Dave sends me stuff, and I get the weirdest stuff FOR Dave...

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has been flooding my email...

First up, from Rolly:

Hi Matt,

J.TOONS! just send me this (below). You can add his message and link to the website when you do an update, that would be great.

"Cerebus cameo.......
......in this week's Fun Facts for Fans of Fiction cartoon:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fun-facts-for-fans-of-fiction/normalman-fun-facts/viewer?title_no=777984&episode_no=214&readingLanguageCode=en "

- from J.TOONS!

Thanks,
Rolly

Normally (heh.) I'd post the image, but I can't just save the image, so just click the link and give them your social security number (I kid, I kid. It's free and without banner ads...)

Then I got:

I had gotten a message from Mr. Robinson, and did respond that Dave doesn't have a phone. But it sounds like Jeff rented (I mean if you pay for something that's going back eventually, is it really yours?) this page:

OR, possibly this one:

Either way, I'm sure Dave would like it back.

Then I got this FOR DAVE at the AMOC email:

Hi Dave,

I'm a journalist with New York Magazine. I'm working on a book about
Neil Gaiman. It's an expansion of this article I wrote last year:
https://archive.is/20250113132911/https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

The book will delve into the history of his fandom, as well as comics
history more broadly, and I've been reading some of your writing about
Neil over the years. Would you be up for a phone call?

I'd be happy to tell you more about the book over the phone, or answer
any questions you might have. Thanks for considering.

All my best,
Lila

And I responded thusly:

Hi Lila,

I'm not Dave Sim, I'm Manly Matt Dow, Interim Editor of A Moment of Cerebus.

Dave no longer has a phone or Fax Machine. His assistant does have an email set up in Dave's name, but mostly it's for sending stuff to people on Dave's behalf, but Dave is vehemently OFF-line. (I know, I know "How does someone exist without a phone or being online?" quite happily apparently, according to what he's communicated with me...)

While I can't speak for Dave, when the stories about Neil Gaiman came out last year, Dave still had a phone, and we were still doing a once-a-month interview (that I'd turn into a podcast/youtube video series) wherein Dave would answer questions from fans. I titled it Please Hold For Dave Sim. Anyway, the subject of the allegations against Neil came up, and Dave said (I'm paraphrasing here) that he would only answer questions based on court transcripts after they were generated. And that anything else was just trading in salacious gossip. So, with that in mind, I think Dave would probably decline. BUT, as I say, I can't speak for Dave.

I'll certainly pass your message along, but as Dave doesn't have a phone, we've discontinued doing Please Hold For Dave Sim as a live recording. Instead I send Dave a PDF that gets printed out, and then Dave does an audio recording that gets sent to me wherein I edit it into the videos/podcast. BUT, Dave's currently working on a book about his and his ex-wife's 1982 Tour of comic book stores across the United States. So he's only recording audio for whichever project gets the most money donated to it through a website where people can purchase digital copies of Dave's Cerebus work. If the '82 Tour gets more money (which it has the past few months), Dave records his notes for that. If Please Hold For Dave Sim gets more money (which it hasn't since March) then Dave will record audio for that. So, if you want Dave's answer, you might wanna go here, and donate some money for Please Hold For Dave Sim (it's a pay-for-play kinda deal. I have to edit whatever Dave sends either way, so it's not really a big deal for me...)

Your BEST bet would be to send Dave something at:
Dave Sim
C/O Aardvark-Vanaheim Inc.
PO Box 1674, Station C,
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 4R2

If you include an email address, he'll probably respond via his assistant, or if you mention contacting me first, he might have me pass it along to you.

Sorry for any of the inevitable confusion, but inevitable confusion is increasingly becoming my stock in trade...

Attached is a photo of Dave with Neil from their first meeting in the UK in 1986

And Dave with Neil and Colleen Doran, Jeff Smith, and Martin Wagner (I believe) at a Diamond retailer conference in the early 90s

And an unused image I made up for a blogpost about the whole Neil thing that I abandoned back when the accusations first surfaced. It's an image of Neil drawn by Dave for a lithograph donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. (I added the title, and the blurb from the cover of the Incredible Hulk #1.)

Until the next, I remain:

Manly Matt Dow

Interim Editor
A Moment of Cerebus

We'll see how THAT plays out...

Next Time: Mondays!

Cleaning out ALLLLL the cra...um...stuff Dave has sent...

Hi, Everybody!

As we all celebrate the holiday weekend (okay, not ALL of us. I'm sure the Aussies have to work since it's next week Tuesday down there. I think. Time zones confuse me...), and await The End of the Kickstarter, and what treasures get added, let's look at the Bounty of Cerebus and Cerebus related stuff Dave has had sent to me that I've been too lazy or busy to post:

From the "And now you Know, and Knowing is half the battle" Dept:

$20? Ha! My autograph from Dave was free to me and cost him was almost $200:

He paid me for the pen nibs...

And then, this:

And then the Birthday celebration continues...

My Google-Fu only turned up:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvwEUerwPt/?img_index=1

and

https://hifructose.com/2010/06/24/studio-visit-with-mark-bode/

And from the Wayback Machine Dept.:

Selected excerpt from the 1982 Comics Fandom Forum interview, edited to what Dave wanted

And I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch. Get in on this if you want...

Next Time: Old Cerebus unless Canadian Audio drops tonight...

Jen's doing Great in Scotland, Matt is surprised by the severe lack of Muppets in Manhattan...

Hi, Everybody!

Jen's show:

Has gotten "the notices" (that means reviews, for those of you not in "Theatre"...)

The Wee Review is Scotland’s online arts & culture magazine. It says so on their website. 

You can argue with me, but you can't argue with Status:

Binge Fringe is "Platforming unheard voices, visiting unseen corners." (I dunno what that means exactly, but it sounds important...)

The Scotsman, "morning daily newspaper published in Edinburgh, widely influential in Scotland and long considered a leading exemplar of responsible journalism." (the review is behind a paywall, and I ain't got that kinda money...)

Anyway, we're all VERY proud of how Jen is doing (actually, that's not true. Dave has no idea about any of this, having no phone or fax. Hobbs is wondering how many more episodes of Paw Patrol he has to watch until his kid leaves for college. Margaret wants to know how the @#*! she can get a month off! And Birdsong wants help writing Necrophilia jokes. But I'm damn proud of Jen! So, proud I'm still gonna do this shit until she get back...)

You can get reports straight from Jen's mouth if you follow her on the 'gram.

Any anyway, that means I'ma still doing her bit:

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $18,660.00 raised to date from 331 donations

• 117 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 21 Jan 2022.
  
• $140.00 away from unlocking page 118

Dave said in the audio I got that'll be the September Please Hold For Dave Sim, that he has completed page 667 (or was it 668?) I don't remember, but it's more than 666. I remember that bit. So, if I understand the Math, (205 plus 118 equals...323, so Dave's either mocked-up or drawn 345 more pages (the last hundred or so are drawn, I believe.) And you can see them all once we raise all the monies. (Which is why I can't afford The Scotsman's paywall...)) So, please give before we go all PBS Fund Drive...

• If you have not donated, a $5+ donation grants you access to all 116 pages and all unlocked pages moving forward >> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

• GoFundMe now offers automated monthly donations! >> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023/donate?source=btn_donate 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

As Jen has copy/pasted from her last post:

3) The next raffle is for a full-page Silverspoon strip from The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom #321, January 11, 1980. These are really hard to come by so, I hope everyone considers joining the raffle. Speaking of which ...

4) Last time I posted, I discussed raffle tickets were going to go for $5 a pop and no one complained, so let it be written, so let it be done. I also mentioned that all donations since the last raffle will be included, meaning we have 97 raffle tickets sold so far. If we break 150 tickets, I'll toss another Silverspoon page into the bucket.

And Jen always says:

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond New Mockups Preview 

If you haven't read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond before, we have an eight-page trailer that Dave did back in 2018: Part One | Part Two

Then the Dave Sim portion of the hardcover, presented four pages at a time:

This, 

This, this, 

This, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, 

And this.

If you want to see how Carson Grubaugh finished the hardcover, well, you're going to need to purchase a copy of your own. HOWEVER, if you want to see how Dave Sim continued the story in the blue pages -- bring me the blue pages -- mockups that appeared in blue ink in final section of the hardcover can be found here...

This, 

This, this,

This, and this.

Then in June 2021, Dave picked up the story again and it continues here, here, here, here, and here.

If you enjoy the journey, you can join us for all the new pages on Dropbox by donating $5 or more. 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Jen x 

And since I gotta justify posting on a Tuesday:

My friends at the Waverly Press (whose comic site is gone. Big books (Form & Void and The Last Day) are at Waverly's regular site: [https://www.thewaverlypress.com](https://www.thewaverlypress.com/) Smaller books (comics and the goodies) are on their eBay page: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=257022613619&rt=nc...), sent me:

We were contacted by an artist in Taiwan, Joshua Warren, who is a Cerebus fan and comics creator. He is creating original art covers on the blank cerebus #1 and Turtles 8 books. He sent some photos and I said I'd pass his info along in case anyone is interested.
He's only charging $30 which includes the book, and they're nice!
His Cerebus art cards are only $10.
His website: https://forcecomics.com/publications

 

Hey, that's our buddy J. Toons.

If you're interested, https://forcecomics.com/publications.

Next Time: Birdsong, Cerebus in Hell?, Weekly Strip, funny, ha-ha...

Cerebus Dreams II in STUNNING Third Dimensions!!!

Hi, Everybody!

J. Toons sent me:

Hi, Matt!

A little digital treat for you and my fellow Cerebus fans. Attached are two zip files. 1 is Cerebus in 3D in 3D color remastered. The other is the are revised to just black and white. My copy of the comic has degraded over time so the original lines are pretty faint. I've tried to preserve everything, boost the colors, and make it so that the 3D effects are visible with the old 3D glasses.
Let me know once you've downloaded these so I can delete them to save space on my Google Drive.

Thanks for all your work on the blog!

Wow man...the colors... I was so impressed I put this on merch.

And for you people who don't wanna wreck your eyes:

 

So thanks J.

He also sent in:

And here's an answer to one of the mysteries / questions you posed on your blog:
https://a.co/d/523nQI6

So THAT'S what this is:

Rigamarole:

Acquaintance to the blog Travis sent in:

My Kickstarter was unsuccessful. Thank you for adding it to the blog in the last several days.
I appreciate it.
I decided to just put the comic for sale on Lulu.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/fanny-kelly-and-hal-kolbeck/my-captivity/paperback/product-459wr8z.html?page=1&pageSize=4

And Tim Gagne sent in:

If you can link this on AMOC Matt Allsion could use the help. https://crowdfundr.com/a2Yvxb?ref=ab_3UXdKBiCFCH3UXdKBiCFCH Bargain @ $10.

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!).) Here's the first trailer.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off July 4-6, 16-20 and 24-27.*

*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 (coming soon):

• Page 16 of issue #44
• other stuff

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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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April C. wanted a Cerebus Jam #1, and I only wanna do this ONCE, the AMOC Prize Box (comic box edition):

Following Cerebus #4

Spawn 10 (90s original)(2)

Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Hardcovers 8(2), 10

glamourpuss #1 (fashion cover), 6, 22, 23(2)

Zootanapuss #4 (#475/590)

Cerebus Companion #2

Swords of Cerebus #2(2nd print) #3 (2nd print)

High Society 12th print

Free Cerebus

Cerebus World Tour Book 1995

Cerebus Guys Party Pack

Cerebus bi-weekly #1, 2(2),3,5,8,9,11,12(2),13,17,18(2),19(2),20,21,25,26

Cerebus High Society: 1-11,14,15(2),16-19,21(2),22(2),23(2),24,25(2)

Cerebus Church & State:1,2(2),3

Cerebus: #0(gold signed by Dave and Ger),16(2),18,20,23,24(2),36-39,52,54-57,59,65(2),68,93(2),95,97,(2),110,115-117,126,165,167-169,171,172(2),173(2),180,182,184,193(2)194,195(2),196(2),197(2),198,200-203,215,235,236,238,239,245,254,255(2),256-263,264(2),265(2),266-272,273(2),274,275,276(2),277-282,284-286,288,291,294,295,298,#1(waverly reprint gold),

TMNT 8(zombie cerebus cover)

Obviously I'm not listing the Cerebus Jam April wants, and there's a bunch of Waverly Spawn #10 books in the OTHER AMOC Prize Box (along with postcards and stickers and whatnots. NO. I'm not going thru that one right now. I'm supposed to be in the Please Hold Editing Suite working on the many many videos and Audio. But, currently I'm downloading the CBZ files from the High Society Audio Visual Edition so I can get the jpgs so I have the covers to issues 26-29 for Dave's answer to Steve Peters question. (It's NOT procrastination if you can find a good excuse Margaret...).)

ANYWAY, I'm MORE than willing to trade any of this for Neat Stuff, but since mailing things is my Kryptonite, you're more likely to get me to do something by offering to trade any of this for money. The more you pay, the faster I get to the post office...

If you NEED/WANT anything from the Waverly Press/Aardvark-Vanaheim offerings, I guess you can ask and I'll go dig through the effin' box...

Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com if you're interested...

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Next Time: Mondays, but probably no report...

Official Bulletin from the Off-White House

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays!
Uh...Dave's phone is all screwy-kerflooie, and he can't Fax. I'll let him explain it:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

I don't know how long this is gonna last...

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.

______________

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:

• And a collection of prints including Matisse and Bacchus and SDOAR preliminary art.

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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: Jen's got an Update.