Ghostly Tales (Direct Market 101) (Dave's weekly update #634)

Hi, Everybody!

Aardvark-Vanaheim and StudioComix Press Announce the Historic Kickstarter Launch of Cerebus the Aardvark #1

For several years now, Canadian publishers Aardvark-Vanaheim and StudioComix Press have been working to adapt the famous Cerebus the Aardvark comic series to Latin American Spanish. The adventures of this iconic character, created by Dave Sim in 1977, will finally be available through a Kickstarter campaign in March 2026 thanks to the support of Telésforo é Hilario and Humo Humberto Morales.

Cerebus the Aardvark (Cerebus) is a cult classic and a pioneering work of the worldwide independent comics movement. Cerebus gained global recognition for its editorial independence, the evolution of its story from a comedy adventure into complex political and social commentary, and for the tireless work of Dave Sim, earning it a Guinness World Record for its uninterrupted continuity across 6,000 pages.

This first issue of Cerebus will be published in a special limited run of only 1,000 numbered copies. Three variant covers will also be available drawn by Dave Sim, Craig Ferguson, and Antonio Alfaro, making them collector's items for alternative comic readers.

This historic release will also include, for the first time, a limited-edition collector's edition of Spawn TEN, the memorable collaboration between Todd McFarlane and Dave Sim, presented with remastered art, and incorporating previously unpublished material and new covers by Dave Sim and Humo Humberto Morales.

Both titles will be available to the public for 60 days, starting in late March 2026, in limited numbers for fans, collectors, and new readers in the Latin American market. Thanks to the Kickstarter platform, you can obtain either comic under the title "CEREBUS #1 & SPAWN TEN in Spanish" or through the following link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vitzi1/cerebus-1-en-espanol-and-spawn-diez

We invite you to join us in this historic launch for Spanish-language comics by sharing this news and following the updates on this highly anticipated edition.

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Aardvark-Vanaheim y StudioComix Press anuncian el histórico lanzamiento en Kickstarter de Cerebus el Puerco Hormiguero #1

Las editoriales Canadienses Aardvark-Vanaheim y StudioComix Press han trabajado por varios años en la adaptación y el lanzamiento de la serie de comics Cerebus el Puerco Hormiguero en su edición en Español latinoamericano del icónico personaje creado por creado por Dave Sim en 1977, por lo que en el Mes de Marzo del 2026 y con el apoyo de la editorial Telésforo é Hilario y Humo Humberto Morales por fin llegara a tus manos por medio de una campaña de Kickstarter.

Cerebus The Aardvark es considerado por varias plataformas como un cómic de culto y en definitivo es una obra pionera del movimiento de edición y publicación independiente a nivel mundial, Cerebus es reconocido mundialmente por su independencia editorial, su extraordinaria evolución de la historia y el increíble trabajo de Dave Sim que le ha otorgado un récord Guinness por su continuidad ininterrumpida a lo largo de 6,000 pagines de historia.

Este primer titulo  de Cerebus será una edición histórica y contará con un tiraje limitado a solo 1000 ejemplares numerados, así mismo contamos con 3 portadas variantes dibujadas por Dave Sim, Craig Ferguson y Antonio Alfaro, convirtiéndose en piezas para coleccionistas y lectores de cómic alternativo.

Este histórico lanzamiento también incluirá por primera ocasión una edición de tiraje limitada de colección de Spawn DIEZ, esta memorable participación entre Todd McFarlane y Dave Sim, presentado en una versión remasterizada de arte que incorpora material inédito y nuevas portadas Realizadas por Dave Sim y Humo Humberto Morales.

Ambos títulos estarán disponibles por todo publico por un periodo de 60 días, comenzando a finales de marzo de 2026 con ediciones limitadas dirigidas a fanáticos, coleccionistas y nuevos lectores del mercado latinoamericano y con el apoyo de la plataforma Kickstarter podrás obtener cualquiera de los comics bajo el título : "CEREBUS #1 & SPAWN DIEZ en Español" o por medio de la siguiente liga:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vitzi1/cerebus-1-en-espanol-and-spawn-diez

Te invitamos a sumarte en este lanzamiento histórico para el cómic en español, compartiendo esta noticia y acompañando las noticias de esta esperada edición.

Uh...the only Spanish I remember from high school is: "El gato es en fuego en la casa, dos mas cervezas por favor"...

Anyway, the Kickstarter is LIVE! and after this one is the CAN13 one with the next two issues of Cerebus in Hell?

And speaking of the Kickstarters, Living the Line's next Kickstarter is gonna have...TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. No idea if they're from before the seven Yeet Presents pages, or after, or nowhere near them... Click the link and get notified when it launches.

And the Tyrant Kickstarter is live! I'm getting me one.

Anyway, it's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

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You can get a copy direct from the printer here. (At a price cheaper than Amazon...)

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Dave's on eBay:

Secret Origins (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740073335

Possum-At-Large (2/5) opening bid $15 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127740083061
Lone Vark and Cub (4/5) opening bid $40 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267604813427

Okay, back to "bizness as usual"...

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: The Morning After
• Sunday: Wanna read Cerebus Jam digitally for free?
• Monday: Cerebus Archive (the comic series) #4 (part 1)
• Tuesday: Since Jen is in rehearsals, I'm back posting on Tuesdays. Still posting to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, $200 until page 128 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. Anyway, I'ma post ALL of glamourpuss over the next how many weeks. AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. And TWENTY-ONE pages of SDOAR drawn by Dave are in CONSIGNED, Living the Line's next Kickstarter
• Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. This one is written by Dave. Follow along on Instagram. And https://www.ebay.com/itm/236664955396 (Somebody was looking for the Vardalorian...)
• Thursday: Margaret has posted ALL of Albatross One. (If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here.) And all of The Last Notebook. Now she's gonna burn through all of Notebook #21. So sit back and get ready for pages and pages and pages of walls of handwritten text... This week,  more from Reads that isn't in Reads!
• Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)

Okay, so that was the last week on AMOC. You're welcome. I do this out of stubborn pigheadedness/pride/ because I'm not too bright for free, but if you got a couple of bucks (I don't know how that's possible, given the links to neat stuff in this post, but Hey! I've been wrong before and will probably be so again (real soon)...), and wanna leave Dave a "tip", there's these "donate to the Dave Sim Fund" buttons somewhere on CerebusDownloads.com (I didn't lay out that place, and I didn't have nothin' to do with the latest redesign, so don't come at me if you have troubles over there...), and you can give Dave all the money you care too. (There's also links there that will help you buy all the stuff...) Did I mention Dave turns seventy in May?

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Like the logo? I stole it...

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And, coming in February, who knows. Who. Knows. The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch). They've been sharing updates on the Instagram. 

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And there is a new Humble Bundle with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond included.

And while not related to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard, there's also a Humble Bundle for the works of Los Hernandez Hermanos.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
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Dave also wanted me to post this:

Lots of little words, click for bigger.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off March 25-29.*

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

Speaking of Merch, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll tell ya where to send the $20USD I want for these. No shipping charge in the States or Canada. Everybody else add $10USD for shipping. I'll send 'em anywhere the postman is willing to go...

Back and front.

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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has: 

• Nothing.
  
• But coming around the 20th of NEXT month, the Original Art to the Envy and Anger plates from the Six Deadly Sins (the cover and two of the plates went for around 10K apiece when they were auctioned, so I hope you've been saving your pennies...) (Dave gets paid for these.), the Original Art to nineteen of twenty pages to issue #239(!), 
• And slightly sooner: two slabbed copies of Cerebus #1 (even though one of the auctions has a Superboy cover instead of Cerebus (I assume that's an error on Heritage's part...)), and a slabbed Fantasy Quarterly #1.

And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:

• Cerebus #35 page 3
• And a list of ALL the issues they got (including a couple of slabbed #1s)

Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 

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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: More Cerebus Archive #4...

Tyrant Roars Back!

Hi, Everybody!

Here's a thing. Steve Bissette's Tyrant is getting collected. Our own Sean Robinson (who's Paper-to-Pixel-to-Paper-Again is back up (Sean was doing something, and reverted all the parts to Draft status, and I hadn't gotten around to republishing them...) so you can learn to remaster Cerebus too.) is handling the remastering. Yay Steve! Yay Sean!

Tyrant & Aardvark (Cerebus #159, June 1992)
Art by Steve Bissette, Dave Sim & Gerhard

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Like the logo? I stole it...

And, coming in February, The 1982 Tour Book (click the link to be notified on launch).

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:

Wanderland (Paperback)

Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)

Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:

Hardcover

Paperback

And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...

Over on the Facebookees, Mike Jones shared that Dave has a five SEVEN page Strange Death of Alex Raymond story in YEET Presents #68. Mike Jones still has 30 copies of the second printing available, ya gotta back them on Patreon to get it.

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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.

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Dave also wanted me to post this:

Lots of little words, click for bigger.

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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 November 21-23. And 40% off the 24th-December 2.*

*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:

• Page 12 and 13 of issue #102 
• Page 20 of issue #86 (coming soon)
• Pages 18 and 19 of issue #166 (coming soon)
• Page 11 of issue #200 (coming soon)
• Page 14 of issue #200 (coming soon)
• 2 different slabbed copies of #1.
• Other stuff.

And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:

• CEREBUS #112 - #113 PAGE 17 DAVE SIM COMIC ART SALE
• Cerebus #39, page 8

Thanks to Steve for sending the links.

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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: Cerebus!

New art, some by Dave, some by others

Hi, Everybody!

Cleaning out the ol' AMOC Mailbag:

This one is Hobbs'.

This one is Eddie Khanna's.

God Damn it Jen! Don't show 'em that picture!!!

Dave's talking about this.

Well, there's a week or two's worth of Moments.

Next Time: Monday, more crap from the slush pile...

Moonray by Brandon Graham, coming in October 2023

 

Hello everyone! Sean here with a (tangentially-Cerebus-related) bit of news.

Living the Line has just announced a new book for release in October 2023, by Eisner-award-winning cartoonist Brandon Graham. It's currently available to preorder at your local comic store, book store, or now on Kickstarter!

We were very grateful to both Dave Sim and Gerhard for blurbing the book! I hope you'll check it out and consider picking it up. We've got bit plans for the series, and we'd love for you to be a part of it.

Solicitation text, sample pages and a press release below!

In a post-human world, the man of miium is born. Created to avenge a slain goddess, our nameless warrior travels an unrecognizable landscape, constantly evolving with new wonders and terrors: Zanikam pirates, deadly reflections, a living bridge, and a red tear in the sky. Written and drawn by Eisner-award-winning author and artist Brandon Graham (Prophet, King City, Rain Like Hammers) and featuring artist Xurxo G. Penalta, Moonray presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other. This bold graphic odyssey births the Moonray universe, from comic book to video game and beyond.

Living the Line, Diamond Comics, Diamond Book Distribution, and Moonray PBC are proud to present Moonray Book One, the first volume in a bold new science fantasy graphic novel series written and drawn by Eisner-award-winning author and artist Brandon Graham (PROPHET, KING CITY, RAIN LIKE HAMMERS), and featuring artist Xurxo G. Penalta.

Moonray Book One will be released in comic book stores and book stores worldwide in October 2023. The lavishly-produced oversize hardback volume will run 160 pages and will retail for $35 USD.

Since the release of King City in 2008, Brandon Graham has been known for making the most experimental and stylish action comics in the business, a true international cartoonist with a distinctive and compelling style. Moonray is the culmination of those fifteen years of development, and takes all of his stylistic influences to their pinnacle: graffiti culture, science fiction manga, clean-line European comics, ukiyo-e prints, and collage, all mashed together into one of the most distinctive visual signatures in comics.

Moonray is a daring experiment in world-building, a true graphic epic that began in a truly unusual way. Moonray the graphic novel series shares its name and characters with a surreal 3rd-person multiplayer battle arena game set in a fantastical sci-fi world. Featuring intense combat, stunning visuals, and a world-class soundtrack, Moonray the game has been in development by the independent game developers Moonray PBC since 2019, and will be available publicly in an arena-combat form this fall of 2023.

But Moonray was written and drawn almost entirely in reverse of the normal process of a video game “tie-in” book. Rather than fit his comic work into an existing story and set of rules, Graham was instead hired by Moonray PBC to draw out the ideas at the game's core, to in essence develop the sketched-in ideas that were present before his involvement. Rather than developing a book based on a game, the team is developing a game based on an their own book.

Writer/artist Graham takes up the origin story.

“The idea for Moonray started with Rodrigo Etcheto and his brother Diego's interest in far future surreal science fiction, which led them to my work.,” says Graham. “The world of It-Ao, the goddess Iltar, and most importantly the idea for miium, the living material that could be absolutely anything, was already in place. They hired me to explore it all.”

“At the same time I was newly living in the desert of Las Vegas, which felt like moving to Mars,” continues Graham. “At the start me and my old friend Farel Dalrymple were doing sketches of all the places and creatures and weapons that could exist in the Moonray universe. Eventually I enlisted Xurxo to draw another story set in the same world.”

“I approached my own pages often without a map of where exactly I'd go next,” continues Graham. “As much as the miium hero was figuring out himself and the world he's found himself in, I was figuring out each week's pages as I went, setting up questions for myself to figure out the following week.”

“We knew from the very beginning that we wanted to develop a style of sci-fi that would be different from anything else out there,” says Moonray PBC CEO Rodrigo Etcheto. “We wanted to explore ideas that touch on surrealism, consciousness and the struggle to know your true nature. But we wanted to set those ideas in a world which would draw gamers and readers in with magnetic visuals. Brandon was the obvious person to create something this ambitious.”

Brandon Graham was born in 1976, the grandson of pin-up artist Bill Randall. He grew up in Seattle around a lot of graffiti and comics from all over the word. His books include KING CITY, MULTIPLE WARHEADS, PROPHET, ROYALBOILER, and RAIN LIKE HAMMERS.

Xurxo G Penalta is a Galician artist who’s collaborated with Brandon on KIEM and PROPHET. He's been published by Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Marvel, and illustrated for multiple music labels and live events. He focuses on science fiction and fantasy artwork in the European clear line style, with late 70s and 80s influences from comics, animation and film.

The solicitation text is below.

"MOONRAY is gloriously epic, exploding scifi fantasy world daydreams in every wonderful way! I can't think of anything I've enjoyed more in recent memory!" -Michael Allred: Madman, Silver Surfer, Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns and Moonage Daydreams, Red Rocket 7, Superman: Space Age

"Moonray is a deeply personal work built on top of a licensed property, that provides a stunning meta-mythical framework for how to live happily in 21st century." — Carson Grubaugh, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, The Abolition of Man

“Moonray is a heady rich stew of psychedelic science fiction, my favorite kind.  And in the skillful hands of Brandon Graham and Xurxo Penalta, it’s served with an unsettling ease in every bite. The perplexing becomes the flavors. It’s joyful to get lost in it.”
— J H Williams III, Echolands, Batwoman, The Sandman Overture, Promethea

In a post-human world, the man of miium is born. Created to avenge a slain goddess, our nameless warrior travels an unrecognizable landscape, constantly evolving with new wonders and terrors: Zanikam pirates, deadly reflections, a living bridge, and a red tear in the sky. Written and drawn by Eisner-award-winning author and artist Brandon Graham (Prophet, King City, Rain Like Hammers) and featuring artist Xurxo G. Penalta, Moonray presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other. This bold graphic odyssey births the Moonray universe, from comic book to video game and beyond.

Living the Line Books is a publisher of dynamic, visually-striking comics and graphic novels, founded in 2020 by writer/illustrator Sean Michael Robinson. Living the Line's graphic novel debut, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh) was recently nominated for an Eisner Award, for "Best Reality-Based Work."

Permanent Smoke rides again (Dave's weekly update #480)

Hi, Everybody!

Welcome back to AMOC where we TCOB about TMNT8.

First up, Iguana, how's that Big Board looking?

Seventy grand?!? Wow! I guess the "kids" love the Zombies...loves 'em!

But ya know what people love MORE than Zombies?

Dave does...:

BABIES! (Think about it... they never did Muppet Zombies. But Muppet BABIES? They did that TWICE!)

And since we're "All Turtles 8, All the Time!" Here's

Dave's Weekly Update:

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You can go to Darrell's website, but all the books aren't there. Bezos has 'em, though...

And here's Dave talking to Kevin Eastman Part 7:

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Got the Seventh, Eighth, AND Nineth entries in the T8 Card Contest: 

Details as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 100 printed cards of their art, a pack of the rarest comics from the Waverly Comics archive, and serious bragging rights!
• Contest runs until Thursday March 30th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

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Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

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Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

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Sean Robinson's Living the Line is Kickstartering the Trade of Abolition of Man.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:  

March 24-26.

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off 

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Next Time: There's a new Cerebus in Hell?...