Cerebus: "The Passage"
DAVE SIM:Original thumb-nail sketches of the "Passage" storyline -- four pages of the original art of which have been included in CEREBUS ARCHIVE NUMBER ONE: pages 3, 4, 5 and 6. Can you spot the four...
View ArticleLeah Moore's Aardvark
DAVE SIM: Is there anything more precious than a gift from a child? Leah Moore surprised me with this at her Dad, Alan's, place. Quite an accomplished piece of work for whatever-age-she-was at the time...
View ArticleGerhard's "Robert Crumb" Backgrounds
(Click image to enlarge) DAVE SIM:Gerhard "Robert Crumb" background pages 380-383 of LATTER DAYS. He does a very good "heavy line work" Crumb style and a creditable teeny-tiny Mr. Natural and Flakey...
View ArticleDave Sim's Notebooks: Form & Void Shooting Script
MARGARET LISS:With issue #248 - 250 Dave wrote his first shooting script in 25 years (not counting Spawn #10). He stated in the Chasing Scott notes in the back of FORM & VOID that he lost the...
View ArticleCerebus Restoration Update: 'Proving' Proofs
SEAN MICHAEL ROBINSON:Things are mostly quiet on the restoration front, as we wait to see the results of the Lebonfon Cerebus 16thedition replacement signatures.Because of a few delays, I ended up...
View ArticleWeekly Update #40: The Presses Are Rolling!
Lebonfon President, Alain Roberge, checking printed signatures of CEREBUS coming off press. DAVE SIM: Executive SummaryFirst pages of the CEREBUS volume were rolling off the presses at Lebonfon today....
View ArticleThe Countess & The Aardvark
Cerebus #53 (August 1983)Art by Dave Sim DAVE SIM:(from the Cerebus Wiki)The Countess, visually, was based on Karen McKiel, the Aardvark-Vanaheim secretary from 1982 to 1988 (?). She was an interesting...
View ArticleEstate Of Craig Miller: Original Art For Sale
Cerebus #80Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard(Click image to enlarge)HOWARD MILLER:(Father / Administrator of the Craig Miller Estate)The original art from Cerebus #80 pages 8 & 9 will be on display for...
View ArticleEddie Khanna: Action Comics #563
Action Comics #593 (DC Comics, January 1985)by Robert Loren Fleming & Keith Giffin EDDIE KHANNA:Dave, there it goes again. I had this comic out for some reason. I had been reading it a few years...
View ArticleIt Looked Good On Paper!
DAVE SIM:One of those "It Looked Good On Paper" things -- literally! Mimi Cruz and Alan Carroll of Night Flight Comics had sent us this incredibly cool photo of the Salt Lake City Library: worm's eye...
View ArticleDave Sim's Notebooks: Touch Not The Priestess
MARGARET LISS:This week we're looking at issue #83, and in specific, pages 8 to 10 or if you're following along in the phonebook, CHURCH & STATE II page 642 to 644. Dave first sketched out some...
View ArticleWANTED: The Cerebus Art Dragnet Begins
WANTED: Have You Seen These Aardvarks???The hunt is on!Aardvark-Vanaheim is currently seeking high resolution scans of Cerebus original art, to replaced aged, destroyed, or otherwise inadequate...
View ArticleWeekly Update #41: Club 261
DAVE SIM:Executive SummaryOn track for shipping of the Remastered CEREBUS Volume One trade. Today. Retailers being enlisted to notify AMOC when they (re) enter Diamond's Star System.Sean Robinson...
View ArticleFrom The Archive: Zulli & Byrne Draw Cerebus
DAVE SIM:A couple of favourites from the "Other People's Cerebuses" section of the Cerebus Archive:Michael Zulli:Oscar Wilde and Cerebus"The future is what artists are" pen and ink on craft-tint...
View ArticleThe Making Of A Cover: Following Cerebus #4
DAVE SIM: The cover of FOLLOWING CEREBUS No.4 (May 2005): For some weird reason, I told Gerhard that I wanted to do the foreground building. Then, while I was working on it, I realized that I was doing...
View ArticleFrom The Archive: Neil Gaiman's Good Omens
DAVE SIM:Treasures of the Cerebus Archive -- I'm pretty sure this is a copy of the first printing of GOOD OMENS which Neil personalized:"To Dave and Ger - The end of the world is nigh. Bring sandwiches."
View ArticleFrom The Archive: Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot
DAVE SIM:Treasures From The Archive -- Bob Burden is comics' greatest cartoonist/flea market dealer. He obviously ran across this edition of THE HARLOTS HOUSE AND OTHER POEMS (1929) by Oscar Wilde...
View ArticleDave Sim's Notebooks: The Making Of A Cover - Cerebus #60
MARGARET LISS:After seeing the recent entry The Making Of A Cover: Following Cerebus #4, I thought to myself, I know I've seen several sketches of different covers in Dave's notebooks. Then when I was...
View ArticleRestoration Update-- the Cerebus Dragnet Continues!
SEAN MICHAEL ROBINSON:Friends... the hunt for Cerebus original art continues!We've had some success so far, with eight original art owners contacting us so far, resulting in a total of twenty-seven...
View ArticleLebonfon Update: Binding Cerebus!
DEAN McCOY: (via email, Monday, 28 July 2014)Hi Tim, Here's a few pics of Cerebus on the binding line. The job will be shipping out today.[Sorry for the delay in getting these images posted everyone ~...
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