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Hi, Everybody!

Dave has things on Heritage. These are FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art, I "envy" the eventual winner...

Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art, I have "anger" that you guys have more money than me...

Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art, Dave's Alan Moore parody, Guest appearance by Roarin' Rick Veitch (who did some guest lettering), Double bag FIRST appearance of Zombie Red Sophia, Face it Effendi! This ONE has it ALL (except page 20 it doesn't have that...)!

And CAN13 has a launch page on the Kickstarter...

See, it's the Thirteenth Cerebus Archive Portfolio, and Birdsong made this the last Friday the 13th. It was kismet...

Speaking of Cerebus in Hell?, here's the latest Checklist:

Click for bigger. (Of course, the variants aren't listed. Like the Batvark: PENIS "Censored for Grandma" XXXXX, and the second printing. Or the Covid books had two covers. Not to even THINK about the Kickstarter books... Eh. you'll figure it out...) 
Made by Birdsong, colored by me. (Don't it "POP!"?)

And speaking of Birdsong, he was looking up Phonebook prices on eBay, and realized some of them are:

"getting more scarce on there. There is one copy of the remastered Church & State I going for $80. Going Home is still high despite being remastered. Jaka's story is pricey. The only cheap ones are the well read copies. Dave might consider hanging on to his copies as they will only go up in value."

 And then he realized he has a few that he's willing to part with. He's got:

High Society - 9th printing - the first phonebook I ever bought, still looks pretty good
High Society - 11th printing (remastered)
High Society - 12th printing with Red State signed Bookplate (remastered)
High Society - 12th printing with Blue State signed Bookplate (remastered)
Church & State I - 10th printing - my original, all my original phonebooks are well read, but look good for old guys
Church & State I - 12th printing (remastered)
Jaka's Story - 7th printing - November 2004, the first phonebook reprinted after Cerebus ended, takes me back
Form & Void - 2nd printing - same as the 1st printing, but not signed and numbered
The Last Day - 2nd printing - same as the 1st printing, but not signed and numbered
I have a 1st printing of Minds that I got from Dave years ago. 311/2100 and signed by Dave and Gerhard. I'm going to leave that one for my daughter ("Listen, honey, trust me, just put it in your gun safe and look up what it is worth in 20 years.") I'd like to get these in the hands of Cerebus fans not comic shops so if you guys know any desperate fans...

 I know all sorts of fans. Including Cerebus Super Fan (did he get one of those, he SHOULD have.) Nate "The Goddamn Batman" Oberstein

I'd explain this, but I don't think I have to. Nate's "The Goddamn Batman". He just is...

whom Birdsong wanted to have first crack at his phonebooks before I offered them up to you guys. 

Nate has all those. He's got pretty much all the versions of all the phonebooks. But when I asked him, he said:

My friend Logan killed himself about a year ago and now I have his Cerebus issues. He had 16-300, I gave a bunch away, but I still have #16,18,21-26, 28,32,37,41,49,51-53,58-62,64-66,69,74,76,80-111,114-146,148-151,155-156,160,162-214. Let me know if any fans need them.

Nate just wants the price of shipping. Email momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll get you in touch with "The Goddamn Batman" (it's like I'm Commissioner Gordon. Up on a roof with my private spotlight...)

Birdsong on the other hand, well you should "grease his palm with silver...", same address and I'll get you in touch with him.

Speaking of "greasing palms with silver"...

Welcome back to the next round of the race here at the AMOC Race Track, where our motto is: “You’ll Probably Like Our Nags A Lot Better Than The Ones You Get At Home”

Both horses are taking up their starting positions from where we left off: ’82 TOUR-DIARY at $61 with a $17 dollar lead against PLEASE-HOLD, sitting at $44. Jockeys are readying up, waiting for the bell…looks like both horses are ready..annndddd….<ding!>  THEY’RE OFF!!

’82 TOUR-DIARY still in the lead, but PLEASE-HOLD is holding steady. Both horses sticking to their paces with no discernible change in position.  Coming around the bend and it’s ’82 TOUR-DIARY at the front, with PLEASE-HOLD struggling to catch up..AND WE HAVE A $5 DONATION FOR PLEASE-HOLD, BRINGING IT TO $49, within a $12 gap from ’82 TOUR-DIARY! 

Ladies and Gentlemen, at this point it’s still anyone’s game to win or lose! Overconfidence has been the cause of many a lost horse race since the Greeks..

( and some minor trivia for all our spectators: ’82 TOUR-DIARY’s Maternal Granddam was actually the horse Frodo rides across the river to get away from the Black Riders, in the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. So we have a bit of an interesting connection there with the lineage…)

You can see the determination in both riders' faces. PLEASE-HOLD seems energized by the donation, gaining ground! In this precarious spot neither rider wants to exhaust their horse too early in the race, leading to burn-out and allowing the other horse to..A $50 DONATION FOR ’82 TOUR-DIARY!!! ’82 TOUR-DIARY HAS THROWN CAUTION TO THE WIND AND CHARGED AHEAD, GAINING  A STRONGLY DOMINANT LEAD IN THE RACE!  AND WE FINISH THE ROUND WITH  ’82 TOUR-DIARY at $111 and PLEASE-HOLD WITH $49!!

What a race! I tell you, Ladies and Gentlemen, you won’t get this kind of excitement sitting at home watching reruns of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER!  It looks like PLEASE-HOLD is going to need a miracle (or a donor with deep pockets) to win, but anything can happen (and usually does) around these parts! Come back next week for the next round, and we’ll be back after a word from our sponsor: LISS HOCKEY-STICKS (“When you want to put that b*stard puck right between their b*stard eyes. You won’t miss with LISS!”)

Eddie is a strange man. I mean, most of us around here are weird, but Eddie is STRANGE...

If YOU, yes YOU!, want that blue pony to win, then head over here, and click "Please Hold For Dave Sim" and give all the money you want to help that little blue pony beat the snot out of that red horse-faced bastard...

BUT, if you want that Raging Red Stallion to continue to...THRUST(!) harder...and uh...deeper towards the uh, "finish" line... um... then head over here and click "82 Tour Book" and keep throwing money at the lawn ornament in yellow so he can keep driving that little blue ball of suck into the mud.

You have until the end of the month. Then it's champagne in the Winner's Circle followed by Stud Service at premium prices for somebody and the Glue Factory for the other guy.

The horses will be there too...

And before I get to the ACTUAL POST for today, this JUST came in:

Hi Matt,
Sim's original art auction No.200, page 17 is going live for auction starting tonight (soon, 10pm ET):

Link: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127819296106

Thanks again!
Best regards,
Dave Fisher

 Aw, hell. That's like a Moment-a-palooza right there.

See ya tomorrow...

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Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (and Spawn #10) en Español es bueno!

Living the Line's next Kickstarter has TWENTY-ONE pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond in it. These are pages Dave has drawn since the wrist started working again. Is goood...

And I was asked: "Scott Palochik & Dreamscape Publishing has the 4th issue of MARCVS live on Kickstarter now. If you could kindly put it up on the Rigamole, it would be greatly appreciated."

Next Time: Mondays! and what Dave sent that I WAS gonna post today...

Breaking news: YOU can get Original Dave Sim Art!

 

As Friend to the Blog Steve Peters said in an update on his NEW Kickstarter: Comicverse: Subspace Chatter Softcover Collection. 

Hi folks--- It is now GO TIME to get a chance at the original art by Dave Sim for the "Tails of Sparkybus" #4 variant cover. The largest cash donation (not including a reward item) made before tomorrow, July 11, at 5:00 PM EST will get it. I did pay Mr. Sim for this piece, so hopefully the highest donation isn't $10! A donation will help me to continue paying Dave for other projects.

Click for bigger.

AND, Dave sent me this update on the Cerebus Humble Bundle:

So, if you think the Cerebus Humble Bundle deal is a rip-off since you bought 'em from CerebusDownloads.com, feel free to track down Dave and let him know you FEEL betrayed. And you DEMAND your $99CAD back! (And that you don't CARE if he spent the 75% Aardvark-Vanaheim keeps, since Dave sends Gerhard 25% of all the CerebusDownloads.com revenues, on food. You're taking food from an old man. Right out of his mouth. (Okay, hand.) (Okay, it's not food, it's money.) (And it's out of his bank account.) (But DAMN IT! You. SHOULD. Feel. Bad.). YOU tell Dave all that. It WAS the best deal in comics. And after the 18th, it'll resume that status. But, just because a once in a lifetime opportunity landed at Dave's feet and he could actually make a lil' scratch, go ahead. Bitch 'bout it. Be THAT kind of fan... I dare ya. I double-dog dare ya...)

Please Hold For Dave Sim 4/2022: The Notes!

Hi, Everybody!

Picking up from yesterday, here's the notes to Please Hold:

Part one.

We begin with Dave remembering Jeff Seiler by reading a letter Jeff wrote to Dave about Doc Holliday and how he's related to Margaret Mitchell.

Part two.

Jen DiGiacomo asked about the Cerebus Berserker Poster:

And the signatures that have turned up so far (click for bigger):

If YOU have a signed poster, send in pictures of the signature. We'd all LOVE to see it.

Part 3:

Kevin Parr asked:

Hi… Matt?

Saw your blog. Longtime Cerebus reader (ordered first phonebooks in late 80s with my paper route money). I’m looking for trades of the main Cerebus book volumes 13-16. Does AV still function as a company? Can I send Dave a check for the four volumes the way we used to? Of course I’m sure they’re long out of print and that answers my question but… you never know, so I thought I’d ask if you knew.

Best,
Kevin Parr
Lawrenceville, NJ

And Dave answers.

Part 4:

Well, this is the "big" one. Our ol' buddy Michael R. asked about Pieces of Turtles 8 #2:

Hi Matt! Here's some questions for Dave.

Hi Dave!
I have a few questions about the POT8 comic that has been offered.
1- Now that POT8.2 is being made, will it be offered in a quick Swordfish Canadian version then a U.S. version Kickstarter?
2- Will all the POT8 versions be offered again in the future TMNT/Cerebus #8 Kickstarter? OR will they be offered in the TMNT/Cerebus #8 Kickstarter in a different form like a complete single volume separate from the remastered TMNT #8 comic? OR will they be combined into 1 HUGE HC book combining all the "pieces" with all the remastered TMNT/Cerebus #8 comic book content?

Michael R.

Dave's answer to #1 is yes. But he's thinking of doing the Swordfish offer for a shorter window of time. Like, REALLY short. Like, two hours. But this is ALL up in the air, and nothing is set. So feel free to bitch about it in the comments. I'll send everything up to Dave before we Please Hold in May.

Part 5:  

MJ Sewall asks:

In the backup story to Matt Wagner's Mage in 1984-86, the Grendel storyline unfolded as diary passages with visuals telling the story, no dialogue balloons.

Question: Did Grendel: Devil by the Deed text block style/format inspire Jaka’s Story in any way?

Thank you for all you do.
M J Sewall

Part 6 :

“Borgy Borgonia” asked:

Hey, Dave! You mentioned the Cerebus books will be PD in the future, but is it ok to use the character of Cerebus now under a Creative Commons license? Just asking for clarity, if ever.

Matt sez: it’s okay. Dave’s not gonna sue anybody. The long standing policy is that anybody can use Cerebus in an original creative work. (Matt just asks you send Dave three copies for the Archive…)

And for anybody that's paid attention, my answer was THE answer.
Dave Kopperman asked:

Matt,
Okay, got one: Is there a comic that Dave regards as the artistic and philosophical heir to Cerebus? That is to say, a work that both expresses the creative vision and ambition of the author but also grapples with their answers to the “big questions” in a compelling way? Maybe ‘heir’ is the wrong word, since I don’t necessarily mean something that came out after Cerebus was completed (after all, Dave’s work was highly influential during the run). So maybe from the last forty years. I’d nominate Finder by Carla Speed McNeil and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete.
Dave

Matt’s guess: Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog series which ran for 290 issues. And Batman…

Part 7:

Brian West said:

Noticed that the subscriber level for Cerebus YT channel is near 1500. Normally when a channel hits a milestone number of subscribers they celebrate the occasion in some shape or fashion. Now, I know the Cerebusonline YT is Small potatoes, compared to other channels subscription numbers. But, maybe we can mark 1500 subscribers in some shape or fashion? Maybe give away a free copy of a future CIH? or gift bag of Cerebus related items?

Just an idea.

Take care,
Brian West

And Birdsong made this:

 So, there's an AMAZING prize coming to the 1500 subscriber to Cerebus Online YouTube Channel.

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At one point, my 6 year old, Natasha, came up and gave me this and said "It's Cerebus!"

I faxed it up to Dave, along with an explanation, and he sent back:

That was pretty neat...

Next Time: I catch up on the faxes...

Re-mastered Minds now viable!! (Dave's Weekly Update #228)

Hi, Everybody!

Holy crap do I got a lotta stuff here:

AUCTIONS!!!

CAN7 Cerebus Archive Portfolio No. 7 -- Edition #136/175 ("FLIGHT")

CEREBUS IN HELL? Tales of Sophistication THE IRON MANTICORE PART III strips 2019

CEREBUS IN HELL? original artwork -- 7 strips for publication 2019

CAN7 Cerebus Archive Portfolio No. 7 -- Edition #106/175 ("FLIGHT")

And as always, check for bonecrusher86 on the eBays if I missed something. (It's possible, I'm a busy guy...)

Anyway,

Heeeeeere's Dave:

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Here's a list of what remasters are available currently (with Star codes):

CEREBUS STAR00070
HIGH SOCIETY JAN150915

CHURCH & STATE I STAR00271
READS STAR01063
GOING HOME STAR10981

MINDS APR178991

Also, Dave wanted me to post this:

Which is in reference to:

So, since Dave says we can make up whatever story we want for why he doesn't "do" signings or conventions, I'm going with: Dave thinks that guy might REALLY be Batman, and Dave don't truck with caped vigilantes since reading Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again...

Next Time: Why Dave won't tug on Superman's cape...

Printing Cost Blues & Auction Mania!! (Dave's Weekly Update #222)

Hi, Everybody!

Heeeeeere's Dave:

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I haven't found any Cerebus In Hell? original art auctions on the eBays, but I'll update as more info comes in. Promise.

UPDATE: There it is!

Next time:Gee what do I got around the house I could donate for Dave to auction?