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.

Treasures from the Cerebus Archive: Archie Goodwin's Cerebus(?)

Hi, Everybody!

So, got a lil' sumthing-sumthing from Dave:

 

Which is neat, but what the hell is it?

Well, thankfully Dave faxed an explanation:

Thanks Dave! And Thanks Sean! And, AND Thanks Archie!

Cerebus in Hell?:

The Daily CiH? strips have ended. (Listen, you got NINETY-FOUR strips PLUS FOUR oversized comics all for FREE. Cerebus in Hell? AIN'T a Charity. Them fellas is looking to get paid son! So they're back to work making print comics.)

For Order:Vault of Cerebus! And The "Censored for Grandma" variant: Batvark XXXXX

Signed copies of Vark Wars: Walt's Empire Strikes Back (Signed by Dave, Signed by Dave and me, Signed by me after I scribble out Dave's name, Signed by my kids, Signed by my mailman, Signed by random strangers I meet on the way to the Post Office, Signed by "Jorge Luiz", Signed by You (if you get it in the mail and have a pen handy...), Signed by random Customs Agents (if you're a foreigner), Signed by Benjamin Hobbs (if you mail it and twenty bucks to him), Signed by David Birdsong (if you mail it to HIM along with twenty-FIVE bucks), Signed however you want...)
In stores now: Attractive Cousins

And maybe by the end of the month: The Amicable Spider-Vark (there's been an issue. Hopefully by the end of the month...)

And there's a Kickstarter for Dave and Carson Grubaugh's You Don't Know Jack.

If you missed the Waverly Press Kickstarter for the Remastered Cerebus #1, limited overflow of the rewards are available at cerebusoverload.com. There's a discount code of 20% off for AMOC readers good through Sunday. The code is JULY20.

I made a little video showing what the stuff looks like:

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

 Cerebus masks and whatnots with all the money going to Dave ($64 (US) so far...).

Next Time: Oliver and a whole mess of links to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard/Carson Grubaugh/Etc. stuff...