If you're havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you, son I got '82 problems, but a aardvark ain't one...

Hi, Everybody!

Forty-nine bucks. You're gonna pay $49CAD today.

Today, $49CAD is $35.49USD...

Go nuts! (It's not gonna be $25CAD for almost a month...)
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As we do:

Mondays! 

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So, Dave's Please PAY For Dave Sim deal, whereupon you, the viewer/listener, have to go to CerebusDownloads and donate to the content you want to hear Dave talk about, either Please Hold For Dave Sim or his "notes" (more like his deconstruction of) the 1982 Tour  Book, is still rolling along. Eddie the Successor sent me the latest update of what's winning.

I pointed out that I was pretty sure Christon wanted his money to go to Please Hold.

I'a told ya.

So Eddie the Successor went back to the drawing board and sent the correct numbers:

One of Dave's ideas (if you haven't been following along) is to do side-by-side comparisons of The New Mutants movie and The New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga comic to show which panels were translated to which scenes in the movie. He also proposes doing that with the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and the original Turtles comic, and Sin City.

I'm not doing any of that.

1. Because I don't own the Demon Bear Saga. (Dave does, Jeff Seiler bought it for Dave and sent it to him.) (Dave also has a digital copy of the movie...)
2. That, and I CAN NOT stress this enough, "sounds like woik"...
3. Given the recent headaches on the Cerebito Spanish translation of Cerebus #1 and Spawn #10 Kickstarter (where Todd McFarlane Productions sent a Takedown notice for copyright violations) (Which have been resolved.) (I know you were losing sleep over it...) (As they said: 

Hi there,

This is a message from Kickstarter’s Trust and Safety team. We’re writing to let you know that a project you were interested in — CEREBUS #1 & Dave Sim's Version of SPAWN DIEZ en Español — has been reinstated. The process for this project’s intellectual property dispute is complete. No further action is required on your part.

Please note that the project’s deadline (the day your pledge will be collected) has changed.

New project deadline
Mon, May 18 2026 11:00 am EDT

Time remaining
successful

You can visit the project here.

Best wishes,
Kickstarter Trust and Safety)

I don't think messing around with anybody else's I.P. is a "Good idea worth pursuing..."

     4. It's been done(?)

I used to own a copy...

See? Panel from the comic, how the shot looked at filming, how the shot looked after they did the  digital "magic"... I think there's a whole bunch of that in there if I remember right... That's what I think Dave's thinking.

I bought another copy, and am gonna send it to Dave. Maybe he can pull a couple of examples of what he's thinking out of it and I won't have to do "woik" I don't wanna do...

Anyway, if you wanna hear Dave answer the questions that have been sitting there waiting since...March I think, go and donate to Please Hold. But if you wanna make me eventually have to pay to download Juice Newton songs, go ahead and donate to 1982 Tour.

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As I said, I don't wanna watch a movie and try to determine which scenes are based off which panels (of a comic I don't own), I wanna do "fun stuff" like ink:

Such as the pencils to a Stan Sakai commission Josh Even bought that Josh posted on Facebook:

Click for bigger, if that's your thing...

Or Jack Kirby's pencils to a Demon drawing:

Ditto.

Josh is getting the Usagi/Cerebus/Turtle piece, but if you want me desecrating The King in your hot little hands, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll happily entertain any offers...

And here's Mr. Sakai's finished version:

And here's something that crossed my "desk":

By Alex "Box Office Poison" Robinson

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I'm BEGGING ya, please help a brudda out...

The CAN13/Ninja High School Cerebus #2&3/Cerebus in Hell? numbers 87 (Cerebus in Jail?) and 88 (The Pun Issuer Groan Zone)/CAN29(sorta) Kickstarter.

Next Time: Jen had a three day weekend. That means I'll be posting...

Mr. Robinson's Cerebus

Hi, Everybody!

Friend of the Blog, Alex Robinson posted this over at the Official Cerebus Facebook group:

Click for the biggering!

I drew 12 heads for each of the books up through MINDS. I only wanted to do each character once except for Cerebus and the Roach. How many can YOU name?

So I took a stab at it:

Alright, without looking it up, from left to right: Cerebus, Henrot, Graus, Mother Abott, Cerebus, The barbarian guy from High Society (I always think he's Bear, but he's not), Wolveroach, Mrs. Henrot-Gutch, Michelle, Thrunk (AKA: Necross the "Ha ha" Mad), Po, Seth, Next row: Elrod, Um...Sophia?, Madame Du Fort, Bran Mak Muffin, Lord Stormsend (the wuffa wuffa guy), Lord Julius' goat (AKA: Julius Goat), Red Sophia, Lord Julius, Cerebus, Secret Sacred Wars Roach, fug me what's his name? Chico as a like-a-look, Sump Thing, Next row: The Hsifan assassin (slash DeadAlbino), No idea, Woman Thing, Theresa(?), Sgt. Preston Roach of the Royal Iestian Mounted Police, Blakely, Weisstaupt, Bishop Posey, Bear, Prince Mick, Feagle Roach, Magicking (?), Next row: Jaka, The Cockroach, Silverspoon, The John Cleese sergeant guy, "Da docks" guy whazizname, the Rodney Dangerfield guy, Bishop Powers, Jaka, Poobah, the Judge, K'cor, Cerebus, Next row: That one Cirinists (Schwartkoph?), Cerebus, That other Cirinist (Brenda?), I got nothing, Melmoth's buddy (Ross?), Cerebus, A...hairy...man(?), The Cirinists commander lady, And his brother Dirty Drew, Toby (?), Joanne, M. Zulli, Next row: Pud, Beaver Cleaver(?), Rick Nash, Bloody Cirinist, Melmoth Oscar, The young waitress (Janice?), Death, Punisherroach, The "fake" Regency Elf, young Cerebus, Serna/Cirin, Astoria, Next Row: Missy, the old cuss (from "square one"/the end of Jaka's Story), The kitchen lady from the end of Jaka's Story, Melmoth's other buddy, Dino, normalroach, Cerebus, Snuff, Gregori (I admit I made that up...), short hair dream(?) Jaka, other dream (?) Jaka, 40000 eyes Roach, Next Row: Uh...Aunt May(?), Jaka's Story Oscar, Mrs. Thatcher, The mean waitress (Janice?), Prince Keef, Laurel(?) Hardy(?) (I got nothing), The demon Klem, Blossom, The bartender from Women, Cirin/Serna, a...troll(?), Dave Sim/Victor Reid but NOT Victor Davis. #NailedIt!

And then I remembered:

DUKE LEONARDI! How could I forget that!?! #ILookedItUp

And: "'Da docks' guy whazizname"  is Filgate (That one I did remember.)

Okay, "AMOC Special Friend of the Day" goes to anybody who can beat me.

Next Time: I beat whoever beats me, with a bat... Twice.

Hey! I KNOW That Aardvark!

Hi, Everybody!

And welcome to the first entry in AMOC's newest semi-regular feature: Hey! I KNOW that aardvark!

Today's entry: Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

It's for sale if you're interested...

So, I reached out to Mr. Robinson with my questions, and it went like this:

AMOC: Why THIS aardvark? 

Alex Robinson: I'm not really sure what this one means. If it helps, I also liked the aardvark in those "Ant & the Aardvark" cartoons.

Box Office Poison Page 11 (Now I want a Cerebus head shirt...)

AMOC: How did you first find our aardvark?

Alex Robinson: I'd been reading superhero comics for a few years and was starting to expand my horizons and explore "indy"comics, as they were known at the time. I read an article about Cerebus in a short-lived magazine called "Comics Collector," which was I believe put out by Don & Maggie from the CBG, and it sounded intriguing. My first issue was #65, which was also Gerhard's first issue and features the title "Anything Done for the First Time Unleashes a Demon," appropriately. This would've been 1983 or 84 I'm guessing. 

 

Box Office Poison page 51 (Cerebus behind Stephen. Best costume at the party, hands down.)

AMOC: Thoughts on Dave or the series?

Alex Robinson: The series is brilliant, at least the first two thirds of it. It's such a strange, unique work that it's worth checking out just for that, but the cartooning is fantastic and had a huge impact on my own work. Even the parts that aren't "good" are at least weird enough to be interesting. I think it kind of runs off the rails as it goes on and Dave Sim's politics and personal interests start taking precedence over compelling storytelling or characterization but up until the end he and Gerhard continued to push the envelope in terms of cartooning. 

I've met Dave Sim a few times over the decades and he was always decent to me and his encouragement meant a lot of me during my own early years of bitter struggle. I disagree with a lot of his opinions but it's his life. I have a hard time being critical of him because he was such an important figure to me when I was a teenager, almost an absentee mentor. One irony is that the first time I read issue #186, the proverbial smoking gun of Dave Sim's misogyny, I didn't even notice it because the text pieces had gotten so dense and esoteric that I'd started skimming them. Since this was before the internet I only learned about it months later. I guess I'm tolerant of his views because they're so extreme (women can read minds, the ongoing struggle between God and YooHoo, for instance) that even most hardcore misogynists would find them puzzling. Plus, he's so marginalized at this point that it's hard to see his views as any kind of threat. 

It's sad that his illnesses have stopped him from being able to draw anymore. 

Box Office Poison page 58 (Elrod and Lord Julius? Best. Party. Ever!)

AMOC: Would you still use Cerebus if you were doing the work for the first time, now?

Alex Robinson:  I'll still work Cerebus into a drawing occasionally. As time has gone on I've generally put less jokey gags in the backgrounds so that's probably a bigger factor in not putting him in than anything else. I still doodle Cerebus all the time. The other day actually, it occurred to me that I've probably drawn him more than any other character I didn't create and probably more than many I did create. I picked up the habit in high school and he's still my absent-minded doodle of choice. 

Box Office Poison page 229 (Now we know what happened to Cerebus' sword after Reads...)

AMOC: Jaka or Sophia?

Alex Robinson:  Sophia. For one thing, Sophia was a prominent character when I first started reading so she'll always have a special place in my heart. Also, I never really liked Jaka as a character. Her early appearances worked because she was almost more of a symbol than a genuine character--she would show up, there would be feelings and she'd leave. I was fascinated by the fact that Dave Sim seems to have put her in the book in the last third because it was what the audience and Cerebus wanted. I found it interesting because Dave Sim was famous for his stubborn independence so why is he suddenly letting us (and Cerebus) call the shots? Also, since she didn't really have much of an established character she took on all the aspects of womanhood that Dave Sim had contempt for--shallow, self-centered, etc. which made it less fun to read.

Box Office Poison page 526, (Check out the second guy from the left in the last row.)

AMOC: Thanks for answering. Wait, that’s not a question…

Alex Robinson:  Let me know if you have any other questions!

Box Office Poison page 325 (No Aardvark, I know, but I do own the original of this page, and wanna brag...)

So there you have it.

I'd like to extend a HUGE thanks to Alex Robinson for taking the time to answer my stupid questions, and for letting me run images from Box Office Poison, THANKS ALEX!

If you've read Box Office Poison, or if you're gonna read Box Office Poison, don't be surprised if you find yourself saying, "Hey! I KNOW that aardvark!"

If you've found our Aardvark in a comic, send a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and you might get credited in a future installment of: Hey! I KNOW that aardvark!

Next time: Images of Cerebus, I almost guarantee it...