Showing posts with label Small Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Press. Show all posts

Monday, 6 May 2024

Anubis continues...

Hi, Everybody!

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Dave sent me:





I remember Scott from Collected Letters 1, among other places...

Rigamarole:
The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.  
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You want an Albatross? Link has "deets"... 
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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

Your store will be up to 35% off
May 8-12 and May 20-27.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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NEW Spawn 10 Lenticular covers from the The Waverly Press. You can click the link and get your own for $100 each.
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Heritage has stuff. Including Narutobus page 12:
Click for bigger
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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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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 tells us who one the Albatross. Or not. I don't know what the hell is going on anymore...

Saturday, 13 March 2021

NEW(!) Dave Sim Art round-up!

Hi, Everybody!

As promised yesterday, NEW Dave Sim Art!

Dave sent me:



Matt Dow
A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

18 February 21
Hi Matt!

Attached! Ultimate DeadHand THE RAVEN illustration for the new UFO (United Fanzine Organization) Chairman, Steve Keeter (succeeding STRAW MAN's David Branstetter just as he -- Steve -- succeeded Carl Gafford back in 1973).

Talked myself into it as an "end of working day" excuse (insert chorus of "My Right Wrist Can Rest…Tomorrow" from ANNIE: I literally sleep on it) to channel my inner Bill Sienkiewicz because there are virtually no costume details. Just black and white shapes and muscles. "You aren't getting paid for it -- it's a freebie. So genuinely don't care what it looks like: ULTIMATE DeadHand". It only took an hour (including the handful of Neal Adams/Bill S. pen-lines).

So then I got sort of ambitious and photocopied Ben Robinson III's THE RAVEN logo from the back cover of #2, enlarging it 200% and adding Ultimate DeadHand dry-brush wings. Then photocopied the cityscape background from the glamourpuss splash page "When Avant Garde Went Retro". Slapped in chunks of that, retouched with pen lines and DeadHand whiteout. Two hours total. Cover? Back cover? Pin-up? It's proportional to 5.5." x 8.5" -- that's the important part.

THE RAVEN is one of the earliest black super-heroes (and THE earliest Small Press black super-hero if I'm not mistaken -- one of the story hooks is that no one knows he's black because his costume covers his whole body) appearing in OM #2 (1973), SPECTRUM #3 (1974), SATYR #2 (1975), OM #6 (1999), THE RAVEN #1 (2003) which Steve has just reprinted $2.50 postpaid stevekeeter@gmail.com and, yes, he does accept paypal COSMIC MAN #2 (2009) and MAIN ENTERPRISES #3 and 4 (ca. 2011), THE RAVEN #2 (2021) $2.50 postpaid stevekeeter@gmail.com and, yes, he does accept paypal

Thus proving that the time is ALWAYS right for any Small Presser to revisit a character he created. Even 48 years later.
Dave      

Dave also sent a whole bunch of scans of THE RAVEN, and this picture of Steve:


And then his Raven drawing:
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And, then, as a matter of course, Dave sends me scans of stuff. All sorts of stuff. Including process art of his covers for future Waverly Press projects:

Like this Cerebus #2 cover I've shown ya:




Here's the next one (click for bigger):

And:



And AND:





AND AND AND:

And, yes, Renet has a balcony you can do Shakespeare from...


You...you okay there?
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Rigamarole:

Hemingway in Comics: https://www.booktable.net/ https://www.centuriesandsleuths.com/


The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe will be on sale:
Your store will be on sale:
March 24 – 26
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.
And the Mouse can eat a dickAll the dicks. (Get 'em before the "Cease-and-Desist letter drops...) ((I'm particularly proud of the description on the second one.))

Next Time: Oliver doesn't have new Dave Art...