NEW Dave Sim ART...AGAIN!

Benjamin Hobbs:

Here's another piece of NEW Dave Sim Art from the pages of The Amicable Spider-Vark Annual #1, due out July 2020!

Next Week: More Spider-Vark goodness!

Positives, It's all Positives Around Here

Sean Michael Robinson:

Hello all!

Cerebus uber-fan and collector Steve Swenson recently sent me some very interesting images of a few items in his collection, and I thought I'd pass them on to you all.

I'm sure you recognize the image, but any guesses as to what the actual objects are?

Above, you can see Steve's hand as he demonstrates how all three of these pieces of film interact. Yes, you guessed it, these are color positives made by Preney Print & Litho for the purposes of proofing the cover of Cerebus Issue #26.

After they shot the artwork for the cover, they would have used these printed color separations to take a look at the cover without having to make any plates. In this case, given the additional elements that needed to be added and given they had just taken over the printing of the book, I'm guessing that this was both a demonstration to their new client of the separations, and possibly also a tool to aid the stripper in adding in the additional elements (logo, issue number, etc).

Just for fun (and for Steve!), here's the elements added back together in Photoshop, using "Multiply" as the blending mode, so you can see how the image progressed. Note, this process isn't perfect, as the different transparencies were scanned at slightly different exposures...

Here's the black plate only:

And now the magenta added on top of the black:

Adding the cyan now:

And finally, the yellow on top!

Whenever  we get to the end of the Cerebus restoration project, and I finally get to put together the long-fabled Cerebus "Miscellaneous" volume, I'll be doing this process many, many times, as I use the existing Epic production negatives to recreate the pages that we don't have original art scans for. As opposed to these color positives, those are actually negatives, each neg representing a black-on-clear toned image. Should be fun (or "FUN")! :)

Thank you to Steve for sending these images, and for his many years of help and nerdy printer watercooler chat!

The Ol' AMOC Mailbags got ol' comics...

Hi, Everybody!

The ol' AMOC Mailbag got the following from Will Collier:

I was flipping through some scans of Howard Chaykin’s “American Flagg!” series from the mid-80’s (which heavily, um, influenced a great many comics and movies and movie comics since) from First Comics.  Along the way I ran across the attached columns, a “History of Independent Comics,” which referenced Dave and Cerebus early on, and then included direct interviews with Dave and Deni.  Aarvark-Vanaheim also ran ads in some First books back then, and I’ve included one of those ads from 1984 as well.
Best,
—Will Collier

Click to make it big enough to read.

Click to see it big

Click to, COME ON! IT"S THE THIRD ONE...

Thanks Will!
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COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. (Ya know, without the Carmen Miranda outfit...)) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Dave and David And Davjamin... er, Benjamin, and Sean the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is the next one coming,)? Well, we've got you covered.

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too.

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you want this:

Bidding's at $19.88 (USD), thanks to Larry Wooten! (Unless John Christian's $40 bid IS for Please Hold art, and not for:)

New Dave Sim art!

Which Seiler has bid Fifty dollars USD for. (Must be nice to be loaded...)

If you want EITHER the Please Hold art, OR the New Cerebus art, feel free to comment here, OR send a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com and say "I WANT __________! And I bid ______! GIMME GIMME GIMME!" and fill in the first blank with which art you want, and the second blank with what you're willing to pay for it.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here. 

All the Postcard from Hell? #2 surveys are in, and the cards are at the printers. Maybe they're even in the mail, I don't know, nobody tells me anything...

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You could click those links, or these: Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah (must be nice to have options...)

Next Time: Blues Clues! (Yeah, I don't know what it means either...)

It's Father's Day!

Hi, Everybody!

This:

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. (Ya know, without the Carmen Miranda outfit...)) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Dave and David And Davjamin... er, Benjamin, and Sean the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is the next one coming,)? Well, we've got you covered.

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too.  

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you want this:Bidding's at $19.88 (USD), thanks to Larry Wooten! (Unless John Christian's $40 bid IS for Please Hold art, and not for:)

New Dave Sim art!

Which Seiler has bid Fifty dollars USD for. (Must be nice to be loaded...)

If you want EITHER the Please Hold art, OR the New Cerebus art, feel free to comment here, OR send a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com and say "I WANT __________! And I bid ______! GIMME GIMME GIMME!" and fill in the first blank with which art you want, and the second blank with what you're willing to pay for it. 

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here.  

All the Postcard from Hell? #2 surveys are in, and the cards are at the printers. Maybe they're even in the mail, I don't know, nobody tells me anything... 

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You could click those links, or these: Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah (must be nice to have options...) 

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Anyway, it's the Father's Day! And like the Mother's Day before it, here's some "Daddy" Cerebus:

Does that "count" as "Daddy" Cerebus?

How about Cerebus' Dad?

I mean that's pretty much the most we "saw" of Cerebus' dad.

I know, The REAL "Daddy" Cerebus:

I own Gerhard's original tracing paper drawing of that rowboat...

Happy Mother Fucker's Day to all you Mother Fuckers!!!

Next Time: The Ol' AMOC Mailbag comes bearing gifts...

Two, count 'em, TWO, Dave interviews. (One old, one new)

Hi, Everybody!

*inhale*

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. (Ya know, without the Carmen Miranda outfit...)) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Dave and David And Davjamin... er, Benjamin, and Sean the monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is the next one coming,)? Well, we've got you covered.

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too. 

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you want this:

Bidding's at $19.88 (USD), thanks to Larry Wooten! (Unless John Christian's $40 bid IS for Please Hold art, and not for:)

New Dave Sim art!

Which Seiler has bid Fifty dollars USD for. (Must be nice to be loaded...)

If you want EITHER the Please Hold art, OR the New Cerebus art, feel free to comment here, OR send a message to momentofcerebus@gmail.com and say "I WANT __________! And I bid ______! GIMME GIMME GIMME!" and fill in the first blank with which art you want, and the second blank with what you're willing to pay for it.

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here. 

All the Postcard from Hell? #2 surveys are in, and the cards are at the printers. Maybe they're even in the mail, I don't know, nobody tells me anything...

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You could click those links, or these: Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah (must be nice to have options...)

*exhale*

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Friend to the Blog Tom Palmer (you guys remember Tom Palmer, right?) sent in:

Hi Matt!
I forgot to send this one to you when I posted it a few weeks ago. I attended the second Small Press Expo back in the day and wrote about it for Wizard #50. Here's the link to my blog post about it in case you want to run it on A Moment of Cerebus:
http://palmerspicks.com/wizard-50-small-press-expo-1995/
Also, next Tuesday, I'm going to post my Q&A with Dave from Wizard #58, including some stuff that was left on the cutting room floor.

Here's a professionally edited image from Tom's post.

 I just used the part with the Dave interview, but over at Tom's blog, he's got all kinds of neat behind the scenes stuff, and the complete article that has more Dave quotes. I'd click the link if I was you. CLICK THE DAMN LINK!!!
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And then, Keith Callbeck shared on the Cerebus Facebook group that Part Two of the We Talk Comics interview with Dave is up. They got a link to part one, but so do I.

Next Time: Daddy!!!

More penciling, more inking, more auctions...(Dave's Weekly Update #291)

Hi, Everybody!

COMIC LINK AUCTIONS!!! Where you can get: a Platinum edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS, and DAVE SIM, with a NEAL ADAMS Superman stamp. OR, a Gold edition of Birthday card #1 signed by NEAL ADAMS and DAVE SIM with NO STAMP. Or, OR, a print of the Cover to GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL #1 (Pretend you're Seiler. Impress your friends. Make your enemies super-jealous,) there are three of them, but one of them shall be mine! (Ya know, as long as none of you guys got more money than me...)

Wanna give Dave and David And Davjamin... er, Benjamin, and Sean monies, but don't wanna deal with the hassle of going to a comicbook store and tracking down a copy of the latest Cerebus in Hell? One-Shot (The LGBTQetc. People is the next one coming,)? Well, we've got you covered.

If you're in the market to dress like Dave Sim, you can buy a "Matt D's A Moment of Cerebus" t-shirt right here. Or, if you're one of those nostalgia buffs who likes the earlier funnier A Moment Of Cerebus posts, the Tim W. Logo is available too. 

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

If you want this:

UPDATE: Bidding's at EIGHTEEN bucks, thanks to Larry Wooten! (Thanks Larry!) (All the money goes to Dave, I get nothing. (By choice.))

If you got a couple of extra bucks and want to do a fellow Cerebus fan a solid, Friend of the Blog Mike Battaglia has a go fund me here. 

All the Postcard from Hell? #2 surveys are in, and the cards are at the printers. 

If you're looking for Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah, or Conversations. You got more than one way to behead a Borelean, Conversations, and Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah
 
Oh, yeah, and heeeeeere's Dave: 

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

Let's look at what you can get in the NEXT GREAT A MOMENT OF CEREBUS ORIGINAL ART AUCTION (Who thinks Seiler has any money left?):

Cerebus' left arm: All Ditko/Adams'd up

Worried Cerebus: All Ditko/Adams'd up

Cerebus Staining to NOT be consumed by the Spider-Beast*: All Ditko/Adams'd up

Cerebus straining to NOT be consumed by the Spider-Beast*: All Ditko/Adams'd up

The Amicable Spider-Vark Logo: Pretty much just Ditko'd, 

I don't know if Dave's gonna add more stuff to this Auction Next Week, or if this is all there is, so I'm starting the bidding at thirty bucks (US Dollars!).

*I'm pretty sure the Spider-Beast first showed up during J. Michael Straczynski's Amazing Spider-Man run in the early 2000s.

Dave sent me a bunch of scans, so next week, there might be, Spiderbaby!


Next Time: The ol' AMOC Mailbag is got some nifty stuff in it...

A Friend of Astoria. . .Sort Of

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.

In last week's Frostonite Claws we saw a couple pages of Dave Sim's sixth Cerebus notebook. We are seeing it again this week because I saw a mention of Sir Gerrik on page 53.

Notebook 6, page 53

Sir Gerrik gets very little mention in the pages of the Cerebus story, never actually appearing in the three hundred issues, but only appearing once in one of the Swords of Cerebus extra stories. It would seem that with that page of the notebook, Dave was going to have Sir Gerrik be the one who brought the Roach to Michelle as Michelle recalls in Cerebus #53.

I looked through this notebook, but couldn't see any other mention of Sir Gerrik, and is the dialogue between Weisshaupt and Michelle that we get instead.


 

New Dave Sim Art!

Benjamin Hobbs:

This past week I was sent some scans of ALL NEW Dave Sim Art that will grace the cover of THE AMICABLE SPIDER-VARK #1.

Here's the first image.

If the rest of the issue manages to be half as funny as that image, it's sure to be a blast!

Next Week: Another NEW DRAWING from THE AMICABLE SPIDER-VARK #1

Looking For CEREBUS IN HELL? Merchandise?

Would you buy a t-shirt from this aardvark?

Remember way back when (What? Last week?) when we offered the awesome "Approval Is An Authoritarian Construct" t-shirt in black, white or red?

They're still available at Amazon US and Amazon UK, but because of limited availability we've decided to partner with CafePress on Cerebus In Hell? merchandise.  They ship WORLDWIDE and have a WHOLE LOT MORE ITEMS than just t-shirts to choose from.  So can you now get the Amazon t-shirts there?  Nope, they shot us down on that design right away.  No amount of begging, pleading or explaining just what a parody is would make them budge.  That's okay though because thanks to a handy Dave Sim Permission Fax we're launching FOUR NEW images:

Thanks ladies! (They make them for guys too! Lots of styles, sizes and colours!)

It's not just t-shirts - there are stickers, postcards, coffee mugs, items for baby, towels, scarves, blank cards, travel mugs, hats, bedspreads, rugs, teddy bears, heck, there's even flipping shower curtain.  You'll find something...

Buy CEREBUS IN HELL? Logo Items Here!

Buy SIM CITY: A DAVE TO KILL FOR Items Here!

Buy JINGLES Items Here!

Buy Cerebus Wearing a CEREBUS IN HELL? T-SHIRT Here!

These items will be available from mid June (now) until mid September.  Why?  It's comic book stuff, they're "Limited Collector's Editions" so get 'em while they're hot!  New items will be appearing in the fall.  Anyone buying any item and sending it to Dave get's extra special COOL POINTS (and probably a mention on Dave's Weekly Update).  All purchases go toward keeping Cerebus In Hell? on life support (have you seen what paper costs these days?)

Also, bonus COOL POINTS go to any AWESOME CEREBUS FAN that buys an item or items and sends photos to Matt here at AMOC.  The blog looks good, Matt looks good, you look good.  What could be easier?

And finally take a gander over at the sidebar (over there on the right) and you'll see a Little Cerebus In A CIH? T-Shirt providing you with a permanent link to this post so you won't have to panic as it makes its way down the page and then disappears into BlogPast.