Hi, Everybody!
Might as well get it out of the way, right away:
Here's the deal:
Sale ends when Dave decides to cut the cord. Or when we all vote to cut the cord. Or when Eddie tells Dave to tell George to cut the cord.
We never really decided, but you have until AT LEAST next Saturday (5/14/2022).
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Yesterday, while YOU listened to/watched
Please Hold For Dave Sim, I FINALLY got to
Powers Comics, 2180 S Ridge Rd #2, Green Bay, WI 54304, and emptied my pull file of ALL the Cerebus in Hell? comics and Swords of Cerebus in Hell? trades that have been waiting for me for almost a year...
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I ALSO got:
As Powers owner Dave Powers said to me when I started to look through my stack:
"I don't know why there's two copies, are you sure you want both?"
Well, I checked the first one:
And started laughing. And told him "the reason there are two copies is that this one is a misprint and was supposed to be destroyed:"
Don't worry Sean and Carson, he gave it to me for free.
So know I have:
glamourpuss #1-26
The California Fundraising Edition
The complete Living the Line Kickstarter Edition
The Preliminary Strange Death (the tracing paper book from Sean from the Strange Death Kickstarter)
The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Mockups (also from the SDOAR Kickstarter)
And the volume three mock-ups I stole before they caught on and limited my access to the backstage area. Ya wanna see a page? Ok, Margaret, but JUST ONE:
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SPEAKING of Sean Robinson's Living The Line, they're having a sale:
The Living the Line store is having a 20 percent off sale for the next seven days! This includes ALL items in the store, including all my remaining inventory of You Don't Know Jack, the two remaining Blue Meanies Strange Death remarqued copies, The SDOAR Tracing Paper and layout book remaining copies, and more.
Only a few copies remaining on most of these titles, so now's the time!
They posted this yesterday, but the sale goes through the 15th.
AND, Living The Line ALSO send out:
Plaza by Yokoyama Yuichi
Coming soon to comic shops, book stores, and a certain crowd-funding platform near you…
Hello everyone!
Sean Robinson here dropping you a quick line to let you know that the maniacal PLAZA by Yokoyama Yuichi is rolling ever-closer!
The current release date is for comic stores and direct orders from us in late September, followed by book stores in mid October. The book will be listed in Previews in June, and we’ll be running a direct-sales campaign concurrently, with exciting items exclusive to the campaign.
Below you can take a look at the press release for the book, which includes some pull-quotes from some of the cartoonists who have taken a look at a digital preview of the book.
Keep your eye out for more news soon, including our campaign launch for the book!
All the best,
Sean Michael Robinson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Publicist, Living the Line
LivingtheLineBooks.com livingthelinepublishing@gmail.com
April 2022 Visionary Cartoonist Yokoyama Yuichi is Back with PLAZA, a Maniacal Manga Extravaganza! Art and literature historians of the future will be flabbergasted that Yokoyama Yuichi existed in our time. He is a visionary on the level of William Blake. PLAZA is a parade of invention, set to the beat of turning pages.
— Dash Shaw (Cryptozoo, Discipline) "PLAZA is the purest expression yet of Yokoyama's unmatched style. A circus for the eyes, this book is a magic trick disguised as a graphic novel, one that reminds us of the medium's limitless power."
—Matt Seneca, cartoonist/comics critic A dazzling sensory barrage of speeding lines and swoops! Witness the torrent of joyous spectacle, the inner workings of a cosmic parade machine!
—Lale Westvind, (Grand Electric Thought Power Mother, Grip) Living the Line Books is proud to present the latest from avant-garde manga artist Yokoyama Yuichi, the stunning PLAZA, coming to book stores and comic shops internationally in September of 2022. Bigger, bolder, and louder than ever before, neo-manga artist Yokoyama Yuichi is back with PLAZA! Inspired by Carnaval in Brazil, PLAZA offers a maniacal extravaganza of marching, dancing, leaping, firing, cheering, smashing, and exploding over the course of 225 eye-and-eardrum-confounding pages. Originally published in Japan in 2019, this oversize English edition of PLAZA brings to full, hyper-animated life the spectacular graphic art of this genre-defying work of avant-garde comics. Yokoyama Yuichi is Japan's leading creator of avant-garde comics. Born in 1967, he studied painting in art school, then turned to manga in the late 1990s. Characterized by modernist abstraction, sparse dialogue, oversize sound effects, obsessive movement and speed, and a wry sense of humor, Yokoyama's "neo-manga" cross the boundary between art and comics. Among his many books are New Engineering (2004), Travel (2006), Garden (2007), Outdoors (2009), Baby Boom (2009), World Map Room (2013), Iceland (2016), and Plaza (2019). His works have been extensively translated, and have featured in museum exhibitions in Japan and around the world. He has been nominated for an Eisner award, and is a two-time LA Times Book Prize finalist. This English-language edition of PLAZA, translated by noted manga scholar Ryan Holmberg, also includes the most extended and informative interview with the artist to date. PLAZA will be available internationally through Diamond Comics, Diamond UK, and Diamond Book Distribution. Art samples and preview PDFs for PLAZA are available upon request. |
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And, going back to Please Hold, Eddie let me know:
Hey Matt,
Rolly usually sends me a complete list of the AV inventory every few months. Last time he checked there were 1140 COLLECTED LETTERS 2004, 13 ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SP, and 12 CEREBUS GUIDE TO SP
So if you need any of that, send Dave money...
More information as I get it...
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The offer still stands at $5,528.11, but a new update has arrived, courtesy of Eddie Khanna:
Hi Matt. We thought this might be something you'd want to post on AMOC and the Facebooks.
So Sean, Dave and I have been quickly coordinating with getting useable hi-rez scans of upcoming CEREBUS artwork for sale from a particularly prominent High-End Auction Site, and we have a fan of the work who is willing to actually go to the site and do the scanning for us (for which we are ALL VERY GRATEFUL), since the auction house doesn’t do hi-rez scanning on behalf of others.
However, this does involve buying and shipping a new Sean Robinson approved scanner that can be used for this situation and whenever it arises in the future when more artwork comes on the market through the site.
Total cost of the scanner plus shipping was $1,022. So anyone who wants to chip in and help defray the costs to AV, feel free to help by Paypalling Sean through seanmichaelrobinson@gmail.com and be sure to click on “Friends and Family”, and AV will reimburse for the remainder.
So far we have $600 (!) donated towards the scanner. If we somehow get more than required, the extra money will go towards payment of our volunteer’s expenses and time.
-Eddie
I do believe that you fine folks have contributed a THOUSAND dollars towards the scanner...
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Heritage, pretty much has the best Cerebus Original Art deals available...
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Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.
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Oliver's Cerebus movie:
The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "
Plex", "
Xumo", "
Vimeo On Demand", "
Tubi".
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
May 11-15
26-30
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: Monday Report, and all this again.
