Hi, Everybody!
Once again, it's Friday!
And ONCE AGAIN, Matt has a week's worth of Moments, and they're all time sensitive, so they gotta go up at once.
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Eighty-seven backers gave Benjamin Hobbs almost fifteen THOUSAND dollars(!) for the latest
Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Kickstarter, so if you nice folks could get your surveys filled out and back to Hobbs, he'd sure appreciate it.
He's also getting hitched tomorrow to Unethical Spider-Vark and Strangers in Cerebus scribe, Laura McFarland
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| Seen here in less dressy times a week or so ago... |
It's gonna be a big to-do (I assume, my invite must have been delayed in the mail...) with dresses and family and most of their friends (I would have RSVPed, but, again, my invitation hasn't reached the AMOCave yet...), and a DJ and stuff (I guess...)...
But since I'm not gonna be there to live stream it on the interwebs for everyone in AMOCdom to witness, I'll help ya out Hobbs...
Your present is in the mail (maybe it'll pass my invite in transit...)
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Oh geez... There's a problem with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond:
I'll let Carson tell it:
SDOAR MISPRINTS ARE BEING SOLD ILLEGALYThank you to Brad Ireland for reporting the illegal activity of his local comic shop.
Through a series of unbelievable screwups that we cannot detail at this time - given ongoing negotiations to see the issue resolved - the misprinted copies of SDOAR were sent to comic shops this week.
Sean notified Diamond of this issue on Sunday. On Monday shops were told they would get a full refund for the product and the shipping fees.
All shops are contractually obligated to destroy these books. If they have copies on the shelves they are selling misprinted copies for 100% profit to themselves and damaging our chances of selling through the print run when it does get completed with the proper artwork.
If you see copies in the wild please scold the shop owners for us and let us know where you saw them so we can take action against people trying to profit off of our misfortune.
Given Brad's response, this activity is also destroying the faith some of you have in us, which is extremely disheartening given how much work and care we have put into this and how hard I am working to make sure that fulfillment happens as fast as possible when the books get here, even though I will be in the middle of teaching something like 11-13 different classes at the time.
Best,
Carson
And then Sean shared on the FaceItBooks:
I've seen a lot of misinformation about the Strange Death misprint/recall. Here is the full skinny. [Edit: feel free to share this or post it far and wide!]
The printer (whom I've been working with for half a decade now) made a critical error on press that resulted in four pages of the book missing MOST of their image and text. These pages were IN THE PROOF. This was a very unusual (but not impossible) error by their prepress department, processing requested replacement pages.
The book was printed and bound mid-July. I received an unbound copy of the book on July 21st and immediately notified the printer of the error, and told printer immediately to halt ALL shipments and examine all copies and find nature of error and whether it affected all copies.
As outlined above, only four pages were affected (which is part of why this needed to be verified by the printer to have affected ALL copies-- it's a very odd error, a manual change made by their prepress staff that involved switching what colors plates were assigned to).
The next day I confirmed w printer that error affected all copies, confirmed shipment was halted, and notified Diamond of the defect and that they should expect the books late because of this.
I then spent the next ten days trying to get the printer to make progress on the corrections.
Unfortunately, as we found out only this weekend, the printer DID NOT halt shipments, which I found out on Sunday Aug 1, thanks to our retailer friend ML. Leading me to frantically call every contact I have to try to stop the books from arriving at retailers. It was only Monday morning that I found out that Diamond's very efficient warehouses had processed the shipment as if it were the reprint, and sent it to retailers. Diamond notified all retailers to destroy copies that very morning.
There will be a second notification from Diamond once the printer has supplied an ETA for the replacement copies.
Please know, every retailer will be receiving full reimbursement for both book price and freight, in exchange for destroying them. I really hope people aren't intentionally selling or buying these defective books. Any sales will not benefit anyone involved in the project, and will be a blow to future sales.
And that's about all I can say until we have an ETA.
This has been a very difficult two weeks, made even worse by seeing misinformation, and in some cases, mean spirited insinuations, directed towards Carson, Dave, or myself, for what is ultimately a series of very improbable errors by the people we're working with and trusting with our book. All of these things happen, sometimes, with a book. But rarely do they all happen to the SAME book.
This is not the conversation I imagined I would be happening on the day intended to be the launch date for our book, which, everything having gone correctly, you would have received a week ago.
All the best,
Sean
And Sean also clarified what was wrong with the bad copies:
the errors are on page pages 254, 256, 257, & 261. All missing the blue plate (and thus most of the page).
If you picked up a copy and haven't returned it for destruction yet, feel free to send pictures/scans of those pages to
momentofcerebus@gmail.com, bonus points for a video of the pages before the book it destroyed.
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"Dave S" emailed me:
Hey Matt,
Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.
These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Tuesday.
Thanks,
DS
(Click for bigger Mags...)
I guess we can all figure out what two pages the "All 9" backers picked...
AND:
Hey Matt,
Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.
These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Wednesday.
Thanks,
DS
Coming soon to a mailbox near you...
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Cerebus in Hell?,
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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is running
a new Kickstarter for his band The Fright Watch. Mentioning it in case any of you are interested.
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Hey, look what
Heritage has. (New stuff. Click it. CLICK IT!)
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
August 6– 8
August 18 – 21
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!
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Oh yeeeeeeaaaaah...
It's Friday:
Dave's Weekly Update:
I can't find a website for David Branstetter, but here's
his Facebook page. Maybe he'll drop a line to
momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and get me ordering information.
UPDATE: David sent in:
You can email to strawmancomics@gmail.com
Books are 5.00 plus 3 for shipping
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Yesterday, I Please Held For Dave Sim for two hours and change. Audio and Videos will be up tomorrow, IN HONOR of the newlyweds, here's the strip:
Next Time: ^^^THAT!^^^
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