Questions for Dave Sim

Ask him to post to this forum.

Doesn't he hate the Internet almost as much as women?

OK, a couple here (and they're quite involved, so you might get 30 mins+ answers...):

You've always claimed you're not Cerebus, most recently during the Torah commentaries. You also claimed you weren't Viktor Davis. To what extent are you the President, or even 'Dave Sim' as he appears as the author of, say, Tangents? There are distinct similarities between things all of these parties have said,as you might expect given that they all have the same author, but particularly with the 'Cerebus Dreams' double issue between 'Latter Days' and 'The Last Day' where it appears to read more like 'Dave Sim' than Cerebus.

Does it/Did it surprise you that Jaka is/was considered to be a feminist around the time of Jaka's Story? Re-reading it, she doesn't actually appear that different from the selfish, exploitative spoilt brat she is for large chunks of Going Home, and the abortion revelation is in many ways a lynchpin of the whole Rick/Jaka/Cerebus relationship. Had it not happened, for example, would Rick ever have turned into the man he did?

To what extent does gender actually matter in the characters? In Guys, for example, and particularly around the Five Bar Gate match with Cerebus and Rick, they both act in a way we might not expect their gender to (assuming your other Light/Void assertions on gender lines are correct). Cerebus has at least a partial excuse, being hermaphroditic, but what's Rick's?

The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges - why not Laurel & Hardy?

I might think of some more...

Why do you hate women so much?

I got an excellent barmy fax from Dave today, reports to come.

In a fantastic synchronous moment, I got a 4 page letter this morning from Dave in response to a letter I wrote to him about a year ago.

My favourite line was "John Lennon died when he let Brian Epstein put his band in matching faggy suits", as part of a minor rant about Creator rights and integrity. I laughed out loud for several minutes at that one, for shame perhaps.

Would you be interested in *coughs* faxing me a copy?

If I can work out how to scan and fax using my all-in-one printer, then yes... or I can scan it and send you it as some kind of image file I guess...

That would be really sweet. (My e-mail is p_isaacs @ fastmail.fm). Dave just sent me this long fax saying he'll only do fax interviews 'cause journalists "are very nice when they're 'courting' you, then consider it balances to then kick you in the nuts in print to balance off how nice they had been in person or the phone." (Which is, of course, pretty accurate.)

What he doesn't realise is that I don't want to meet him in person so I can screw him over, but because I'm a tragic fanboy and think it would be way cool.

#300 at Beguiling today --- yowsa! Reports 2moro?

He dies.

Erm... don't really what to say about #300. Dave is claiming elsewhere (he briefly participated third party in a Q&A on the Cerebus Yahoo Group) that the 'light' must be Hell, whereas I'm not sure.

Does Rick/Jaka/Bear morph into a he/she/it God in his last vision of it (or Bear/Jaka/Rick, to put them in the correct order), thus rendering Cerebus' interpretation of the Book(s) of Moshe skewed, to say the least? And how does Cerebus' fear of the 'light' stand with Dave's Light/Void essays?

I enjoyed it as ever, but can't help thinking it was partly an excuse just to draw some characters he hadn't in ages one last time on the double-page spread...