MARGARET LISS:
No notebook stuff this week for this week is Steve Peters' Week!
Friend to the Blog Steve Peters is running a new KickStarter to fund his latest project: Parallel Comicverses #1, which has a new story in it, WRITTEN BY DAVE SIM! And to celebrate, A Moment of Cerebus is doing STEVE PETERS WEEK II!
In last week's column I showed you some Cerebus cover recreations that Steve Peters did using his characters I thought were pretty spot on. This week I thought I'd show you the original art I got from him way many moons ago. It is a jam piece between Steve and Dave Sim that Steve used in his Origin of Sparky comic.
According to Steve on the jam: "The Dave Sim jam was done by mail over a 2-year period between 2004 and 2006. Dave tells me that it was the first thing he began drawing after completing his epic comic, Cerebus!"
Neither signed the piece (insert sad face, guess it means I'll need to track them both down again at a comic con to have them sign it) so guess what is Dave's bit and what is Steve's bit. To me, I can pick out a Steve Peters' character pretty easily. . .but Dave is known to be a master at mimicking someone else's style.
And all these pictures can be clicked on to get a larger version so you can zoom on it.
Like this hand, that looks like a hand drawn by Steve Peters. The woman also reminds me of his style:
As you can see, that section has some thinner paper that covers the artwork - I'm guessing to protect it in transit. Perhaps Steve did the pencils and mailed it to Dave for the inks? There is also thinner comic art board used and a thicker comic art board used. Though the thicker comic art board isn't Bainbridge, so I'm guessing both types originated with Steve.
The K with the eyes makes me think that is Dave, as it reminds me of the bits from Minds and Guys:
The section below? I'm thinking the face on the planet is Steve, perhaps the Sparky, the rest of it? I'm not too sure:
And this next section? I'm not sure who did what. What I do know, is it reminds me a lot of the scene of Cerebus going up up up in Women to reach the Eighth sphere where he talks to Po.
And yes, if you haven't gotten yourself a copy of The Origin of Sparky, you can get one as the 'Cerebus Package" reward for Steve's current kickstarter.