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.
Last week in PetuniaCon Day One we say a couple of pages from Dave's second Cerebus notebook. One of the pages had a sketch for the cover to Cerebus #37, PetuniaCon day one. So when I started digitally flipping through the pages of the third notebook, which covers Cerebus #37 to 40, and saw writing for PetuniaCon day one, I slowed down a bit and read what it was.
On page three I saw some dialogue, just a wall of it. One thing caught my interest, a name: Suenteus Po. What? He doesn't appear in Cerebus #37. What we see is some dialogue between Cerebus and Po during a face to face meeting at PetuniaCon.
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| Notebook #3, page 3 |
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| Notebook #3, page 6 |