"Caaaannn you feeeeelllll the HYPE toooniiiigght?" Cerebus Archive portfolio Number 13 launches TO-Morrow!

Hi, Everybody!

Launching TOMORROW, 

(but you can click the link and get an email telling you it's Live so you're backer Number One and therefore the bestest Cerebus fan EVER! Not like those scum Manly Matt Dow (hey wait a minute...), or Margaret Liss (HEY!), no, you're Cerebus Fandom is purer and truer and better!) CAN13 and Cerebus in Jail! and The Pun Issuer Kickstarter

CAN13 consists of the first 10 pages of Cerebus #232 (including page one, the title page which has NEVER been reprinted)

   

   

Obviously, click for biggerness...

Also on offer are the two NEW Cerebus in Hell? Issues:

                            

Cerebus in Jail? and The Pun Issuer.

AND, Issues two and three of The Ninja High School Crossover

     

And as BONUS Prints, you can get pages 11-20 of Issue #232:

     

    

And, there's Backing Board covers from the last campaign (CAN12) and this one.

And if you missed out last time, there's gonna be a second printing of Issue #1 of the Ninja High School crossover:

  

And because Michael R. asked...:

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There's all sorts of other fun stuff in the works, and you'll be able to see it all tomorrow.

Go ahead and join the queue and you'll know as soon as this baby launches...

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Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art

Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art 

Minds Original Art on eBay

Also Kickstartering:

Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español es bueno!

Living the Line's next Kickstarter has ended. There is an option for late backers, so if you were waiting for the last minute, you messed up, better click over there and hope you can get in...

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

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And JUST IN TIME for the next year's fundraising push, I FINALLY got around to making Pud's Tavern Merch:

Pud's Tavern Bucket Logo (Dark)

Pud's Tavern Bucket Logo (Light)

Yup, it's time for me to find a Sponsor for my kid's High School Dance Team. They placed fifth at State last season (the team has made it to State the last six years), and are gonna make a go of it again.

One of the problems (it's a girls High School Dance team, there are many...) this year, is that they're getting a new Athletic Director for the school district, which means the "niggardly sum"

that the team gets to pay for everything might go "bye-bye" like *that*. So, they're really pushing the fundraising this year.

As long time readers/viewers/visitors to AMOC may recall, last year I, and a merry band of Aardvark lovin' malcontents, got a logo for Pud's Tavern:

 onto the Team's banners, t-shirts, and whatnot.

Well, I'ma try to do it again. But this year the deal is slightly different:

Each dancer's family is expected to bring in at least $200 in sponsorships, but if I can raise $300, they'll announce Pud's Tavern as a Sponsor at all halftime performances when the girls dance. And the logo will be bigger on everything.

Bigger is, as we all know, BETTER!

If you wanna help (and I hope you do,) shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and we'll work it out. Everyone who kicks in will receive a special A Moment Of Cerebus item that has the AMOC Logo on it. (I will tell you more if you chip in...) Also, if you chip in, you get a vote on if "Buggid" goes on there, or Pud's Ale Mug.

Thank you for your attention in this matter...

Next Time: Mondays!

The Strange Death of Cerebus part 2: Form & Void

Hi, Everybody!

So when I was filling in for Jen on Tuesday, I talked about Cerebus' death and Square One.

Well, at the end of Form & Void, this happens:

Now in the notes, Dave talks about how Cerebus is performing the traditional Hebrew mourning rituals of rending your clothes and covering your face in ashes. 

And I'm not denying that, but there's other layers going on as well.

On one level, Jaka is enacting Cerebus' march from Minds when he was on Pluto:

(Which Cerebus reenacted in Going Home:)

On another level, as the Cerebus/Jaka relationship goes the way "Dave" prophesized it would in Minds, Cerebus covering his face with dirt is also an inversion of the Square One Motif. Cerebus is trying to go into silhouette. And of course he keeps "going blank" which leads to WHITE panels instead of Black silhouette.

I guess I'll ask Dave about it for the January Please Hold For Dave Sim...

Rigamarole:

New AV Book:

Cerebus #1 Facsimile Edition and Cerebus #1 Facsimile Edition Signed

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

December 25-29.

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Heritage has a few Dave Sim/Cerebus items. Including a thing I didn't realize Dave didn't have..

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.

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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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Larry Shell could use a hand. (I still haven't heard about where/when Dave's donation is getting sold.)

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EVERYTHING on Cerebus Overload is 35% off until the end of the year. The. End. Of. The. Year. Use code "SANTA" at checkout.

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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: The Anniversary, Part 2

It's Please Hold Eve...Eve. Get yer dang Questions in...

Hi, Everybody!

David V. Sim, creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, glamourpuss, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Cerebus in Hell?, and the Beavers, will be calling Matthew M. Dow, creator of Racecar Comics, (co-creator of) Vark Wars (collected in Swords Of Cerebus In Hell? Volume 8,), Vark Wars: Walt's Empire Strikes Back, The League Of Extraordinary Corona, and others, for the SEPTEMBER 2021 Please Hold For Dave Sim, on Thursday. (Unless shit gets real...)

So, if you have a question for David that you want Matthew to ask, email momentofcerebus@gmail.com, or be "Jeff" and call David and leave a message: (519) 576-0610

Matt (I've fucking hated the "hew" for thirty years...) sends Dave (I presume he feels about the "id" the same as me...) the questions WEDNESDAY NIGHT by 9PM (CST), so get your question to him by then Steve Peters...

That goes for the rest of youse guys and gals too.

Jen DiGiacomo, your question is in "the kitty".

Mags, ya gotta send the questions in, or at least tag Ron in the posts on the FaceItBook, or Matt loses what the hell you're curious about.

(Why do I have to do this EVERY damn month?)

Okay...

Get that sweet, sweet Gerhard art, and piano music (but mostly that sweet @$$ Gerhard art...) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisopperman/still-waters

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For the next little while, EVERYTHING on CerebusOverload.com is 30% off (with the code: 30OFF).

Offer ends when The Waverly Press launches Cerebus #2! (So, in a couple weeks.)

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Hey, look what Heritage has. 

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:

Sometime in September... (They haven't told me yet...)

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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Cerebus moment:

Okay, not a lot of that sweet, sweet Gerhard art, but ya can't deny that this is a Moment...

Next Time: That sweet, sweet Hobbs Art?

"No Thanks I Already Had One."

Hi, Everybody!

I love how "Julius's" bandage falls off when he arches his eyebrows. Oh right, sotto voce...

(This whole sequence is great, but it goes on for sixteen pages. I ain't got that kinda time....)
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If you want some rigmarole, scroll down to the "KRAKAthakkaBOOM!!!" post.

It's all down there, somewhere...

Next Time: Hobbs, and a drunk Manticore...

True Romance Part Deux

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

Last week's True Romance was the first time in two years we've seen at Dave Sim's thirty-third Cerebus notebook. So continuing the look at Dave writing about Ham, Mary, and Jaka in Going Home, here is the continuation of Jaka in Going Home and then Cerebus in Going Home:

Notebook #33, page 20

Notebook #33, page 21

Quite the foursome they've got going on. When double dates go wrong. . .

True Romance

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We've only looked at Dave Sim's thirty-third Cerebus notebook twice before. Mostly recently in April of 2017 in Salad Fork Stuck to His Face. While the notebook was labeled as mostly containing material for Cerebus #251, there is some other Going Home items in it.

Take for example these two pages from the notebook. Dave writing about Ham, Mary, and Jaka in Going Home:

Notebook #33, page 18

Notebook #33, page 19

More proof Matt's NOT insane...

Hi, Everybody!

I found more proof that my Insane Fan Theory isn't so insane:

Namely, this page from Church & State Vol. 1:

Courtesy of CerebusDownloads.com 

Which I digitally reassembled:

You're welcome...

But, in case it's still illegible for ya:
"Greetings to Cerebus, Prime Minister of Iest from Palnu and Lord Julius We cogratulate you on the occasion of your marrige to the former Sophia Henrot-Gutch and wish you long life and a fruitful union Mat Tarim bless the United Feldwar States and our beloved President Weisshaupt. for Lord Julius signed Jaka, daughter of the House of Tavers"

So, there ya go.

Next Time: Hobbs, then Liss, then Sim, then me.