Cerebus: Silverspoon (1979)

Hi, Everybody!

This.

Then (even though it has been posted before):

Hey look, it's a placeholder page I don't need to post...
Ya REALLY get your money's worth here in Year Nine...

If you'd like to OWN one of the original printings of one of these pages, Jen has an offer for you.

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Dang, I KNEW I forgot something for yesterday's post...

I opened up the box of "evening cuppes"...

(Since they're misprinted versions of Cerebus' Latter Days coffee mug, and typically people drink coffee in the morning, and:

...so I call them "mourning cuppes". Then the misprints would have to be the opposite, therefore "evening cuppes"...) (Ya get the idea of how I got this gig, don'tcha?)

Anyway, there were twenty-nine of the seventy-two I ended up with (thirty or so of which I donated to the Hero Initiative twenty or so years ago. Who knows what happened to them...).

I'm gonna keep one, so I have twenty-eight that I don't need to hang onto after twenty-one years.

Back and front.

So, if you want a strange near-antique, shoot an email to momentofcerebus@gamil.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...

I was looking in the box to see how many "morning cuppes" I had left

And the answer was...two.

I'm OBVIOUSLY keeping one, but I had a guy express interest in the other one,

But, if he doesn't pounce on it, I'll let everybody know.

If you REALLY want one, the AMOC TeePublic Shoppee has "Take 3" available on all sorts of Merch (like socks.) including a coffee mug. 

Speaking off,

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off November 23. And 40% off the 24th-December 2.*

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

Anyway, 

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(?).
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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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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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CEREBUS IN HELL? THE IRON MANTICORE PART #1 (MAR 30) strips for 2019
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Anyways...

"Hey kids! What time is it?"

"Time to eat laundry soap and snort condoms!"

It's "READING CEREBUS" time.

It's "READING CEREBUS" time.

Kevin reads Cerebus for you,

It’s such a nifty thing to do.

Let’s give a rousing cheer,

Cause "Reading Cerebus" is here,

"Eat laundry soap and snort condoms"?

What the HELL is wrong with you?

Kevin Kimmes:

Welcome back to “Reading Cerebus”, a new (some-what) weekly column here at A Moment of Cerebus. The goal of this column is to bring a fresh perspective to the 300-issue saga of Cerebus as I read through the series for the first time and give my insights into the longest running independent comic book series of all time. Think of this as part book club, part lit-crit, and part pop culture musing. Oh, and they told me Dave Sim himself may be reading this, so I hope I don’t screw this up. Let’s continue.

"Silverspoon" - Originally appearing in Comics Buyers Guide, Reprinted in Cerebus Weekly #26 and later pressings of the 1st phonebook

I didn't think I had digital copies of the Silverspoon strips, but I was wrong. Thank CerebusDownloads.com!

Can I make a confession? As a kid, Prince Valiant bored me to tears. I loved checking out the comic strips in the newspaper, but Prince Valiant was a constant avoidance.

Why, you ask? I guess I really don't have a definitive answer, but it always felt a little impenetrable due to the length of time it had been going for. No matter what week you read it, it always felt like you had missed so much that it was impossible to get caught up. Or, maybe that just has to do more with a time when everything wasn't so readily available. Regardless, I let out an audible groan when I saw what my next reading assignment looked like.

The Arrogant and Insufferable Silverspoon

There may never have been, or will be, a character more aptly named than that of Silverspoon. He is the embodiment of spoiled rotten and pandered to children the world over, a fact that Cerebus is unafraid to make clear when he believes that Silverspoon has perished at the hands of Onliu pirates. 

The boy wants a sea serpent? The boy gets a sea serpent.

The boy wants to fight Onliu pirates? The boy gets to sacrifice all at his disposal in his fight with Onliu pirates.

Then, the locals show up.

Sha-Boom Sha-Boom

Doo-wop speaking natives? Sure, what the hell!

Tied to posts and left to the elements, Cerebus and Silverspoon are the test cases for the locals who are betting on which will get them first: exposure or starvation. Four days go by and Cerebus is sure that the boy is near death. That's when dear old dad shows up with the cavalry.

Rufus T. Firefly
So, who is Silverspoon's father? Well, none other than comedic film star Groucho Marx...I mean, Lord Julius. The characterization here is perfect with Lord Julius delivering the kind of snappy dialogue that has become a hallmark of Groucho.

Cerebus: "What will happen to the br... uh... Silverspoon when he wakes up?"

Lord Julius: "I hadn't really thought about it. I suppose I'll send him to a boy's military school..."

Cerebus: "But Silverspoon has travelled the world. Won't a boy's school be a little bit... well... boring?"

Lord Julius: "You know, you're right. Maybe I'll send him to a girl's school instead."

When I realized I had digital copies of all the Silverspoon strips, I knew I was gonna run all eleven of them...

Final Thoughts

I have to admit that this weeks reading turned out to be better than I originally thought it was going to be. Dave again pushes forward with his parody/critique of famous artists and comics, and still finds the right notes to hit to keep the humor rolling.

Join me back here next week as I take a look at "The Palnu Trilogy" and learn more about Lord Julius.

Currently Listening To: Frank Zappa - "Joe's Corsage"

Kevin Kimmes is a lifelong comic book reader, sometime comic book artist, and recent Cerebus convert. He can be found slinging comics at the center of the Multiverse, aka House of Heroes in Oshkosh, WI.