Sunday, 25 July 2021

Cerebus Around the World and Web #90 by Oliver Simonsen

Oliver Simonsen:

Documentary featuring Cerebus now up at
https://www.farpointfilms.com/lost-heroes

School Book out with a chapter dedicated to Cerebus
https://twitter.com/DanHF/status/1417047214719909890
The book has been years in the making and the Cerebus chapter is written by none other than our very own Eric Hoffman

Andrew Rilstone responds to his book being featured on Dave Sim's YouTube show
https://twitter.com/AndrewRilstone/status/1417546458400759810
https://twitter.com/AndrewRilstone/status/1417267694982811652
https://twitter.com/AndrewRilstone/status/1417250530179563524

On Librarian read list: "Strange Death of Alex Raymond"
https://twitter.com/NoetheMatt/status/1417554997911465994

Below commissions for Joshua Even:
Trevor Ngwenya
https://twitter.com/NgArt7/status/1417925354711302147
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmgOF7j8Q9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmXJtmM26P/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Tim Molloy
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmWjfSswln/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Jonathan Case

Tokka's work-in-progress
https://twitter.com/tOkka/status/1417825402697945088
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRluNF1sGUt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Rogue Comics shares slideshow of Joshua Even commissions
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjka77pnio/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Joshua Even is starting a trend. Below is not a commission
Christopher Walton
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRiK_-lB3vB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRiFewYBGvX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


Discovered Cerebus via Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover cameo
https://twitter.com/ToKal64/status/1417242006175158293

Cerebus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bone etc
https://twitter.com/nanayasleeps/status/1418307291657523201

Cerebus, Usagi, Bone etc
https://twitter.com/TheGanjaGumshoe/status/1418813085989564416

Happy 30th anniversary to BONE!

Discovered Bone in Cerebus preview
https://twitter.com/Tybird99/status/1417879161172004870
https://twitter.com/jasonxbergman/status/1417464291679252485
https://twitter.com/dlbowman76/status/1417824198450458624

Sales of Bone increased in comic store after preview appeared in Cerebus
https://twitter.com/mikesterling/status/1417615908462153729

Cerebus and Spawn
https://twitter.com/Comrade_Bullski/status/1416531923053187072

Abdulhamid Maayta draws Cerebus and Kuromi
https://twitter.com/wam_artist/status/1417081467088347145

Keith Williams draws Cerebus and Lord Julius
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRg2wVQMpKH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

An oldie but goodie: Cerebus by Jeremy Treece shared
https://twitter.com/michaelmaycomix/status/1418405671511498752

Cerebus issue 8 now out in Russian
https://twitter.com/Mostcus/status/1416732068055330817

[Issue #9 is available too. (The new issue arrives every Sunday.) 

Early Barbarian Cerebus covers shared (click link to see full covers)
https://twitter.com/blaksheepno1/status/1417835910029266946

Wishing for more comics like Cerebus
https://twitter.com/Godamn_Milkman/status/1417219306597732372

Village Voice 1988 article on Cerebus calling it smart and very funny
https://twitter.com/Al_Nickerson/status/1417601683111112706
https://twitter.com/RadiantComics/status/1417439103541563392

John Glisman recalls that Dave put a few photos from this trip on the back cover of 112/113
James Owen notes on above article:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cerebus/posts/4177800905620586/
The fact that Dave had gatherings of his friends in those presidential suites - and we all talked about it - meant that in a not so subtle way lots of other pros would get the message that a self-publisher was staying in the best suite in the hotel.

Starchild by James Owen and his nod to Cerebus highlighted (click link for slideshow)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRiKOIwjbpS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Norwegian shares article by Trina Robbins who with a panel of 4 women agree that Astoria rape scene is not sexist
https://twitter.com/larsmagne23/status/1416882671578402818
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/07/18/a-cerebus-inspired-roundtable-on-sexism-in-comics/


Norwegians, among them journalists, speculate what comics appear on the bookshelf in the trailer for the Norwegian film hit at this year's Cannes (winning Best Actress for the film's star) about a lady dating a Graphic Novelist whose comics resemble those of Robert Crumb. Journalist, who btw interviewed me regarding the Cerebus film for a premiere Norwegian magazine, speculates about the boyfriend's Cerebus comics and if there's Jaka's Story in the making.
https://twitter.com/oyvindholen/status/1416523240114110464
https://twitter.com/oyvindholen/status/1416524683336458243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4QYD7E62o
https://www.dn.no/d2/underholdning/barbaren-og-bergenseren/1-1-5129038
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/the-worst-person-in-the-world-is-the-best-film-at-cannes-so-far
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/08/the-worst-person-in-the-world-review-cannes-2021

Alan Moore and Dave Sim correspondence highlighted
https://twitter.com/ReadYourselfRaw/status/1417902458001629185
https://twitter.com/ReadYourselfRaw/status/1417751529663107075

Bday wishes to Hemingway from owner of Animation Production company Blythemation and http://SeedMatters.org because our organic food future starts with seed.
https://twitter.com/blytheprice1969/status/1418065070442090497

Dave Sim an artistic influence
https://twitter.com/MistPopk/status/1418621227095236614
https://twitter.com/HelloBerlin3/status/1418620764744417280
https://twitter.com/jlr_1969/status/1418050200833191937

Writer Jason S. Tudor: There are passages of Dave Sim’s writing that are just sheer brilliance, like this one
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRqUqrgMCvp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Font Creators discuss Dave Sim, Todd Klein and Stan Sakai
https://twitter.com/JohnRoshell/status/1418961967927152643

Cerebus lettering spotlighted
https://twitter.com/NadabComics/status/1418441365487292417

Cerebus Syndrome
https://twitter.com/YaBoiDax/status/1418767789733580801

Cerebus best fight scenes (third comment down in thread)
https://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/124626517

First Comics News spotlights latest "Cerebus in Hell?"
https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/aardvark-vanaheim-comics-october-2021-solicitations/

Top comics news site Bleeding Cool doesn't ignore and spotlights every issue in the successfully long running "Cerebus in Hell?"
https://twitter.com/bleedingcool/status/1418775994480140291
https://twitter.com/afnewsinfo/status/1418604730419322891
https://twitter.com/bleedingcool/status/1418594810554880000

The current "Cerebus in Hell?" kickstarter is going heavenly
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1454227506/swords-of-cerebus-in-hell-hardcovers-volumes-3-and-4?ref=profile_created

And there's a Kickstarter for a Dave Sim approved comic series called Jack Grimm with a few days to go
https://twitter.com/Halloweeja/status/1418814564494454803

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Thanks Oliver!

Cerebus in Hell?:
And Hobbs 2ND Kickstarter. (Again.)
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Gary Boyarski's running a Kickstarter for his book Jack Grimm. (Again.)
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Hey, look what Heritage has.
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Say, did you miss out on the High Society: Regency Edition? Still kicking yourself for not obsessively refreshing AMOC every seven minutes like Michael R. of Easton, PA? Well bub, have I got the exciting news for you:
Cerebus Overload has 15 (count 'em, 15!) copies that they just listed. It should be noted, that:
Anyone who picks up one of the last 15 should note that the slipcases have minor imperfections, scuffs, scratches, etc... all minor but still present. The books are perfect 10's, the slipcase are 8-9 in terms of condition.
But if you snoozed, you may not have losed...
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 25
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: Why An Orange Shirt?
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Saturday, 24 July 2021

Boy, the AMOC MyFax account is really paying for itself this week... NEW DAVE SIM ART!

Hi, Everybody!

Lots to see and not much time, so here we go:
Cerebus in Hell?:
New ones are out for the ordering:



Five will get you ten that the next Weekly Update will be the promo for this.

Also:


Which means you probably CAN'T order Batvark Coronavirus and Sword of Cerebus in Hell? Volume 6 anymore... (I mean, try. Go nuts. Don't let "The Man" tell you what you can and can't order. Be a Rebel...)

But you can DEFINETLY order the Hardcover Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Volumes 3 and 4. Ben Hobbs won't stop you. (And if you think the Hardcovers are just too damn expensive, there's a second set of trading cards available as a stand-alone item.)

Speaking of Hobbs and his kickstarting ways, got a Fax from Dave:
Hey, speaking of CAN9, Dave ALSO sent:

Speaking of the Swordfish..."Daddy Varkbucks" sent this BEFORE the above, but I'm running them in the order that makes it funniest (to me):

The Gary bit, is because I sent Dave a message I got from Gary that said:
Also, be sure to remind Dave he owes me a cover. I worked my butt off to beat out my pal Jeff Burton and his Auroraman comic as the highest numbered, self-published comic in the Canadian Comic Book Alliance.

Have a good one! And thanks!
Gary Boyarski
So here's Dave with the book:

And the preliminary sketch:

And then Dave faxed:

I sent that and the sketch (wait for it Mags...) to Gary, and he said:
Hi Matt!

Just saw the email this morning! Wow! It's fantastic! I'm going to have to give Dave a call and leave him a message.

As there is less than five days left on my Kickstarter, and I already have my hands full with 50 backers (Keep in mind I'm doing this solo and its my first one) I'm thinking I'm going to save Dave's art for an exclusive cover for the next one which should be in October.

I think it would be most effective to boost support if its given more time to be seen.

So, do promote my Kickstarter again if you want, (you can mention that there will be another one this fall with a Dave Sim cover variant) but don't leak the actual artwork yet.

Thanks,
Gary Boyarski
Well, that's no fun...no NEW Dave Art for you...

Unless:

I sent THAT to Gary and said that unless he objected STRENUOUSLY, I was running it today. And he said:
No objections at all. :)

Upon further consideration, I'm actually ok with you sharing the artwork that Dave did. I don't think leaking it early will do anything other than build anticipation. So either way, I'm good.
-Gary Boyarski
To which I replied:
You're breaking your mustache's balls, Gary...
SO!

New! Dave! Sim! Art!!!:
Copyright Dave Sim and Gary Boyarski. Coming Soon! (In colour, and better printed...)

That's a Dave Sim hand alright...

Okay, that's like a week's worth of Moments, and I didn't even get to the bit about Dave's Orange Shirt. Monday!

And, finally,  Little Orphan Aardvark has another important message for all the "Swordfish" in the L.O.A.S.S.:
"Daddy Varkbucks", himself, wrote that bit...

Next Time: Oliver and more links than you can count...
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Friday, 23 July 2021

When did you stop reading Cerebus? Part 2 (Dave's Weekly Update #400)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave's Weekly Update (#400!):

"We don't need no stinkin' Birdsong!" You can buy a copy here.

Or you can read a slightly "condensed" version here. (Mr. Rilstone says at the end: "Patreon Supporters can download all 7 parts of this essay, with exciting extra features and jokes, in a pretty PDF format. Just pledge to send me $1 for each essay I write." Which I infer means that the posted version isn't the expanded version that Dave has received.)
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Cerebus in Hell?:

And Hobbs 2ND Kickstarter. (All sorts of neat stuff is happening with this.)
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Gary Boyarski's running a Kickstarter for his book Jack Grimm. (More on him tomorrow... again.)
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Hey, look what Heritage has.
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
July 21 – 25
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: Gary Boyarski, (again.) (well, kinda). I just said that.
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Thursday, 22 July 2021

Stairs to the Regency

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.

Just this past April we saw page 15 from Dave Sim’s eighth Cerebus notebook in Elf Request. Gerhard was kind to let us know that that page of Dave’s notebook showed us pages #6 and 7 of Cerebus #70. Today we’ll look at page 14 of that same notebook, which as you guessed, shows us thumbnails for pages 3 through 5 of Cerebus #70.

Notebook #8, page 14

Along with the thumbnails the notebook pages has Dave’s really rough outline for the first three pages at the top:

1 2 credits

3 4 climbing just hurry

5 whew I’m exhausted.

The dialogue on the far left of the notebook page is Cerebus with his stuffed up nose. . .snout? 

Id feels like bost holy had walke wa cl’bed as far as d’cabimd k gingdubs

That doesn’t show up on pages 3, 4 or 5. Instead Cerebus repeats his line ‘Don’t get mad at an elf’ through puffs for air. That line is written down on the notebook page. Along with Elf’s line of ‘Try taking the stairs two at a time and maybe the time will go faster by’. Though on the finished page she doesn’t finish the line and it is slightly different: maybe if you tried climbing the steps two at a time. . .

The page thumbnails not only show the layout for the art and the word balloons, but it shows the word balloons differently for each character. Cerebus has regular word and thought balloons while the elf has dashed balloons.

And the three pages from Cerebus #70, aka Church & State I pages 375 – 377 show us what Ger had to work with when he did the background for these pages - just a rough 'put this here'. Sure, on the notebook pages you can see a couple rough circles and faces, but on the finished page we get a better look at all those heads on the inside of the black tower and the stairs all the way to the Regency:

Cerebus #70, pages 3 - 5



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Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Swords of CIH? Hardcover V3 and V4 Kickstarter Launches... and MORE!

Benjamin Hobbs:

EDIT: The Kickstarter is LIVE! You can back the project by clicking the link below!

First off, if all goes well, the Kickstarter for for SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL? Volumes 3 and 4 Hardcovers, launches at NOON! I'll post an update when it's live.

There are six stretch goal cards. They are all pictured on the campaign page! They include:



This week I was working on the cover for LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY CORONA #1. 

This is the cover that released with the digital version (or close to it..I believe the digital version had the correct credit bar at the top.):

This comic was produced in a week, and I was never satisfied with the cover. We sent this sepia-toned version to Diamond:

Yesterday, I spent the day working on this massively revised version:

I'm satisfied with it now.

Finally, a reminder that Laura and I will be at Gem City Comic Con this weekend in Dayton, OH. Stop by and we'll sign some of your books!


 

Next Week: Unethical Spider-Vark ON SALE at you LCS!

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