MARGARET LISS:
We just looked at Dave Sim’s fifth Cerebus notebook, aka Albatross #5, last week in Issue #48 Thumbnails. On the FaceBook Cerebus group, Lord Julius came up, and then issue #46, “A Night in Iest” or “Summit Enchanted Evening”. The dialogue between Lord Julius, Cerebus, and Duke Leonardi has some good lines in it.
It starts on page 25 of notebook #5:
There is a rejected intro at the top: “Announcing . . .His grandlordship, Lord of the House of Tavers, Master of the Southern City State of Palnu. . .HIS ESTEEMED WORSHIP” “You forgot most Eligible bachelor of 1413.”
It looks like the map was going to look like “a square piece a’ my aunt’s crumb cake” instead of a fat turkey. Fat turkey is much funnier to me. And then below that a bit, the line that Leonardi was going to say “The why a duck”. Which is the line that Julius was expecting him to say.
The next page in the notebook continues the dialogue between the three of them.
Dave said this about the dialogue: “Finished dialogue. It came pretty easily. Just a few odd corrections here and there.”
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 just looked at Dave Sim’s fifth Cerebus notebook, aka Albatross #5, last week in Issue #48 Thumbnails. On the FaceBook Cerebus group, Lord Julius came up, and then issue #46, “A Night in Iest” or “Summit Enchanted Evening”. The dialogue between Lord Julius, Cerebus, and Duke Leonardi has some good lines in it.
It starts on page 25 of notebook #5:
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| Notebook #5, page 25 |
It looks like the map was going to look like “a square piece a’ my aunt’s crumb cake” instead of a fat turkey. Fat turkey is much funnier to me. And then below that a bit, the line that Leonardi was going to say “The why a duck”. Which is the line that Julius was expecting him to say.
The next page in the notebook continues the dialogue between the three of them.
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| Notebook #5, page 26 |