Showing posts with label Steve Peters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Peters. Show all posts

Friday, 19 September 2025

Steven Peters' "Time Passages" (Dave's weekly update #608)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:
The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:
No idea if Steve is offering Time passages as part of the Tails of Sparky, #6 kickstarter, but he has all sorts of Dave goodness. Like: 
Tails of Sparkybus #6 Signed Variant
Signed by Dave Sim (Dave Sim 2025) on a tipped-in plate. It will also be signed by Steve Peters and numbered, and features a 6-page collaboration with Sim that will only appear in the variant.
Steve also has copies of Dave's variant covers to the two previous issues, so you can get the set if you missed out. 

He's also got the Sparkybus prints Dave did that I had printed up.

You can't say I didn't warn ya!
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: 46 year old comics.
  • Sunday: More Roach.
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and Please Hold transcript for 10/2021.
  • Tuesday: Jen's alive, and is back to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$190 until page 119 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks . AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. 
  • Wednesday: The NEW Cerebus in Hell? weekly strip continues. Follow along on Instagram
  • 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, Campaign ’93 material!
  • 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 past week in AMOC. You're welcome.
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Tim Gagne sent in:
Crownfundr for Nick Crane
Already net its goal but pretty cheap for a collection that finishes the story all these years later -
https://crowdfundr.com/nickcraine?ref=cr_3EI341_ab_18OUE1
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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 but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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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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Up to 35% off September 19-21.*
*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:
  • slabbed comics mostly...
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
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: Off-White House Bulletin.

Friday, 5 September 2025

A carefully staged hunter (Dave's weekly update #606)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:
The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:
Dave's Weekly Update:

And I got another one of these things:
This is Dave responding to this letter from Michael R. of Easton, PA:

And turning to the other topic of the letter. With 58 hours to go, I hope this helps:

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: So if I get a month to work on it, you get Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2025 early.
  • Sunday: A bit of Comics History that was new to me.
  • Monday: The Monday Report, and Please Hold transcript for 8/2021.
  • Tuesday: Jen's back in the States, but wasn't feeling good. So I step in to help raise funds on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe$200 until page 119 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks . AND GoFundMe has a MONTHLY option now, so you can schedule a reoccurring donation. 
  • Wednesday: The NEW Cerebus in Hell? weekly strip continues. Follow along on Instagram
  • 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, Campaign ’93 material!
  • 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 past week in AMOC. You're welcome.
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Friend to the Blog Steve Peters is back with the next Tails of Sparky, #6, the next in the "Seasons of Sparky" series. Why you care (besides that Steve's a pal and does good comics...) is that he has a LIMITED number of 
Tails of Sparkybus #6 Signed Variant
Signed by Dave Sim (Dave Sim 2025) on a tipped-in plate. It will also be signed by Steve Peters and numbered, and features a 6-page collaboration with Sim that will only appear in the variant.
It's limited to TWENTY-FIVE  Steve says there are THIRTY-TWO, but he hasn't released them all yet, copies (So if you want one, maybe don't wait...)

Steve also has copies of Dave's variant covers to the two previous issues, so you can get the set if you missed out. 

He's also got the Sparkybus prints Dave did that I had printed up.

You can't say I didn't warn ya!
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Tim Gagne sent in:
Crownfundr for Nick Crane
Already net its goal but pretty cheap for a collection that finishes the story all these years later -
https://crowdfundr.com/nickcraine?ref=cr_3EI341_ab_18OUE1
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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 but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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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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Up to 35% off September 5-7, and 17-21.*
*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 16 of issue #44
  • Page 5 of Cerebus #20
  • Inside Back Cover art from Cerebus #3
  • The covers to Issue #74 and #76
  • other stuff
And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:
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: Dave sent other things...

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Jen's back! (In the states, not at AMOC) So Matt pimps Steve Peters again!

 Hi, Everybody!

Jen's show is DONE. I think she's back in the States, but she's busy in the Madison Square Garden parking lot. You can get reports straight from Jen's mouth if you follow her on the 'gram.

Anyway, that means I'ma still doing her bit:

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $18,800.00 raised to date from 332 donations
  • 118 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 21 Jan 2022.
  • $200.00 away from unlocking page 119


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
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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, and this.

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

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

Jen x 
During the last Please Hold, Dave had a bit of a The Strange Death of Alex Raymond spoiler:

And since I got you here, Friend to the Blog Steve Peters is back with the next Tails of Sparky #6, the next in the "Seasons of Sparky" series. Why you care (besides that Steve's a pal and does good comics...) is that he has a LIMITED number of 
Tails of Sparkybus #6 Signed Variant
Signed by Dave Sim (Dave Sim 2025) on a tipped-in plate. It will also be signed by Steve Peters and numbered, and features a 6-page collaboration with Sim that will only appear in the variant.
It's limited to TWENTY-FIVE copies (of which, as of this writing, there are THIRTEEN left.)

Steve also has copies of Dave's variant covers to the two previous issues, so you can get the set if you missed out. 

He's also got the Sparkybus prints Dave did that I had printed up.

You can't say I didn't warn ya!

Next Time: Cerebus in Hell?

Sunday, 29 December 2024

Incoming! Dave sent stuff... so much stuff...

Hi, Everybody!

Well, here we go:
I did.
Eddie was.












Speaking of Steve, he sent me this:


Anyway,
Don't worry, I let Gerhard know.

Alright, that's my evening...

Next Time: The Monday Report. That'll be fun...

Monday, 9 December 2024

AMOC Comment: Michael R.

Hi, Everybody!

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So, I got a message from Our Man in Easton, PA: Michael R.
Hi Matt!

I went to the Lehigh Valley Comic Convention on December 7th, 2024. My nephew, Robert, tagged along. I didn't have much time and there was 3 reasons why I wanted to attend.

 

(from left to right:) Michael and Robert and A SIGN!

1- Walt and Louise Simonson. I wanted to get my photo with Walt & Louise with my older photos. AND I did! I cut corners and lines to get my photo. :)

2- Scott Palochik, John Hohn (JAF Comics & publisher for Dreamscapes Publishing), Oliver Dowling (artist) & Beth Sharland (letterer) were in attendance and had my books signed. Issue 3 should be going live on Kickstarter sometime in February. John is shooting for a quarterly schedule.

3- Steve Peters & Bianca Alu-Murr!!!!
(from left to right:) Bianca Alu-Marr, Steve Peters, and...let's say...Jerry(? I dunno. Michael didn't label who everybody was. But come on. The bits of that guy's head I can see just looks like a Jerry...)

I was in communication with Steve through Instagram. I said most likely that I was coming, then last minute I told him I couldn't come due to my brother-in-law's passing. My wife and my sister-in-law, Barbara, said I should go and take my nephew, Robert, too. So we went. My sister-in-law said it would be good that we went. There was nothing to do in the morning, since it was an afternoon service.

The BIGGEST reason to meet Steve was that I had won the Heritage Auction of Dave Sim's Sparkybus variant cover. Usually when there is something that I like that is being auctioned on HA, I put my maximum bid right off the bat. I lose every time. Except this time! My bid held up. I wanted to get a photo with Steve. AND I did!!!
(from left to right:) Michael, Sparkybus, Rei, Aki, Ying, and Steve
Steve and Bianca were very gracious and answering my goofy questions. I bought a bunch of stuff and if I stayed longer, I would have bought more. HAHAHA! Steve personalized everything that I purchased. All in all it was fun and way too short.
(from left to right:) Rei, Aki, Ying, Captain Kirk(?), Steve, Sparky, and Jerry (screw it, I'ma run with it...)
I also kinda sorta interviewed him.

With Steve's permission you can post this on AMOC.
Well thanks Michael! 

AMOC sends our condolences on the loss of your brother-in-law.

Rigamarole:
35% off December 9-18 and 25-31.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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Got a message from my friends at the Waverly Press. They're doing Holiday Bundles for 2024. There are limited to 50 bundles. Available until December 31 or they sell out. Whichever comes first. Get 'em while they're hot. https://waverlycomics.com
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Since it's Holiday time, Twomorrows publishing is having their annual sale. Comic Book Creator magazine has done interviews with Dave adjacent creators like Steve Bissette, Bob Burden, (I haven't read it, so I can neither confirm or deny if Dave is mentioned) Rick Veitch, among others. And Cerebus is covered in Back Issue #75, and the X-Men crossover is talked about in #118. And Margaret has a photo printed in issue #31. If you search for "Dave Sim", they have a bunch of issues. Anyway, just letting people know. Sale ends December 9th. That's today.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)
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Heritage has this. Buy it for Dave. Come on, it's Christmas!
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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? Not Jen? Jen's video of her interviewing Steve Peters (I shouldn't joke, stranger things have happened...)

Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Breaking NEWS!

Hi Everybody!
With 24 hours to go, Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has ADDED stretch goals to his Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent Kickstarter. Tell the nice people Steve:
First of all, thanks everyone for getting the project to, and past the goal! The first attempt came to just over $1500, so I figured if I made the goal $1000, Sparky would have a pretty good chance this time. Congratulations to Philip Frey -- on Please Hold with Dave Sim, Dave announced that the person who got the project over the finish line would get the original art for a new Jack Kirby-style Silver Surfer Sparky inked by Dave (inspired by Matt Dow's inking of Sparky over Jack's Silver Surfer pencils -- congrats to Philip on claiming the original for that as well, as an add-on reward).
Dave, it's "Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent" So his hat HAS to mean Make the Cosmos Great Again...

It might be too late, but what the heck, I'm going to add a couple of stretch goals. Last year, Sparky's first Kickstarter made over $2000, and had 13 more backers than the current one, so the little guy could very well make it.

STRETCH GOAL #1: If we can get to $2000, I will run Dave Sim's Jack Kirby-style Silver Surfer Sparky in the Signed Variant version. Note that it will NOT appear in the unsigned version, as I've already had those printed up! The regular version, the unsigned Dave Sim variant, and the signed Sim variant will all have differences. The main difference for the unsigned Sim variant is that Dave's and my 8-page collaboration appears first, starting right on the inside cover. On the others, the main Sparky story comes first. I will also throw my hat into the ring and do my OWN Jack Kirby-penciled Silver Surfer-as-Sparky (maybe I'll find a different image to try?) for the signed variant. Currently, there are 10 signed variants up for grabs; if they all sold, this could get us VERY close to the stretch goal. I will also include a small piece of art for anyone who adds a bonus donation or picks up an add-on (and if there's any add-on I can offer that will entice, please let me know!). Finally, the LARGEST pledge made between now and the end will get a Comicverse sketch cover custom drawn for you!

STRETCH GOAL #2: If we can make it to $2,311 (which is what the first Sparky Kickstarter got to last year), we'll give a little something extra to all backers. That should be enough to pay a few more artists to do some more sketches (or perhaps some of the same ones to do some more drawings) for the signed Sim variant. But if you're not one of the signed variant backers, you won't miss out! I'll make a very limited-edition mini comic that will have the new art that you're missing. And just to spread the love around, any digital backers will get a few bonus digital rewards from the list.
Geez, not so close to the mic Steve...

Anyway, ya can't say nobody told ya...

Meanwhile back to Hobbs: 

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Aw Geez 7: Diamonds are Forever (NEW Sim art)

Hi, Everybody!

Well, it was TECHNICALLY Thursday, but it's time once again for the Aw Geez. The anniversary of when I first started this gig.

For the Record:
So, "Yay me!"

And then, TOMORROW makes thirteen years since Tim founded the joint

So, "Yay Tim!"

The TRADITIONAL gift at seven years is copper or wool. (Thirteen years doesn't even make the list...) But, I'll take whatever you send me.

I got you nice people the thing Dave wants. The Off-White House logo on Merch. (I know, Dave wanted it small. For the people who wanna see what it looks like: Big. And if you wanna look more official.)

35% off November 15-24, and 40% off November 25-30.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't.
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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has NEW Dave Art for his Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent on the Kickstarter:
Click for Bigger

I was leaning more towards "Make Connie Lingus Great Again", but she's already pretty damn perfect:
You're already right-clicking to save. But left-clicking makes bigger.

Good news/Bad news: If you back and get the SIGNED variant, you'll get Dave/Jack's Sparky. If you only got the regular version or the UNsigned variant, you ain't getting it (Steve already had those printed before Dave's drawing came in.) Steve hasn't made up his mind on getting rid of the Original Art, but if I hear anything I'll tell you as soon as I want to...
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Got a message from my friends at the Waverly Press. They're doing Holiday Bundles for 2024. There are limited to 50 bundles. Available until December 31 or they sell out. Whichever comes first. Get 'em while they're hot. https://waverlycomics.com
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Okay, more of this guy
tomorrow...

Next Time: Cerebus! Momentarily! Like always!