A MOMENT OF CEREBUS

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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is running a new Kickstarter for his band The Fright Watch. Mentioning it in case any of you are interested.

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Hey, look what Heritage has.

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Up to 35% off site-wide:

August 18 – 21

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!

Next Time: I'm sure Oliver has "the goods"...

Friday, 13 August 2021

Youngest Cerebus fan? (Dave's Weekly Update #403)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

Everybody say "Aww". Aww

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"Dave S" emailed me:

Hey Matt,

Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.

These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Monday.

Thanks,

DS

(Click for bigger Mags...)

AND:

Hey Matt,

Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.

These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Tuesday.

Thanks,
DS

And then, Dave faxed me:

And then:

Hey Matt,

Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.

These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Thursday.

The packages have been dropped off at Packaging Too today!!!!!!!

Thanks,
DS

Or, as lil' Davey Birdsong put it:

Thursday, 12 August 2021

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.

Dave Sim’s fifteenth notebook covers Cerebus #118 through 122 and had 98 pages scanned. We last saw a couple pages from it in The Locked Door Opened from September of 2019.

On page 59 of the notebook there are two sketches that each take up half of the page.

Notebook #15, page 59

The sketch on the top of the page shows Oscar and Rick on the couch with some dialogue:

It smells like Jaka’s cinnamon buns.
It considered itself flattered.

There is also an issue box number for issue #122 in the upper left corner. However, the only page that looks similar to this page is in Cerebus #121. Page four:

Cerebus #121, page 4, aka Jaka’s Story page 156

The bottom section of the notebook page shows a sketch that would become the cover to Cerebus #121 – a few of Oscar’s fireplaces from his couch:

Cerebus #121 cover

Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Swords of CIH? Volume 9... Decisions, decisions!

Benjamin Hobbs:

Volume 9 of Swords of Cerebus In Hell? is the first volume that's been REALLY difficult to decide who to put on the cover. The Options were Silver Cerebus, Vark Thing, or the Varking Dead.

I ruled out Silver Cerebus because the other two options are more dynamic.

The Varking Dead fits really well on both the Hardcover and the dust jacket:

However, since the covers are printed on a digital printer, I'd have to remove the tone from the Varking Dead figure and that would be... time consuming.

I started to de-tone the image. There's more tiny little lines on this drawing than any other Cerebus image I've de-toned. I was using a 3 pixel brush to get into those hard to reach areas. As a point of reference, I generally use a 15 pixel brush.

Vark Thing looks good on the cover, but the image cuts off at the shoulders and sort of just ends abruptly at the spine of the book. (He could be a little wider the dust jacket.)

Let me know which you'd prefer in the comments: Vark Thing or Varking Dead!

Next Week: More Dust Jacket fun!

Tuesday, 10 August 2021

"OH YES...CEREBUS HAS ANGUISHED OVER IT FOR WEEKS..."

Hi, Everybody!

In honor of Hobbs and Mrs. Hobbs marriage last Saturday, (if you wanna get the loely coupe something, how's about filling out you survey for the latest Kickstarter?,) I was gonna post Cerebus' three weddings. But the first one was never shown, the second one is REALLY creepy in the context of The Hobbs's marriage, and the third one I've already posted this year...

Buuuutttt since I already have the first marriage sized and Blog ready...

For more, get Church & State Volume 1 here.

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Cerebus in Hell?,

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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is running a new Kickstarter for his band The Fright Watch. Mentioning it in case any of you are interested.

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Hey, look what Heritage has. (New stuff. Click it. CLICK IT!)

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Up to 35% off site-wide:

August 18 – 21

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!

Next Time: Hobbs and the Wedding photos!!!

Monday, 9 August 2021

Photos of Dave...AND CAN9!

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays:

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I got an email from Dave:

Hey Matt,

Here are some photos from Dave that can go on the website.

These photos are from putting the portfolios together from KS CAN9 taken on Friday.

Thanks,
DS

And these photos!

So there ya go, THAT Kickstarter is closer to completion...

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Kickstarter on the other hand...

Sean posted:

In Search of an ETA
Hello backers!

This is just a quick update to the situation with the misprinted books.

As mentioned in previous updates, the entire run was misprinted by the printer-- four pages towards the end of the book missing an entire color plate, leaving these pages with just a bit of black printing.

As mentioned before, these pages were IN the proof correctly. The error was a rather improbable one made by the printer's prepress staff, and than missed by the press person.

We have yet to receive an ETA for the corrected books, but the printer IS making progress. By my suggestion, they're looking into some options (letterpress, flexistamp) for manually adding the blue plates back into copies where this is missing. If they find an acceptable solution, they would only need to reprint a portion of the run.

Lastly, please be aware there are misprints in circulation at some Diamond stores, because of the failure of the printer to stop shipment (see previous updates). Diamond has requested that retailers destroy these copies, for which they will receive reimbursement. Please, if you see copies "in the wild", let us know the name of the store, and I will contact them, or let them know yourself, kindly please. I made a dozen of these calls on Friday, and had almost uniformly pleasant conversations with very understanding folks who had just missed the recall message from Diamond.

We REALLY want you guys to get your books, but every effort is being made to make sure that when the books DO show up, they are as good as they can possibly be.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding during this trying experience!

All the best,
Sean
p.s. Carson and I had a discussion this week about the moral imperatives of publishers, in which I wave around one of the misprint copies of the book. Check it out here, at about 26 minutes into the feed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLInJl86NGU

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Cerebus in Hell?,

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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is running a new Kickstarter for his band The Fright Watch. Mentioning it in case any of you are interested.

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Hey, look what Heritage has. (New stuff. Click it. CLICK IT!)

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Up to 35% off site-wide:

August 18 – 21

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!

Next Time: I dunno, some Cerebus crap or another...

Sunday, 8 August 2021

Cerebus Around the World and Web #92 by Oliver Simonsen

Oliver Simonsen:

Forbes calls "Strange Death of Alex Raymond" a masterpiece
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/posts/4221438914590118/
Due to printing delays the piece will be back up to sync with the release, which was very kind of Forbes

at 25:59 Carson Grubaugh and Sean Robinson discuss Strange Death misprint and the ethical obligations of a publisher
https://youtu.be/PLInJl86NGU
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPMJUmrTiD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"Cerebus in hell?" spotlighted
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCrdJsJsge/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

British Journalist Award winner predicts that eventually a movie company will do Cerebus
https://twitter.com/CarlEveCrime/status/1423706326132219904

Dave Sim's NDA Cerebus videogame idea
https://twitter.com/SaraRos30415186/status/1423363434729467910
https://twitter.com/CerebusFilm/status/1423402375356686339

Computer modeling helped make Cerebus comic
https://twitter.com/MomentOfCerebus/status/1421849990532673543

Gerhard Sketching
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/posts/4222282414505768/

Cerebus for pope panel shared
https://twitter.com/hierodula/status/1423248769563467781

Cerebus Pope T-shirt in Thailand
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPMcHdh2xF/

Comic Store Owner Mimi Cruz still has her Cerebus Pope T-shirt after 33+ years and says it one of the best T-shirts ever made
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCNdc0LjGh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Portuguese site praises High Society
https://twitter.com/Comix_Revenge/status/1422894437269741569

I finish this column Saturday mornings so here is from last Sunday: Margaret's name in Russian as a special thanks with the release of issue 10... there is no new Russian edition of Cerebus issue #11 yet, but they've been keeping a pretty tight weekly schedule so I predict that by the time this goes live.... (psst that's your cue, Matt:))
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/posts/4212312175502792/

[Okay. Here's Cerebus #11 in Russian: https://twitter.com/Mostcus/status/1424340063765340167 -Matt]

Cerebus minis (in Russian)
https://twitter.com/Mostcus/status/1422224251277520896

German podcast spotlights Spawn and Cerebus crossover
https://twitter.com/ComicRama/status/1421720921467916291

Cerebus Syndrome and South Park (in Spanish)
https://twitter.com/mccarl1993/status/1423344691504947201

Cerebus Syndrome and Centaurworld
https://twitter.com/gamepopper/status/1421970483659132931

Nate Lovett draws Cerebus and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles commission for Joshua Even
https://twitter.com/natelovett/status/1422694250542772224
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIjfx4M0bI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIUYwzs_Qj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Ryan G. Browne draws Cerebus and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles commission for Joshua Even (click link for slideshow)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKvksesEar/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skateboard bu Tokka almost done
https://twitter.com/tOkka/status/1422542392956174349
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSHPPkbACKD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus' domain
https://twitter.com/whitney18963282/status/1423800236330393602

Cerebus in rerun syndication
https://twitter.com/HeroHobbiesATX/status/1422564220709871623

Cerebus a popular indie comic
https://twitter.com/mikeybrowntat2/status/1423879998855950336

Cerebus is favorite american indie comic
https://twitter.com/feelvibezone/status/1423872102667407360

Cerebus on the plate for a clutch hit in the 9th (something something sports i'm guessing?:))
https://twitter.com/cerebusdaenerys/status/1422685806678978564

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Thanks Oliver!

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Cerebus in Hell?,

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Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters is running a new Kickstarter for his band The Fright Watch. Mentioning it in case any of you are interested.

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Hey, look what Heritage has. (New stuff. Click it. CLICK IT!)

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