Cerebus Archive Number 17 Portfolio: YOUR First Look

Hi, Everybody!

Dave asked me to post:

That's lawrenceshell@comcast.net

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Next month is the fifteenth anniversary of Tim founding A Moment of Cerebus, preceded by the ninth anniversary of my beginning to ruin the place.

Which means it's time for an "AMOC Birthday Contest"!

Break out the crayons, and draw a birthday card for AMOC, and email it to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by November seventh.

I'll take a look at all the entries, and pick a winner for a fabulous prize pack from the ol' AMOC Prize Box. (Depending on the number of entries, there may be a first runner-up, second runner-up, and Miss Congeniality.)

Use whatever artistic tools or media you want, all I ask is NO AI. It's beneath you.

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So, as part of Cerebus@50, Dave is looking for volunteers to act as "local" distributors of Aardvark-Vanaheim products to their Local Comicbook Stores (if I'm understanding him correctly...), to wit he proposed to Michael R. of Easton Pennsylvania that Mike be the first and "do" runs to stores in eastern PA/NYC/&NJ. Mike said no. And so, Dave Fisher (he who runs the Cerebus YouTube channel) has stepped up to do the gig in Toronto Canada.

Seen here: Dave and Dave and a hoodie NOT from The AMOC TeePublic Shoppee...
This and the pile to Dave's right are print-on-demand merch for Cerebus@50.

At this point, I'm required to say that if you've been following the Cerebus@50 campaign, and think you'd like to get in on the...let's say, "fun", and become a volunteer and coordinate with a local printer and LCSs as far as you're willing to travel, feel free to contact momentofcerebus@gmail.com (thas me), and I'll pass your info on to Rolly, Dave, and Fisher, (and probably Eddie) and they'll get you into the planning. I mean, I'M NOT interested in "multiplying my sorrows" by joining up (I already have enough to do just keeping the creaky ship that is AMOC running without volunteering MORE...), but:

So, if it sounds like fun, lemme know you're interested, and we'll throw your name on the list, and you'll become:

Anyway, so the plan is that after CANs 15 & 16 next year, by next December, when Cerebus turns 50, Cerebus Archive Number Seventeen will be "eye candy" pages, instead of the second set of ten earliest pages from each phonebook still in the Cerebus Archive (which is what the first round of CANs are: the ten earliest pages from each phonebook still in the Cerebus Archive.).

Wanna see what CAN17 will be?

'course you do. You come here. You also wanna know when EXACTLY CANs 15 and 16 will be launching (that I don't know. CAN14 JUST finished, and fifteen of you NEED to fill out your surveys so I can get ma shit. Maybe if you get on that, I'll be able to find out when CAN15 and CAN16 are launching (not until 2027 for sure...).)

Well pal, you're in luck, because Dave had the prototype of the sticker for CAN17 sent to me, and I'm a really good detective and figured out what Dave's putting in there:

Because I get big scans that I format for posting, I saw what ten pages Dave's planning on using:

Cerebus #196, page 4

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Cerebus #196, page 6

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Cerebus #196, page 7

Cerebus #196, page 8

Cerebus #196, page 9

Cerebus #196, page 10

Cerebus #196, page 11

Cerebus #196, page 13

Cerebus #196, page 14

Cerebus #196, page 19

When is this coming? I don't think before December 2027, since CANs 15 and 16 still have to come out. But if not 2027, then real early in 2028.

Next Time: Oh joy! Dave sent Audio files...

"A is for Aardvark" (New Dave Art)

Hi, Everybody!

So no new Off-White House Bulletin, all I got recently was the Kickstarter Update I posted yesterday.

Which kinda sucks, because I think Dave needs to explain what the hell this stuff he had sent to me is:

Man, really wished I had Dave explaining why he's sending an article from eleven years ago that presumes univocality, inherency, and historicity in the bible...

Or, what the deal we these pieces is (click for bigger):

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN OLD MAN?!?

Rigamarole:

Kickstarter is live! Cerebus Archive Portfolio #12: Rick's Story and Cerebus in Hell? presents: The Varkdalorian

Speaking of the 'starters, acquaintance to the blog Travis sent in:

Hi Matt, are you willing to put a link to my comic's Kickstarter on Moment of Cerebus? If not, that's cool.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fkhk/my-captivity?ref=user_menu

I'm selling bootleg Cerebus trading cards featuring my art, coloring by Hobbs, and unused art of MY characters by Dave. $10 a set for 11 cards plus TWO HANDDRAWN cards (by me). Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll explain how to pay.

Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

Our very own Jen DiGiacomo is part of a film production titled The Day Elvis Died. She'll never ask anybody here, but they're crowdfunding to finish the post production on the movie. (It's set in 1977, will a certain obscure Canadian cartoon aardvark make a cameo? (No. Elvis died in August. Cerebus wasn't published until December. Any appearance in the flick would be an anachronism that would ruin the movie for everybody. EVERYBODY!).) 

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off June 16-23.*

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

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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has:

• THREE pages of original art 

1. Cerebus #3 page 21
2. Cerebus #20 page 21
3. Cerebus #293 page 7

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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: Vintage aardvark...

INCOMING! Catching up on the not Faxes... (New Dave Art!)

Hi, Everybody!

Even though his phone and fax aren't working, that doesn't stop Dave from making me post stuff on his behalf...

INCOMING!

Dave said Monday that he didn't care about this, and things keep happening with Diamond (I've decided until I hear from Dave what HE hears is happening, I'm not reading anything anybody posts on the Internet about any of this...) I don't think Diamond was in arrears to Aardvark-Vanaheim for any money, so Dave really doesn't care until it is "Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss" time. But he sent it, so if maybe you're a creator who needs their ka-ching from Geppi & Co.:

Which leads to the "Back-up Plan" (one of my favorite gags from the Flying Kkaramazov Brothers was when they were doing a flaming juggling trick and they said, "Don't worry, we have a Back-up Plan. Everybody BACK UP!") and Dave's notes/thoughts:

Enough business, let's talk Art:

In a follow up to the last Please Hold:

And since the next CAN (#12 for those of you playing at home...) is a'comin':

OFF-WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN. 8 May 25
519-576-0610 LAND LINE and FAX LINE are FRIED.  PERMANENTLY?  Stay tuned.
AMOC
BIRDSONG
c/o Rolly
CAN 12/VARKDALORIAN (projected June launch)
subject line:  From Dave Sim re: CAN 12
 
1)  Hello, CAN 11 Backers!  We’re going to be trying something different this time to accomodate those of you who are in some form of financial distress (only a handful in February but this is May which is, like, a thousand years later in 2025 terms):
 
Everyone who participated in the last Kickstarter is going to get everything on CAN 12/Varkdalorian ahead of time in digital form for free.  The Digital Package will be offered for $20 on the Kickstarter to everyone else 
 
2) Varkdalorian [CAN 12] and Possum-At-Large vs. Super-Cerebus [CAN 13] are both written by Chad Lambert.  Rather than trying to explain Chad Lambert I got Rolly to scan his Kill Me & Other Curiosities and this will be e-mailed to you as soon as I make sure that this isn’t a Tragic Luddite Mistake that’s going to make anyone go ballistic. Always a danger with we Tragic Luddites (:
 
Chad won two Harvey Awards in 2015 for “Breaking Out” (Best Single Issue or Short Story) and “Kill Me” (Promising New Talent), both of which appear here. 
 
So him doing two Cerebus in Hell? comics is kind of a big deal.  And this seemed like the easiest way to explain it.
 
3)  I’m hoping Chad has a deal with Dark Horse where he can buy copies of Kill Me at a discount so he can offer them autographed on the Kickstarter.  Basically wait and see how many Backers want them and then order that many, get Chad to sign them and ship them to Rolly to include in your packages or ship them directly from Chad’s home Somewhere In Ohio if that makes more sense
 
4). As I said, Chad is the writer which means if all of the artists also sign
 
- Tom Williams
- Christine Larsen
- K CZAP
- Apri Kusbiantoro
 
that would be a) really cool b) possibly a logistical nightmare (depending on where they all are).
 
Fallback position:  KILL ME THE BACKING BOARD with space for everyone to sign
 
Which is why this is the first thing you’re hearing about CAN 12 VARKDALORIAN because this is the one that has logistic nightmare written all over it. 
 
5). Please
a) don’t share your digital KILL ME with others since it’s just a personal FYI for you and definitely borderline illegal even if it’s copyright Chad Lambert and Chad is (hopefully) cool with this. 
b) do buy a copy from your local comic shop if they have a DIA order code for it and autographs aren’t really your thing.  It just came out in December 2024 which is i) a thousand years ago and ii) recent enough it should theoretically work. 
 
NEXT:  The CAN 12 side of this which should be easy-peasy (famous last words)

I haven't heard if that phase of the project is "GO!" If I hear anything, I'll let y'all know...

Dave continued a few days later (my philosophy now is: wait until somebody questions if  I posted it/they do something first. That way it is never possibly my fault when things go wrong. As I frequently say, "I didn't do it, unless it had to get done, in which case I did it twice.")

Would have been nice if Dave had had that page sent to me...

Ya know...I have a short box FULL of Vark Wars and Walt's Empire Strikes Back that my wife has stopped acknowledging as existing, that has some of them lower #ed Walt's Empire issues (I'd have to look which ones.) (Vark Wars was BEFORE they started numbering the print run on the covers.) I COULD grab a bunch and sign them and send them to Dave to sign so you could get a copy with two of the...eight(?) creators signatures on there. I also have a couple of the hardcover Swords of Cerebus in Hell? collections (volumes 8 & 10 that have the Vark Wars issues in them) I could sign and sketch in and send to Dave to use as add-ons or Postcard prizes. I guess I have to find a box...

Anyway if you made it this far, Original Dave Art time (click for bigger): 

Sans notes:

I THINK that's everything from the past 8 days...

Rigamarole:

THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER: It seems like EVERYBODY has a crowd funding campaign type thing going on:

Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has launched his latest campaign: Comicverse #6. He's got all sorts of neat stuff on offer, some of it from previous campaigns, meaning "there's Dave Art in them there add-ons!" I dunno, click around and see what he's offering. The campaign has met it's goal, but he followed KickStarter's advice and lowballed that. So more money would mean he doesn't lose money on the deal.

I'm selling bootleg Cerebus trading cards featuring my art, coloring by Hobbs, and unused art of MY characters by Dave. $10 a set for 11 cards plus TWO HANDDRAWN cards (by me). Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll explain how to pay.

Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. More on this as I'm allowed to post stuff...

Our very own Jen DiGiacomo is part of a film production titled The Day Elvis Died. She'll never ask anybody here, but they're crowdfunding to finish the post production on the movie. (It's set in 1977, will a certain obscure Canadian cartoon aardvark make a cameo? (No. Elvis died in August. Cerebus wasn't published until December. Any appearance in the flick would be an anachronism that would ruin the movie for everybody. EVERYBODY!).) 

The current thinking is that CAN12/The Varkdalorian will launch in June. Dave has ideas, more on this as I figure out what the hell Sim is planning...

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off May 21-26.*

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

One of those is the Mother's Day Sale. Show Mom you care with a T-Shirt of the comic she doesn't understand why you like so much...

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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has:

• Nothing. But there are THREE pages of original art coming soon...

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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: Well that WAS everything except the Monday Report, but I'm saving that for tomorrow...