A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Cerebus Around the World and Web #6 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

The Silver Cerebus

And Friend to the Blog, Greg Hyland is running the next volume of The Monster Atlas on Kickstarter. And he says:

Also, I got confirmation today that Gerhard is going to contribute new art to the book! We'll include him if we reach our $4000 Stretch Goal. So share the Monster Atlas word and help make sure we meet that goal! As soon as I have something to show you. I'll send you a preview.

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Trying out a "Big Cerebus News" intro:)

Cerebus in the news at "DC Comics News" - from the review: "Quinones also seamlessly goes from one artist homage to another seamlessly. And he doesn’t need a dial to do it. Some of the nods are towards Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Cerebus. His greatest attribute as an artist is the tribute he pays to these styles"
https://dccomicsnews.com/2019/12/09/review-dial-h-for-hero-9/?fbclid=IwAR2LJMJFIKCZSENLygf19yrS6sEBYRn-TKnAZGf5tyzua4RE3FdDAcSUozw

"Anothermillennialreviewer" asks the same question and again the answer is Cerebus
https://twitter.com/GimmickReviews/status/1204566082650099712

The AVclub's wish for a Cerebus movie springs to mind:
"An adaptation would be an incredible challenge...it would be a shame if no one ever tried to expand its audience."
https://www.avclub.com/in-the-wake-of-watchmen-24-more-graphic-novels-we-d-li-1798217304

Legendary Erik Larsen asks for best Marvel runs to which the response is that Cerebus is better
https://twitter.com/ColdestVengence/status/1204444485037412352

Legend Howard Chaykin shares pic with him and fellow legends Dave Sim and Bill Sienkiewicz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/howard.v.chaykin/posts/10218395757737942

Legend Roger Langridge says Cerebus was the Gold Standard
https://twitter.com/hotelfred/status/1205777890182344704

Legend Frank Miller quoting Cerebus in his new "Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child."? (Thank you William Hoffknecht!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2644252662308759/
And again here (Thank you Menachem Luchins!)
https://twitter.com/snubpollard/status/1204918413312888832
reminds me of legend Patton Oswalt's recent reference?
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1172198113643257857

Legends Erik Larsen and Dave Sim
https://twitter.com/Hwy2Hysteria/status/1205356394821623808

Cerebus Syndrome is part of the vernacular
https://twitter.com/Jetleo1/status/931043614419013633
here describing the ABC TV show "The Rookie"
https://twitter.com/Rbcachu92/status/1204245865709223936
Cerebus Syndrome describing "Adventure Time"
https://twitter.com/Firemaster1992/status/1205609594535501831
"Cerebus Syndrome" worldwide - here translated from Portuguese
https://twitter.com/PavaoAlves/status/1205287868622618625
But what about "Reverse Cerebus Syndrome"?
https://twitter.com/MDTroobidour/status/1203685120953192459

Russian quotes Cerebus' Elrod the Albino for any occasion (according to google Russian translation)
https://twitter.com/DogeStrontium/status/1204458529555394565

Italian review of Cerebus issues 1-6 (thank you google translate):
Cerebus the comic is what the ' "Ulysses" of Joyce and "The Search of Lost Time" of Proust are to literature.
It is difficult to tell in a few lines why Dave Sim is one of the greatest and most influential comics authors ever (at least, as far as comics are concerned ): suffice it to say that under the motto of «I will break every law of comics»In his long pseudo-fantasy epic he brought to the limit all the grammatical features of the comic
https://blog.becomix.me/rileggendo-cerebus-issues-1-6/
https://twitter.com/BecomixDatabase/status/1205179649413791745

Bought Cerebus High Society (thank you google Spanish translate)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B51dBF3pT-j/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Vlogger sensation "Comic Tropes" asks about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles' crossover with Cerebus and others
https://twitter.com/CTropes/status/1204497113863749632

College Professor and indie comic creator takes "Creator Rights" theme in the Cerebus and Spawn crossover to heart
https://twitter.com/Al_Nickerson/status/1204515428011270148
Cerebus/Spawn issue among best Spawn issues
https://twitter.com/vielned/status/1204502100291575809

A true life Cerebus crossover?
https://twitter.com/Cr0ss0verB0t/status/1203665767998382081

Cerebus lightning in a bottle
https://twitter.com/RoccoEstalon/status/1204476137717542913

Bought animated Cerebus (4th pic in instagram slideshow)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B50hyHFhGpk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus "motion comic"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-8LoShaP_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus to follow Watchmen HBO?
https://twitter.com/jdowdell/status/1204086322362634241

Larry Wooten shares his Cerebus loot in the Cerebus facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2634711799929512/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2635425783191447/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2626008467466512/

[Hey, wait a minute. -Matt]

[Huh, I thought I wrote: "FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET BABY JESUS DO! NOT! BEND!!!" -Matt]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2637618789638813/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2637619379638754/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2641352282598797/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2642004299200262/
Matt Feazell

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2641321212601904/

Cerebus has since it's inception had a love affair with parodies, you could say it's in it's DNA, so with the "Wonder Woman 1984" trailer dropping this past week here's "The Wonder Vark Years" set to Simple Minds' hit song "81, 82, 83, 84" (it came out in 1982 before their mega hit song "Don't you forget about me" in the 1985 ultimate GenX film "Breakfast Club")
https://youtu.be/OpQvIqyclpg

Award season has kicked off this past week with the announcement of the Golden Globe nominees - here's Cerebus in last years' winner for Best Foreign Film, "Roma"

We've also done others (not spending enough time on any to do them properly admittedly)
"The Joker"

With most of these it's hard to remember what the poster and PR campaign was...
Aladdin

How to train your dragon 2

Clint Eastwood's "The Mule"

Bohemian Rhapsody

First Man

The Grinch

The Meg

The Predator

The Vark? Anyway etc:)

Cerebus convention sketch - would make a great header for "A Moment of Cerebus"?":)
https://twitter.com/KngFish/status/12047 89534623444998

A beloved comic book store closed down - a place of Cerebus memories
https://twitter.com/davidbishop/status/1204757782337069056
https://twitter.com/davidbishop/status/1204768756637061121
https://twitter.com/monkey__marc/status/1204751458484314112

"Radiant Comics" blog review of "Cerebus in hell?" calls it "clever and amusing"
http://radiantcomics.com/current-comics-im-reading/

move over Baby Yoda - Comic historians share Cerebus history
https://twitter.com/Comichistorians/status/1205132490769338368

Cerebus recomended
https://twitter.com/MetaMonstah/status/1204991220415639552

Spawn and Cerebus
https://twitter.com/XavierHugonet/status/1205478748583321600

Image Comics, Saga and Cerebus - and "Escape Pod" Comic book store
https://twitter.com/EscapePodComics/status/1205233583947952128

Review of Cerebus Archive Number Five: "Production is top-notch."
https://aeindex.org/reviews/cerebus-archive-number-five/

In somewhat related news:

Barry Windsor Smith whose Conan run inspired so much in the creation of Cerebus has announced the release of his long awaited 250-plus page Graphic Novel "Monster" next year
https://www.newsarama.com/48237-barry-windsor-smith-s-monsters-coming-in-2020.html
Barry btw has said that Dave Sim is the best storyteller in the field today.

Bernie Wrightson, who was also a Cerebus influence (and not to mention Vark Thing!)
http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2015/03/bernie-wrightsons-badtime-stories.html
has had sold a drawing for 1.2 million.
https://www.newsarama.com/48259-original-art-for-wrightson-s-frankenstein-cover-for-marvel-sells-for-1-2-million.html
Bernie Wrightson passed away and as pointed out by Stephen Bissette (also of Swamp Thing fame): It is a sad and all too common occurrence as such fortunes happen after an artist has died. Bernie left this world struggling with medical debts
https://www.facebook.com/stephen.bissette.7/posts/10159418669918289

RIP John Mundt, 54 years old and part of the b&w indie comics revolution inspired by the Godfather of Indie Dave Sim. His indie comic was The Adventures of Monkey praised by the likes of Neil Gaiman, Jeff Smith and Scott McCloud
http://pdccourier.com/articles/2019/12/12/john-c-mundt

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Thanks, Oliver.

Next Time: $#!* man that's like a month's worth of posts right there... Alright, I did get a fax from Dave. Maybe that...

Saturday, 14 December 2019

Yeah, I can't do two things at once...MELMOTH!

Hi, Everybody!

The Silver Cerebus

And Friend to the Blog, Greg Hyland is running the next volume of The Monster Atlas on Kickstarter. And he says:

Also, I got confirmation today that Gerhard is going to contribute new art to the book! We'll include him if we reach our $4000 Stretch Goal. So share the Monster Atlas word and help make sure we meet that goal! As soon as I have something to show you. I'll send you a preview.

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So back during Steve Peters Week II, I pledged for a Melmoth page to be used in Steve's Parallel Comicverse story. Steve sent me this message:

Let me know what scene from Melmoth you'd like me to recreate (and if you don't mind, pls include a couple of alternate choices).

So: Matt's "Favorite"* Melmoth pages:

Page 52

Page 53

Page 68

Page 73

Page 79

Page 244

*Today.

And since that might not be Moment enough for you people, FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE AMOChive I bring you: The Blue-Line first signature proof of Melmoth I got off e-Bay back when George W. Bush was President:

When I had Dave and Ger sign it, Dave asked, "Where did you get THAT?!?" And Ger was equally confused as to how it got out "in the wild"...

I don't know if it showed up, but there were penciled corrections on some of the pages (like this one that has a "fixed by the page number.)

Next Time: More @#$%ing links than you can shake an Aardvark at...

Friday, 13 December 2019

Postcards from the East (Dave's Weekly Update #317)

Hi, Everybody!

Heeeeeere's

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The Silver Cerebus

And Friend to the Blog, Greg Hyland is running the next volume of The Monster Atlas on Kickstarter. And he says:

Also, I got confirmation today that Gerhard is going to contribute new art to the book! We'll include him if we reach our $4000 Stretch Goal. So share the Monster Atlas word and help make sure we meet that goal! As soon as I have something to show you. I'll send you a preview.

Next Time: Matt tries to Multitask...

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Trying to Outsmart Lord Julius

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We looked at Dave Sim's second Cerebus notebook back in September in The Table Next To The Bed. It covers Cerebus #27 through 37. While it had 198 pages out of 200 scanned and we've seen pages from it nine times, we've only seen one page from the first thirty pages of the notebook. It appears those pages are for Cerebus #28, aka Mind Game II.

So I pulled that biweekly issue to look at what notebook pages Dave had shown us for it. That is when I saw this quote from Dave "Wouldn't you know? I go looking for some interesting pages for issue 28 and what do I find? Twenty pages of closely-spaced Suenteus Po / Cerebus dialogue."

The dialogue in Cerebus #28 is not that closely spaced that it takes up all 20 pages of the issue. So what is in those twenty pages that wasn't used in the story? Good question. Looking at Cerebus #28, there are four pages of Po / Cerebus dialogue before we get to the dialogue shown on page 1, which was shown in August of 2016 in Albatross, Too.

So let's see page two

Notebook 2, page 2 (click to make larger)

There is some discussion about Lord Julius and if he is an orthodox Tarimite of a Cirinist. Cerebus tells a story of how he was discussing the Eye in the Pyramid rebels with Lord Julius, and how Lord Julius was opening envelopes while listening to Cerebus. That those envelopes contained "Money. Crown notes, securities, bonds, coins made of white gold, rare gems. . .Thousands and thousands of crowns and Cerebus only watched for a matter of minutes."

Notebook 2, page 3, click to make larger

At the bottom of the page has some dialogue that starts there and carries over to page 3 of the notebook, none of which appears in Cerebus #28:

Cerebus: Cerebus always measures others by their sword arms, their quickness. Beyond that he had never seen any value in humans. Cerebus could have snapped Lord Julius in two without working up a sweat.
Po: Why didn't you?
Cerebus: Cerebus couldn't make it work like it was. . .Cerebus tried to figure out how much of the loot he could carry. Maybe one sack the size of the one he was taking the envelopes out of. If Cerebus was to keep one hand for dispatching the guards, he might be able to carry half a sack. Even then there was no guarantee that we would live to reach the gate. A crossbow or a spear would. . .
Po: I see.
Cerebus: Cerebus thought about killing the guards to grab loot and we'd all make a run for it splitting the proceeds later on.
Po: Why didn't you?
Cerebus: These city dwellers, they. . .Each of those guards had an apartment in the trade building some of them had probably served the house of Tavers for twenty years. They had families and more money than most Sepran officers. They were settled. Cerebus doesn't understand it, but Cerebus. . .
Po: Recognized a no-win situation?
Cerebus: Aye. That's why Cerebus left. In his spare time he started making friends with city-guards, high ranking cabinet members - nothing elaborate, just laying the groundwork for a small conspiracy -- skim a few hundred t thousand crowns off the top and leave before anyone checked the book-keeping.
Po: And?
Cerebus: They were never in the same place two days in a row. When Cerebus asked where they had been transferred to, he was put on Lord Julius' conspiracy report. Cerebus made a few more tries at bribery.

Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Highjacked...!

Yep, your regularly scheduled host has been kicked out and hogtied for the week. Why? He drew me all fat and Garfield-ish!

So what stunning new thing has caused such an upheaval of this column?

Hold on. Take a deep breath. It's...

Awwww, it's just an update of the checklist(s).

There should be a link to this post somewhere over there on the right so you can come back every time you wonder just what issues came out in the last three years. Coming soon: The 2020 checklist.

And there you have it. What? What else? Ok, buy a shirt before they are gone for good. Brian West eats, breathes and sleeps in his Vark Wars sweatshirt. God willing, he'll get married in it one day. Don't be a doofus, be an über fan like Brian.

For a limited time, the VARK WARS shirt:

Buy from Amazon:

German Long Sleeve Shirt

(Why only a long sleeve version in Germany? Because they said so.)

These will no longer be available after December 31st.

STILL AVAILABLE:

The APPROVAL IS AN AUTHORITARIAN CONSTRUCT T-Shirt. (It's not going anywhere until I can actually afford one.)

In THREE exciting colors (colours in Canada and the UK)

(Okay, sorry, no more forcing merchandise on you for the rest of the year. Promise.)

Next Time? If he can get the ropes untied, Benjamin will be back with something or other about that comic book we help Dave put together every month. Or something about his pet goat. Or is that a donkey? I can't remember. Ohioans are weird. I mean they call them Buckeyes too. What's that about?

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

With Friends like these...

Hi, Everybody!

Silver Cerebus
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So, back in 2006, Dave was going through the Archive and getting stuff organized, when...

Ya know, I'll just let Dave tell it from the Friday, October 13th 2006 Blog & Mail:

All this week the Blog & Mail is brought to you by:

Friends of Cerebus Fan Club packages that were returned as undeliverable by the post office twenty-three years ago!
AMAZING? STAGGERING? UNBELIEVABLE?!!

Not really. They're just, you know, Friends of Cerebus fan club packages that were returned as undeliverable by the post office twenty-three years ago (get a grip, people)

Today's fan club
MYSTERY package is

Amroth Laurelas

of Silver Spring, Md.

ORIGINAL ENVELOPE! STILL SEALED! NO IDEA WHAT'S INSIDE! NIFTY POINTING HAND "RETURNED TO SENDER" RUBBER STAMP! "FIRST CLASS" STAMP IN "LIKE NEW" RED INK!

AND IT WILL BE AUCTIONED ON EBAY TOMORROW AT 4 PM

Hopefully for BIG BUCKS so I don't look like a

Total Chump for having held onto it all these years!

Offer null and void if it turns out that Amroth Laurelas has been in a coma all these years and suddenly awakens miraculously at 4 pm tomorrow going "My FAN CLUB package!" Of course if he suddenly awaken miraculously after the auction is over, Hey, you snooze, you lose, bud. (no offence is intended BY THE BLOG & MAIL MANAGEMENT AND ITS DESIGNATED SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNEES against Our Society's Noblest Disenfranchisees, The Consciousness-Challenged) (or "Physical State Enactment Vegans" if that is your preferred appellation)

Yeah that.

Wanna know what was inside?

Well, are YOU in luck, because from the Depths of the AMOChive, I bring you: CRAP DAVE GAVE ME IN 2007 AT S.P.A.C.E.:

MEMBERSHIP CARDS!

A 1984 NOTEPAD!

CEREBUS THE NEWSLETTER #11!

And Dave also gave me:

A LETTER FROM KAREN!

STEVEN AHLQUIST! STEVEN D. AHLQUIST!! I HAVE YOUR SIGNED 1985 FRIENDS OF CEREBUS CERTIFICATE!!! STEVEN AHLQUIST!!!! YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT BACK!!!!!

If'n I 'emember right, Dave was trading with Margaret and had this extra stuff that he gave me on the Monday after the show when I took him out to breakfast at Steak & Shake. Good times...

Next Time: Hobbs? (He ain't got nothing in the kitty, so who knows...)