#dave sim

[vintagegeekculture]

Eastman and Laird support their fellow underground comics success, Dave Sim's Cerebus.

[weirdlookindog]

The Shadow of the Axe!

by Russ Heath (art) / Dave Sim (script)

from Creepy #91, August 1977.

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[tomoleary]

Dave Sim and Gerhard “Cerebus vs Cirin” (2007) Source

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Cerebus #012 Pg 09 (1979) by Dave Sim

[evilhorse]

Cerebus in Hell? Presents #68

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts by Cerebus by Dave Sims? Are the misogynistic parts legit bad or just immoral like a lot of other great often can be?

The "misogynistic parts" are the only parts I read: issue #186, a literal tract in typeset prose about the combat between the "Male Light" and the "Female Void" that anticipates decades' worth of online discourse. It is an artful collage offset by a metafictional construct, but this doesn't help its reductiveness, nor did it make me, when I read it as a teen to see what all the fuss in the fan press was about, want to find out what it had to do with a cartoon aardvark whose adventures began as a Conan parody. (Schopenhauer didn't make scholars of his anti-feminine discourse read 6000 pages about a cartoon aardvark!) I understand that the later episodes of the series offer dense interpretations of the lives of Wilde and Hemingway. Maybe there's something there; maybe I'm wrong. If Cerebus landed on my doorstep, I'd read it, but I'm not going to seek it out in print or go blind by reading it online.

(Cerebus #186, incidentally, was where I first got a hint at the age of 14 in 1996 what Neil Gaiman was up to, which is why I don't understand why anyone is shocked by the recent testimony. Screenshot from a Russian pirate site attached as evidence: "Viktor Davis" is Sim's alter ego, and "Temporary Supplementary Void" is Sim's jargon for a paramour; the convention context suggests Gaiman's paramour was either collaborator or fan.)

[nfcomics]

CEREBUS • MARVELMANVARK no.1 • by Dave Sim [Dec 2023]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE HEAVIEST OF HEAVIES TAKING ON THE BADDEST ANTI-HERO IN THE DARK AGE OF COMICS.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on promotional advertisements for "SPAWN" Vol. 1 #8-11 (1993), published throughout various issues of Image Comics.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "In 1992, seven superstar artists left Marvel to form Image Comics.  While their comics were a runaway success right off the bat, they faced criticism that the writing wasn’t very good, since the artwork took priority.

In response, Image’s Todd McFarlane invited four of the most critically acclaimed comic book writers to each write an issue of his series "SPAWN."  In this highly publicized event, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim, and Frank Miller were set to write "Spawn" #8-11, respectively."

-- CONCRETE GRAY (WordPress), "Comics Written by Alan Moore, then by Grant Morrison," published March 26, 2019

Source: https://tractorforklift.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/comics-written-by-alan-moore-then-by-grant-morrison.

[piepress]

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[gootie]

Cartoonist Kayfabetober, 26 October 2023. 80's Black & White Explosion! This one was tough because I love too many 80's b&w comics. After much deliberation I settled on Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo reading an issue of Dave Sim's Cerebus.

[nicklloydnow]

“Sim has an apparent lack of concern for his audience. Doesn't it matter to him that he frequently infuriates his readership even as far as driving many away permanently? Well, yes and no.

"That's not the criteria I use. The criteria I use personally, the thing that for me makes it worthwhile, is that Harlan Ellison likes it, that Barry Windsor-Smith likes it, that Michael Moorcock likes it, that somebody who can write an intelligent review for the ATLANTIC MONTHLY likes it and sees a lot of what I'm putting into it -- that's what I get out of it. I take it for granted that because that's who I'm going for, I'm going to annoy major chunks of the constituency quite frequently until it drops off to levels I thought I would achieve at the age of 30, say 22,000. I'm still perfectly content, there's a financial cushion there now. Even if it drops below that I can keep financing all this, saying exactly what I want to say."

It would be easy to see Dave Sim as arrogant -- and to a degree he is -- but you can't escape the thought that anyone who allows his readers virtually a free hand at the back of his comic must care something for them. There's the sneaking suspicion that behind the brash, tough-guy exterior there lurks, somewhere well hidden, a heart in the right place. His enthusiasms - CEREBUS, The Rolling Stones, comics in general -- are infectious. As to his favourite comics, well no surprises there.

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And as to CEREBUS' constituency , who represents Sim's ideal reader?

"I'm going to paraphrase this because I can never remember what I said. Something to the effect of: I appeal to people for whom there is as great an appeal in obscurity as clarity. CEREBUS is obscure and reveals itself bit by bit, and is in no great rush to do so -- on average you will learn three or four pertinent things a year."

"It's one thing from there to say Who does it appeal to? A specific person doesn't come to mind. But to translate it into novels -- a person who likes the big hit, reads Peter Benchley's JAWS and gets grabbed by the first page and reads it all the way through sitting on the toilet or wherever else they go. It's gripping, spine-chilling, moves right along, a roller-coaster ride of suspense"

"You can try putting that on the back of Dostoyevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, but it's not. It's not a roller-coaster ride, it's not spine-chilling, gut-wrenching, sphincter-tingling action. If you're patient it'll deliver the goods. And then you hit the kicker page, like on page 300, and from there it becomes the Peter Benchley JAWS where you're just going: Well, how did he resolve this, how does he resolve this irresolvable thing that he's got? Somebody's going to get what they want and somebody is not, and I can't wait to see how he works this out." - from COMIC COLLECTOR #1 (1992)

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[tomoleary]

Dave Sim Cerebus the Aardvark #54 Cover Wolveroach Re-Creation Original Art (2005) Source