Matt spent time with the family. Order the new CiH? book!

Hi, Everybody!

Say, I know everybody is following the Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 Featuring Cerebus from Aardvark-Vanaheim and The Waverly Press Kickstarter, speaking of which Iguana how's it looking on The Big Board?

goddamn we're so tired...

Anyway, there's OTHER Cerebus related news, like:

CEREBUS IN HELL?:

Last few days to get CIH PRESENTS AVERSIONS #1 also available Signed by Dave. Because the sequel is ready to order:

CIH PRESENTS SHE-AVERSIONS ONE SHOT (MR)

And as is the deal now, Also available Signed by Dave

As you may have noticed from the solicitations, the covers in Previews are (MR) (Mature Readers), and censored. Like so:

You may also have noticed that while the nipples are covered, the crotch is not. This is because the ways of censorship are strange and hypocritical...

Anyway, while Aversions was a parody of the Avengers, She-Aversions is a parody of a team book from the Distinguished Competition. And of the sidekicks to boot:

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Got the TENTH entry in the Visions of Turtles #8 contest:

Details as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 100 printed cards of their art, a pack of the rarest comics from the Waverly Comics archive, and serious bragging rights!
• Contest runs until Thursday March 30th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

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Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

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Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

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Sean Robinson's Living the Line is Kickstartering the Trade of Abolition of Man.

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March 25-26.

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Next Time: I spent time with the family, and it STILL involved Turtles and an Aadvark...

Permanent Smoke rides again (Dave's weekly update #480)

Hi, Everybody!

Welcome back to AMOC where we TCOB about TMNT8.

First up, Iguana, how's that Big Board looking?

Seventy grand?!? Wow! I guess the "kids" love the Zombies...loves 'em!

But ya know what people love MORE than Zombies?

Dave does...:

BABIES! (Think about it... they never did Muppet Zombies. But Muppet BABIES? They did that TWICE!)

And since we're "All Turtles 8, All the Time!" Here's

Dave's Weekly Update:

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You can go to Darrell's website, but all the books aren't there. Bezos has 'em, though...

And here's Dave talking to Kevin Eastman Part 7:

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Got the Seventh, Eighth, AND Nineth entries in the T8 Card Contest: 

Details as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 100 printed cards of their art, a pack of the rarest comics from the Waverly Comics archive, and serious bragging rights!
• Contest runs until Thursday March 30th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

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Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

____________________________________

Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

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Sean Robinson's Living the Line is Kickstartering the Trade of Abolition of Man.

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March 24-26.

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Thumbnails for Cerebus #99 Part 2

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 last week in Thumbnails for Cerebus #99 we saw a page from Dave Sim’s eleventh notebook that had thumbnails and dialogue for pages 6 and 7 from Cerebus #99. Today we’ll skip forward from page 69 to page 75 which has two more thumbnails. 

Though this page is best seen in landscape mode:

Notebook #11, page 75

Yes, you can click to enlarge the page. That way you see the pencils under Dave’s inks. As you can see along the top of the page, these thumbnails are indeed for Cerebus #99 pages 12 and 13. The thumbnails are close to the final page, but a few details are different. 

The first thing that jumps out is there is no background. And what Dave did sketch out, the throne, is different on the finished page. Some of the poses of the characters are different, but the panel layout and word balloons is the same. 

The last bits of dialogue mostly from the Great Andrena character, are different. Dave also changed the outfit the Po character wears.

Cerebus #99, pages 12 and 13 (aka Church & State II pages 968 & 969

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An Overly Exhaustive Making of A TMNT8 cover Part 3: Colors

Benjamin Hobbs:

The RemasteredTMNT8 Kickstarter campaign is moving right along. One of the covers on the campaign was drawn and colored by me:

 

Over the next several weeks I'm going to show an Overly Exhaustive Progression of this cover.  This week: The Color.

Having scanned in the image and cleaned up bits I forgot to white-out, I added Color flats:

I wanted The colors to look water colored. To achieve  this, I printed out sections of the cover and, on a separate piece of paper, water colored over them using a light box. I started with Cerebus, the rings, and the area behind Cerebus and Renet. I scanned in the water colors and placed them in the image.  Orange was used a placeholder in the border boxes:

Next, I added color to the middle circle up top. And added some digitally created energy emanating from the clock at the bottom of the cover:

Next I rendered some light on the circles around the price, issue number and Turtles:

My wife pointed out that the circle around the rings wasn't really, you know, A CIRCLE. So I fixed it digitally. Then added more light effects to the designs around the Turtles. Also, Cerebus' eyeball drops down a bit:

Renet's clothes and cape were colored,  and the power from the Time Scepter was laid in.  I put a Blue field behind the four Turtles.  I thought about doing Blue/Purple/Red/Orange, but that would have been a BIT too cutesy:

I turned off the color flats to give myself a more realistic idea of what still needed to be colored. Having done the watercolors for the skin tone on Renet, I placed them.  Only to discover that I forgot to color her chest. How did I miss THAT:

So I colored her chest.  And the Turtles:

The alternating yellow and orange color on the rings wasn't working for the image, there wasn't enough depth. So I adjusted that.  Digitally, I cleaned up the lighting effects in the borders around the Turtles:

The Time Scepter effects weren't looking right.  So I took out the line work, and let the effect exist on it's own. The blue behind the Turtles wasn't working for the image, so I swapped it out for a color that matches the color behind Cerebus and Renet, unifying the cover:

 Then, I changed the logo text and cover price, and added highlights to the Turtles heads.

And finally, I moved around some highlights on the Turtles and added some to their bandanas:

Next Week: It's the last Wednesday of the month! An all new CIH? at you LCS!

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SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe Update XII: The Return of Emo Dave

 "There’s no doubt that this is a masterpiece, a work of staggering genius by a creator who knows a thing or two about creating great comics. It’s also perhaps the most insane thing you will ever read, and I’m not sure it hasn’t driven me mad." 

- Greg Burkas, AtomicJunkShop.com Review

Speaking of masterpieces, Dave let me use Emo Dave to help out with my weekly updates. I even earned the much coveted "LOL!" after sharing by fax. So much so that next week's strip will be written by Dave himself!

While Emo Dave tries to sort things out, allow me to share where we stand with the SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe campaign slightly more legibly:

• $3,460 raised from 68 donations
• 21 new pages released as mocked up by Dave Sim from June 11 to August 6, 2021
• 42 total pages available on Dropbox, including Dave's 2019 mocked-up pages!
• Only $140 away from unlocking fantastic page 43!
• $540 away from making Jen work on SDOAR 2023 Ashcans Vol. 0 & Vol. 1!!

>> Vazhlyvyy Moment <<

1. If you have not donated >> $5+ donation grants access to all 42 pages and all unlocked pages moving forward! 
2. If you have donated (thanks!!) >> GoFundMe does not have an option for monthly subscriptions. So... if you want to donate on a monthly basis, please do so as we are on the back side of month #3.
3. GoFundMe is a dreadful communication platform -- if you haven't heard back from me, gotten access to the new pages, etc., please email me at jen@typingmonkeys.com

SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe -->> https://gofund.me/4e2e1c96 <<-- SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe

Just the Fax, Ma'am

With Dave still busy with TMNT #8, we're going to have to be patient on scans of the production art he's been sending out. In the meantime, here's an old fax exchange between me and Dave from November 2022 wherein I share the first German Gone with the Wind edition from 1949.

SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe -->> https://gofund.me/4e2e1c96 <<-- SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe

Lower-Priced Pledge Items!

Postcards, buttons, cloisonné pins, collectible cards, bookmarks, drink coasters, extras from previous Kickstarter campaigns -- all below in one photo. All up for grabs. 

Make me an offer for any items that tickle fancy -- and we'll see if we can move the GFM numbers a bit in the process!

Interested? Email me at jen@typingmonkeys.com and make me an offer that I can't refuse.

SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe -->> https://gofund.me/4e2e1c96 <<-- SDOAR 2023 GoFundMe

 

That's all I got!

Jen 

Do pobachennya!

Dave & Kevin Eastman discuss Turtles #8, part the sixth

Hi, Everybody!

Mondays:

Welcome back to AMOC where we TCOB about TMNT8.

How "ALL TMNT #8, ALL THE TIME!" are we getting? Dave even managed to get it into the Mondays:

Now, Iguana, how's that Big Board looking?

And since we're "All Turtles 8, All the Time!" Here's Dave talking to Kevin Eastman Part 6:

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No Sixth entry in the T8 Card Contest, but I did get copies of some commissioned Jim Lawson Original Art Cards: 

And no, you can't have them. Ya gotta commission yer own...

Details on the TMNT #8 Card Contest as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 100 printed cards of their art, a pack of the rarest comics from the Waverly Comics archive, and serious bragging rights!
• Contest runs until Friday, March 24th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

_____________________________

Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

____________________________________

Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

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Gary Boyarski's Kickstarter for Jack Grim #11

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And James Windsor-Smith is kickstartering the next issue of his Papa Balloon and Cactus comic. And is offering a Dave Sim variant cover:

Limited to 60 copies about half of them are "claimed"...

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March 23-26.

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Next Time: (I's been fucking around...)

Jen-Sim! Ben-Sim! Mags-Sim! and Daveatello! Me? I'm the giant rat...

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Dave & Kevin Eastman discuss Turtles #8, part the fifth

Hi, Everybody!

Welcome back to AMOC where we TCOB about TMNT8.

First up, Iguana, how's that Big Board looking?

And since we're "All Turtles 8, All the Time!" Here's Dave talking to Kevin Eastman Part 5:

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

As far as I know, that's the last part that's been uploaded. But they've probably recorded more...

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Got the Fifth entry in the T8 Card Contest: 

Details as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 100 printed cards of their art, a pack of the rarest comics from the Waverly Comics archive, and serious bragging rights!
• Contest runs until Friday, March 24th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

And the Zombie covers are going to resume tomorrow. I don't know if Zombie Renet (and her balcony you can do Zombie Shakespeare from...) have been offered yet (if "yes", a turtle is next, if "no" get your copies of Zombie Macbeth ready...), but one of these is getting offered tomorrow:

Zombie Don is just his feet... It's a bit Dave's doing.

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Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

____________________________________

Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

____________________________________

Gary Boyarski's Kickstarter for Jack Grim #11

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And James Windsor-Smith is kickstartering the next issue of his Papa Balloon and Cactus comic. And is offering a Dave Sim variant cover:

Limited to 60 copies.

____________________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:  

March 23-26.

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off 

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Next Time: Turtles! Turtles! All the damn time with damn turtles...

Dave & Kevin Eastman discuss Turtles #8, part the fourth

Hi, Everybody!

Welcome back to AMOC where we TCOB about TMNT8.

First up, Iguana, how's that Big Board looking?

And since we're "All Turtles 8, All the Time!" Here's Dave talking to Kevin Eastman Part 4:

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

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Got the FOURTH entry in the T8 Card Contest: 

Details as I know them. 

• They're producing a card set called "Visions of Turtles 8" with art by lots of cool folks. (Maybe even me!)
• They are looking for members of the Cerebus community to submit their own art ideas for a trading card that will be included in the set.
• Dave Sim is one of the judges. Our man at the Waverly Press is the other.
• Winner gets 50 copies of their card, and "a package of fun stuff including a platinum T8 ashcan"
• Contest runs until Friday, March 24th at midnight.
• Submit your entries to momentofcerebus@gmail.com

_____________________________

Heritage has ALL sorts of TMNT/Cerebus goodies

____________________________________

Swords of Cerebus Vol. 1 in Portuguese.

____________________________________

Gary Boyarski's Kickstarter for Jack Grim #11

____________________________________

And James Windsor-Smith is kickstartering the next issue of his Papa Balloon and Cactus comic. And is offering a Dave Sim variant cover:

Limited to 60 copies.

____________________________________

The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide:  

March 23-26.

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off 

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Next Time: I think Dave and Kevin Eastman are still talking...still.