Desecration and revisionism (Dave's weekly update #553)

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:

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

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: Dave's working on the cover to the Spawn #10 Script. Speaking of which, Progress:

• Sunday: Dave got name dropped in a new Turtles video, and I started a new giveaway, speaking of which, Progress:

A Cerebus head is a day somebody around here pledged for (and I thank you!), open slots are still available. Click the link to see all the details.) (I had to juggle some of the days people pledged for, so if you think I didn't get you pledge, I totally did.) Hey look Spatula, day #11 is open...

• Monday: The Monday Report and start the 2019 Reread all over...
• Tuesday: Jen's update for us on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.  Speaking of SDOARGFM, $173 until the next page is unlocked. And Dave didn't pull the number out of the hat yet, so no Cerebus #3,4,5 winner yet. But Jen's got ideas for the NEXT raffle. Details in Jen's post...
• Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking AI versions of AV characters. This week: THE ROACH! (Not really, it's just funky looking Moon Knight, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America in a cape. Even the comments are getting tiresome. Next Week: Weisshaupt! *YAY!*)
• Thursday: Margaret continues GIVING away the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1 for FREE! We're trying to sell the FIVE extra copies that are at Camp David Mags! And. You're. Just. GIVING! It. Away... See here if you wanna physical copy. 
• 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.

And now, back to Bizness as unusual:

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, 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 has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art. Cerebus #28 page 3 (Mind Game II), Cerebus #70 page 6, Cerebus #80 page 15 (death of Bran Mak Muffin), Cerebus #82 page 1, and Cerebus #87 page 1. Any of them would be amazing gifts for the Cerebus Interim Editor on you Christmas list...

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I'ma retiring some designs after this. And maybe uploading some new ones. But if you want Cerebus Election merch, it's going away on September third.

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

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The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

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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: What's the NEW Merch?

Notebook One: Cerebus #25 Part Three

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.

Maybe instead of rewriting this opener every week, I’ll be a bit more efficient with my use of time and have this standard opening . . .though Boss Man saying I'm giving the notebook away for free, I see it as a way of advertising all the good stuff in the notebook, and wouldn't it be easier to have a hard copy to flip through and read at your own leisure? 

Have you got your copy of Albatross One? That is Dave Sim’s name for his first notebook used in the creation of Cerebus. If you want a copy of the notebook – and trust me, as someone who has held the actual Albatross One, it is a pretty close duplicate and looks great – you can check out this post right here. Well not this post. The one at this link. Go check it out, this post will still be here.

And if you don’t want to buy one, you can wait as I release a couple of pages a week and check them out using the Notebook One tag. But trust me, the notebook is much much nicer then my silly little posts.

Okay, now that is done, on with this week’s Notebook One post.

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For the last two weeks we’ve seen pages from Dave Sim’s first notebook used while he was making Cerebus and those pages covered material in Cerebus #25. Most notably, sketches of Woman Thing and the Artist Chap’s castle along with Dave repeatedly putting down ideas for the first 8 or 10 pages of Cerebus #25. So where do we pick up on notebook one? Page 125 and yes, more ideas for the first few pages of Cerebus #25:

Notebook One, page 125

Only a few things on this page made the final issue. Item #4 near the top of the page didn’t make it:

Still describing plan. . .what th’? That castle was where Baron Delorme was died shortly before I left whoever he left it to we’ll turn woman-thing loose on him and take over the joint. There’s only one road that leads up to it. Give woman-thing her own Suenteus’ Po fairy tales. I’ll have plenty of time for my work. Stay flexible is what I say.

The next page of the notebook has a lot of sketches of the Artist Chap:

Notebook One, page 126

On the previous page we saw this bit: “New romanticism? Moral majority? It’s a new style – “moral romanticism”. On this page we get more of it. It is Artist Chap talking about his art style, which doesn’t happen in the finished comic. He does talk about what he paints – lots of breasts. On this page of the notebook he is talking about leather thongs instead. 

Still nothing of the actual encounter between the three guys, however. Perhaps on the next page?

Notebook One, page 127

Well, that is a big nope. More unused material of the Artist Chap talking about his paintings some of which Dave took the time to cross out with a marker and others just scratched out with a pen. I wonder if the explosion down the bottom of the page is Dave’s way of giving up on these unused ideas. 

We only have another six pages for Cerebus #25 material – yes, I looked ahead – will there be anything used in the finished comic or just more of the same we’ve seen for the previous pages? Come back next week to find out. Unless you’ve picked up a copy of the notebook yourself already, in which case, don’t spoil it for the rest of the readers. 

The Men of Cerebus: AI edition: Part Three: The Roach!

Benjamin Hobbs:

David Birdsong and The AI team-up to generate images of The Roach! 

Here's Moon Roach:

Secret Sacred Wars Roach:

Wolveroach:

  And Weisshaupt and the Roach:

Next Week: Weisshaupt! Made by Birdsong and The AI!

SDoAR 2.34: *2* New Pages and... How About That Next Raffle?

Let's see...

• $925 raised in the raffle for Cerebus #3, 5 and 6
• FIVE pages unlocked, including TWO new pages this week
• 36 total raffle tickets purchase

Oh... and proofs for the Giant-Size Ashcans #0 and #1 arrive THIS week for our internal review.

Am I missing anything else? 

Oh right! The winner.

Well, about that. 

You see, Dave still hasn't gotten back to me with the winning number, but he did get back to me on something else a few weeks back when I faxed him about my encounter with Jim Steranko.

How does that sound for the next raffle?

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $14,627.00 raised to date from 249 donations
• 77 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 20 December 2021
• 98 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
• $173.00 away from unlocking page 99
• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 98 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 we are in the final third of month #8 of Year 2.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part Thirty-Three

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... 

Ciao!

xx

Jen

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023 <<-- SDOAR GoFundMe

"I admire your cowardice obese one..."

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays!

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First...nothing, this is the beginning...

Then:

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Rigamarole:

I'm giving away stuff.

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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

__________________________

Heritage has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. And JUST four months before Christmas... What. A. Coincidence.

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I'ma retiring some designs after this. And maybe uploading some new ones. But if you want Cerebus Election merch, it's going away on September third.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

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: Jen's got a winner?

Dave sent a video, and I *sigh* start a new giveaway...

Hi, Everybody!

Dave (via Rolly) sent me:

Hi Matt,

You can put this on the website, as J. Toons! (Joshua W) - jaycartoons.com - sent me a video about TMNT with Dave and Cerebus mentioned in it.

From J. Toons! (Joshua W):

I was wondering if you and Dave et al had seen the massive, positive shout out to Dave and Cerebus in the latest Ninja Turtles-related video released on YouTube by Paramount Pictures just 3 days ago. Had you?

Dave and Cerebus are mentioned at the 4-minute mark.

TMNT Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX4ZFxl3SPc

Later,
Rolly

So you don't have to click the link:

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

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So, my kid is on a Dance Team. And I pay (oh Lawd how I pay!) for it. 

Well, now she's on a Dance Team at her new school, and they're having a fundraiser. 

And it's kinda dumb, she's gotta raise $465. By filling a calendar:

Red means it's taken.

How this works is:

You simply donate the amount of money for the date on the calendar. You can choose more than one date too! Ex: September 15th you would donate $15. If you pick September 15th and 5th you donate $20.

"That's great Matt...why do we care?"

I'm glad you asked Imaginary AMOC Reader who lives rent free in my head, anybody who wants to chip in, send which day(s) you want to sponsor to momentofcerebus@gmail.com, and anybody who gives something will get a Waverly Press Cerebus Prize Pack from the ol' AMOC Prize Box.

And anybody who gives at least $25 (remember, you can do multiple days to get there) gets a set of mini-prints (8 1/2"x11") of Dave's Taylor Swifts remarqued by me and the kid.

And anybody giving $50 (or more...) gets FULL sized (11"x17") prints signed and remarqued by me and the kid. (Will she color it? Will I draw an Aardvark wang? It's a SURPRISE!)

Okay, thanks in advance!

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, 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 has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. And JUST four months before Christmas... What. A. Coincidence.

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I'ma retiring some designs after this. And maybe uploading some new ones. But if you want Cerebus Election merch, it's going away on September third.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

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: Mondays!

The beginnings of New Dave Art!

Hi, Everybody!

Dave has sent unto us:

So, I bought Dave tone, and sent it up to him. I also included an invoice (because I was told to...)

I also included a thank you note from the one kid, the other kid sent a thank you postcard, which led to:

Anyway, Incoming!

Click for bigger

More as Dave sends it to me!

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, 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 has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. And JUST four months before Christmas... What. A. Coincidence.

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I'ma retiring some designs after this. And maybe uploading some new ones. But if you want Cerebus Election merch, it's going away on September third.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

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: Dave sent a link to a video...

The original Spawn 10 script (Dave's weekly update #552)

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:

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

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: When Dave asks, I listen... (more on this over the rest of the weekend.)
• Sunday: The 2019 Reread continues with Exodus.
• Monday: The Monday Report and Dave wants your opinion... about doggies.
• Tuesday: Jen's update for us on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me.  Speaking of SDOARGFM, $98 until the next page is unlocked. And nobody wanted Cerebus #3, so she's added 5 and 6. Odds are 1 in 23 to win unless somebody bought more tickets. Details in Jen's post...
• Wednesday: Hobbs continues looking AI versions of AV characters. This week Elrod. Who looks like this in reality:
  

• Thursday: Margaret continues GIVING away the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1 for FREE! We're trying to sell the FIVE extra copies that are at Camp David Mags! And. You're. Just. GIVING! It. Away... See here if you wanna physical copy. 
• 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.

And now, back to Bizness as unusual:

Rigamarole:

The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, you can STILL get all 16 volumes for $99CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...)

__________________________

Heritage has FIVE pages of original Cerebus art coming soon. And JUST four months before Christmas... What. A. Coincidence.

__________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe: up to 35% off:

August 26-September 2.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

I'ma retiring some designs after this. And maybe uploading some new ones. But if you want Cerebus Election merch, it's going away on September third.

___________________________

The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. 

___________________________

The Last Day Without nothing.

   "      "     "        "  Dave's signature.

   "      "     "        "  an Old Cerebus Remarque

   "      "     "     Auction catalog for the Panoramic Remarques. 

___________________________

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: Faxes, videos, art?, I got all sorts of stuff I COULD post...

Notebook One: Cerebus #25 Part Two

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.

Maybe instead of rewriting this opener every week, I’ll be a bit more efficient with my use of time and have this standard opening . . .though Boss Man saying I'm giving the notebook away for free, I see it as a way of advertising all the good stuff in the notebook, and wouldn't it be easier to have a hard copy to flip through and read at your own leisure? 

Have you got your copy of Albatross One? That is Dave Sim’s name for his first notebook used in the creation of Cerebus. If you want a copy of the notebook – and trust me, as someone who has held the actual Albatross One, it is a pretty close duplicate and looks great – you can check out this post right here. Well not this post. The one at this link. Go check it out, this post will still be here.

And if you don’t want to buy one, you can wait as I release a couple of pages a week and check them out using the Notebook One tag. But trust me, the notebook is much much nicer then my silly little posts.

Okay, now that is done, on with this week’s Notebook One post.

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With last week’s entry, we finally got to material on Cerebus #25. On the next few pages, this material from Dave Sim’s first notebook used in the production of Cerebus continues.  One the last page we looked at, page 120, Dave had sketched some of the outside parapets to the Artist Chap’s castle. Dave had also written a list of possible plot items and numbered them #5 – 8. #8 was “break in on Wrightson stuff is just to give me ideas for my paintings”.

So on the next page, when it starts up with #7 again. . .makes me think that he started over or there are missing pages. 

Notebook #1, page 121

This page has #8 not as the Artist Chap referencing Wrightson for ideas but now is “inside grand tour to page 10”. The rest of it looks like dialogue between Charles X. Claremont and Cerebus talking about Woman Thing.  The next page we see yet a third list of plot points numbered 1 through 20. Number 8 is now “inside castle grand tour of”. And we get more pictures of the castle itself.

Notebook #1, page 122

The bottom of the pages has some text that caught my eye:

Drugs vs Magic? They’ve all taken a new stimulant to help them get up the hill. New theory about people taking massive quantities. Want castle for setting up a space observatory of all things.

On the next page, we do get another sketch of the castle, and more text:

Notebook #1, page 123

Beside the sketch of the castle, we get another reference to space with “They want to knock off the castle because it obstructs their view of Venus. . .” Then under the castle the text says “castle filled with magic artifacts stuff Claremont can use but has moved in with all this neat magic looking shit crushed to death between two crazed shambling monstrosities.”

Next week we won’t be looking at page 124 as we already saw that in The Way to Sannozay, but yes boss man, we’ll be giving more away for free. On to page 125 and perhaps more material for Cerebus #25.

The Men of Cerebus: AI edition: Part Two: Elrod!

Benjamin Hobbs:

David Birdsong and The AI tried to make some Elrod images.  Here's what they came up with:

Next Week: The Roach! As made by Birdsong and The AI!

SDoAR 2.33: Another New Page; 1 in 23 Chance to Win Cerebus #3, 5, 6!

Jen is still in Edinburgh, still at Fringe, and still referring to herself in the third person. 

$600 has been raised in the past week, with 23 raffle tickets sold, and *one* more page unlocked! 

That means you have only one week to get in on the action for Cerebus #3, 5, and 6! 

Odds are currently 1 in 23 chance of winning!

Rules to win Cerebus #3, #5 and #6, and Help Out SDoAR

Entries (or our equivalent of raffle tickets) cost $25 each and can be donated via lump sum to the Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2024 GoFundMe campaign through Monday, August 19, 2024 at midnight, PST.

I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry  have Dave pull yet another Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on August 20, 2024. 

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $14,302.00 raised to date from 240 donations
• 75 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 14 December 2021
• 96 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages
• $98.00 away from unlocking page 97
• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 96 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 we are in the middle of month #8 of Year 2.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part Thirty-Two

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... 

Ciao!

xx

Jen

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023 <<-- SDOAR GoFundMe