They said it couldn't be done! But who's laughing now?!?

Hi, Everybody!

Dave and I will be recording the TENTH Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2024 (wait, did we skip one this year? Fug it. The October one.). If you wanna have us mispronounce your name and answer some obscure bit of Cerebus related trivia you have questions about, send both to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by Wednesday night when I send the Fax up to Dave.

We're answering this one FIRST ('cause we missed it last month...)

For the Record: TMNT #8 takes place before Cerebus #1. Spawn #10 isn't in Continuity. (Cerebus smokes and goes to Kitchener. He's "not Cerebus".) And the Ninja High School crossover takes place during two panels of Cerebus #1. (Cerebus VS the Spirit is a pre-#1 story too.) 

Anyway...

MONDAYS!

Continuing doing Dave's Business in the Streets:

And Friend to the Blog: Joshua Even (of the Barbarian TMNT & Cerebus Evens...) has an offer you can't refuse:

A NECA scale Cerebus Action Figure!

He's doing these in batches of ten. When he's got ten ordered, they're gonna 3-D print and hand paint all of 'em. One Hundred and Twenty American Dollars (plus Twenty more for shipping in the US. More for you overseas fellas.). Slid into his DMs on the Facebook for details on how you get him his money. Tell him Manly Matt Dow sent you for absolutely NO DISCOUNT whatsoever! Hell, I won't even get anything off of the one I'ma ordering...

You heard about it here first (if you don't check the Cerebus Facebook group...)

Rigamarole:

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Dave/Cerebus adjacent Kickstarters:

Steve Peters Less than half funded. Help a brother out...

James Habaneros Rancheros Windsor Catherine-Jones-Starky Fully funded. Thanks, Everybody!

Shannon Wheeler Totally funded. 

Robert T. Jeschonek Not launched yet.

John and Scott Palochik  Ditto.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe:

October 8-13, and 23-28.*

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

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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has the original Art to Sparkybus.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

Speaking of which:

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: Jen says "don't buy that, gimme SDOAR money!"

INCOMING! Bill Loeb's Wanderland (NEW Dave Sim art!)

Hi, Everybody!

If YOU want a Facsimile Edition of Dave's First Notebook used in the production of Cerebus, AKA Albatross #1 there are three ways to get one as outlined in this post RIGHT HERE.

So Dave sent an Incoming:

#1? Dave didn't send to me.

#2: 

Which was followed up by this fax (that I'm pretty sure is of the photo...):

"Three more hard-boiled eggs" I gotta bring THAT back...

Also #2:

#3 (click for bigger):

#3, again (It's called 4 grandpa!!!) (Also click for bigger):

PS. That's a tomorrow post...

Anyway, Dave's Rough and the info on:

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. (click for bigger):

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Our friends at The Waverly Press let me know that they have two new Spawn 10 covers. Lenticular covers! It seems that back when the initial Lenticular cover was produced, there were extra copies of the "guts" to the issue, because a number of the covers were damaged in shipping. So, they got Jim Lawson and Brookes Morris to each do a cover, and produced them in Lenticular. They're limited in quantity, and the price will gradually rise as supply sells out. (They have ONE copy of Dave's cover left, for $750(!) to give you an idea of where these two may go...) Anyway, each comes with a trading card and every order gets a bonus, including the first ever Dave Sim photo card. I've run the covers since Friday, scroll down to see 'em...

They are available RIGHT NOW!, right here, for One Hundred American Dollars!

Okay, back to Bizness as unusual:

Rigamarole:

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

Your store will be up to 35% off

April 14 and 24-28.*

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

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Heritage has stuff. Including Narutobus: the cover and page 9:

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: The return of the Monday Report!

The Ol' AMOC Mailbag: Letters, Letters, Letters

Hi, Everybody!

First up:
Give all your hickies to the Living Tari...er, Dave and Dave. (And I mean, your money. I don't think Dave or Dave want your hickeys...):
CAN7 Cerebus Archive Portfolio No. 7 -- Edition #136/175 ("FLIGHT")

CEREBUS IN HELL? Tales of Sophistication THE IRON MANTICORE PART III strips 2019

CEREBUS IN HELL? original artwork -- 7 strips for publication 2019

CAN7 Cerebus Archive Portfolio No. 7 -- Edition #106/175 ("FLIGHT")

Second up:

Hey,

I was going through a box of correspondence and came across the attached. Please feel free to use it in whole or in part. No need to obscure the address--I haven't lived there in 14 years.

Best,
Mitch Grady

I have a letter like this too. It'll be in a future Cerebus In Matt's Life.

 Thanks Mitch!

Third up: Michael Hoskin sent in:

Messner-Loebs is in the news today, an article that talks about how he's
homeless:
http://amp.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/one-armed-comic-book-artist-worked-on-wonder-woman-now-homeless-in-michigan

As his work appeared in Cerebus, perhaps the blog could post something
about him?

Sure: It's a good article, about a bad situation. At the end they say:

Bill and Nadine Messner-Loebs have been helped by the Severe Weather Network. There are currently no county-run homeless shelters in Livingston County, making the program the only emergency housing option in the area. CLICK HERE to check out their GoFundMe page.

If you’re able and willing to offer some assistance to Bill, email fox2newsdesk@foxtv.com

I actually met Bill at S.P.A.C.E.: The Small Press Alternative Comics Expo a few years ago.

If you can help, please do.

Okay, now to work on Saturday's article...

Next Time: Ben and Cerebus In Hell?, Margaret and a notebook, Dave and the Weekly Update, and then... I dunno, something with a kid in a bunnysuit probably...

Creators Rights: 'Free Movement'

Journey #1 (March 1983)

Art by William Messner-Loebs

William Messner-Loebs was the writer/artist of Journey, a comic book featuring Wolverine MacAlistaire and frontier life in Michigan in the 19th century. First published by Aardvark-Vanaheim in 1983, after fourteen issues the series moved to Fantagraphics until issue 27 in 1986. A sequel to the original series Journey: Wardrums was planned as a six-issue mini-series, but only two issues were published by Fantagraphics. IDW Publishing reprinted the entire 27-issue run of Journey in two volumes in 2008/9.

 

DAVE SIM: 
(from Note From The President, Cerebus #144, March 1991)

...On the subject of Bill Loebs picking up Journey and taking it to Fantagraphics.

In the case of an artist getting a cash advance to produce, say, a fifty-page comic story; well, if you're stupid enough to take money in advance for creative work, you should produce that work. That was not the case with Bill. We solicited orders for Journey, printed the books, shipped them, got paid by the distributors, deducted the printing costs and an office fee from the revenues and split the remaining profits seventy-five per cent for the artist and twenty-five per cent for A-V. At one point Bill and I met for several hours at a convention and he expressed a number of reservations about the way things were going. He wanted more advertising and promotion among other things. I pointed out that we publish all the books on the same basis we did Cerebus; bare bones. Solicit the book, print the book, ship the book, bill the distributors. I pointed out that he had more than twice the circulation Cerebus had at the equivalent issue (number eighteen or nineteen, I think). Bill acknowledged my views in his very gentlemanly way, but remained obviously unconvinced and very, very worried. A couple of weeks later, we got a phone call from Kim Preney (Hi Kim) saying Bill had walked in and taken back the original art for the issue currently in production. It seemed pointless to force some kind of confrontation or another round of negotiation. On the issue of advertising and promotion, alone, we had an irresolvable conflict. I knew that any publisher he took Journey to would do more advertising than we had done.

Obviously in the course of doing Journey for Fantagraphics, Bill discovered that he could not make enough money doing Journey, period, and that a lack of advertising and promotion was not the problem. Now he works just about full time for DC/Piranha and I would assume he parted company with Fantagraphics with no hard feelings on either side.

To me, that confirms that free movement works. Bill wasn't satisfied at A-V; went to Fantagraphics and wasn't satisfied there and went to DC and was satisfied. No lawyers, no lawsuits, no heated confrontations.

Free Movement.

Rah rah.