Keiron Gillen: Jaka's Story
Cerebus Vol 5: Jack's Story (1988-90)Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard KEIRON GILLEN:(from Keiron Gillen's Blog, 31 July 2014)Someone asked me about my comic criticism recently. I’m digging some of it out....
View ArticleRESTORATION BULLETIN -- GOAT Redesign continued
Sean Michael Robinson:Greetings everyone!Last week Dave wrote that he's entertaining suggestions for potential redesigns for the "Goat" section of High Society. As I mentioned last week, the section is...
View ArticleTen Years Ago: A Tribute To Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson (1968-2005) Co-founder (with Stephen Holland) of the UK comics shop Page 45Founder of the Cerebus Yahoo Discussion Group.DAVE SIM:(from the Cerebus Yahoo Group, 2005) Before we get started...
View ArticleBlurring the Night Away
Sean Michael Robinson:Greetings everyone!I'm going to try to keep this update very brief, mainly because I've written... how many posts since this weekend?Anyway, on Saturday I posted a fax from Dave...
View ArticleJoanne and Fred (not that Fred)
MARGARET LISS: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...
View ArticleJe Suis Charlie: Stand Up For Free Speech
The Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists:Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Tignous & Philippe Honore (not pictued) Art by Tom Tomorrow COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND:(from Stand Up For Free Speech, 8 January 2015) Index...
View ArticleWeekly Update #65: Do I Look Happy-Go-Lucky To You?
DAVE SIM: Hello everyone! A bit of "chop" to start the New Year but -- at least for the moment -- we have green lights all the way around in the Aardvark-Vanaheim cockpit. So, I'm turning off the...
View ArticleThe Four Images Of Neil Gaiman
Lithograph No. 1: Neil GaimanDAVE SIM:(from The Long, Strange History of Phase II, 2004)...The four images of Neil-the-starving-journalist overlap the principle image of Neil and make for a...
View ArticleHigh Society 'Bookplate Idea' Competition
Submitted by Paul McKenzieDAVE SIM:(from Weekly Update #65, 9 January 2015)...Oh, and I've decided to do the signing and numbering on bookplates that Bang Printing will be putting in the inside front...
View ArticleFrom The Archive: Jerry Siegel
DAVE SIM: Meanwhile, thiry years ago in the Cerebus Archive... in which all participants get to ask themselves, How in the HECK did that get to be thirty YEARS ago?Letter from Jerry Siegel, co-creator...
View ArticleFrom The Archive: The Mike Bannon Fan Club
DAVE SIM: Meanwhile, thiry years ago in the Cerebus Archive... in which all participants get to ask themselves, How in the HECK did that get to be thirty YEARS ago?Derek McCulloch's resignation letter...
View ArticleHow High Society? Odds and Ends and Audience Participation
Sean Michael Robinson:Greetings everyone!I'm afraid it's an "odds and ends" style roundup this week, as that's where we are with the work. Mara's spending this week finishing up the Dragnet...
View ArticleOdds and Ends
MARGARET LISS: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...
View ArticleWeekly Update 16 January 15
Howdy, everyone!Question from a couple of weeks back (last week?) about the notebooks: what about those missing pages? That's one of those concave/convex/concave/convex oscillations where I was aware...
View ArticleTodd Klein: My Five Favourite Letterers
Todd Klein'sCompendium Of Calligraphic Knowledge (2013)TODD KLEIN:(from Comic Book Artist Vol 2 #1, Top Shelf Productions, 2003)1. Gaspar SaladinoFrom the early 1950 to the present, Gaspar has set the...
View ArticleWeekly Update #66: Supplemental
Steve Harold meets Dave SimThe Off-White House, January 2015DAVE SIM:(via John Funk via Dropbox, 15 January 2015) Former Diamond/Chicago Warehouse guy and co-organizer (with another former Diamond...
View ArticleShort Stories In Six Words
CHAD V:It is claimed Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which Hemingway won with the following: "For sale: Baby shoes....
View ArticleHigh Society Bookplate Ideas
In Weekly Update #65 Dave Sim asked for bookplate ideas for the High Society Signed & Numbered Diamond Edition. Here are the entries received so far. Sean will have more tomorrow here on AMOC.Will...
View ArticleHigh Society Bookplate Ideas, Part the Second
Sean Michael Robinson:In Weekly Update #65 Dave Sim asked for bookplate ideas for the High Society Signed & Numbered Diamond Edition. Yesterday, Tim ran some of the designs we've received so far....
View ArticleTo Ham & Ham Not
MARGARET LISS: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...
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