Turning Japanese (Dave's weekly update #551)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:

The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: Editing three hours of videos is a pain in the ass, so I FINISHED the 2019 Reread of High Society.
• Sunday: Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2024!
• Monday: The Monday Report and New Dave Art in the PHFDS 8/24 Afterparty.
• Tuesday: Jen's update for us on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.  Speaking of SDOARGFM, $78 until the next page is unlocked. And nobody wanted Cerebus #3, so she's added 5 and 6. Odds are 1 in 16 to win unless somebody bought more tickets. Details in Jen's post...
• Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking AI versions of AV characters. This week Death with the WRONG number of floating gems...
• Thursday: Margaret continues GIVING away the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1 for FREE! We're trying to sell the FIVE extra copies that are at Camp David Mags! And. You're. Just. GIVING! It. Away... See here if you wanna physical copy. 
• Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)

Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.

And now, back to Bizness as unusual:

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

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Heritage has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. What are the odds I'll be able to win one? If you guessed "0", you win. Not a page of original Cerebus Art, ain't nobody 'round here got that kind of money, but you get the "prize" of being able to predict certainties...

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 9-11 and August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: If you got three bucks and wanna help Dave out...

Notebook One: Cerebus #25 Part One

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.

Maybe instead of rewriting this opener every week, I’ll be a bit more efficient with my use of time and have this standard opening . . .though Boss Man saying I'm giving the notebook away for free, I see it as a way of advertising all the good stuff in the notebook, and wouldn't it be easier to have a hard copy to flip through and read at your own leisure? 

Have you got your copy of Albatross One? That is Dave Sim’s name for his first notebook used in the creation of Cerebus. If you want a copy of the notebook – and trust me, as someone who has held the actual Albatross One, it is a pretty close duplicate and looks great – you can check out this post right here. Well not this post. The one at this link. Go check it out, this post will still be here.

And if you don’t want to buy one, you can wait as I release a couple of pages a week and check them out using the Notebook One tag. But trust me, the notebook is much much nicer then my silly little posts.

Okay, now that is done, on with this week’s Notebook One post.

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Last week it appeared that we finished up Dave’s material for Cerebus #24 that is in his first Cerebus notebook, Albatross One with page 112. Pages #113 – 117 were already featured in “The Notebook Pages for The Challenge”. You can also see pages #118 and #124 in “The Way to Sannozay”.

So up next is page 119.

Notebook 1, page 119

Not much of this dialogue between Cerebus and Madam DuFort Professor Charles X. Claremont makes it to the finished Cerebus #25 issue, but there is a bit near the top left:

Cerebus: There’s a word missing.

Professor Claremont: Precisely the point, my friend. He who conjures the beast conjures the power.

In the book that turns into:

Cerebus: There’s a word missing.

Professor Claremont: Exactly! He who manages to harness the beast decides what that word is. . .”

 And then he talks what happened when ‘nothing’ was the first word chosen.

There is a sketch of the two riding on the back of Woman Thing. In the finished comic, they ride in a box that has a harness around Woman Thing’s neck and is in the front. Down the bottom Dave starts a list of items for the pages, and we see page 1 through 4 listed. On the next page of the notebook, Dave continues with page 5 and goes to page 8:

Notebook 1, page 120

The comment down the bottom of the page: “It’s Suenteus’ Po’s original apocalypse beast” isn’t used. Instead the Sump Thing is “Lord Rothsump’s Sump Thing”. We don’t get to see the close-ups of the Artist Chap’s castle either with the skulls on the parapet. 

The Men of Cerebus: AI edition: Part One: DEATH

 Benjamin Hobbs:

David Birdsong prompted the AI to make A-V's Death. Here's what it came up with:

Next Week: The AI and Birdsong team up to bring you ELROD!

SDoAR 2.32: TWO New Pages; 1 in 16 Chance to Win Cerebus #3, 5, 6!

$420 raised in the past week, with 16 raffle tickets sold, and *two* pages unlocked! 

That means you have less than two weeks get in on the action for Cerebus #3, 5, and 6! 

Odds are currently 1 in 16 chance of winning!

Rules to win Cerebus #3, #5 and #6, and Help Out SDoAR

Entries (or our equivalent of raffle tickets) cost $25 each and can be donated via lump sum to the Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024 GoFundMe campaign through Monday, August 19, 2024 at midnight, PST.

I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry  have Dave pull yet another Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on August 20, 2024. 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $14,122.00 raised to date from 240 donations
• 74 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 13 December 2021
• 95 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
• $78.00 away from unlocking page 96
• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 95 pages and all pages moving forward
• If you have donated, thank you, but if you want to donate monthly, GoFundMe does not offer that option, so please do so as we are at the beginning of month #8 of Year 2.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part Thirty-One

This, 

This, this, 

This, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this,

This, this, this, this,

Then... 

Ciao!

xx

Jen

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023 <<-- SDOAR GoFundMe

Please Hold Afterparty 8/2024 Edition (New-ish Dave Art!)

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays!

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Please Hold Afterparty Time! Wherein I post the bits from the videos that non-listeners might be interested in:

Maybe I'll even explain what the hell these thing are...

NEW DAVE ART!
Here's the Ninja High School crossover pages I've snagged so far (click for bigger):

Speaking of, 

So  Dave mentioned that he needed an Alex Raymond dog for Strange Death of Alex Raymond and the IDW printing sucks. So I  did a little google-goo:

I faxed them up to Dave, and he responded:

Yay! Happy Ending!

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

__________________________

Heritage has FOUR pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. What are the odds I'll be able to win one? If you guessed "0", you win. Not a page of original Cerebus Art, ain't nobody 'round here got that kind of money, but you get the "prize" of being able to predict certainties...

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 6-11 and August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: Jen's gonna get you, and your little dog too!

Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2024

Hi, Everybody!

First Saturday of the month, Please Hold Time:

Audio:

Video:

Part 1: Dave and I do our “hi, how are ya?s”  and I remember Jeff Seiler

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Part 2: Dan F. has a question about Narutobus and the TMNT/Naruto crossover

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Part 3: MJ Sewall has a question about Art

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Part 4: Michael R. of Easton, PA has a question about the cover of Women

Part 5: Daniel F. wants to know how much Dave made from the Humble Bundle

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Part 6: MJ (Mike) Sewall has a question about Dave's CANAR interviews

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Part 7: Steve has a question about the 11th and 12th printings of High Society

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Part 8: Christon wants to know if Dave will ever do regular Cerebus stories again

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Part 9: Chris W. has a question about Neil Gaiman's recent troubles. It's a can of worms...

Whooo-doggy that took forever.

See ya tomorrow for the "Post-Game"...

I'm busy, so here's the end of High Society

 Hi, Everybody!

I'ma supposed to be posting Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2024, but I'm not done making all the videos and getting them on YouTube. I'll have them done for tomorrow. 

Promise.

To make it up to Everybody, here's the End of the High Society portion of the 2019 Reread:

First. Then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then. And then (click for bigger):

Okay, back to listening to the sound of my own voice...

Next Time:

Captain Atom: Ditko at Charlton (Dave's weekly update #550)

Hi, Everybody!

Like it says on the Logo:

The little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

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

SnyderandDitko@icloud.com or here. Or, if you're okay with funding Bezos' cock rockets.

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: I got mail!
• Sunday: We're SO close to the end of High Society in the 2019 Reread...
• Monday: The Monday Report and Anonymous had a question that has been answered multiple times...
• Tuesday: Jen's update for us on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.  Speaking of SDOARGFM, $98 until the next page is unlocked. And nobody wanted Cerebus #3, so she's added 5 and 6.
• Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking at the End of Humanity.
• Thursday: Margaret continues GIVING away the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1 for FREE! We're trying to sell the FIVE extra copies that are at Camp David Mags! And. You're. Just. GIVING! It. Away... See here if you wanna physical copy. 
• Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (Should I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things?)

Okay, so that was the past week in AMOC. You're welcome.

And now, back to Bizness as unusual:

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

__________________________

Heritage has FOUR pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. What are the odds I'll be able to win one? If you guessed "0", you win. Not a page of original Cerebus Art, ain't nobody 'round here got that kind of money, but you get the "prize" of being able to predict certainties...

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 6-11 and August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video".

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Next Time: Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2024 if I can get all three hours of videos edited and on the YouTubes... Wish me luck!

Notebook One: Cerebus #24 Part Nine

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.

Maybe instead of rewriting this opener every week, I’ll be a bit more efficient with my use of time and have this standard opening . . .though Boss Man saying I'm giving the notebook away for free, I see it as a way of advertising all the good stuff in the notebook, and wouldn't it be easier to have a hard copy to flip through and read at your own leisure? 

Have you got your copy of Albatross One? That is Dave Sim’s name for his first notebook used in the creation of Cerebus. If you want a copy of the notebook – and trust me, as someone who has held the actual Albatross One, it is a pretty close duplicate and looks great – you can check out this post right here. Well not this post. The one at this link. Go check it out, this post will still be here.

And if you don’t want to buy one, you can wait as I release a couple of pages a week and check them out using the Notebook One tag. But trust me, the notebook is much much nicer then my silly little posts.

Okay, now that is done, on with this week’s Notebook One post.

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Last week we left off on page 108 of Dave Sim’s first notebook used during the publication of Cerebus. That page was a wall of text with Dave annotating it with circled numbers indicating which page he thought the item would be on. And those numbers on page 108 ended with 17.  So what happened to #18 through 20? Well, they’re on page 109:

Notebook #1, page 109

Then down at the bottom of the page, we see yet another rehashing of the plot for pages #1 through 15 for Cerebus #24.  We also see a note for Cerebus #25: “Town has Sepran soldiers housed in it.” Flip the page to #110 and we get the notes for #s 13 through 20, and then a bit more on Cerebus #25:

Notebook #1, page 110

The item marked as Cerebus #25 on this page is “Cerebus is headed for a farmhouse near Fluroc. He has five bags of gold hidden under the floor boards. Remember? #17?” This does make page one of Cerebus #25, but as this line: “…His curiosity about the apocalypse beast woman-thing and Professor Charles X’s Plan compels him to take the longer route to the eight bags of g old he had hidden beneath the floorboards of a small farmhouse near Fluroc. . .”

We also get a sketch of Madam DuFort Professor Charles X. Claremont, and a quote from what appears to be Cerebus “That reminds Cerebus of a Borealan saying ‘People with porcelain armour shouldn’t initiate military confrontations.” Then near the bottom of page we get yet another recap of plot points for Cerebus #24. Though Dave has numbered only #1 through 8. And yes, that is what continues on the next page.

Notebook #1, page 111

Though in all of this text, only two numbers appear: #11 & 12. The text in the middle is the dialogue between Cerebus and Theresa talking about Elrod’s rescuing of a kid in a bunny suit. But then she continues on about Elrod visiting the school, but Dave leaves this out of the finished issue:

Believe, M’Sieu? Elrod himself broke bread in this very house not more than a year ago. And t old us these stories swearing on his oath as an officer and a swordsman and a gentleman of royal blood that every word was true. Well, I guess there’s no denying a first hand report indeed M’Sieu. Quite so! 

Going to the next page, I think we are finally done with Cerebus #24 material.

Notebook #1, page 112

A quick sketch of Cerebus laying in bed with a grimace on his face as he tries to sleep over the ‘schluk schlock schluck’ noises. Up at the top of the page Dave wrote the notes: Portfolio. Outtakes. Pigeon scene from #21. Skulls from #15.

If you’re curious about pages #113 through #117, check out “The Notebook Pages for The Challenge”. You can also see pages #118 and #124 in “The Way to Sannozay”.