Bring Back The Aardvark Graffiti
Graffiti art by Jon 'JonOne' WatsonPhoto by Doug Belshaw (Blyth/Ashington, UK, 2009)DOUG BELSHAW:(from Doug Belshaw's Flickr page, 2009) This graffiti has adorned the underside of a bridge on the spine...
View ArticleMichael Hoskin: "Cerebus: I'm Reading It."
Cerebus In Snow (1986)Art by Dave Sim & GerhardMICHAEL HOSKIN:(from the Section 244 blog, 31 October 2011)There was a time when I knew of Dave Sim's Cerebus as "one of those artsy-fartsy comic...
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Cerebus #1-300 (December 1977 to March 2004)Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard(Click image to enlarge)DAVE SIM:(from the 'Eisner Goodwin Sim' panel talk, Will Eisner's Quarterly #4, 1985)...Bill Loebs, who...
View ArticleThe Godfather Of Indie Comics
Margaret Liss' Kickstarter Reward (2012) Art by Dave Sim CARMA CHAN:(from The Examiner, 25 July 2012)The mark of a pure geek is a comic book fan who has read all 6,000 pages of Cerebus. Anyone who has...
View ArticleArt Auction: Judge Dredd Year One #1
Judge Dredd Year One #1 (IDW, 2013)Art by Dave SimInternet Only Bidding: 5-12 May 2013HERITAGE AUCTIONS:Explosive variant cover for the new JD: Year One series, featuring Sim's distinctive ink work....
View ArticleHoward Cruse: Stuck Rubber Baby
Stuck Rubber Baby (1995)by Howard Cruse DAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hour Tour: Comicon, 1 February 2008)...No, I don't hate blacks and/or gays, nor do I hate women. You know, I was at the GraphicLit opening...
View ArticleCerebus On The Berlin Wall
Photo: inside backcover, Cerebus #127 (October 1989) THORN:(from Aardvark Comment, Cerebus #127, October 1989)Here it is! The long ago promised and finally delivered, just in time to be torn down,...
View ArticleInky Fingers
Cerebus #84 (March 1986) Art by Dave Sim & GerhardDAVE SIM:(from The Beguiling, July 2004)As a way of communicating the Dickensian grime that I pictured in Iest’s Lower City, I had Gerhard fade out...
View ArticleThe Roshomon Effect
Backcover, Cerebus #183 (June 1994)Photo by Gerhard (Click image to enlarge)DAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hour Tour: Comics Bulletin, 26 February 2008)I also went over and checked the Self-Publishing history...
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Graffiti by K2S STN (Los Angeles, 2011)Art by Gabe88, photo by Steve Sax (2009)Art by unknown, photo by Eric Reynolds (Seattle, 2010)DAVE SIM:(from Aardvark Comment, Cerebus #81, December 1985)Um......
View ArticleNorman Rockwell
The Connoisseur (1962)by Norman Rockwell DAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hours Tour: TCJ, 15 February 2008)...in gallery art or fine art... there is still this Huge Question Mark about whether or not Norman...
View ArticleThe Advance Game
Help finance Dave Sim to complete 'The Strange Death Of Alex Raymond'.Originally serialised within the pages of the self-published Glamourpuss #1-26 (April 2008 to July 2012), The Strange Death Of Alex...
View ArticlePhotorealism: "It's S**t"
Glamourpuss #16 (November 2010)Art by Dave Sim DAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hour Tour: Comics Village, 21 February 2008)Long story short, I think that we have to get used to the fact that there does tend to...
View ArticlePhotorealism: "It's Just Photograph Tracing"
Glamourpuss #13 (May 2010)Art by Dave Sim DAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hours Tour: Comicon, 1 February 2008)You know I was telling Chester Brown on one of my visits last year that I wish I was an inventor...
View ArticlePhotorealism: "It's A High Wire Act"
Glamourpuss #13 (May 2010)Art by Dave SimDAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hours Tour: TCJ, 31 January 2008)Photorealism is a high wire act. Raymond, according to his long-time assistant (in Tom Roberts' new...
View ArticlePhotorealism: "Run Your Own Race"
Glamourpuss #20 (July 2011) Art by Dave SimDAVE SIM:(from the 100 Hours Tour: TCJ, 15 February 2008)...although I don't share all of Alex Ross's political viewpoints -- nor he, mine I'm sure -- I think...
View ArticleHappy 57th Birthday, Dave Sim!
(Click image to enlarge)DAVE SIM:(from Aardvark Comment, Cerebus #39, June 1982)Photograph used in Kitchener-Waterloo Record in a story about forged Cerebus #1s. That's an authentic one that I'm...
View ArticleGone Fishing
Cerebus #211 (October 1996)Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard'A Moment Of Cerebus' will return 26 May 2013.
View ArticleLife After Cerebus: Joseph Alberts
In the first of a regular feature, comics professionals and hopefuls discuss the influence Dave Sim and Gerhard's Cerebus has had on their own creativity. If you create comics and would like to...
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