:15:20.804-06:00I'll have to check the google that the kids al...I'll have to check the google that the kids all seem to like, but most likely. I felt bad that it took me 2-3 weeks after the issue came out to review it, but considering I am the only reviewer of it, well, now I don't feel so bad!Travis Pelkiehttp://atomicjunkshop.com/2016/11/24/cerebus-hell-comics-fans-heaven/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-5719079398449955872016-12-08T15:13:54.172-06:002016-12-08T15:13:54.172-06:00Travis - Thanks, I appreciate it! You're stil...Travis - Thanks, I appreciate it! You're still the ONLY person to review CIH? #0 online, aren't you?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-86642186806288654442016-12-08T11:09:41.774-06:002016-12-08T11:09:41.774-06:00I finally (finally!) got my copy today, along with...I finally (finally!) got my copy today, along with the remastered Going Home (I can tell by the price!). So I hope to do a review ... sometime soon. No promises as to when. It might take awhile to read and absorb. Plus, I don't have a scanner so no example images from me, unfortunately.<br /><br />But I will review it. Travis Pelkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-37812943937047396132016-12-07T12:44:17.135-06:002016-12-07T12:44:17.135-06:00Hi Glen! - Uh, that was one of those things that s...Hi Glen! - Uh, that was one of those things that seemed to move off the radar screen pretty quickly. "Why don't we do ALL the covers?" ALL the covers? "Fanzine covers, magazine covers, the fan club newsletters, convention books, SWORDS." Um. It's already going to be 300 pages minimum. Once you actually start putting together a book of 300 covers, you start to realize that you've really got more than enough on your plate. It's a weird Comic Art Metaphysics effect: "it's JUST the covers, how complicated can it be?" Yes, but it's three HUNDRED covers. There aren't a lot of graphic novels that are 300 pages. Picture how long it takes to put together a 300-page graphic novel. "Oh, yeah." <br /><br />It also means that the commentary side is only partly done, but that was the compromise: CEREBUS fans get the COVERS book they've wanted and ONE comment on most of them from both Gerhard and myself.<br /> <br />As contrasted with CEREBUS ARCHIVE where the commentaries are as exhaustive as I can make them: 6 pages of reduced type commenting on 10 pages. Now I don't have to talk about those 10 pages again EVER! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-7038088492382246612016-12-06T16:49:24.896-06:002016-12-06T16:49:24.896-06:00Dave, did you ever consider including the TPB cove...Dave, did you ever consider including the TPB covers in the treasury?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Glenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375459484639179890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-68250312129510436462016-12-06T14:56:32.797-06:002016-12-06T14:56:32.797-06:00And thanks to Stephen for the lengthy review! Hop...And thanks to Stephen for the lengthy review! Hope PAGE 45 is doing some land office business in COVER ART TREASURY books this holiday season! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-27241787672211310942016-12-06T14:55:00.462-06:002016-12-06T14:55:00.462-06:00Dean -Always gratifying to get input from the Cana...Dean -Always gratifying to get input from the Canadian "Dean" of CEREBUS art collectors. <br /><br />I think most of your reservations -- particularly the size of the book -- have to be chalked up to "level of popularity": CEREBUS just not being in that category relative to the general comic-book market. I've already told Chris Ryall (IDW editor-in-chief) that any possible future CEREBUS projects at IDW are going to hinge on how the COVERS TREASURY does over its first two quarters of sales -- so roughly between now and next summer's convention season. <br /><br />That having been said, whether IDW ends up "eating" a substantial portion of the print run or the book is enjoying sales sufficiently brisk to justify their not inconsiderable investment in it, I consider the rights to the CEREBUS covers in book form to be exclusively theirs until they DO recover their investment and that they have the option to do another printing if we get to that point. <br /><br />I realize that CEREBUS art collectors tend not to be "hands-on" about these things, but I'm hoping this is a case where you guys WILL be: contacting IDW directly with SPECIFIC criticisms of the reproduction of SPECIFIC covers -- particularly of pieces that you own -- and any leads you have on covers that weren't featured in the book. <br /><br />Collectors tend to have a sharper eye than the average consumer so I think IDW will need some input from you guys if (when?) we get to the point of a new printing if that printing is going to come up to your exacting standards. Hope you can help with this! <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-63306875354813331642016-12-06T14:36:59.687-06:002016-12-06T14:36:59.687-06:00At least I know what my first Christmas Amazon gif...At least I know what my first Christmas Amazon gift card purchase will be this year. ;)Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-43975960195241944672016-12-06T12:55:22.301-06:002016-12-06T12:55:22.301-06:00Fantastic review from Mr. Holland! Can't wait ...Fantastic review from Mr. Holland! Can't wait to get my copy. <br /><br />@ Dean -- Personally, I think 11x17 would be too unwieldy and would relegate it to the coffee table. The current size is perfect, because it's bigger than the original issues, but still small enough to comfortably take with you on a plane, subway, so forth. This is the kind of book that needs to be mobile, and at its size it both gives with the eye candy and has legs under it.<br /><br />(I would give the left lens from my glasses for an editing function, here).Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-33139421759944967552016-12-06T12:45:19.724-06:002016-12-06T12:45:19.724-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Slumbering Agarthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926670297818515972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-2585300384177828382016-12-06T12:17:17.320-06:002016-12-06T12:17:17.320-06:00I have to say that I really like this book. Having...I have to say that I really like this book. Having all of the covers in one hard cover edition is something that, I think, every Cerebus fan has been waiting for ever since the trades. Even the slabbed versions and the re-creations - although issue 88 is my favourite cover from the entire run and to see the re-creation, no matter how good, was disappointing because I was really looking forward to the original to 88. The covers were that missing piece that we all wanted.<br /><br />Now I'm going to take a risk here and say a few negative things about it. <br /><br />I think Cerebus, Dave, and Gerhard and the fans deserved something even better. <br /><br />I think the book would have been more amazing if it had been printed to the size of the actual artwork (like many other IDW treasury and artist editions), so that you could truly appreciate the amount of detail that goes into each piece of artwork. But for whatever reason this book is 9.25 x 12.1625. Not the approximately 11x17 page that Cerebus original art is. The wrap around of issue one would have been spectacular as a full size gatefold, for example. It's a small thing, but it is a thing.<br /><br />I also think that more attention should have been paid to the colour correction. I found that a lot of the images come across as muddy when compared to originals that I’ve seen, and certainly compared to how they looked when originally printed. Issues 79-104 in particular. That run has some of my favourite covers. For issue 93 there is actually a photo of Dave holding the original on the website A Moment Of Cerebus and it is incredibly vibrant. You would not know it here.<br /><br />So while I am greatful for the effort, and I really do like the book (especially the comments) these are the things that prevent me from LOVING the book.<br /><br />My two cents.<br />DeanDean Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15554594239085305304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-72232265952254432952016-12-06T10:44:05.655-06:002016-12-06T10:44:05.655-06:00Hey Tony, that's because there's isn't...Hey Tony, that's because there's isn't anything wrong with it. Painting with watercolor sans water is just like painting with gouache. Look at Winslow Homer, i.e. the dean of American watercolor. He used undiluted color all of the time, and didn't come around to transparency until much later. Even John Singer Sargent, certainly the most painterly watercolorist I've ever seen, used lots of opaque passages, although usually limited to special particular effects.<br />Sean Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794186823194520775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-16744068169786075062016-12-06T10:28:57.089-06:002016-12-06T10:28:57.089-06:00Huh. I love the watercolor covers of the early HS ...Huh. I love the watercolor covers of the early HS issues, and wouldn't have known there was anything "wrong" with them had I not read this review!Tony Dunlopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-36259078937231429762016-12-06T10:10:14.474-06:002016-12-06T10:10:14.474-06:00Excellent review, Stephen! I agree with everything...Excellent review, Stephen! I agree with everything you've written, especially the bit about finishing the book...Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.com