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i think i actually have a book signed by Sim, somewhere. I think it was a #0 or something. some incidental story that took place between arcs. had a black cover.

ah, my days of comic con attdending.

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link

#0 reprinted #51 (between High Society and Church & State), the double issue 112/113 (between C&S and Jaka's Story) and #137 and most of #138 (a post-Jaka comedy interlude that transitioned into a coda - the coda was in the collection.

Off the top of my head, folks.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's face it though, he's right.

― YHWH (Groke), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

That God sent the Beatles to battle Peter, Paul and Mary for musical dominance? Shiiiit. I just don't feel ready to accept that-- but maybe that's the Void talking.

Ooo! Puppies!

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave's 2004 letter to me starts on page 131. I'm just glad the phrase "John Lennon died when he let Brian Epstein put his band in matching faggy suits" has finally seen the published light of day, it's too good to slide into obscurity.

Chuck, who are you IRL? Page numbers will do.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I do believe that is a sentence.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"John Lennon died when he let Brian Epstein put his band in matching faggy suits."

I've been trying to drop that into conversation ever since you first mentioned it.

My real name in real life is Pau1 15aac5.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

when i think about the sim/smith bustup i kind of imagine it taking place between cerebus and fone bone, the former issuing his 1500-word challenge (in tiny, tiny print) in a huge, beautifully drawn splash page and then a little panel way down at the bottom with fone looking exasperated and going "OH JEEZ!!!!!!!!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

The Guardian exclusively reveals today that Lenny Henry "loves comics and has been reading the Cerebus books sine 1977. Dave Sim came to my birthday party as a surprise once." Finally, the meeting of the minds.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

My favourite Sim-related story of last year.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

“Hmm,” Chris said. “I remember his girlfriend left him in the Eighties and he really took that hard.”

“Yes,” I said, “if you read his comics, you can sort of get that impression.”

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

If only Dave and Deni's firsthand accounts both at the time and subsequently supported this theory, that guy would be insightful!

Lots of Sim/Henry references in Collected Letters 2004, incidentally.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

my friend MH said: "L.henrys female void = larger than average"

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

one is beginning to kind of suspect cerebus was originally plotted by his wife

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

― c(''c) (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Operation Enduring Dave Sim

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 2 April 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/paulisaacs/Simcopy.jpg

Convincing!

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahaha

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Superb.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

he looks face-lifted.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I have it on very good authority (some bloke that worked in the comic shop years ago) that he had to have reconstructive surgery on his nose in the eighties because of too much coke.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Comic Shop Guy is good authority?

If it's true, that makes 6000 on-schedule pages an even more amazing feat.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

That's weird, I totally meant to write 'very dubious authority'. I suspect it's bullshit.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Monday, 3 April 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

DOUG WOLK I JUST READ DAVE SIM SAY THAT YOU'RE A PRETEND FEMINIST

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link

This is his response in Following Cerebus to the article I did in The Believer? Yeah. Sigh.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

yah i can copy it if you want? wtf is that book anyway i just found it randomly at a shop. its just a bunch of people kissing his ass?

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

sometimes it's a fascinating discussion about indie comics/comic writing. but mostly asskissery.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

No, no, I've got a copy already, thanks...

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I kind of jealous you've been hated on by Sim ('pretend feminist' - that's bad right?). Probably means you're sane.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm dissed by Sim somehwere in his collected mentallism book, it's quite easy Joe -- you should try too

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

He calls me a "confirmed atheist" and imagines me agonizing over which wine to order with dinner at delicate snobbish Portland restaurants, both of which are pretty funny to anyone who knows me.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

cuz we know you're a Carlo Rossi man.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

To be honest, there was no slur specifically directed at me, it was more of a generalised "journalist are untrustworthy, lying scum -- why would i, dave sim, need publicity?" type-comment that prefaced his (faxed) answers to my questions.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, if Sim thinks that Douglas is a fake feminist, does this imply that on some level he thinks Douglas is just like him, but won't admit it in public or something? What's the context?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

It's hard to explain, because he's grasping so hard for something to be indignant about, but I gather that he doesn't see how somebody can be both an admirer of his work and not at all down with his agenda.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dave is fascinating, but it's sort of circuitous and pointless (albeit fascinating) to wonder about what his "feelings" are. You need a ball of string to find your way back out.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i think that sim was saying that doug couldnt get his complimentary article PUBLISHED unless he pretended he was a feminist!!

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't Mr Sim against the whole idea of 'feelings' as opposed to MANLY MANLY THORTS?

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70797

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

WTF WHY IS EVERYONE IN THAT THREAD LIKE "WOAH I WISH I COULD GO TO THAT" WTF?!?!?

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Because it's on Newsarama, the house of empty platitudes.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

DAVE SIM TO READ INGREDIENTS LIST FROM EVERY FOOD PRODUCT IN HIS KITCHEN

I am so totally there, dude.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope he reads out Cerebus 289/290 instead.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I like "No Preaching, just the scripture."

But, uh, Dave is not the most engrossing of live speakers.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Dave Sim fanboys in having douchebaggy taste non-shocker

― Dan (Come On Now) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you saying those bible passages are douchebaggy choices or that Dave Sim is himself douchebaggy (I keep thinking douchebuggy, like a dunebuggy only for douches instead of dunes) or merely that, oh, I give up.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I am saying that if you are chomping at the bit to go see Dave Sim read Bible passages, you might have the tastes of a douchebag.

― Dan (For Douches Instead Of Dunes????) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you mean: douchebaggery

Your search - douchebuggy - did not match any documents

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

To the Douchebuggy, BidetBoy!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

test test

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

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He's probably drifted away from being pigeonholed as such more recently thanks to his affinity with the other two big Abrahamic religions.

― chap, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link

read a couple blogs and he seems to be amused by trump rather than a devout follower

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link

he's proto-alt-right to roughly the same degree as DEVO

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link

that's going a little too easy on him shakes

― Cognition (Remix) (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link

ha I thought it was being hard on DEVO tbh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link

that too

― Cognition (Remix) (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link

I was browsing for dumb Dave things and instead found this - what an amazing cover.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kmwlU7KhnHc/U6Rf7F3dufI/AAAAAAAAMSA/IDTFkZdHIOo/s1600/cerebus_053.jpg

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

So, after the less than successful (either financially or artistically) Cerebus In Hell, Dave has announced an extension of his reprint/paste-in line with Batvark as the launch title. "He's comics' most notorious homophobe!" This cannot end well.The plan is that there'll be a CiH one-shot on the final Wednesday of every month, and follows the conclusion of the CiH 'plot' that "of course you didn't think the Gustav Dore Hell is the only one, do you?".

I am still doing the Archive Print series, which is tremendous stuff but isn't creating much actual income for Dave due to the the unpredictable nature of release - 3 years on and there have only been 6 sets of the "quarterly" edition. Latest one is delayed indefinitely because the third (fourth?) collaborator on the prints has just left, leaving nobody to do the stuff Dave doesn't like computers. There's also an idea about a more affordable version of the prints being called the Postage Stamp Collection but my head says this is dead as a concept now. SDoAR is plodding on, largely supported by Patreon but I don't know about progress because updates are locked to donors. And I'm not at that stage yet.

― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4d0PzWGm_U
dang we're all getting old huh

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link

Yikes

To be fair dave’s hairline is better than mine now

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

welp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABYiUhM4wA

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link

there's

there's a lot going on there

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link

not really a fan of any of it, honestly

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link

he's completely insane.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link

i mean i guess it's an achievement of some kind that he keeps managing to surprise me at this stage stage of batshittery

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link

his crooner look made me think of
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnetstorage.metrolyrics.com%2Falbums%2F8560425jpg.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link

nice to see you in the dave sim batshittery thread, senator romney

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link

well, I've always been fascinated both by his exquisite lines and inventive layouts as well as his profound respect for traditional gender roles and deep faith in a cruel and inscrutable Father-God.

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

and who among us can say they haven't chuckled at his comical portrayals of the struggle against the dark forces of modern feminism.

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

pvmic

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

He's completely lost touch of what literally anyone in the world besides him finds relevant, interesting, or indeed comprehensible.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link

OTOH his singing voice is marginally better than expected.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link

fake fan. Dave didn't "always" have a belief, let alone a deep faith, in God

the senator has lost my vote, I'm afraid to say

― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link

The recommended videos when you check out that Youtube Dave Sim video are a trip or at the edge of the slide.

It is a strange and creepy time.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link

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