Showing posts with label Dave Sim's Collected Letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dave Sim's Collected Letters. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 February 2024

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove everything.

Hi, Everybody!

Boy, them fellas sure crapped the bed over on the Akimbo and Cerebus Archive Portfolio #10: Minds Kickstarter. (I dunno, I pledged my monies and moved on. I'm just assuming based on these faxes I'ma getting...):


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Anyway, you can get Akimbo thru Diamond:

Speaking of Diamond, You can order a copy of the Cerebus #1 Facsimile Edition. Also available in Signed: Cerebus #1 Facsimile Edition Signed. (Final Order Cutoff for online orders is the 29th. Non-online orders are due the week before (or is the week after? Eddie wasn't sure when he told me.)) 
And the proofs are approved:


And Dave has continuation from this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim:


Gee, now I get to do more work. Thanks Dave...

Rigamarole:

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".

And since the topic is Kickstarters, Living the Line has a new one: TIHKU!
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February 22-25.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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Heritage has Dave Sim Cerebus stuff too.
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Next Time: Man, I'm think High Society pages...
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Sunday, 11 September 2022

Collected Letters: Dave Sim to Peter Straub 1

Hi, Everybody!

From my copy of Dave's Collected letters 2004 (which I had to scan. And it's a big thick book, so these scans ain't the best. I believe Dave still has copies available. (If you need a copy)):








Okay, more tomorrow.

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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".  And if you're in Brazil...
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Steve Peters Week?

I was the first backer.

'cause I's Awesome...
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CRBS N HLL?
BTVRK
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The Waverly Press has an Instagram. And will be posting updates and teasers for upcoming projects with Dave. Like the 1982 Tour book.

So does Carson. He and Sean got the YouTubes too. Order their book The Abolition of Man #1. Hey look they got a second one: The Abolition of Man #2!

Eddie doesn't have an Instagram OR a YouTube. But he's got his Strange Death of Alex Raymond annotations. (I mean, I assume. Maybe he's ALL over the 'gram and just not telling me...)

If you backed a Cerebus related Kickstarter, make sure 

Heritage has pages from Cerebus #1 (like, has the WHOLE issue's original art hit the block recently?!?). And a whole heap of other neat stuff.
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
September 15-17
September 22-26.
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

Next Time: More of this.
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Saturday, 10 September 2022

R.I.P.: Peter Straub

Hi, Everybody!

In case you somehow hadn't have heard, Cerebus Fan Peter Straub has died.

I let Dave know.

He has responded:
And the photos:





I'ma run Dave's letters to Mr. Straub from Collected Letters over the next few days (there's 28 pages of them.)

My condolences to his family and friends.
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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".  And if you're in Brazil...
____________________________________
Steve Peters Week?

I was the first backer.

'cause I's Awesome...
____________________________________
CRBS N HLL?
BTVRK
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The Waverly Press has an Instagram. And will be posting updates and teasers for upcoming projects with Dave. Like the 1982 Tour book.

So does Carson. He and Sean got the YouTubes too. Order their book The Abolition of Man #1. Hey look they got a second one: The Abolition of Man #2!

Eddie doesn't have an Instagram OR a YouTube. But he's got his Strange Death of Alex Raymond annotations. (I mean, I assume. Maybe he's ALL over the 'gram and just not telling me...)

If you backed a Cerebus related Kickstarter, make sure 

Heritage has pages from Cerebus #1 (like, has the WHOLE issue's original art hit the block recently?!?). And a whole heap of other neat stuff.
____________________________________
Up to 35% off site-wide:
September 15-17
September 22-26.
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

Next Time: Eighteen year old fan letters...
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Saturday, 9 July 2022

Please Hold For Dave Sim 7/2022

Hi, Everybody!

Three HOURS. Two minutes and twenty seconds.

Let's hope I can get the thirteen parts assembled as videos before midnight tonight...

Anyway, the "As" get first:


And now the "Vs":

Part 1: we remember Jeff:
And Steve has a Jeff related question:
And everybody else had questions about Steve's birthday gift to me:
And Steve was wondering about Fred, Ethel, and the little fella with the hair:
Part 2: Dan wanted to know:
Matt,
How many of the 6,000 pages and 300 covers exist?
How many of them does Dave possess?
Is Dave “satisfied” with scans or is there a reason to pursue the actual pieces?
If you’d like, you can forward these questions to Dave.
Dan

Part 3: Mike Sewall asks:
Hey Dave and Manly Matt –

On A Moment of Cerebus Blog in 2017, there is a listing for Collected Letters 1990, Collected Letters 2004 Vol 3, and Collected Letters 2006. Do these still exist as digital files or (gasp!) real honest-to-goodness books?

Also - Why was letters 2 so much different than Letters 1 – trim size, no title page, etc.?
Thanks for all you do!
- M J (Mike) Sewall
P.S. – Thanks for the copies of Letters 1 and 2! My Cerebus/Sim bookshelf is pushing out lesser works by those little-known-hacks, Miller, Moore and Watterson. I am busily shoring up from underneath to accommodate the “Sim Wing” of my house.
Part 4: Easton, PA’s resident troublemaker, Michael R. asks:
Hi Matt!
Hope you are enjoy/enjoying the Fourth of July weekend. My questions for Dave.

Hi Dave!
Thank you for the " Quick and Dirty Portfolios " of Cerebus No. 4 6-7/78. Are any differences between the one you sent me and what is being offered on this Kickstarter?

My other question pertains to the last "Please Hold". You and Matt were discussing about video editing and the difficulties of it. Has there been any outtakes on your Weekly Updates which maybe you can put together to make a bloopers segment? It might be fun to watch.

Michael R

Part 5: A guy wants to print Dave's stuff. 
Part 6: Coin Upton said:
Oh yes, I got the letter a couple days ago... It usually takes me awhile to compose my thoughts.

I am most grateful for the cheque and yes, doing a "digest" (could you ask Dave what he means by "digest"? Does he mean a mini-comic - 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 inches? A digest to me is 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 inches.) sounds like fun. I have actually thought a lot about the enigma that is Dave Sim. It would be about my relationship with Dave, starting with the reprinting of my story "Chris" in the back of Cerebus. "Chris" was an attack on Woke culture before it even had that name. It would be in part about how it's possible to fundamentally disagree with someone while remaining on friendly terms, a lost art I'm afraid in these days of cancel culture I fear. I imagine we can find things to agree about. Thank Dave for giving me this opportunity. However, I do consider my abysmal spelling to be part of my comics homey charm... :)

Thank you
Colin
PS I don't think Peter Birkamoe (I don't know who he is) is arranging my trip to TCAF but rather the publisher of Conundrum Press. He will fly me there but I will have to find a place to stay while in Toronto.
Part 7: Nick wants Dave for a podcast (specifically to talk about Tangent), and Justin is a pothead (maybe):
Part 8: and we answer the questions you guys had on Margaret's Notebook post:
Okay, the rigamarole is down below.

Have fun!

Next Time: Fuck, man i just spent all day making THIS post...
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Saturday, 7 May 2022

Please Hold For Dave Sim: 5/2022

Hi, Everybody!

Well we held:

Audio:

And Video:

Part one:
Dave and I discuss the proper adjective for Ramadan, then Cerebus Online's 1500 subscriber, then Cerebus Berserker prints, and finally, Lee Thacker's question: "Will Dave be boycotting any future Russian reprints?"
Part 2: Dave and I discuss Steve's question:
Matt asks:
"How the @#%& you print a proof AFTER the books have been printed AND shipped, I have no idea..."

Which is essentially my point in an AMOC comment down there towards the bottom of the page on 12 April.
It's NOT a printer's proof.
It's simply another gimmicky low-print cover produced under a dishonest name.

For 8.2, howsabout an honest name, something along the lines of "Alfonso's Signed Edition".

Unless honesty isn't particularly observed with Dave's 'idio-syncretistic" belief system.

Steve
yeah, the gloves come off
And while typing the above I actually thought, "I wonder what Seiler would say about this."
Part 3: I sent Dave all the comments on the Pieces of Turtles 8.2 flash sale idea.

Details in the video. Tell everybody! (I'm posting this Friday, so you might have to refresh the page to see the buttons.)
Part 4: MJ Sewall got art. So we discuss that. And the The Death's Dark Tread auction. And then MJ had a question about getting Collected Letters direct from Dave, and Dave, it turns out has more collected letters than he knows what to do with. You can get one SIGNED & PERSONALIZED for $30 to cover shipping, plus whatever you wanna pay Dave for it. (Volume 1 is $35, and Volume 2 is $25. So let's just call it $30 a piece.)

Plus, Dave's sending me a list of ALL the product Aardvark Vanaheim has laying around. Details as I get them...
Next Time: I dunno, isn't two hours of videos enough?!?
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Saturday, 25 April 2020

The Unexpected Return of...Aardvark Comment?!? (And a SODAR preview.)

Hi, Everybody!

So, I got a fax from Dave (as I do, it's one of the perks/responsibilities of this gig), It started with a letter Dave got from:




As instructed, I sent an email to Mr. Beechen, and he responded thusly:
Hi Dave -

Thanks for the reply, and thank you for more of your always-kind words about HENCH. I remain grateful and flattered that it's something you've enjoyed, revisited, supported, inquired about, and even promoted (mentioning it on MoC a couple years ago) since it came out. Means a lot to me.

In a "revisitation update," I found myself unable to stop my re-read of CEREBUS after "Church and State," and I've glided ahead all the way into "Going Home," with no intention of calling it quits. So, that's about 180 issues read inside a month? I can't get over what a different experience it is to read the book this way, as opposed to month-to-month in the floppies. So much of what confusion I had while reading the book the first time has been cleared up (I think) by reading it this way... I mostly feel like I have a much better idea of the "big picture" of the book, in the sense of the history and political structure of Estarcion, Cerebus' place in that history and political structure, and how x relates to y and so on. It's not a perfect picture, mind you, but I can always go back and do this again... and I suspect I will.

Someday, I'd love to ask you some questions about your creative process while working on the book. Not questions of the, "How many pages did you lay out a day," variety, but more to do with your thought processes and development of the story itself, how you came to some of the narrative and character decisions you made, and so on. Just for my own edification. Do you think that might be possible?

Also, I noticed from re-reading some past correspondence that I promised to send you a print from TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, the animated series I worked on a few years ago. I have a dim memory of signing a print (and then maybe smearing the signature?), but I can't recall sending it. Did I ever follow through on that?

To answer the questions you posed in your reply of 18 April...

1) I've been tempted to write another sequel to HENCH almost since the last edition came out in 2012. Given the Hollywood interest in the property at that point, it seemed prudent to keep putting out new content both to keep the property alive and to demonstrate that there could be multiple paths down which to take the character.

But more importantly, I just flat love the world that the artists and I have created, and often find myself thinking of different corners of it to explore. There's more to say with these characters, and I think I have more stories to tell. The trick is sort of the template I've established - Building a story around a tried-and-true superhero comic trope that looks at said trope from an unusual angle (as we did with the henchman's plight in the first chapter, and superhero origin stories in the second), displaying a number of familiar, repurposed images exemplifying that trope and making them fit into the story, and maintaining the very specific tone of the first two chapters.

Last year, I made the mistake of starting a script for a third HENCH chapter before I really had the story figured out, and I hit a wall about thirty pages in. I didn't have enough, and I found myself padding. The scripts for the first two chapters came so quickly, I expected it to happen the same way one more time, but it just hasn't worked out that way. I think I have a strong trope to build around, I know I have strong sequences based on that trope that I'd like to see realized, and I know it can all come out of character growth and development, other than plot necessity. I just need a plot structure that allows me to tie everything together, and I need to commit on sitting down and doing the hard work of coming up with that structure until I have it cold. I'll feel it when I have it, but I don't know how long it'll take to get there, and there's a lot of insecurity in that not-knowing, so it's easier and safer not to get into that hard work and to find other things to do. The constant struggle of someone trying to write, you know?

Anyway, to get back to your question, I want to write a third chapter for HENCH and probably end Mike Fulton's story there. A trilogy feels right. I feel like I've written the Beginning and the Middle, but the End is still out there. Once I have that, my plan is to package all three chapters together into one self-published book, so everything's in one place. I know there'll be a few readers who will, by that point, have already essentially bought the first chapter twice in the two editions that have already been published, and the second chapter once, so I want to give them more of a reason to purchase the compiled book than just getting the third chapter. So I figure maybe I'll publish some of the design and developmental work the artists have done over the three chapters, commission a new cover that might entice new readers to the property, commission a foreword and/or some cover blurbs, and commission a pin-up gallery to round it out. Then I can call it a day for Mike.

2) HENCH is still active in the Hollywood quagmire. It's now under option to its fifth production or creative entity, which is kind of amazing. Each one has had a different and fascinating take on the material, but it's been hard moving it up the production chain. The comments tend to fall into two categories: "We're not looking to do superhero stuff... Superheroes are tired" or "We already have too much superhero stuff in development." It's been frustrating, but I'm grateful there's still any interest at all, and I feel like right now it's in great hands that have a decent shot at advancing the material further than its gone previously. I can keep you posted, if you like.

3) To my great good fortune, animation is one industry that hasn't been affected too much by social distancing protocols. There's no physical production - nobody needs to be in a certain location around other people at a certain time to perform a certain task - Just about every step of the process can be performed remotely. There aren't a lot of writing staffs to begin with in animation that meet for hours a day in a cramped room with stale bagels and dry-erase boards to bang out stories, as happens in live-action. Any "story break" session requiring more than one writer can be conducted over videoconferencing sites like Zoom. It's purely coincidental, but I've actually become busier since the quarantine started than I was in the six months or so before. Not because there's more work as a result of the pandemic, but because the animation industry just continues at a pace fairly close to normal, while other industries remain at a standstill. We're especially lucky in our household that we both have not just our health, but continuing employment during the current situation. We don't take either for granted.

I suppose I've taken up enough of your day, and work calls, so I'll sign off here. Thanks again for everything - Stay safe and stay well!

Best,
Adam
He also included this photo. I call it "UNORTHODOX PHOTOGRAPHIC REVENGE!" 'cause I'm weird...
I sent that up to Dave who replied:



Which was in reply to Al Nickerson's letter:
April 7, 2020

Hello Dave,

I wanted to thank you for the wonderful review of THE SWORD OF EDEN on DAVE’S WEEKLY UPDATE. I’ve gotten a few orders from folks who only watched the video. (I imbedded a link of the YouTube video on my website, www.theswordofeden.com.)

I’m curious to know what Will Eisner would have thought of THE SWORD OF EDEN. Yeah… there’s some Jewish stuff going on in the book, but there’s a buncha super-heroes, as well. Will wasn’t always a fan of super-heroes. Although, he believed that they did have their place in comics (Sequential Art). With the current popularity of the super-hero in film and television, with today’s more mature (more sophisticated?) super-hero comics, I sometimes wonder if Will might have eventually had a better liking towards the super-hero genre.

Anyway, thanks for the kind comments concerning my graphic novel. It’s greatly appreciated. And thanks for all of your hard work discussing things like self-publishing, making comics, and Creators’ Rights. It all has been quite helpful.

In Christ Jesus,

Al Nickerson
http://www.theswordofeden.com
http://www.facebook.com/al.nickerson.3
https://twitter.com/Al_Nickerson
Isaiah 53:4-5 (Complete Jewish Bible): 4 In fact, it was our diseases he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God. 5 But he was wounded because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, and by his bruises we are healed.
And I send Dave's response to both Mr. Beechen and Mr. Nickerson, and Mr. Nickerson replied:
April 23, 2020

Hi Dave, 
Thanks for the letter.

You make some very interesting points about Will Eisner and his opinion(s) concerning the super-hero genre.

While at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), I recall Will stating how he passed on Superman before Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster had taken the property over to DC/National. So, Will was very much aware of Superman before his creating Wonder Man (at Victor Fox’s request).

As I’ve stated a bunch of times before in public, my earliest memory of Will Eisner was when he said in class (September 1986): “I think comic books are far more than two mutants trashing each other.” (I always love telling that story.) Now, Will never dissuaded us from creating super-hero comics. But, he did (and very strongly) wanted to make sure that we wrote and completely drew all of our own comics. There was no assembly-line comic book-making in Will’s Sequential Art class.

A couple of years ago, I did come across a transcript of Will’s testimony in court concerning his involvement with the creation of Wonder Man. You are correct, it appears that Will did perjure himself, and that testimony was at odds with Will’s later accounts of those events. The contradictory testimonies from Will had left me quite puzzled. I then had asked someone in-the-know. Sadly, it does appear that a young Will Eisner may have felt pressured by Victor Fox to give false testimony during the Detective Comics, Inc. v. Bruns Publications, Inc. lawsuit.

Still, it never occurred to me that that experience may have been part of why Will frowned on super-heroes. Thanks for sharing your insights. It’s given me more to consider in regards to Will and super-heroes.

And, thank you, I like to think that Will would have enjoyed getting a copy of THE SWORD OF EDEN, as well.

I’m very much looking forward to THE STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND.

I hope that you had a wonderful and blessed Resurrection Sunday.

I hope that all is well.

Solus Christus.

in Christ Jesus,
Al Nickerson 
http://www.theswordofeden.com
http://www.facebook.com/al.nickerson.3
https://twitter.com/Al_Nickerson

Matthew 28:1-7 (Complete Jewish Bible): 28 After Shabbat, as the next day was dawning, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam went to see the grave. 2 Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an angel of Adonai came down from heaven, rolled away the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow. 4 The guards were so terrified at him that they trembled and became like dead men. 5 But the angel said to the women, “Don’t be afraid. I know you are looking for Yeshua, who was executed on the stake. 6 He is not here, because he has been raised — just as he said! Come and look at the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell the talmidim, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and now he is going to the Galil ahead of you. You will see him there.’ Now I have told you.”
Al Nickerson is a comic book artist, writer, and self-publisher. Al is an alumnus of the School of Visual Arts. He has been a professional comic book artist since 1994 for folks such as Warp Graphics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Archie Comics. As an animator and designer, Al worked for Sesame Street, MTV Animation, Nickelodeon, and Marvel Entertainment. He has self-published creator-owned comic books including THE ARGGH!!! CHRONICLES 2000 EDITION and NIHILIST-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS. Al is currently self-publishing THE SWORD OF EDEN graphic novel (www.theswordofeden.com).








I haven't sent this up to Dave (Hey man I'm BUSY!) but when I do, I'm sure I'll get a response.

Anyway, as I probably didn't format this quite the way Dave expected, for the cheap seats:
Adam Beechen's Hench is available from Amazon. (Which is were his website sends you.) Most recently, Adam wrote an eight-page story featured in the 'ROBIN 80th Anniversary Special' for DC.


Al Nickerson is a comic book artist, writer, and self-publisher. Al is an alumnus of the School of Visual Arts. He has been a professional comic book artist since 1994 for folks such as Warp Graphics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Archie Comics. As an animator and designer, Al worked for Sesame Street, MTV Animation, Nickelodeon, and Marvel Entertainment. He has self-published creator-owned comic books including THE ARGGH!!! CHRONICLES 2000 EDITION and NIHILIST-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS. Al is currently self-publishing THE SWORD OF EDEN graphic novel (www.theswordofeden.com). Follow/Engage with/Cyberstalk/e-bother him at http://www.facebook.com/al.nickerson.3 or https://twitter.com/Al_Nickerson (Also:  Déjà vu...)
Dave Sim does Cerebus in Hell? (daily strips are posted at http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/) his next graphic novel, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is available to order until May 31st (Details here.) and his previous work Cerebus the Aardvark is available here. And since I like you people, here's a preview of SODAR:
click all this stuff for biggerness.




Thanks Sean and Dave!


Next Time: Oliver. Links. Formatting. Posting. Reading. Clicking. More Reading.
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Saturday, 27 July 2019

One of those "quick" posts that takes Matt four hours to write because he can't find that file he was looking for...


Hi, Everybody!

What Rigmarole do we got currently?
I'm giving away free @#$%! (And NOT "pulling a Hemingway" and rushing to get done "so I can go down to La Floridita and drink my body weight in margaritas" (metaphorically speaking) (And I'm pretty sure La Floridita was were Hemingway drank daiquiris, but I digress...)

Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim! (Is this still a thing?) 
Also, the EXPERTLY REMASTERED CHURCH AND STATE VOL II is available to order NOW (Diamond Order Code JUL191359) Submit your ideas for the bookplate contest.

And you should order a COLOUR YOUR OWN CEREBUS IN HELL? #1 Diamond Order Code AUG191433
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Oh boy, is this gonna be a good one...

So, back in 2013, in the updates for the CEREBUS: High Society - Special Audio/Visual Digital Edition Kickstarter, Dave wrote:
Making slow progress on THE STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND No.2. I've got the cover, inside front cover and page one done and page two half-pencilled. It's coming out pretty good. I'd be a little further along, but I'm also digging up more "cover stuff" for the IDW CEREBUS COVERS books. Just today, going through the entire 40-year "81/2 by 11 and smaller" file drawers (six of them) for anything related to the covers. And this morning, thinking to myself, "Wait a minute. What about my THAT HELLISH LAST YEAR OF CEREBUS pile?" Which is on the top shelf in my office. I remember thinking, "This deserves to be a book on its own: THAT HELLISH LAST YEAR OF CEREBUS." Well, I'm over that now. Too many hellish years since CEREBUS ended to make all the rest of them feel deprived by devoting a book to only one of them. You know, 2007 saying "What am I? Chopped liver?" The thing is, though, it's only when I'm finally sitting down and working on an ALEX RAYMOND page that I think of these things. But I'm pretty sure I'm coming to the bottom of the CEREBUS COVERS book(s) problem(s). Actually I'm hoping I'm already there. We'll see. The next thing will be waiting for Scott Dunbier to send me the updated spread sheet of what covers we have covered and what covers we don't have, uh, covered. And then tackle THAT problem. Okay, how many are we missing and how difficult will it be to do recreations of them? I even thought of doing FUN things, like maybe acting out a missing cover with sock puppets or getting Matt Feazell to do one as stick figures. Um, okay. You're right. Forget fun. What was I thinking?
Well, back in 2013 when the Earth was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, I read that, and thought: "Gee, I'm not Matt Feazell, but I am A Matt..."

So I decided to do a Cerebus cover. In my own..."special" style.

Unfortunately, the only covers I KNEW that Dave was missing, were the Wolveroach ones (Cerebus #s 54, 55, and 56.)
Yeah, them.

which Dave had already recreated:



So groovy...
But, because I had this KILLER idea for the cover to Iguana VS Beer #1 that I could "rip off" for a Cerebus Cover Recreation, I did it anyway:


Then I made some copies and colored one:

The copyright bit always makes me chuckle: "IGUANA and BEER ©2013 MATT DOW, THE Wolverine ©2013 Marvel Comics, but since this is A wolverine, they can't do squat!"
And then made copies of that.

Then I sent the original and the original hand colored copy up to Dave with some other stuff and a letter: 
Which I can't find a copy off... 
 And got a reply from Dave:


Wow. A lot to unpack here:

1st paragraph: Dave had sent me a package with the Off-White House address, and I had said that it felt like knowing the location of the Batcave. And I swore to never reveal it.

2nd paragraph: I was wondering what my "credit" would be for page 9 of glamourpuss #25 if glamourpuss/zootanapuss were ever collected. (I think my credit should be plotter and co-scripter.)

3rd paragraph: I had sent Dave my second copy of Mad's Star Wars Spectacular from 1999 when Episode 1 had come out. It had three(?) Mort Drucker parodies, and I know Dave was a sucker for Mort Drucker.

4th paragraph: Blair and Mike Kitchen had done a jam of Possum and Spyguy with Iguana and Beer. I sent Dave a copy.

5th paragraph: The REASON why I'm posting the letter. I think I was gonna try and sell prints of my cover... Anybody wants one, send a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com and let me know. (They come in two sizes, 11" by 17" and 8 and a 1/2" by 11". Also,colored or not (It's okay for me to say "colored", my cousins are black...).) I'll have to figure out costs and shipping and stuff.

6th paragraph: This is part of a long running Strange Death of Alex Raymond research joke Dave and I had.

Okay, this has been WAY too long to even remotely be considered "quick".

Next Time: Dave sent me an e-mail...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

What new strange new horrors lurk in the Ol' AMOC Mailbag?

Hi, Everybody!

"Manly" Matt Dow,
yeah, that's me...
back ONCE AGAIN(!), with a dip into the Ol' AMOC Mailbag (which you can reach at momentofcerebus@gmail.com):

First: Larry Wooten (who got THIS for free:

Jingles shirts arrived today. Will send the medium to Dave at some point. Thank you again for the shirt size help.

Thanks Larry!
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And then..."Battling" Benjamin Hobbs (I dunno, maybe that isn't gonna be his AMOC nickname...) sent in:
Hey Matt!

I just saw this for sale on ebay! Might it be of use to AMOC?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-Dave-Sim-Signed-ART-RATES-Letter-on-CEREBUS-Stationery-NUCLEUS-Mich-FANZINE/362479572066?hash=item5465775462:g:cPcAAOSwzThb4M8S
Click to see it bigger...

Which is selling for... $149.95!!!

Well, shit, I got a letter from Dave (I got bunches of them!) where's my hundred bucks?
Click to give me the monie...uh, I mean, to see it bigger.
Um, where was I? Oh yeah, Thanks Benjamin!
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And: Send pics of your @#$%ING Flimsy postcards From Hell? to momentofcerebus@gmail.com. Most bent to @#$% postcard wins a valuable prize from Dave Sim! (I think this is still going on...)

Also, the EXPERTLY REMASTERED CHURCH AND STATE VOL II is available to order NOW (Diamond Order Code JUL191359) Submit your ideas for the bookplate contest.
Next Time: "More Hobbs! More Hobbs! More Hobbs!" Hey Ben, the people have spoken, you're up!

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