MARGARET LISS:
We last looked at Dave Sim's notebook #9 in Sketches of Familiar Faces in February of 2017. It covers issues Cerebus #80 through 86 and had 118 out of 200 pages scanned. While we've seen This notebook seven times, we've never seen the cover for it.
Shocker. Yet another Hilroy. Red this time though, and no unicorn on it.
Looking through the pages, I saw a block of text on page 126. It looks like it was meant to be a Note From The President, but it isn't posted to my site and I don't remember it right off hand. I'd dig through some issues, but I don't have the time. . .
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.
We last looked at Dave Sim's notebook #9 in Sketches of Familiar Faces in February of 2017. It covers issues Cerebus #80 through 86 and had 118 out of 200 pages scanned. While we've seen This notebook seven times, we've never seen the cover for it.
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| Notebook #9, front cover |
Looking through the pages, I saw a block of text on page 126. It looks like it was meant to be a Note From The President, but it isn't posted to my site and I don't remember it right off hand. I'd dig through some issues, but I don't have the time. . .
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| Notebook #9, page 126 |