Sixty-third anniversary edition (Dave's Weekly Update #303)

Hi, Everybody!

Heeeeeere's

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You want that The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, you gotta pledge here.

Vark Wars, SEP191310 Order Forty-two! (It IS the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything... 42 that is, not Vark Wars, Vark Wars is just a funny comical-book...)

Last week's Auction is over. Congratulations to Jeff who has won with a bid of $75 (US Dollars.) Please contact Dave at (519) 576-0610, and arrange payment with him. 

Colin Upton!: https://www.patreon.com/colinuptoncomics COLIN UPTON!!!: https://colinupton.tumblr.com/ For the love of Pete: COLIN UPTON!!!!!: https://www.facebook.com/Colin-Upton-Comics-257449422123/ 

The Cerebus in Hell? merch is changing before or on September 13th. Just an FYI...

Next Time: (Oh boy do I LOVE this one...)

Panel 1 (Record breaker or no, Todd Rendering is HARD!)

Panel 2 (I LOVE Kirby Krackle!)

Panel 3 (Waaahhh JEDI!!!)

Panel 4 (There it is...)

Highlights for Aardvarks

Hi, Everybody!

The "Manly" one returns with Kickstarter Highlights from Dave Sim:

(FROM DAVE SIM): Dave Sim, creator - This was typed into my CEREBUS ARCHIVE NUMBER EIGHT Notes at the Walper Terrace Hotel 9 July 19, 8 am ET and posted by Eddie when he came in at 9:30 to continue work on STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND Volume Three.

Productive R Us.

Howdy, Kickstarter Supporters! It's really helping to do these shorter Kickstarters more frequently. I think one of the things we want to do either next time or soon is to post daily where we are relative to POSTCARD FROM HELL No.1 and No.2.

Why?

That ties in with my New Theory:

New Theory: We're all on the same 2019 financial roller-coaster ride, only some of us are in "bare subsistence" mode and some of us in "whoa! I have disposable income. How did THAT happen?" mode. Consequently, on any given campaign we're counting on the latter PLEDGE PARTNER HEROES (and HEROINES) -- people who, for whatever reason, are CRESTING and, consequently, feeling a little more secure financially HERE AND NOW i.e. just prior to July 20, 2019 -- to take up the slack for the PLEDGE PARTNER HEROES (and HEROINES) of campaigns past who are either "in a trough" or think they are. We have SOME people who NEVER go into a trough (and where would we be without them?) but most people, I think, are like me. I either FEEL wealthy or I FEEL poor in any given month. If you FEEL poor this month, please don't let the CIH? make it worse by FEELING you have to Pledge.

We're all trying to do better financially and for David Birdsong, Sean Robinson, Benjamin Hobbs and me that means making more money this time than we did last time. Doesn't really matter HOW much more, just as long as our income doesn't go DOWN (like our circulation keeps doing: THE IRON MANTICORE is now, officially, the rarest CEREBUS No.1 in existence at roughly 1,600 copies)

Sorry I missed opening weekend. Eddie Khanna and I are "workshopping" the succession after my death so everything has been in flux since he arrived last Wednesday.

Since the last campaign, I've finished my part of THE AMICABLE SPIDER-VARK No.1, our second 48-page annual scheduled for July 2020 (now, officially, David Birdsong's new favourite issue) and David's about 6 pages into finishing the final digital version. And I'm about 6 pages into the August 2020 SPIDER-WHORE in the mock-up stage and about page 10 in the rough scripting. As long as I'm a year ahead, I'm good. Being a year and part of a month ahead, I'm a little more than good.

And I just got David's THE VAULT OF CEREBUS No.1 parody cover mock-up along with a list of strips that could go in that one -- some leftover zombie strips from Benjamin's THE VARKING DEAD No.1, David's 4-page "Diamondback in Hell?" -- a perfect Halloween 2020 fit (and the last issue before the 2020 US election). He says he has CEREBUS: THE LAST AARDVARK IN HELL? No.1 (parody of KAMANDI No.1). So, we're almost through 2020.

Now we just need YOUR HELP to get us from here to there!

More soon!

And:

Dave Sim, creator - Four days left to go in the campaign! I apologize for having been "out of touch" while I get caught up on everything now that I'm actually back in residence at the Off-White House. Hopefully, we're at or close to (or, being wildly optimistic, HIGHER than) the revenues of POSTCARD FROM HELL No. 2 at the comparable "four days to go" point. I will definitely be posting the last hour or two on Saturday the 20th as we bring this one end for a landing.

Belated thanks to Sean Robinson for his HILARIOUS treatment of the IRON MANTICORE THEME and Ralph Bakshi-ca. 1966 "animation" which I got Eddie to show me on the WIFI at the hotel.

You know, looking at it, I think to myself "it would be great if the stores could use Sean's video to promote TALES OF SOPHISTICATION #1 and IRON MANTICORE #1." But I don't think there's any way to make that happen through the traditional channels, i.e. You can't just link TO the video, you have to provide the stores WITH the video and label it as being in the public domain. "PLEASE use this on your store website to generate sales."

That is, I think it might be one of those things that is only going to work through the CEREBUS LCS links which exist between individual CEREBUS fans -- YOU GUYS -- and your LCS. Show the video to the store owner on your phone and ask if he or she has a way of using it on the store website. Find out what format they need it in and ask Sean to provide that format for you or email it directly to the store.

I'm mentioning this here, because you're a core CEREBUS IN HELL? reader (by virtue of reading the COMMENTS section on the POSTCARD FROM HELL? Kickstarter). We all remain (perhaps foolishly) optimistic that SOMETHING will work to generate sales and either slow the drop in circulation, level it off or improve it, even though nothing has worked so far.

And:

DAVE SIM CREATOR to Chris Johnson!
Hi Chris! Okay, I think we're looking for the GOLDILOCKS SPOT here: We, Your Obedient CIH? WORKAHOLIC TEAM are trying not to take a CUT in pay on POSTCARD FROM HELL No.3 and we're about $300 shy of that (according to my ever-more-porous Grampaw memory, anyway), so if you can come UP from the $150 to $300, we'll give you as much space as you need to get the story told AND commit to tying your story into whatever-CIH?-issue you end up in...
(I have about 10 pages left to go on SPIDER-WHORE No.1 -- August 2020 -- and I'm hoping to have that wrapped up in the next week. The next one I'm working on -- I think -- is BATVARK PENIS No.1 -- September 2020 -- the parody of BATMAN DAMNED No.1 to 3. So far, I've sorted David Birdsong's Dore images into "comedy gold" and "not sure what I would do with this" piles. Another possibility is VAULT OF CEREBUS No.1 -- October 2020 -- which is looking like a bits 'n' pieces horror pastiche and might be easier to link directly to your story. Other possibilities are STRANGERS IN CEREBUS No.1 from Benjamin and Laura which is theoretically done but I haven't seen any of it yet.) (and David Birdsong's JIMMY CEREBUS NO.1 parody of JIMMY CORRIGAN which would tie in with the Chris Ware Typography Gone Mad motif)
CEREBUS IN HELL? is really about (or, rather, About) Creative Freedom -- the closest analogy being comedy club improvisation. Just Be As Funny As You Can. So, if you're interested in "playing" (and you can hit the $300 plateau either in a lump sum or $150 now and $150 over the next few weeks? Months? Goldilocks Spot again) what we would do is put you "in the loop" for the next while on the books that are in progress, e-mailing you our pages as they're finished and you would put us "in the loop" on your story.
We'll keep it confidential, but if we're going to "riff on it, the more we know about it and the farther ahead we know about it the better the link we can do WITH it and TO it.
Like I did with Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller on SPAWN. Told Alan to throw in a panel or word balloon making Level 8 in Hell some kind of big HEEBIE JEEBIE Terrifying Deal and sent Neil and Frank my script as soon as it was done so they had it to "riff" on. It would have been NICE to SURPRISE all of them with SPAWN 10 but it was more SENSIBLE to help them tie the whole thing together (so we could at least PRETEND we were all worth our 6-figure UR-IMAGE paydays).

And:

DAVE SIM CREATOR

The following was originally sent as a private message to Chris but, on second thought, I think it's a
(maybe? For somebody?) GENERAL INTEREST UPDATE.

You can see the amounts we're dealing with at this point to try to keep the Team from taking a "Kickstarter" pay cut, so "Ask what CEREBUS IN HELL? can do for you AND what you can do for CEREBUS IN HELL?". WE think the CEREBUS IN HELL? No.1 s are really cool and funny. And we believe that [AAGH Dave has typed the following with a strikethrough but Kickstarter is dropping the formatting]2100, 1800, 1700, 1600 people agree with us (little “struck through" humour there: I always wanted to use that function on my MacBook for something). Look at it as "This is your chance to be a part of the RAREST CEREBUS No.1 in existence!". What are the sales going to be DOWN TO a year from now? I've been bumping up the orders for the Cerebus Archive from 1 o or so the first year to 20 to 45 and being VERY stingy about who I give them to. Even though that was the original idea: freebies to hand out to people in town when I try to explain to them what I do for a living. "Comics? Like ... in the newspaper?" Signing the Cerebus Archive copies of LGBTQETC. and FORNICATORS INC. only increased my stinginess to Scroogian Proportions: it felt like having a desktop full of X-MEN and FF #1 'sll MINE! ALL MINE!

Just as I was typing this Chris agreed to play in our sandbox and boost his pledge to $300! VERY COOL! Anybody else up?

And:

DAVE SIM CREATOR - I keep forgetting I have to type that.
Okay, here's a definitely weird/definitely interesting idea as the clock ticks down to "0".
WHAT IF the CIH? TEAM agreed to do a cross-over print with another Indy creator on Kickstarter (whose campaign is doing well and still has a couple of weeks to go)? What we'd be looking for is a Cerebus compatible character. 8.5 x 11 b&w print that we would all sign and the indy creator would make a stretch goal on his or her campaign. And the Cerebus fan who FOUND them and got them to agree to it, would get a cut and a copy of the #1 print.
On a "it doesn't hurt to ask" basis and in Your Official Capacity as Official Cerebus Fans. You're TELLING Dave Sim and Team that they NEED to do a print with (name of Indy creator, name of indy creation).
Anybody want to give it a try.

And Gary Boyarski asked:

Dave, now the the drawing hand is somewhat functional. How about a series of Kickstarters doing a single trading card?

And Dave replied:

Hi Gary! Not being a big trading card fan, I would be loathe to "use up" my EXTREMELY limited drawing capacity on them. It's starting to sink in exactly how little drawing I can do (a few hours at best) so I want to save it for things like a SPIDER-WHORE drawing I can get 24 pages of comics plus out of.
I'm glad you're here at the end again since I didn't get a chance to answer your question last time. I would LOVE to have you do more CIH? covers, but, given my druthers, I'd really prefer that you do more issues of JACK GRIMM instead. Your call, but...

So, 81 backers pledged $2,013 to help bring this project to life. (Yay us!)

Next time: 

"Who wants to see my Alex Raymond impression?"

Dave! NO! We KNOW you CAN'T drive!!!

Highlights from Dave on the Kickstarter, and...other stuff

Hi, Everybody!

This thing:

Highlights:
Um...Dave just showed up, and I'll get you them highlights tomorrow?
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And then:

From know on, I'll only answer to "Manly" (it's gonna cost a fortune to redo the logo on my shirts...)

Page 2 of Spider-Vark #1.
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And as I teased yesterday:
What's in the box?

Good question...

It's a pretty big box. Like four or five inches thick...

OMG! It's a cardboard envelope!

But what's in the Cardboard? WHAT'S IN THE CARDBOARD?!?

My Green Dante/Green Virgil cover print

Neat right?

Ya know what else is neat? This:

Wait for it...

A signed Neal Adams print for Dave.

And since I got one for Dave, I figured I'd be a lamb and get one for Seiler too:

Which I'll mail out to him as soon as I figure out how...

Let's compare the two:

Dante/Virgil is 11 by 17, Neal's is bigger.

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The Larry Shell auction (now with fixed link!) I found out what the deal is:

Longtime collector and comics professional, Larry Shell, is having a difficult time right now. Due to his being slightly disabled from two spinal surgeries over the past seven years, he is unable to work and earn a living anymore. This has caused his home of close to 45 years to fall into disrepair and the township he lives in has given him 30 days to make at least some of the repairs or face consequences which could ultimately lead to the house being condemned. It is livable and just needs a lot of exterior work.
To this end, Larry has contacted many of his comic book and strip cartoonist friends to donate a piece of Original Art for an auction to help pay for the repairs, starting with his roof, which has a large hole in it and is leaking into two rooms, one of which is his bedroom! This needs to be dealt with asap!
Among the artists and collectors who have generously donated an original to help Larry are: Neal Adams, Daniel Clowes, Rick Parker, Dave Sim, Michael W. Kaluta, Mark Schultz, Timothy Truman, Butch Guice, Mort Walker Studio, Joseph Michael Linsner, Art Spiegleman, Mark Newgarden, Thomas Yeates, Denis Kitchen, Rick Veitch, Tom Morgan, Mitch O'Connell, Ron Randall, Howard Chaykin, Rich Tommaso and many others!
The auctions are now live on the Heritage Auctions site and end on Sunday July 21st.
You can access the pieces here.

I'm giving away free @#$%! (And NOT "pulling a Hemingway" and rushing to get done "so I can go down to La Floridita and drink my body weight in margaritas" (methphorically speaking) (Sorry Larry).


Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim!

Also, the EXPERTLY REMASTERED CHURCH AND STATE VOL II is available to order NOW (Diamond Order Code JUL191359) Submit your ideas for the bookplate contest.

And you should order an IRON MANTICORE #1 Diamond Order Code JUL191358________________
Next Time: Highlights (For kids?)

Free Stuff! Just for you! (Minimal Restrictions Apply...)

Hi, Everybody!

I was gonna do more Cerebus in Hell reviews, but it's hot (here at Stately Dow Manor,) and I don't wanna sit at the computer and read comics just to write a pithy review.

I know that my "focus" has been a little less "Celebrating Cerebus" and more "Hey, who's got money!" lately.

(Like when I post links to Auctions, like the Larry Shell Auctions Dave has stuff in, that are going on this week.) (Or the latest Postcard From Hell? Kickstarter, which ends Saturday.)

But you guys and gals(?) do come through, like when I posted the link to Mike Battaglia's GoFundMe, and you guys gave him money. (Thank you.)

So, as an apology/Thank You, I've decided to thank each one of you for sticking around and putting up with my crap.

I'm gonna give everybody that is interested a free piece of art.

"DAVE SIM ART?!?" you anxiously ask.

No, my art:

Like this nine year old unused pinup...[Update: Me no know math good. SEVEN year old, SEVEN-Matt]

Each one will be eight and a half by five and a half inches. Hand drawn and shaded by me.

Or this nine [Update: SEVEN year old, SEVEN-Matt] year old unused pinup (Kids LOVE Tron!)

Featuring my characters, and maybe Cerebus, or maybe other characters.

or OR THIS nine [Update: SEVEN year old, SEVEN-Matt]year old unused pinup

Maybe I'll "rip-off" Dave. Maybe I'll even bust out the markers.

This is my "recreation" of the cover to Cerebus 55:

"WOW! That sounds neat as @#$%, how do I get one?" I hope you're asking.

Well, all you got to do is comment "Thanks Matt!" on this post, and send an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com titled: "I would like free stuff please" and include your name and address. Then I'll draw something, make a certificate of authenticity, and mail it to you in an envelope. Absolutely free. And yes, this offer is open to all you weirdos that live on the bottom of the Earth that somehow manage to not fall off (How do you people DO that?!?) Comment. Email. (Don't forget your address.)

As an added bonus, you'll even learn the "secret" location of the AMOC Cave in the return address.

And now, the Minimal Restrictions that do, unfortunately, Apply:
1: Ya gotta comment: "Thanks Matt!" on this post.
2: Ya gotta email: momentofcerebus@gmail.com with your name and address and title the email: "I would like free stuff please". (If you wanna include any additional information or comments, hey pal I live in a free country, if you wanna pretend you live there too, go nuts.)
3: Ya gotta wait til I'm ready to send it before ya get it, so don't be bugging me about where yer art is. It'll come, it'll come...
4: This offer ends at the end of August 2019. I don't wanna be getting emails in six years demanding Free Stuff.
5: One per customer Jeff...
6: If you wanna get something for somebody else, send THEIR name and address in the email (How'm I gonna know different?)
7: What you get is pretty much predicated on what I wanna draw. Meaning it's RANDOM. So, PLEASE no requests.
8: Unless you're a comics person who wants me to ruin your characters with my "drawings", then go ahead and include a picture of what they look like, so I can screw it up real good.
9: Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine.
10: And while you're emailing momentofcerebus@gmail.com, why not send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? ? Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim!

Okay, thanks for reading, see you tomorrow when I post something Cerebus related (For reals this time!)

The Ol' AMOC Mailbag: T. Casey Brennan, Titties, and a beat to @#$% Postcard submission

Hi, Everybody!

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Pester your enemies.) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...) Four hours and change left...

Wanna give Team Cerebus In Hell? the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (Fornicators Inc. is coming out at the end of the month...)? Well, we've got you covered They're even having a sale right now...

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too.

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here.

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You got more than one way to behead a Borelean, Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah

Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim! (I might have the winner...)

Speaking of Postcards from Hell?, the next Kickstarter is up and running.

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It's Ol' AMOC Mailbag time!

Which means T. Casey Brennan must have checked in:

I'm in this new video about my Vampirella artist - I'm on at about 48 minutes - https://youtu.be/XXZPcIz2hG8

It's four hours long.

In Spanish.

If you wanna see T. Casey (and some titties, it's "NO RECOMENDADA para menores de 18 anos" 'cause there's a naked chick with a Vampirella "outfit" painted on her.) Here ya go.

Extra titties for those of you who don't "do" links...

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And then I got a submission in the beat to @#$% Postcard contest (mentioned above.):

Hi Matt,

I'm sending you my submission for best beat to hell post card.

While it was "pre-beat to hell" I made the special effort of singling out my card in the video (it's the only one with the tell-tale white horizontal scuff) and through the wonder of technology was able to capture the exact disgusting moment the spit hit the card. For posterity you know, sure to increase it's value ten-fold. (What's ten times zero? Must be alot.)

Keep up the mediocre job of running the favorite blogsite of the usual gang of idiots. Life wouldn't be the same without you.

Sincerely,
Gary Boyarski
creator, Jack Grimm: Harbinger of Death

I dunno Gary, I mean you PAID to have it beat to @#$%, it wan't like a vindictive ex of Dave (who happens to work for CanadaPost) decided to work through her "issues" on your card, ya paid Dave to work out some of *his* issues on your card.

I mean I didn't pay for THIS:

to get beat to @#$%, It just came that way...

Alright, I throw it out to "the usual gang of idiots*" to see what you guys think?

I know nobody's reading this, you're all looking at the titties in T. Casey's video...
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Next Time: Something more substantial?
*Gary's words, not mine...

Slow-walking the Succession Plan (Dave's Weekly Update #294)

Hi, Everybody!

Last week's Auction is at $20 (US) from Jeff Seiler, and ends tomorrow at noon!

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Pester your enemies.) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...) Three days left.

Wanna give Team Cerebus In Hell? the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (Fornicators Inc. is coming out at the end of the month...)? Well, we've got you covered They're even having a sale right now...

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too. 

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here. 

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You got more than one way to behead a Borelean, Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah

Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim! (I might have the winner...)

Speaking of Postcards from Hell?, the next Kickstarter is up and running.

Heeeeeere's Dave?

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

Ha-ha, that's Eddie. He's visiting Dave for a bit. Dave's making him run Aardvark Vanaheim. Which is why I talked to Eddie, and NOT Dave yesterday for this month's Please Hold.

Sorry folks, but this one WON'T be up for Auction, I'm sending it to Eddie.

Next Time: Please Hold For Eddie Khanna...

IT'S THE @#$%ING FLIMSY POSTCARD FROM HELL NO. 3

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

The next Postcard from Hell is now LIVE!  Get one here:

Postcard From Hell No. 3

Awesome, now everyone go eat a patriotic hot dog!
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[Matt here, to ALL of our International readers: Happy Thursday!]

[Eddie Khanna should be calling me directly (in three hours)...]

Dave Sim 2020 California Roadtrip

Hi Everybody!

Rigmarole:
This week's Auction is at $20 (US) from Jeff Seiler, and ends NEXT Saturday at noon!

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Pester your enemies.) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Team Cerebus In Hell? the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is out now, it's funny, but it's no League of Extraordinary Cerebi...)? Well, we've got you covered They're even having a sale right now...

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too.

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here.

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You got more than one way to behead a Borelean, Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah

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Carson Grubaugh:

Hi all,

Dave wants to do a YDKJ/SDOAR sales-pitch tour of every comic-book shop in California in the summer of 2020. As far as I know this is NOT a signing tour. The idea is to spend about a half-hour in each shop with Dave doing some kind of sales pitch for both series. I will be driving and hovering around awkwardly during the sales pitches like a kid whose dad is being embarrassing.

We would start at the northern-most shop in the state and work our way down to San-Diego, aiming to be there during Comic Con.

Dave is looking for fan input on the best possible way to approach this, places to stay, help crystallizing a day-by-day, shop-by-shop plan.

Some factors to consider:

My spring-semester will end May 1st. I typically teach one of the two summer-semester sessions, which should run May 4th - July 10th and June 8th - August 14th.

Dave will not start the trip until after Ramadan ends on May 23rd, so it seems best for me to take an early summer class, but this means the trip would have to start the July 11th and give us very little time to make it to SD by the 23rd when Comic Con is predicted to begin.

If I forego teaching a Summer class I need a way to recoup the $6,800 loss in pay.

We also need to factor out Sunday's for Dave's religious obligations, holidays and other shop closures.

We spent $50 to generate a route that connects all 185 CA comic shops in the most efficient rout possible but this does not end with us in SD, so we are going to have to use the map to identify an order of "home-base" hubs that will get us near as many stores as possible in as few stops as possible.

I have an excel file of all of the shops in the order shown above, if that would be of use to anyone.

Any suggestions on how we might pull all of this off are much appreciated.
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Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim!

Larry Wooten sent in the card he PAID to have beat to @#$%

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And: Khanna. Is. Coming.

(Wanna see a preview of the Please Hold strip?)

Eddie and the Cap'n make it happen...

Next Time: Todd?

Show me your postcards! Win Fabulous prizes!

Hi, Everybody!

Last Week's Auction is at $150 (USD) from Kul Das (via the YouTubes)! And ends at noon today!

This week's Auction is at $20 (US) from Jeff Seiler, and ends NEXT Saturday at noon!

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Pester your enemies.) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Team Cerebus In Hell? the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is out now, it's funny, but it's no League of Extraordinary Cerebi...)? Well, we've got you covered They're even having a sale right now...

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too.

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here.

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You got more than one way to behead a Borelean, Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah

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Yesterday, I said:

Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim! (I might have the winner...)

You guys tell me:

I edited my address, “Because if I tell you, you'll tell your friends, your friends are callin' me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a hell. Okay? A living hell.” 

I didn't pay for one of those "Pre-beat to @#$%" cards, it just showed up that way...

...did I win?

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Next week Thursday, I'll be getting a call from Canada.

So if you got a question you want me to ask, post it here. Oh, but I shant be talking with a Mr. David Sim, I'll be talking to the Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna!

Yeah, the guy on the right. NOT the one on the left! (Maybe the two in the middle will be who I talk to in August...)

That's right, in July, it'll be PLEASE HOLD FOR EDDIE KHANNA!!!

Next Time: Something quick probably...