The Puma Blues: AV Club Review
The Puma Blues (Dover Books, 2015)by Stephen Murphy & Michael Zulli, with Alan MooreForward by Dave Sim, afterword by Steve BissetteEisner Award Nominee!"Without it, any well-stocked comics library...
View ArticleImpossible Thing #14
What I'm alluding to here is the Feminist Theocracy's impulse towards "the one right way to think." The Impossible Things are far too intricate for that: there are just too many ways of thinking about...
View ArticleROBIN SNYDER'S THE COMICS part II
Glamourpuss #7 (May 2009)Art by Dave Sim DAVE SIM: (continued from Robin Snyder's The Comics Part 1...) Hi Robin! I just saw your note on the front of this issue: "There's a grumbler in here". Well...
View ArticleOdd Transformations... 4 part 2
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 ArticleAstronautalis: "Fuck God-Damn Comic-Book Movies"
ASTRONAUTALIS:(from the Baeble Music video interview, 25 May 2016 -- starting at 3.30 minutes)Captain America! Fuck god-damn comic-book movies. I'm gonna be on the fucking record: I am not a Marvel...
View ArticleWeekly Update #136: New Mr. A by Steve Ditko!
Dave takes a look at Steve Ditko's new Mr. A Comic,also Dave gets a birthday card from a small child. It has hearts on it.Robin Snyder can be contacted at:3745 Canterbury Lane #81, Bellingham, WA,...
View ArticleReading READS for the Last (?) Time
Cerebus #175 (October 1993)Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard DAVE SIM:1) Erick: No problem. You've got to say what you've got to say and I've got to say what I've got to say. Just because you say...
View ArticleJeff Seiler: Dave Sim & Me
JEFF SEILER:Eleven years ago, when Cerebus ended, Dave Sim decided to answer all of his back mail. A month or so later, he had his "Jeff Seiler Day" in which he answered multiple letters I had written...
View ArticlePhotorealist Tryouts
DAVE SIM:(from Calling All Raymond/Williamson Photorealists, AMOC, 21 May 2016)...I'm going to suggest that you -- and anyone else interesting in "trying out" for SDOAR -- do a Raymond/Williamson...
View ArticleMs. A: Effort For A
Glamourpuss #7 (May 2009)Art by Dave SimFurther Reading: Dave Sim discusses his parody of Steve Ditko's Mr. A here...
View ArticleOn Sale 15 Years Ago: Cerebus #266
Cerebus #266 (May 2001)Art by Dave Sim, cover technician Wayne Cope
View ArticleROBIN SNYDER'S THE COMICS! -- PART III
DAVE SIM:Tom Peirce further criticized my use of fashion photos without attribution. It's quite difficult to attribute fashion photos because most fashion magazines don't. As far as I can see...
View ArticleDistribution: "It's Just Business"
High Society Ad Cerebus #86 (May1986)DAVE SIM:(from Al Nickerson's Creator's Bill Of Rights Blog, 23 April 2005)...The first draft of the Creative Manifesto [the precursor to the Creators' Bill Of...
View ArticlePhotorealism Tryout: Lee Thacker
Alex Raymond's 'Rip Kirby' strip from 27 June 1956Top: Alex Raymond's original art; Bottom: Lee Thacker's reproduction(Click image to enlarge)LEE THACKER:I chose to copy this strip for a number of...
View ArticleCharles Brownstein: Reading Cerebus
CHARLES BROWNSTEIN:(from a Facebook Comment, 17 May 2016)I think Cerebus has three distinct story cycles that can each be taken on their own:the high adventure & intrigue period of Swords thru...
View ArticleImpossible Thing #15
Hi Erick! Legislative seat quotas are, by definition, totalitarian and anti-democratic since they involve "predetermination of outcome". A democracy determines by the election process who will...
View ArticleMind Game III
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 ArticlePhotorealist Tryout: Carson Grubaugh
CARSON GRUBAUGH:Here is a more developed page for Dave. No more for a while, I promise. The intro pages Dave requested are gonna take a while...(click images to enlarge)Read more about Dave Sim's...
View ArticleGerhard: Helping Heroes...
GERHARD:(from Gerz Blog, 2 June 2016) The Hero Initiative is the first-ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strictly to helping comic book creators in need. Hero creates a...
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