A refreshing dip into the ol' AMOC Mailbag...

Hi, Everybody!

Well, Eddie and I looked into the "missing" Remastered Reads. Eddie says:

Okay looking at the AMOC posts for Jun-Jul 2016 when it was sent to Dia, it looks like they used the old order code for the remastered version. I’ll contact Diamond

And:

PS this is why AMOC is so valuable

But 2016 is Tim's AMOC... Anything after late 2017 is crap. Absolute crap... 

Eddie continues:

Just spoke with Diamond. It’s the remastered version from 2016. They will be adding a note to the listing on the website to indicate it’s the Remastered version.

So if you have your local shop order you a copy from Diamond, you're guaranteed to get a Remastered copy.

You'll know it's Remastered if my name is in the back:

right there...

Anyway, Mondays:

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And since I had Dave on the Fax, I asked him if the Cerebus Oversized Project was still a thing:

Anywayer, I got mail:

Im'a thinking this is one of them "fer looking at" things. Not a "fer usin' " things...

Well thanks Zipper!

I might be one of the few to have a copies of Spore/Batvark (a title I suggested) signed by you AND Dave:

Speaking of Mail, Dodger better hope Margaret's check doesn't clear, or I'ma sell her his address so she can plan a Heist to swipe:

click for the biggers

Rigamarole:

Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has ANOTHER Kickstarter, it ends on Feburary 1st.

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

Your store will be up to 35% off

January 25-28.*

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

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

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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'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's got Mail..."bill...bill...past due...final notice...second final notice...junk...you may already be a winner..."

CORRESPONDENCE SCANNING BEGINS!

DAVE SIM:
Dave Fisher will be putting in a full day a week scanning the correspondence files.  The categories are basically going to be a) letters to and from me b) publications (signed and personalized to me) c) publications (signed) d) publications (unsigned) and e) other.

I went through a 2005 file just to see how it would work.  The "other" category came about because there was a play script in there that I had asked the local theatre director to give me as "step one" in doing an article for Sandeep's VERSUS about how a play develops, behind the scenes.  An article that never happened and which I had completely forgotten about.

Obviously in those situations, I have to write a description because I'm the only person who knows what I'm looking at.  HOW that's going to be accomplished is another question.  But, for now just getting all the letters in chronological order and cross-referencing them with the PUBLICATIONS is "Job One".

SCROLL DOWN SCROLL DOWN SCROLL DOWN!

I'm sure everyone "gets" this but me -- the link is down at the bottom of today's postings!

UPDATE:

The Total TCOP Package: www.gofundme.com/cerebus 

Individual TCOP Purchases:  www.gumroad.com/cerebusonline

Hi-Rez Image Downloads. 

Always. Available.

THE CEREBUS OVERSIZE PROJECT!

Hi-Rez Cerebus Image Downloads. Always. Available.
Help preserve the longest graphic novel in the English-speaking world, the 6,000-page Cerebus!

Multiple Purchases (Cheap!): www.gofundme.com/cerebus 

Individual Purchases:  www.gumroad.com/cerebusonline

Okay, everyone click on www.gofundme.com/cerebus and take a look at The Total TCOP Package! Remember -- you don't have to buy ALL of them and you don't have to buy them today or next week or a month from now.  They're. Always. Available.  It's not like Kickstarter with a 30-day "window".  ALWAYS means ALWAYS with TCOP. The images are also available INDIVIDUALLY at: www.gumroad.com/cerebusonline.

Every one of those images you're looking at in low resolution is being made available in HIGH RESOLUTION 600 dpi CMYK.  The same resolution that Sean Robinson is using for the CEREBUS Remastering Volumes.  ALL THE DETAIL!  ZOOM IN and just keep clicking.  The image doesn't "fuzz out" it just gets HUUUUGGGE!

Even with these OVERSIZED art pieces, it's possible not only to get them printed out at their ORIGINAL size, it's possible to ENLARGE them 200% with no loss of detail!  The cover original of 187 is roughly 11x17.  The poster behind me is TWO FEET BY THREE FEET!

How much does it cost to get them reproduced at that size?  That depends on what printer you talk to and where you live.  We're encouraging EVERYONE to let people know what they think the ideal size and paper stock is -- and what the best deal is out there in North America, Europe and the UK.  

But, in the meantime, this is the closest you'll EVER get to these CEREBUS ARCHIVE original pieces.  LITERALLY!  It's like downloading a digital guided tour of your favourite CEREBUS art pieces as UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL as it gets. 

Happy hunting!

p.s. MANY, MANY, MANY thanks to Eric Berry for hosting the images at www.CerebusArchive.com where they will ALWAYS be available! And, of course, all 6,000 pages of Cerebus are ALWAYS available at www.CerebusDownloads.com.

LAST MINUTE OF PLAY. LAST MINUTE OF PLAY.

Godspeed TCOP!

TWO MINUTES

Hope you want buy some stuff, too

FOUR MINUTES TO LAUNCH

Margaret Liss just checked in, so it's starting to seem REAL NOW!

FIVE MINUTES TO LAUNCH

Okay, Sandeep's ready with the LINK at 7 pm.

Hope y'all like what you see over there!

10 MINUTES TO LAUNCH

As I say, Tim, we're keeping an open mind about TCOP!  We have to see how it goes before we decide we're going to do any extensive "babysitting" on it.

20 MINUTES TO LAUNCH

I'm just going to post the website address when we hit 7 pm.  Unless Sandeep's still out there and he wants to make it an actual LINK.

40 MINUTES TO LAUNCH

Tick tick tick

60 MINUTES TO LAUNCH

Anybody out there?  Anybody have any questions or comments.  Just post them to the comments section here.

Jeff Seiler - I am reasured, as always, by you're dedication to REEDS and determination to get it write the first time.

90 MINUTES TO TCOP LAUNCH!

Tick Tick Tick.  The Wifi place is open 'til 9 pm, fortunately.

TWO HOURS TO GO UNTIL TCOP LAUNCH!!

Have some stuff I needed to look up on the Internet for STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND.  I'll be checking to see if anyone's posting anything and try to "chime in"!

FOUR AND A HALF HOURS TO TCOP LAUNCH!

Trying to alternate between posting here -- added to a bunch of the comments below! -- and getting "work work" done.  THE FRIDAY PROJECT spilled over into Saturday this week.

Thanks to Tim W, as always, for being such a great host!

Weekly Update #127: The Cerebus Oversized Project Launches Tomorrow!

Always wanted a page or pages of Cerebus but knew you could never afford the astronomical prices that a page of original art fetches? Weep no more! On Saturday March 26, THE CEREBUS OVERSIZE PROJECT will make a wide variety of pages, posters, covers, apocrypha and double-page spreads available to all and sundry. Stay tuned for more details!

OFF-WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN UPDATE 3/24

The TCOP Launch has been delayed to 7 pm on Saturday March 26.

The Wifi place I use will be closed both Good Friday and Easter Monday, so I'm going to try to make up for that by doing more posts than I planned on Saturday March 26 and Not Easter Tuesday.  :)

Thanks to everyone who's been expressing interest!

OFF-WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN 3/24

Extremely embarrassed to admit that I got the date for Good Friday wrong -- it's tomorrow instead of next week, so the TCOP launch has been bumped by 24 hours to 7 pm Saturday.  Sincere apologies to everyone!

The Cerebus Oversize Project #5: The Duck

I'm not sure I'm even allowed to do this.  It's very weird to be Comics' Greatest Outlaw because the entire field -- very pointedly -- pretends that you don't exist.

Which means that the odds are whoever owns this character for whom I did this piece way back in the 1980s will never find out that I'm selling copies of it.  

Which I'm not. I mean, right NOW, I'm just showing you what it looks like, very publicly.  Publicly enough that if the publisher of this character was to find out that I was THINKING of selling copies of this piece, they could certainly let me know in no uncertain terms that they didn't want me to do this.  And if they let me know that, I would certainly take down this image Pronto.  

[Yes, Kemosabe?]

[Not "Tonto" -- "Pronto".]

[I wrote that line in a movie script on worked on with Lenny Henry a number of years ago and am pleased to steal it back from myself]

So, let's leave it at that.  Doesn't this frontispiece from a certain 1980s magazine version of a nameless comic-book character look cool with the original green painted halftones?  Just thought you'd like to see it. Unless of course I don't hear from anyone in the next couple of weeks, in which case you'll be able to buy it.

Shhh. 

The Cerebus Oversize Project #4: Cerebus No.130, pg. 6-7

The other big impetus behind TCOP was the double-page spreads that were drawn on oversized sheets of illustration board.  

Seriously. Would you rather see this two-page spread reduced down to the size of an 11x17 Bonus Print?  Or would you like the chance to print out "size as"…OR LARGER?

The other problem, of course, is how do you pick WHICH two-page spreads?  Same deal as SIX DEADLY SINS.  Whichever ones you pick, all you're going to do is stress out the people who wanted you to pick OTHER two-page spreads.

We've opted for what we hope is the widest selection at the most reasonable price. 

If we "stall out" at $75 in total pledges after a few days, then we will have guessed wrong -- AND EVERYONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT IN REAL TIME! GULP!

One of our big priorities was to offer a good deal for quantity while also making sure that people with shallow pockets (which is most of us, nowadays) can not only pick up one or two TCOP Images for an affordable price, but that they can do so on an on-going basis.  With virtually ALL of the Aardvark-Vanaheim cash going towards restoration and scanning these days, I'm definitely in that category: "No, I can't afford to buy them all at once, but -- hmmm -- one or two every payday? Given that as soon as I click it, I've got it?"