Mr. (& Mrs.) Sim Goes To Washington

Hi, Everybody!

Dave sent an Off-White House Bulletin

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

Since it's the Fourth of July, and Dave's discussing the '82 Tour Book, here's a selection that may OR may not make the "final cut" in his version:

Mr. (& Mrs.) Sim Go To Washington:

This is either a bad photo of the subway, a bad photo of the museum at Ford's Theatre, a bad photo of the Washington Monument, a bad photo of the Lincoln Memorial, or a bad photo of the Smithsonian. It's DEFINITELY a bad photo...

The Lincoln Memorial.

The Lincoln Memorial.

The Lincoln Memorial.

Abe's place...

I like to imagine somebody randomly finds this post, reads through it, and shouts "HOLY SHIT IT'S GRANDMA!" when they see this photo...

Dave Sim, after riding the hidden slide BEHIND the statue of Lincoln. (Sadly the slide was torn out in 1989...)

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, GET OUT OF THE WAY PHIL!!!"

The view from the top of the Washington Monument.

Dave's CONTINUING the Please PAY For Dave Sim format, if YOU want more '82 Tour Book discussion, go HERE, and pay for "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book". But if YOU'd rather hear more stereotypical Please Hold (*shudder*) "content", go HERE and pay for "Please Hold For Dave Sim". Either way, I have to amuse myself in the Editing Suite assembling these things...

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Dave's  auctioning these:

• Six Deadly Sins page: Pride
• Six Deadly Sins page: Sloth

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Friend to the Blog James Banderas-Smith has launched one for the Seventh issue of Papa Balloon and Cactus (his Ninth issue overall).

Next Time: Old Cerebus pages...

Dave sent stuff. And I got a box of neatness.

Hi, Everybody!

Dave's  auctioning these:

• Six Deadly Sins page: Pride
• Six Deadly Sins page: Sloth

Dave sent stuff:

And I got mail from my pals at The Waverly Press:

"What's in the Box? What's in the Box?!?"

Will get to it, but first, it's a really NICE box:

"Ragile! I think it's Italian!"

Yeah, yeah, "What's in the Box!?!?", you people  are like a broken record...

All sorts of neat stuff:

A giant stack of TMNT #8 postcards.

Regency notepads.

A big stack of 'em...

Ten blank cover Cerebus #1s.

And of interest to some of you:

Cerebus trading cards numbers 248, 249, and 250.

I got seventeen sets of them.

I'm sure if anybody is interested, they'll let me know...

And my friends at the Waverly Press, are moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

Next Time: Mondays!

If I'm using a vintage View-Master to look at forty+ year old photos, is it really Retro?

Hi, Everybody!

Did ya get the $25 sale?

10AM to 2PM Eastern time. Set an alarm.

Go nuts! Next one is...the Fourth of July.
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As we do:

Mondays! 

I had somebody ask about some of the earlier Monday Reports. I actually have a PDF of the first 238 Reports (I'm going to make a new version with the first 250, and start a second for the rest up until #500 (if Dave gets that far...).) If you're interested in a copy, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

As you all should know by now (if you check A Moment of Cerebus more than once a month "to see if it's gotten good again..." (SPOLIER WARNING: it hasn't.).), Dave's CONTINUING the Please PAY For Dave Sim format. If you want more '82 Tour Book discussion, go HERE, and pay for "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book". But if you'd rather hear more stereotypical Please Hold (*shudder*) "content", go HERE and pay for "Please Hold For Dave Sim". Either way, I have to amuse myself in the Editing Suite assembling these things... (wanna find out how many of these I already own? Then you're gonna wanna pay for more '82...)

Speaking of 1982, I got my "retroviewer" reels:

The first thing is that instead of a series of seven photos in a cardboard sleeve, it's a solid translucent piece of plastic.

You can see my kid through the Aardvark...

Overall, it's better than a vintage reel, and I can see looking through the AV Family Photo Album for another seven photos and doing more in the future (Moondance Comics and the first meeting with Eastman and Laird. Creators Rights Summit. UK Tours. Spirits of Independence. There's A LOT of photos in the album... (NO Mags, I'm not doing a "Connie Lingus" reel just for you.) (I sent you all the photos, you can make your own damn reels. I'm NOT your slave Liss!).)

Anyway, if you saw the pics and are interested in getting a reel for yourself, the deal is:

So, if you've gotten this far and "WANT!", lemme know by sending a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. If we hit high enough numbers, the price will get real cheap, but I'll still have to pay to ship them. I'll find out how expensive that is when I mail Margaret hers (domestic), and Dave his (international).

If the Waverly Press version had hit Kickstarter, I feel like this would have been something they would have done.

SPEAKING of my friends at the Waverly Press, they're moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

And Dave's  auctioning these:

• Six Deadly Sins page: Pride
• Six Deadly Sins page: Sloth

So "heads up".

Next Time: Jen has a post in the kitty awaiting me glamourpussin' it up...

I'm doing requests now?

 Hi, Everybody!

Monday (June 22th, that's a week from now...): $25 sale:

10AM to 2PM Eastern time. Set an alarm.

Go nuts! 
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As we do:

Mondays! 

I had somebody ask about some of the earlier Monday Reports. I actually have a PDF of the first 238 Reports (I'm going to make a new version with the first 250, and start a second for the rest up until #500 (if Dave gets that far...).) If you're interested in a copy, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

And since I'm taking requests (apparently), somebody asked 'bout if I was putting this on Merch

Yes, yes I am. It's on sale because I just uploaded it, AND because:

Up to 35% off June 15-22.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I think it might be 40% off, I'm not sure anymore (they email me A LOT...)

So, go nuts-er.

I dunno if I'm gonna upload the Infernal Comic Con logo ones:

I didn't even bother to revamp the preview images with the correct logo...

Dave didn't seem to like the idea, and less work for me is better. Soooo much better...

Alright. What else can I whip up here so I can get away from the computer and touch grass or something?

As you all should know by now (if you check A Moment of Cerebus more than once a month "to see if it's gotten good again..." (SPOLIER WARNING: it hasn't.).), Dave's CONTINUING the Please PAY For Dave Sim format. If you want more '82 Tour Book discussion, go HERE, and pay for "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book". But if you'd rather hear more stereotypical Please Hold (*shudder*) "content", go HERE and pay for "Please Hold For Dave Sim". Either way, I have to amuse myself in the Editing Suite assembling these things... (wanna find out how many of these I already own? Then you're gonna wanna pay for more '82...)

So, I've been "working" on my pitch for "The X-Men Digression" of Dave's version of the 1982 Tour book. Dave has been talking about eight pages of the X-Men movie posters for the movies based on Chris Claremont's X-Men books. (I reject that premise, Claremont was the writer for sixteen years. He took over the regular book when it stopped being reprints. While he may not have written Giant Size X-Men #1 that introduced the new team, he scripted their adventures for the next decade and a half. So, while he may not have created, say, Storm, he was the guy who added all the bits that made Storm into...well, Storm. Which means any X-Men movie based on any X-Men comic has a better than 50% chance of being influenced by Claremont. That's my take...) My suggestion (that I'm still working on, so this is VERY much W.I.P,) is two two page spreads that form a four page spread if you line up two copies of the book (a mini Mind Game). Here's where I'm at (so the page BEFORE this is a full bleed color photo of Deni and Chris. Then you flip the page and see):

If you couldn't tell, there's a big X.

I still need to throw the screengrabs of Claremont form the three X-Men films he was in, and character posters of the actors who portrayed the various X-Men characters Claremont either created or developed. But this is where I stopped.

I might try and get this:

on there, if I can find the room. (Although I feel Dave won't want it in the "Deni Section"...)

Okay, there HAD to have been a Moment in there somewhere...

Next Time: Jen. Good gods I hope it's Jen...

Aardvark Flashback: Deni and Dave @ Marvel comics October, 5th 1982

Hi, Everybody!

My kid needed some pictures printed, so I decided to get two sets of Birdsong's color corrected versions of Deni and Dave's photos of their visit to the Marvel/EPIC offices on October 5th, 1982:

So, here they are with Dave's '82 Tour notes on the visit (from the Waverly Press version of the tour book):

Dave Sim, Mary Jo Duffy, Archie Goodwin

Mary Jo Duffy

The Marvel "Bullpen" (more on this directly)

Louise "Weezy" Simonsen (nee Jones) (More on this pic in a bit)

Denny O'Neil and Dave

Archie Goodwin, Dave Sim, Mary Jo Duffy, and (possibly) Michael Hobson.

Deni Sim and Chris Claremont

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Now, I said we'd get back to this pic:

See that art on the wall by the blue dictionary?

It's either the original art, or a photocopy of the original art to the cover of New Mutants #1

Neat, huh?

There was one other photo from the Marvel visit:

It's a comic strip of some kind.

I did a Google Image search which yielded:

Folks, it's not.

It's this strip:

From FOOM #14, 1976

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Now, if you cut out the bad photo of the comic strip, there are SEVEN photos from Deni & Dave's Marvel '82 visit.

By an odd coincidence, I was hit with a targeted ad for custom ViewMaster-style photo  reels. They hold seven photos per reel...

So I ordered three reels (it was buy two get one free)

I'm keeping one (hey! I PAID for the damn things...), I'm sending one up to Dave, and the third one goes to Margaret (if you make Cerebus stuff and don't make a copy for her, the Angels cry...)

BUT, I can always order more. The pricing gets a little cheaper as you order more reels:

They don't really run the numbers well in this one,

So, if you've gotten this far and "WANT!", lemme know. If we hit high enough numbers, the price will get real cheap, but I'll still have to pay to ship them. I'll find out how expensive that is when I mail Margaret hers (domestic), and Dave his (international).

If the Waverly Press version had hit Kickstarter, I feel like this would have been something they would have done.

SPEAKING of my friends at the Waverly Press, they're moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

Next Time: Cerebus.