Cerebus Around the World and Web #20 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

The new one: Attractive Cousins

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK FOC is the 26th (I think...)

The four different High Societys.

And be safe, please!

As it is Sunday, Oliver Simonsen once again dons his leather jacket, fires up his V-8 Interceptor and goes out into the wastelands to bring us links to Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard content from the doomed wreckage of humanity's end...
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Oliver Simonsen:

Self quarantine and read Cerebus
https://twitter.com/lasertv/status/1238975797257474048

If you were quarantined for a month, and you could only have one book: Cerebus!
https://twitter.com/JosephZapataIII/status/1240759566125670403

Dave Lambert: "Keep your distance, folks." (click link for Cerebus slideshow)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B93INC_HX41/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Bleeding Cool spotlights upcoming "Cerebus in hell?" issue
https://twitter.com/bleedingcool/status/1241001885089357826

Virgil and Dante in "Cerebus in hell?" are set https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1241140795828252678

Dave Sim promises: "* money-back guarantee applies to comics stores. Include a photocopy of the relevant DIAMOND ORDER(S) specifying the discounted price you paid DIAMOND for the CIH? #1s you're returning. Return them to Aardvark-Vanaheim, not DIAMOND."
https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1240798374816821249?s=20

Cerebus on list of "four of my go-to books to re-read. Books that remind me what comics can do"
https://twitter.com/PSed81/status/1239924879144759297

Video Game Producer Thierry Gagnon has a new Cerebus article in French
https://twitter.com/thierrygagnon/status/1239189087040479234

Brendan Montgomery: Thank you everyone who downloaded the Gerhard issue of Sequential Magazine. Print copies are now available for order at https://gum.co/seqm05p
Nathaniel Radman Oberstein https://www.facebook.com/nathaniel.oberstein
said he would organize a group order for Americans to split the higher international shipping cost. Let me know and I'll get those to you soon

Gerhard also shares that the book "Monster Atlas 2: Europe part II: Western Europe" was supposed to premiere at the now cancelled Toronto Comic Con featuring his work such as (see below)
http://gerhardart.com/even-more-monsters/

"Cerebus Syndrome" part of vernacular, here used by Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method
London School of Economics
https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1239715548776280064

Comic Book and Film critic Kyle Pinion to hit the the Cerebus, Love & Rockets, and Astro City trifecta
https://twitter.com/mr_oberts/status/1239574725665284096

Cerebus on list of "10 things I'm grateful for"
https://twitter.com/TommieKelly/status/1240923335749492737

Editor at the Daily Beast has Cerebus?
https://twitter.com/Komrad_Iron/status/1239658526806597632

Studying Cerebus lettering?
https://twitter.com/alan_mcmillian/status/1241232982184165376

Cerebus inspires graphic novel/prose hybrids
https://twitter.com/Crowsiie/status/1239408185984811011

Cerebus is incredible
https://twitter.com/CharlesStickney/status/1239077779557109760

Cartoonist Kayfabe - The audio/visual inside-scoop from master comic makers Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg spotlights Bud Plant selling Cerebus
https://twitter.com/samwheagle/status/1239011262840913921

[En Español -Matt]:

David Macho, Writer and Coordinator of several Comic Cons looks back at Dave Sim and Gene Day in Spanish

https://twitter.com/davidmacho/status/1239879248485195776

Cerebus remembered in Spanish
https://twitter.com/alorca72/status/1240721822263308288

Cerebus did it better (thank you Spanish google translate)
https://twitter.com/mc_deahtpool1/status/1241003877698359296

Spanish article on Cerebus
https://twitter.com/rghernanz/status/1240963781095759873

Comics that start with the letter "C" in Spanish
https://twitter.com/SalaDePeligro/status/1240929501783248897

Cerebus is pretty (or something like that...Google Spanish translate might have failed me here:))
https://twitter.com/suditeh/status/1240696689763082244

[Volver al ingles -Matteo]:
Cerebus is some of the best comics ever.
https://twitter.com/HeroHobbiesATX/status/1240731886999212032

Star Wars quotes Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Haunt_Fox/status/1240869720913403904

Spiderman and hashtagged Cerebus, inhiding
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9_nbPNKc-A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Comic Book Store is closed but shipping Comics with an on sale date of 3/25/2020. hashtagged Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-AJIexjmGL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

hashtagged iest, Church and State, Cerebus and Dave Sim
https://www.instagram.com/p/B92E7Vzha1L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Brady-Hoover draws Cerebus
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zkXOEHzq8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9yCrj8HiY3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9vrgs8nxpt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B98AZjKDrCA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus "motion comic"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9uy-hGJK-G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus comic cameo in progress
https://www.instagram.com/p/B970jzbhI6g/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Vlogger focuses on Jaka (in Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaqFfFF4MQ

Cerebus collection shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/B95gYunDYat/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"tmntcomics1984" shares: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book Volume One by Mirage Licensing published a few months before Peter sold the company to Nickelodeon in 2009! Contains TMNT volume 1 issues 1-11, all 4 original micro- series & the Fugitoid one shot! A rare comic as its one of the very few things that David Sim let Cerebus cameos rarely get reprinted!"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B976RE6J-cE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"Star Joes Podcast" shares it's love for the Cerebus/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover
https://twitter.com/StarJoesPodcast/status/1241001503210512387

Dean Reeeves recommends Cerebus to people who don't read comics
https://twitter.com/d_g_reeves/status/1240350599914205184

Guy Herbert, Director of Literary Agency "Marjacq", quotes Cerebus:
Astoria
- If you could have any amount of money - any amount at all - how much would you want?
Cerebus
- All of it.
https://twitter.com/guy_herbert/status/1241296717745737730

CEREBUS OFFICIAL FACEBOOK GROUP

Margaret Liss: "So I won a picture off ebay that says it is "Dave Sims, comic book creator". Looking at the thumbnail I recognized Dave Sim and the Cerebus muppet. Then when I got it, I looked closer, is that Ger Hard standing in the chimney?
The picture is also stamped Dec 16 1992, Houston Chronicle Library."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2838045672929456/

Margaret adds: It looks like it was probably for this article:

Eolake Stobblehouse comments: "The "rock star" years. Hearing about the expenditures in those times, my goodness how much money was he making??"

John Christian expands: "That would have been for his appearance in Houston at Bedrock City for the final stop on the 92 US Tour (the stop immediately following his appearance at my store). And regarding EolakeStobblehouse's comment about expenditures, I can personally vouch. Dave hired a stretch limo to take himself, me, Martin, Colleen, and Diane from Killeen all the way down to Houston. I don't know what it cost him, but it couldn't have been cheap."

Kenneth W. Lieck shares:

Will Gray asks and Margaret Liss answers: Cerebus is 229 years old in issue 300, at least according to Alexx's timeline
http://www.panix.com/~alexx/time5.html?fbclid=IwAR1HrmFC2UcPn8CPQSWUjC092bNnd70-y0G7JytluU-zHwzryLW-5rkij1o

Marcus Montgomery: "Imma drink a big glass of warm salty water and it clear up alla my coronavirus. (Apparently this doesn't actually work.)"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2838965912837432/

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Well thanks Oliver!

Next Time: "Meanwhile back at the Regency..."

Aardvark-Vanaheim's COVID-19 Response

Hi, Everybody!

The new one: Attractive Cousins

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK FOC is the 26th (I think...)

The four different High Societys.

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So Dave faxed me:

Click for bigger readability

And I faxed him AMOC's COVID-19 Response along with the update that my wife and the eight year old have the flu..

Then he faxed back:

And:

Here's a version of the book Dave mentioned.

And here's Darth Vader reading the King James Version of John's Gospel. (You're welcome.)

Or, you could buy all 16 volumes and read them digitally.

Next Time: Oliver leaves his bunker to check Twitter for T.P. and bread. Wish him luck!

Overstreet letter, continued (Dave's Weekly Update #331)

Hi, Everybody!

Heeeeeere's

Great new logo, right? Thanks Sean!

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

I think this is the second part of a video that hasn't been posted yet...

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 

The four different High Societys.

And the New Cerebus In Hell? IS...

 

ATTRACTIVE COUSINS #1

Here's the link to previews.

Cue the outrage, here's the promo:

Click for bigger, also, this is 100% Birdsong.

And a bigger look at Jingles 10.0:

Art by Sim(?)

Next Time: Dave sent me something, I'm sending him something back, we'll see where that ends up...

Nobody Feeling Brave Today?

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.

So “VGDC Maroro” had requested a couple items from the notebooks and we started looking at them a couple weeks ago in Chasing The Roach Up the Tower. One of those items was “how Dave created a sense of heart-pounding intensity with Cerebus and Roach's "chase" up Skull Mountain.”

That chase started in notebook 9 which we saw in that last notebook entry and continues in Dave’s 10th notebook. On page 8 we see some thumbnail layouts for page 18 and 19 of the roach coming towards the camera. Along with some dialogue for the Roach and his feelings for Astoria.

Notebook 10, page 8

On the next notebook page, we get another page layout, though larger and less complete. The roach reaching the top of the tower and Astoria watching him.

Notebook 10, page 9

In Progress Cover: Cerebus the Duck!

Benjamin Hobbs:

Awhile ago I posted the cover rough of CEREBUS THE DUCK:

Yesterday I finished the logo and started laying in the bricks behind the figures:

The floor still needs to be filled in and there are a couple word balloons missing, but it's headed in the right direction. (Or so I like to think.)

Next Time: The Varking Dead arrives at your LCS!

Flash sale on the new AMOC Shirt!

Hi, Everybody!

Stay safe!

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

And there is more High Society than you can shake a baby at.
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So, I was gonna post a bunch of pictures of Drunk Cerebus for Saint Patrick's Day, but then I got an e-mail that the new AMOc shirt:

Yeah, that one.

Is on sale for 50% off.

So if you DIDN'T get one last time, and want one, shoot an e-mail to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, letting me now what size and color you'd want. Here's the details:

Click for bigger

And they got other products too.

Here's a closer look at the logo:

The current price for a polo is $10.98 USD plus $6 for shipping. (If I get 'em out there for cheaper, I'll give ya a refund.)

Alright, you got until midnight Eastern time. (There's a minimum of 6 items, and a max of 10. So if you got something last time and want more, send me your request, and if NOBODY else wants something, you're in. Otherwise, I'll keep it in the kitty until the next sale.)

((And if you ordered the last time, your stuff is being shipped to me, and will be on it's way to you ASAIGI (As Soon As I Get It.)))

Next Time: Hobbs or Birdsong, whoever posts first...

"And not much else besides."

Hi, Everybody!

Stay safe!

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

And there is more High Society than you can shake a baby at.

Also and: This.

Then:

Next Time: Cheese Dip?

Cerebus Around the World and Web #19 by Oliver Simonsen

Hi, Everybody!

Stay safe!

VARK WARS: WALT'S EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

And there is more High Society than you can shake a baby at.

As it is Sunday, we turn once again to Oliver Simonsen who scours the Internet (well, mostly Twitter...) and churns up EVERY reference to Cerebus, Dave Sim, Gerhard, glamourpuss, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, etc...

EVERY reference.

Good.

Bad.

And ugly.

Let's do it...

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Oliver Simonsen:

What a difference a week makes. Everything is on lockdown as everyone is doing their civic duty.
My hacker troubles are still ongoing. I did get reimbursed for the money taken via "Google Pay". I still don't have access to the gmail account itself though, which contains most of the Cerebus film info.


Cerebus on “10 Epic Books To Read During Your Self-Quarantine” list
https://twitter.com/south_knoxville/status/1238814651460259842

Gerhard during coronavirus:
http://gerhardart.com/dealing-with-it/

1) Stay indoors… check!
2) Isolate yourself… check!
3) Limit social contact… check!
(Finally, my job as an artist breaks in my favor.)
And remember to “…temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education…”
Or just take the day off:

Dave Sim/Gerhard on list of "Those artists that you started wanting to be like, or loved and every so often you return to for inspiration?" 

https://twitter.com/AP_Fuchs/status/1236425950008672256

Cerebus on list of "Any writers come to mind who wrote any 1 comics title for as long/longer than Claremont wrote xmen"
https://twitter.com/4LoveComics/status/1238582838573830148

"Cerebus in Hell?" at Night-Flight Comics
https://twitter.com/nfcomics/status/1238835214228566016

Night-Flight Comics also looks back
https://twitter.com/nfcomics/status/1238820153783132163

AJ Diesel at "CBSl - comic book invest" finds Cerebus cathartic: "I always refer to comic books as my catharsis. They’ve always helped me in hard times, and this was certainly no different. I just started going through boxes and boxes of books. I was smiling and reading them and I found that peace in comic books that has always been there.So I started pulling some books that caught my eye."
https://comicbookinvest.com/2020/03/12/a-bittersweet-escape/

Chris Pereira shares Cerebus bday card
https://twitter.com/TTownClassic/status/1238623102201929730

Jordan and Cerebus
https://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1238583973393117189

Letter printed in Cerebus
https://twitter.com/JohnPontoon/status/1238518778494738433

Cerebus in French
https://twitter.com/Brucelitleblog/status/1238014223021719558
https://twitter.com/BD_Quest/status/1237879276206092288

Cerebus in Spanish
https://twitter.com/julie_neuhouser/status/1237794548602015744

"Cerebus Syndrome" part of vernacular
https://twitter.com/Lealbx859/status/1237640923091292160

Legend Kurt Busiek knows his Cerebus
https://twitter.com/KurtBusiek/status/1238100539419713536

Cerebus "motion comic"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9rt-MTngBz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus is crazy good
https://twitter.com/Geossi13/status/1237474739653939201

Cerebus and the coronavirus
[This was two links to Twitter, one was a guy claiming that "Dave Sims" was suing him because he claimed that Cerebus gave him Corona virus, and the other was two guys talking about using comics for toilet paper. They LITERALLY were talking about shitting on stacks of Cerebus trades. Way to "Celebrate the work of Dave Sim and Gerhard" there Oliver... Here's a video of a baby laughing hysterically. -Matt]

Cerebus better than Kumeta
https://twitter.com/treesaremammals/status/1237199286477008896

Cerebus and Togashi
https://twitter.com/treesaremammals/status/1236461807046242305

Cerebus and Walking Dead
https://twitter.com/PluperfectNemo/status/1237182329262460928

Cerebus panels shared
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qaBhTh9Xo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9lNHhjheBz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ihifpBtSJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cerebus and Housepets
https://twitter.com/PluperfectNemo/status/1237182329262460928

[This is the "Cerebus and Walking Dead" tweet from above. I dunno what happened... -Matt]

Cerebus and Usagi Yojimbo
https://twitter.com/BrionBurkett/status/1236770350358134784

Cerebus and X-Men
https://twitter.com/richard_fowlks/status/1236741735666946048

New Todd McFarlane interview: "Dave Sim did Cerebus, did 300 issues. Now, we're going to have issue #301, which is the longest running creator-owned book in the history of mankind. So, I'm quite proud of that, especially as somebody who has been wailing off and on forever, seems like, about creator rights, officially since '92 when we formed Image Comics, and every issue thereafter now becomes that one" https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45378/icv2-interview-todd-mcfarlane-part-2

Cerebus and Max von Sydow RIP
https://twitter.com/BigBWest/status/1237199062069280768

Gerhard prized sketch
https://twitter.com/iottoknow/status/1236408273944936450

New Dave Sim patreon
https://twitter.com/TommieKelly/status/1238400025065140225

New Dave Sim vlogger viewer
https://twitter.com/TommieKelly/status/1237772003878350848

Dave Sim wrote finest Warren comic ever published
https://twitter.com/BoughtThatComic/status/1236985915228160000

[Click here to read the story -Matt]

Dave Sim comic book lettering
https://twitter.com/iestynpettigrew/status/1238185492245430274

Dave Sim and UN Women
https://twitter.com/ModernProfanity/status/1236403838325854209

Cerebus reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/fi9txa/cerebus_2020/

CEREBUS FACEBOOK GROUP

First thing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman said “Hey! I like your shirt!”. Dion Turner shares.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2835595999841090/

Chris Clayton shares: "Cerebus wishes he had paid more attention in his Runes classes when he was young"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2831624390238251/

Chris Clayton also shares: "...picture of Cerebus that Dave and Gerhard drew for our soccer team on their UK tour back in 1986."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2830646753669348/

Kenneth W. Lieck shares Dave Sim's contribution to the comic anthology "AARGH - Artists Against Raving Government Homophobia".
The comic was designed to aid the fight against Clause 28, which was a controversial amendment to the Local Government Act 1988, a British law which was designed to outlaw the "promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2832715616795795/

[Click for bigger, or here to read the story -Matt]

Andre Trinidad shares his license plate
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2829239307143426/

Riley Byrnes shares: Mail call! (Have read Cerebus in the past but wanted to go past Church &State)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/permalink/2828627593871264/

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Well that certainly was something...

Thanks Oliver.

Next Time: Mind Game II (seriously this time.)