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 second notebook covers Cerebus #28 through 37 and had 198 out of 200 pages scanned. Page 186 caught my interested because it has a preliminary sketch for the cover to Cerebus #37:
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| Notebook #2, page 186 |
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| Notebook #2, page 187 |