The first fourteen or so pages of Dave Sim’s twenty ninth notebook contain nearly finished pages to Going Home. More specifically Cerebus #240. We’ve seen a couple of these pages already, most recently in Nearly Finished Page from Cerebus #240 in September of 2020. The notebook covers Cerebus #240 through 250 and had 150 pages scanned.
One of those nearly finished pages we haven’t seen yet is page 5 of the notebook. Same as the other pages, Dave started out with pencil and finished them up with ink. And there are no Gerhard backgrounds to them:
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| Notebook #29, page 5 |
The above page goes along with Going Home page 171, aka Cerebus #240 page 5.
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| Going Home page 171 |
As you can see, the notebook page is very similar to the finished comic page with a few minor differences differences: The middle strip of panels is broken up into only two and not three as shown on the notebook page. And F. Stop is facing to the right on the finished page, but on the notebook page he is facing left. And the shadow is not on his face, nor the highlight on the back of Cerebus’ head on the top right panel.
But dang, pretty close to a finish page. In his notebook.