Saturday, 8 February 2025

Please Hold For Dave Sim 2/2025

Hi, Everybody!


Audio:

Video:

Part the first, I remember Jeff in a way that ties in to the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter, and Jeff's contribution to Vark Wars.
Part the second, Dave (and I) answer Jason Salzarulo's question(s) about Dave's thoughts on the situation in Gaza.
Part the third, Dave answers Kevin Birge's question:
Any thoughts on how current creators can overcome the problem of distribution as the industry contracts?
And anonymous who asked:
Off topic....but any idea how Diamonds Bankruptcy will effect AV?
Part the fourth, Dave and I discuss April's podcast episode featuring Dave.
And if you missed it, here's the episode:

Part the fifth, MJ Sewall, author and restauranter (when in historic Lompac California, visit Alfie's Fish & Chips. Mention to your server that you heard about Alfie's from Please Hold to receive complimentary water and a hug...) asks:
Where did your love of black and white art begin? Were you most influenced by Canadian Whites, Fanzine art, or Underground Comix? Or something entirely different?
Part the sixth, Michael Shelton asked:
So does Dave or Gerhard just randomly reread Cerebus?
Part the Seventh, Rob Snell asked:
Anyone have the backstory on Cerebus being on the cover of Mile High Comics catalog? I think this was the first time I saw Cerebus.

May be an illustration of text

May be an image of text

Part the eighth, Michael Shelton asked: 
Hey Dave, Michael Shelton here. My questions are "How would you rank each phonebook in terms of your personal enjoyment/satisfaction?" And "How would you rank each phonebook in terms with sales"
Part the nineth, from the Home Office in Easton, PA, Michael R. asked:
Hi Matt! Hopefully, you are keeping warm during this deep freeze we're having. Here's my question for Dave.

Hi Dave!
There are remastered single issues of Cerebus 1, 2, and 4. Will there ever be a remastered issue 3? Maybe you can Kickstart issue 3 with the next CAN and Cerebus In Hell?
Michael R.
Part the tenth thru part the twelfth will be up tomorrow (technical difficulties...)
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Friday, 7 February 2025

Level playing fields (Dave's weekly update #577)

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:

Great job by our backers reaching the Stretch Goal the day we announced it. We have passed the CAN 10 conclusion from last year, but we have fewer Backers. Hopefully with the threat of Tariffs removed those who have been waiting can join us for this one. We do want to note that the Tariffs are delayed until March 4. It would be a great thing if all Backers could get right on that Backer Survey as soon as it comes in. Dave has pre-printed some, perhaps all of the items.

Every Backer will receive all four Bacchus/Cerebus prints. We hope to have that fourth one soon to show it off.

One week left, hope to see you at the end!

I have it. I have all sorts of stuff.

Click for bigger

This is, as far as I know, a chase card prize.

Speaking of which:

AND, jumping Dave's gun, during tomorrow's Please Hold For Dave Sim (Early Access), Dave's gonna tell you you can buy these Stay-Flats (for the prices indicated on them).
Click for bigger:






The times listed are how long Dave spent on each drawing. "First come, first cervix" HOW ya can buy these are a Birdsong question. Ask here.

AND, since I can, here's the Stay-Flats that have sold (and the one that's a chase card reward), with a MOCK-UP of the label (made using CAN10 labels) as I was told:
Also how they look when the labels are on them.

For the CAN11 label - might be just a little smaller on the Bacchus/Cerebus images so it fits on the stayflat. We are still figuring that out.




Again, these HAVE SOLD, except the last one, which is "a Major Award"...
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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:
  • Saturday: I clean up some of the faxes laying around the ol' AMOC Faxy machine...
  • Sunday: How that Cerebus/Bacchus Stay-Flat came together.
  • Monday: Please Hold transcript from 2020. Also, The Monday Report.
  • Tuesday: Jen's posted all the Dave and Carson pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (except the Blue line ending to  Carson's version of SDOAR). Donate to The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe to see Dave's mock-ups for the next 400 pages (eventually). $190 until page 109 of Dave's POST-Carson SDOAR mock-up pages unlocks. 
  • Wednesday: Hobbs shares a Narutobus/CAN11 Kickstarter update.
  • Thursday: Margaret's IS done with Albatross One. If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here, anyway not knowing where to head next, Margaret has decided to go with the LAST notebook, from page one to the end...
  • 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.

Rigamarole:
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Josh Even has a new deal for the new year:
Happy New Year! Let’s make this the Year of the Earth Pig. I have recovered from the inaugural 2024 run of 30 ‘Deluxe’ Earth Pig Warriors.
I will start off 2024 by opening up orders for the 2025 ‘Basic Bitch’ Earth Pig Warrior.
Here’s the pricing. The two prices are for ‘unpainted’ and ‘painted’. ‘Painted’ for this run means painted heads and black-lined bodies- so the medallions swords will be the comic-style gray.
If you want gold or silver medallions or a gold & silver sword, that’s a bit extra.
Shipping to the US will be included. Shipping out of the continental US will be extra (determined at time of shipping).
All orders will come with a collector’s card and some stickers!
Basic figure (1 head, 1 pair hands- right grip/left fist, one gray sword) $90/$100. Choose from one of 4 available heads (see photo).
Extras:
Painted medallions (silver or gold) $5
Extra Head $10/$20
Hands $8/$10 - left grip/right fist or open pair
Painted sword (silver and gold) $20
Fabric Vest $20
Let’s see how this goes!
Direct message me to order.
Each order will need a $20 down payment to get going.
I’ll place an order with the printer at the end of a week if I have orders. Those will be completed in the order they are received.
Thanks everyone! Tell your friends!

If you click on Josh's name, it's supposed to take you to his Facebook post. But if that doesn't work, or you don't deal with Zuck the Fuck's bullcrap, you can always send an e-mail to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and I'll get you in touch with Josh. You can see a video of my 80s Earth-Pig Warrior here.
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Up to 35% off February 7-9 and 17-23.*
*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.
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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, the check made it to Dave and was cashed, *yay*, 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 is getting a Grail Page. I'm making sure Dave'll get a high quality scan. If you wanna buy this for me, I'll make sure Dave gets to see it in person...
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. Dave's cover to Bill's bio-comic Wanderland os available as a print on the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter. Just a head's up...
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The Last Day Without nothing.
   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.
   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque
   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques (one of these is a chase prize on the postcard packs available through the CAN11/Narutobus Kickstarter...)
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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: Please Hold For Dave Sim 2/2025.
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Thursday, 6 February 2025

Notebook 36: Cerebus #269 - 272

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’re continuing our look at Dave Sim’s final notebook used during the production of Cerebus, notebook #36. As I mentioned last week, many of these pages are blank. And if they’re not blank, they are mostly blank. Dave took the little issue number boxes and pasted them in the top corner of a notebook page and then gave himself typically three blank pages to write notes down for that issue. Many of the issues have no notes. Like our next page:

Notebook #36, page 10

Well, at least we get a sketch of a gagged and bound Cerebus. Because pages 11 & 12 are blank and then we get what would be a page for Cerebus #270:

Notebook #36, page 13

Then blank – not scanned – pages 14 and 15 before page 16, which would be a page for Cerebus #271:

Notebook #36, page 16

Yes, there are a lot of these pages in this final notebook. It was like Dave could see the ending and didn’t need to work through much of anything plot wise. But you’re tired of these type of very nearly blank pages? Well, surprise! There are more. After a blank and not scanned in page 17 and 18, we get the page for Cerebus #272:

Notebook #36, page 19

That is a lot of pages with not much to show for them. During this time Dave was doing a ton of tracing paper drawings instead. And I have one for Cerebus #272, page five – as always, click for larger:

Cerebus #272 page 5 and the tracing paper lay out for it

Yes, that is actually a copy of the issue, so the tracing paper is larger than the finished comic. Why? Because Dave could’ve used it for the 11” x 17” original art. At this point Dave was doing several sketches on tracing paper before putting pencil to the Bainbridge S-172 art board. As he said in the form letter sent to those who won a tracing paper from Cerebus #300:

". . .a finished drawing (that is, the final image that was transferred directly to the art board), a preliminary rough (an initial spontaneous sketch which was used as the foundation of the later more finished picture), a tightened rough (which was not an early spontaneous picture but which also wasn't the final image that was transferred directly to the art board), or a rejected rough (either an initial spontaneous sketch or a tightened rough which ended up not being used for the designated page and panel)."

Here is another for the cover to Cerebus #270:

Cerebus #270 tracing paper and comic

Both of these are folded in half, the full-page tracing paper is folded in quarters, and both have pencil on both sides, which indicates that used it on the finished page as he would do the drawing on one side and then flip it over and use pencil to transfer it to the art board. Perhaps next week if the notebook pages are blank, we’ll look at more tracing paper drawings.


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Wednesday, 5 February 2025

CAN11 and Narutobus Kickstarter... ONE WEEK LEFT!

Benjamin Hobbs:

There's only one week left of the CAN11 and Narutobus Kickstarter.  If you haven't backed it yet, you can do so HERE.

Currently the total raised is $19,546. David Birdsong posted this update to the Kickstarter:

EVERYBODY GETS PRINTS!

Great job by our backers reaching the Stretch Goal the day we announced it.  We have passed the CAN 10 conclusion from last year, but we have fewer Backers.  Hopefully with the threat of Tariffs removed those who have been waiting can join us for this one.  We do want to note that the Tariffs are delayed until March 4.  It would be a great thing if all Backers could get right on that Backer Survey as soon as it comes in.  Dave has pre-printed some, perhaps all of the items.  

If you would like to ask Dave a question about any of this you can send a message to "Manly" Matt Dow over at: momentofcerebus.blogspot.com  Get your question in before Thursday when Dave and Matt will be speaking.

Big shout out to Margaret Liss of the Cerebus Facebook Group and our man at X, Brian West for always getting the word out.

Every Backer will receive all four Bacchus/Cerebus prints.  We hope to have that fourth one soon to show it off.

One week left, hope to see you at the end!

Next Week The campaign will be over! Get ready to fill out your surveys! 

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Tuesday, 4 February 2025

SDoAR 3.05: New Page Unlocked & Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview Wraps Up

Thanks to Philip Berkheimer, we've unlocked another page for GoFundMe supporters! That makes 87 brand-new pages and 108 total pages if you include Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages that are on Dropbox for anyone who donates at least $5! More on those 21 pages in a moment.

Also, we are wrapping up The Strange Death of Alex Raymond previews with Dave's final mocked up/scripted pages. The rest of the story is primarily Carson's and if you want to see how he finished the hardcover, well, copies are available in a comic book store near you!

But don't panic, because those 21 mocked up pages from 2019 that I referenced above are on Dropbox and are Dave's continuation of the story directly following the pages below. So what are you waiting for? Check out the pages and if you still don't have access, why not donate to the GoFundMe so you can get access *and* Dave can keep working on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond!

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

  • $16,810.00 raised to date from 286 donations
  • 87 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 5 January 2022
  • 108 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
  • $190.00 away from unlocking page 108
  • If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 108 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 this is the beginning of Month Two of Year Three!

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 55

The following are links to previous updates that featured pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond hardcover. If you click on the links in order, you can begin to devour the magnum opus that is the Strange Death of Alex Raymond...
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, this, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, this, 
This, this, this, this, this, this, 
Then ...
Jen x
SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023 <<-- SDOAR GoFundMe
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