A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

Sunday, 12 April 2020

Cerebus Around the World and Web #23 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

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And here's yer free CiH? More soon?

As it's Sunday, we once again turn to Oliver Simonsen for Cerebus Around the World and Web:

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Oliver Simonsen:

Today's edition brought to you by GOOGLE, because they are awesome! Yes, i got my account back:)

MCU doesn't stand a chance against Cerebus?
https://twitter.com/WiscoViking/status/1247798427108274179

Cerebus, videogames and TV show
https://twitter.com/SarkSweet/status/1248352903682809857

Dare to dream: animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Cerebus crossover (thank you google translate)
https://twitter.com/zerothebestjojo/status/1248289460741197826

Reading Cerebus the Aardvark a must (thank you Google Russian translate!)
https://twitter.com/d_varkov/status/1247179983421943808

Cerebus quarantine reading
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-rkL-sJsRH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Bleeding Cool spotlights the brand new comic: "Super Cerebus vs Covid-19". Available as a free download!
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dave-sim-parodies-neal-adams-super-cerebus-vs-covid-19/
https://twitter.com/bleedingcool/status/1248257243985981440
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w5FiUH6jm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://twitter.com/kingmob84/status/1248293406322954241
http://atocom.blogspot.com/2020/04/friday-fun-coronavirus-comics-cerebus.html

"Cerebus in hell?" shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sMYPDAH_h/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-umfjYB1sf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus a favorite of Boardgame Designer Chris Tregenza
https://twitter.com/tregenza/status/1248618441721786368

Look out Comic Tropes
https://twitter.com/theironiclord/status/1247933866192580608

Oped piece on Cerebus
https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/cerebus-the-aardvark-the-narrative-reflection-of-dave-sims/
https://twitter.com/JacobDPalermo/status/1247636530299957248
https://twitter.com/JacobDPalermo/status/1247586000030892038
https://twitter.com/monkeys_robots/status/1247548697421828098
https://www.facebook.com/monkeysfightingrobots/posts/2818344391732817
[Full disclosure, I stop by the first link with "notes"-Matt]

Looking forward to starting High Society
https://twitter.com/HyborianHarry/status/1247700743425007616

Dave Sim had "professional credentials" before starting Cerebus
https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1247622076581556224

Hudson Ricardo Pinheiro in Brazil draws Cerebus the Sailor
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zwse7ghnp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Technically it's Cerebus as "Squinteye"-Matt (Now I gotta scan and post the complete Squinteye strip for Monday.)]

Founder of the Garfield Cult is drawing Cerebus
https://twitter.com/BigoteMushroom/status/1246969531404374021

James Smith draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nsGr-laln/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Gibran Caleb draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-1-Pg9gxxp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Oooo, "Batvark" (Jeez I'm been working on CiH? with Hobbs and the gang too long...) -Matt]

Comic Creator Gregory Dickens (Heroes of Sinclair, eMMA) draws Cerebus
https://twitter.com/GregoryDraws/status/1247283529190440960

Donovan Alex in Australia draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kiLnphSmL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Indie comic artist David Arroyo draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zsdOghc0s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Click for bigger, or...-Matt]

[...just look here -Matt image comes from: BATMAN: LOTDK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #1
Collected in Batman: Haunted Knight. (Kevin, remember Kevin? he sent me this for "Hey! I KNOW that aardvark! and I just never got around to it...)]

Cerebus the Aardvark inspection
https://twitter.com/bighatdino/status/1246715799269789697

Cerebus binge
https://twitter.com/QuixoticComics/status/1247745985758892038

Cerebus inspired Seinfeld?
https://twitter.com/eldergarb/status/1246651453034414084

Dave Sim's house
https://twitter.com/jesse_hamm/status/1247748612689297408

Stephen Bissette and Dave Sim
https://twitter.com/Terence_Fuller/status/1247060894086987778

A great day
https://twitter.com/JossTincase/status/1246441626148487169

Cerebus' inner monologues
https://twitter.com/McGreedbottom/status/1248604253784092672

Cerebus actual aardvark specimen shared in Italian
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-jcrlBD20s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Spawn and Cerebus...
https://twitter.com/Comicfacts4/status/1248495477231734787

Spiderman and Cerebus in Spanish
https://twitter.com/KatView6/status/1248443827393826816

Cerebus the Marvel character in Spanish
https://twitter.com/Reymonografico/status/1248349635866918914

RIP Mort Drucker
https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1248318147100389376

Prince Mick in Cerebus shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-x0QDjhM3o/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus' rich experimentation
https://twitter.com/VanHeist2/status/1248279897287602176

Cerebus top 10 and letter
https://www.facebook.com/threefiftysevenofficial/posts/3353050264724849

Cerebus a favorite
https://twitter.com/maryboys1/status/1248230508401737730

Cerebus in Spanish review series
https://twitter.com/rafahighlander/status/1248180730431246336

Cerebus covid-19 attire
https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1247962730042134531

fries on the cover and in the belly

Cerebus Syndrome
https://twitter.com/ssgranor/status/1248885627988434946

CEREBUS FACEBOOK GROUP

Cerebus drawn by Martin Wagner of Hepcats fame

Cerebus and GI Joe cartoon series
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2884826001584756/

Cerebus cover
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2885896938144329/

Acclaimed comic series "Journey" published by Aardvark Vanaheim shared
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2884833931583963/

Cerebus Avengers-style
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2897590580308298/

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Thanks Oliver!

Next Time: SQUINTEYE!

Saturday, 11 April 2020

AMOC remembers Mort Drucker

Hi, Everybody!

ATTRACTIVE COUSINS #1 IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM DIAMOND!

ALSO VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK #1 IS STILL AVAILABLE TO ORDER!

And here's yer free CiH? More soon?

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As I said yesterday, Mort Drucker has passed away.

The late, Great, Mr. Drucker, aside from being one of, if not THE greatest caricaturists ever, has his DNA all over Cerebus. Here's Dave on Mr. Drucker from Following Cerebus #1:

Uh, the right hand column. Thanks to Brian West for helping me find this page.

And from Following Cerebus #3:

Again, thanks to Brian West for helping me find this.

And from Latter Days:

From the Notes on Latter Days: "There was a guy at Sparkle City Comics years ago who used to do ads in the Buyer's Guide with cartoon sheep, in a kind of quick-Sergio-Aragonés-style, so that was what I pictured in my head as being the "look" of this story as I was coming to the end of Form & Void. I stuck with that for the "crowd" scenes nd the littlest sheep but, once I had had a good look at what sheep actually look like, I used my more illustrative Mort Drucker caricature style as well, which I hadn't pictured doing." Dave Sim

Also, Latter Days:

I could literally post page after page after page of pages from Latter Days.

One of my favorite parodies from Mad Magazine, is the Return of the Jedi one Mr. Drucker did:

I don't know ho much of the "incidentals" were in the script, and how much Mr. Drucker just put in there, but I love all the "May the ______ be with you"s.

Next Time: Oliver!

Friday, 10 April 2020

O.W.'s grandson mails Dave (Dave's Weekly Update #334)

Hi, Everybody!

Heeeeeere's

Great new logo, right? Thanks Sean!

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ATTRACTIVE COUSINS #1 IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM DIAMOND!

ALSO VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK #1 IS STILL AVAILABLE TO ORDER!
And here's yer free CiH? More soon?

And in case you hadn't heard, Mort Drucker has passed away. (A tip of the shiny metal helmet to
Damian T. Lloyd for the link.) I'll talk more about how Mr. Drucker was an influence on Dave tomorrow, but for now, let's look at some Drucker art:

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Click for bigger. (I love the gags in the opener.)

Click for bigger.

And for the Star Wars fans (more of that tomorrow):

Uh Sean...what's that in the lower right hand corner? Are we gonna get sued over the Earth-2 Vark Wars ending?

And then a personal favorite of both Dave Sim and your humble Interim Editor (mainly because it's from the issue of Mad from my birth month (June 1979),) Animal House:

Next Time: More Drucker, and Sim!

It's Elizabeth Taylor's Wedding Anniversary!

Hi, Everybody!

On this day in 1975 Elizabeth Taylor got married:

Happy Anniversary Liz!

Next Time: Cheese.

Thursday, 9 April 2020

So I Can Dance Probably

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.

I was looking through the notebooks and wondering what I should post, and I saw a nice sketch of Jaka. So, I’m going with that. From notebook #8, which covers Cerebus #70 to 79. So yup, Jaka shows up:

Notebook #8, page 46

A couple sketches of Jaka, the title of issue #74, and a quick sketch of the lay out to page 3. While page 47 had a couple of head sketches of Jaka, I liked the next page better.

Notebook #8, page 48

A sketch of Jaka and Cerebus holding hands and some dialogue to go along with it. Looks like Dave also started to write down the issue numbers for the subsequent issues and their titles.

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