Sin of pride subordsinate clause conclusion (Dave's weekly update #571)

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:

Continuing from Last Week.

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday.

The Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: Dave does his business in "the street".
• Sunday: Bran Mac Mufin has entered the chat.
• Monday: The Monday Report, and "The Eagle has landed", and Bran Mac Mufin.
• Tuesday: Jen's back with a post about the Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe. $100 until page 106 unlocks. She's auctioning off one of the rarest of Cerebus rarities. $25 bucks gets you in the running to win this (only FOUR tickets sold so far. You have until January 13th 2025 to get in on this...):

• Wednesday: Ben Hobbs wishes you a Merry Christmas, and I hijack the post to do an AMOC Christmas post. And screwup the punchline. It was supposed to be this video:

 

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• Thursday: Margaret continues looking at pages from the first Notebook AKA Albatross 1, YOU can get your very own BETTER-THAN-MARGARET'S-POSTS-O.-M.-G.-YOU-GUYS-SERIOUSLY copy. See here. She's still looking through the pre-material for issue #27. 
• 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.

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35% off December 25-31. And 25% off January 8-12.*

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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...

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The Cerebus Humble Bundle is over, the check made it to Dave and was cashed, *yay*, 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 stuff a'coming...

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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: Incoming!

Notebook One: Cerebus #27 Part Ten

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.

Please buy one so boss man stops yelling at me for "giving the store away for free". Perhaps if he sells one or two or all that he has left, he'll finally give me some PTO. Wait, why am I pushing this, boss man is on vacation. . .I should just take off. . .

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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Last week we finished up with page 182 from Dave Sim’s first Cerebus notebook, Albatross One. With this entry the material for Cerebus #27 has taken the lead for having the most content in Notebook #1:

Item	page count
Cerebus 20	22
Cerebus 21	31
Cerebus 22	22
Cerebus 23	4
Cerebus 24	24
Cerebus 25	14
Cerebus 26	17
Cerebus 27	34
Cerebus 28
Miscellaneous	9

We’ll look at pages #183 and 184 today, and we’ve already seen page #185 in “First Look at Astoria”. So after this week we’ll have 10 pages left in notebook one. At some point we’ll see material for Cerebus #28. I swear. I’ve looked ahead and I promise there is Cerebus #28 material. How much? We’ll see that together. I do know that notebook #2 has material on Cerebus #28 as well. 

Picking up where we left off last week with page #183 of notebook #1 and another page 9 thumbnail. It is pretty close to the final page:

Notebook #1, page 183

The text below the thumbnail for page #9 is the text that appears on page #9, minus the joke about Cerebus actually being the sixth best crossbowman and not the third best. The text down the bottom is for page 10 panel 1, though it was dumbed down a bit more for the final page. As you can probably tell, the dialogue for panel one is the McGrew Brothers and panel two is Cerebus  telling them they aren’t prisoners, he is just getting a cut of the ransom for himself. This text for page 10 continues on the next page of the notebook:

Notebook #1, page 184

That dialogue is pretty much the same as the finished page 10 of Cerebus #27. Even how it is broken down into bits for word balloons. As Dave said in the audio-visual version of High Society: “I would ‘sketch’ dialogue as well. Compare these ‘sketches’ with the finish word balloons.” So here is page 10 of Cerebus #27 for you to compare:

Cerebus #27, page 10

Merry Christmas!

Benjamin Hobbs:

From everyone here at AMOC, and the AI, we're wishing you a Merry Christmas, and a New Year with slightly less AI art in it!

Now go read Cerebus like Ol' Saint Nick.  Or, you know, spend time with your family.

Next Week: It's a new year!  Will the promise of LESS AI art be kept? Find out!

Manly Matt Dow:

Geez Hobbs, don't you read the comments? People dunna like the AI.

I mean do you remember last year's AI?

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Ya didn't even run Dave's Christmas Carol:

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People want classic Cerebus Christmas content:

Like this...

Or:

Here, you'll get a crink in your neck if you try to turn your head and read this, lemme help:

Here's the bit Dave wrote in blue:

Dave's referring to when Deni chopped up this:

(Ya know, I get SDOAR in here and this'll be like a week of AMOC in one post... Where'd that Raymond piece go?)

Wait, it's Hal Foster...

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Of course, if you REALLY wanna mess with 'em, post the Christmas thing I did the other year:

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SDoAR 2.50: A Note from Dave Sim; 1/4 Chance to Win Stuffed Cerebus

Happy Christmas Eve!

Dave decided to provide an update on where he stands with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond and thank everyone who has donated so far. Truly, 'tis a Christmas treat!

Dave, take it away!

<sniff> I think there might be something in my eye. <sniff> And only four raffle tickets sold so far.  <sniff> Y'all know this is one of *my* stuffed Cerebus, right? <sniff>

Fine. Whatever. Next person to donate $25 will have a one in five chance to win, so can't you help a gal out?

So if you have ANY interest in helping out the GoFundMe to support Dave Sim continuing his work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond *and* getting a chance to win this fabulous Cerebus plush, make a donation right now! 

Rules to win the December Raffle 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, January 13, 2025 at midnight, PST.

I will then randomly assign numbers to each entry and have Dave pull yet another Karnak, and I'll announce the winner on January 14, 2025. Cool?

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

Just the GoFundMe Facts, Ma'am

• $16,100.00 raised to date from 273 donations

• 84 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from 11 June to 29 December 2021

• 105 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages

• $100.00 away from unlocking page 106

• If you have not donated > $5+ donation grants access to all 105 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 nearing the end of month #12 of Year 2.

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

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Preview, Part 49

The following are links to previous updates that featured pages from The Strange Death of Alex Raymond hardcover. If you click on the links in order, you can begin to devour the magnum opus that is the Strange Death of Alex Raymond...

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, this, this, 

This, this, this, this, this,

This, this, this, this, 

This, this, this,

This, this,

Then...

Ciao!

Jen x

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

"However, when your life has often hinged on a random sound..."

Hi, Everybody!

Hit it Ludwig!

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AARDVARK-VANEHEIM HAS RECIEVED A CHECK FROM HUMBLE BUNDLE FOR $43,721.27!!!!!

The check from Diamond is...still in HUNT VALLEY, MD US. But that's a smaller check, so no need to write Steve Geppi letters labeled "Personal"...

Ah...I can breathe a sigh of relief...

Moving on.

Mondays!

Then THIS.

Then:

Next Time: Jen has your ChristmaSDOAR present...

"EXCELLENT! The stinging in my nostrils is barely noticeable!"

Hi, Everybody!

First this.

Then:

Next Time: The Monday Report!

Aardvark-Vanaheim Business Roundup (Old Dave Art, but you might get to own it, so you may wanna look...)

Hi, Everybody!

Dave wants his  business done on the streets, so I get all of these faxes that he wants posted. But don't worry, there's some purty Art here for those of you who don't care about the business side of Aardvark-Vanaheim...

Item 1: a correction to Please Hold For Dave Sim 12/2024

Item 2: Problitos.

Item 3: Cerebus the Action Figure

I'm gonna have to send Dave photos or scans of what NECA's Turtle figures packaging looks like. I'm thinking that HE'S thinking of the Playmates Turtles Figures of yore, and not what NECA does. Wait, that sounds like work...

Item 4: Dave's retirement funds?

"Real Time" is a VERY relative thing around AMOC, since some days I just wanna "get down to the Floridia for margaritas" as fast as I can. This came in on the fourth.

Item 5: Diamond owes AV money

Eddie's idea to have a check sent to the US address? That's me. The GOOD news is the strike is over. The BAD news is the USPS can't send anything to Canada until they start accepting mail again after taking care of the backlog.

Item 6: AV's fate is written in the stars...

I don't think they were hand delivering the check Dave...

Item 7: The Ninja High School/Cerebus crossover

Item 8: Them crazy Brazilians

So, should I send this to Eduardo, the guy who was trying to do Cerebus and is, I believe, currently doing SDOAR? 

Thoughts you guys?

 

Item 9: The latest...

Yup.

About that...

I checked with Dallas, and the check is currently in MISSISSAUGA, ON. So the rest of this might be moot.

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Rigamarole:

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

35% off December 25-31.*

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

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Got a message from my friends at the Waverly Press. They're doing Holiday Bundles for 2024. There are limited to 50 bundles. Available until December 31 or they sell out. Whichever comes first. Get 'em while they're hot. https://waverlycomics.com the site is down and getting revamped.

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In other news, since Twitter is a dumpster-fire and most people are skipping out of there, AMOC has joined BlueSky. Follow along. Or don't. No skin of my nuts either way...

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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...)

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Heritage has an original sketch in a lot with sketches by others, and a copy of issue 6 with other comics.

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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: Not more of this...