Death's Dark Tread

Hi, Everybody!

Well here's an interesting little item:

Coming soon to Heritage Auctions:

The ORIGINAL Art for the COMPLETE 22 page story of Cerebus #4 "Death's Dark Tread":

As they describe it:

Dave Sim Cerebus #4 Complete 22-Page Story and Cover Re-Creation Original Art Group of 23 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1978/2005). All 22 story pages are the original art from the story that first introduced Elrod of Melvinbone! His first appearance, that is. Elrod is a satire, a parody that is, of Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock by way of Warner Brother's Studios own Foghorn Leghorn. The large chicken (the cartoon character, not Elric) was himself a parody of a radio character "Senator Claghorn" from Fred Allen's 1940s radio program. Elrod is proof that "Two wrongs don't make it right". (That boy is about as sharp as a bag o' wet mice.)
The cover is a 2005 re-creation of Sim's original cover produced by Dave Sim himself. This cover is in mixed media on illustration board and signed/dated just above the 9.25" x 13" image area. The 1978 story pages were created in ink and Zipatone over graphite on illustration board with an image area of 10" x 15". They are toned with handling wear.
The cover re-creation is in Excellent condition, and the story pages are in Very Good condition. The cover comes with a letter from Sim as provenance.

All this was Imaged by Heritage Auctions. I trimmed that off the pages. Click for Bigger, like lots bigger. For the detail.

The recreated cover from 2005.

J. Michael Straczynski used to have that last panel posted to his office door. 

I put it on a T-Shirt.

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Cerebus in Hell?:
The Uncrucifiable Cerebus Goes To A Gay Bar 

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Form & Void Kickstarter:

Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.

Also, if you missed out like Al, there's an IndieGoGo.

And if you didn't wanna deal with Kickstarter or the Waverly Press, guess what's in the new previews:

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Sean & Carson have a store with TWO misprinted copies of SDOAR with "Blue Meanie" sketches.

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:

April 27-30

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: All the Original Art to issue #5?

Larry hits a triple (Dave's Weekly Update #438)

Hi, Everybody! 

Dave's Weekly Update:

Continuing from Last Week, which continued from the week before.

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

Good one on ya Spatula!

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Cerebus in Hell?:
The Uncrucifiable Cerebus Goes To A Gay Bar MAY221082 Order Cut Off May 26, 2022

Also, these things:

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Form & Void Kickstarter:

Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.

Also, if you missed out like Al, there's an IndieGoGo.

And if you didn't wanna deal with Kickstarter or the Waverly Press, guess what's in the new previews:

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Heritage, they got a bunch of neat Cerebus stuff. Including the original art to issue #4?!?!?

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Sean & Carson have a store with TWO misprinted copies of SDOAR with "Blue Meanie" sketches.

AND!

They're doing a contest:

Living the Line is celebrating 1000 subscribers with a Giveaway. Use the hashtag #Livingtheline on #twitter #Instragram #Facebook or #Tiktok to discuss your favorite LTL book or video, to share a post about one of our upcoming books, or to draw attention to the LTL youtube channel. The prize....2 awesome pieces of custom art directly for you, one portrait illustrated by Sean Michael Robinson and a "Google Grab-bag sketch" by Carson Grubaugh. Entries are Due by 4/22/22.

#Comicscontest #artgiveaway #Comicsweepstakes #Comicbookreviews #Youtubecomics #Artsweepstakes #Comicartistinterview #Cartoonistinterview

Ends today. Or ended today. (It's been an evening...)

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Speaking of Subscriber Contests, Cerebus Online reached 1500, so now to figure out who wins the Amazing Prize... Found the person. Don't know what I'm doing next...

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".

____________________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:

April 27-30

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: ALL 22 pages?!?!?!

Schluk. Schluck. Schluck.

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.

Dave Sim’s first notebook used in the production of Cerebus started with notes for Cerebus #20. The 194 pages out of 200 pages scanned covered up through Cerebus #28. We last saw this first albatross just this past January in Captain Cockroach Sketches. 

Page 112 of the first notebook made me chuckle. Schluk. Schluck. I can just year it. The pained look on Cerebus face as he lies in bed. It makes me chuckle.

Notebook #1, page 112

The top of the page has some note. “outtakes”? Have we seen the pigeon scene from #21? Skulls from #15.

 Schluk. Schluck. Schluck.

Matt was right! I DO want to separate you from your money!

Benjamin Hobbs:

The prelaunch page for the Swords of Cerebus In Hell? Volumes 9 and 10 Hardcovers is live!

Follow this link, and sign up to be notified when the campaign launches!

Previously, I had been planning to launch on May 1st, but I looked at a calendar, and that's a Sunday. 

Instead, I'm now planning to launch on May 4th at noon.

I hope to see you all there!

Next Week: Probably not a plug for the SOCIH? Hardcovers... probably. 

We don't talk about Pieces of Turtles 8 #2? What? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!!!

Hi, Everybody!

Got an Update from The Waverly Press about their new book:

ONLY ON KICKSTARTER FROM MAY 2 - 31, 2022

FOLLOW THE CAMPIGN HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waverly/lowfidelity

Low Fidelity: Downtown New York 1974-1984 by Bobby Grossman. The deluxe edition book collecting rare and previously unpublished photographs featuring Blondie, Ramones, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, John Waters, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy and countless other cultural creatives during one of the most exciting and pivotal periods in New York history.

LEFT: Collector Edition. RIGHT: Deluxe Edition.

LOW FIDELITY will be available in 2 editions and every book is hand signed and numbered by photographer Bobby Grossman. The COLLECTOR edition features Debbie Harry on the cover with premium linen quarter-binding and silver gilt pages.

The DELUXE edition is limited to 150 numbered copies and features a cover and slipcase designed by Shepard Fairey with gold gilt pages. Every DELUXE book is signed by 20 contributors including Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke of Blondie, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, Fab 5 Freddy, Shepard Fairey, and Robert Fripp of King Crimson.

Anyway, link's there if you're interested...

SPEAKING of things you can spend your hard earned money on, I got this feeling that on the NEXT Please Hold For Dave Sim, 5/5/2022, Dave's gonna announce Pieces of Turtles 8 #2 (or 8.2, depends who you ask...). Which might be subject to an INSANE short sale (as we learned in THIS month's Please Hold:)

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

So, I'ma Fax Dave everybody's questions and concerns so he'll know that The Money thinks a short sale is a bad idea. Or a good idea. Or whatever.

But, we need to have that conversation BEFORE I fax him.

So, for the A/V challenged, Dave's thinking of selling POT8 #2 for TWO hours at CerebusDownloads.com. TWO.

The question to you: THE MONEY, how short is TOO short, and how long is TOO long?

Sound off like ya got a pair?

I do:

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Cerebus in Hell?:

Giant-Size Public Defenders #1

Giant-Size Public Defenders #1 (Varkdevil Variant)

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Form & Void Kickstarter:

Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.

Also, if you missed out like Al, there's an IndieGoGo.

____________________________________

Heritage, they got a bunch of neat Cerebus stuff. Including three pages of original art...

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Sean & Carson have a store with TWO misprinted copies of SDOAR with "Blue Meanie" sketches.

AND!

They're doing a contest:

Living the Line is celebrating 1000 subscribers with a Giveaway. Use the hashtag #Livingtheline on #twitter #Instragram #Facebook or #Tiktok to discuss your favorite LTL book or video, to share a post about one of our upcoming books, or to draw attention to the LTL youtube channel. The prize....2 awesome pieces of custom art directly for you, one portrait illustrated by Sean Michael Robinson and a "Google Grab-bag sketch" by Carson Grubaugh. Entries are Due by 4/22/22.

#Comicscontest #artgiveaway #Comicsweepstakes #Comicbookreviews #Youtubecomics #Artsweepstakes #Comicartistinterview #Cartoonistinterview

I'd say "good luck" but I wanna win, so "go to Hell ya basta'ds!"

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Speaking of Subscriber Contests, Cerebus Online reached 1500, so now to figure out who wins the Amazing Prize...

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".

____________________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:

April 27-30

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: Hobbs. And HIS plan to separate you from your Money...

"Eggs? EGGS!?!" (I got a signed copy of Batvark: A Poet In The Family for the first person to get that reference...)

Hi, Everybody!

How was your Easter?

I worked. Then I posted about Turtles 8.

John Glismann had an EGGcellent "Iest-er":

As he says:

HAPPY IEST-er !!!
Yeah, this happened.

As he says:

HIGH SOCIETY…
…as an egg. Follow my logic here. While coloring Easter eggs the other day, it occurred to me that if you say “Gerhard” backwards, it (sort of) sounds like “Draw egg.” Thus, I felt that I had to draw his famous cover to High Society... on an egg. Make sense? You may notice that Gerhard is possibly slightly more talented than I am.

And again:

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES # 8…
…but they’re eggs.

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Cerebus in Hell?:

Giant-Size Public Defenders #1

Giant-Size Public Defenders #1 (Varkdevil Variant)

____________________________________

Form & Void Kickstarter:

Please fill out your surveys so I can get the copy Travis is buying from me.

Also, if you missed out like Al, there's an IndieGoGo.

____________________________________

Heritage, they got a bunch of neat Cerebus stuff. Including three pages of original art...

____________________________________

Sean & Carson have a store with TWO misprinted copies of SDOAR with "Blue Meanie" sketches.

AND!

They're doing a contest:

Living the Line is celebrating 1000 subscribers with a Giveaway. Use the hashtag #Livingtheline on #twitter #Instragram #Facebook or #Tiktok to discuss your favorite LTL book or video, to share a post about one of our upcoming books, or to draw attention to the LTL youtube channel. The prize....2 awesome pieces of custom art directly for you, one portrait illustrated by Sean Michael Robinson and a "Google Grab-bag sketch" by Carson Grubaugh. Entries are Due by 4/22/22.

#Comicscontest #artgiveaway #Comicsweepstakes #Comicbookreviews #Youtubecomics #Artsweepstakes #Comicartistinterview #Cartoonistinterview

I'd say "good luck" but I wanna win, so "go to Hell ya basta'ds!"

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Speaking of Subscriber Contests, Cerebus Online reached 1500, so now to figure out who wins the Amazing Prize...

____________________________________

Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark is currently available "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi".

____________________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:

April 27-30

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: What else can I swipe from Facebook?