Cerebus Issue 1 by Dave Sim! How Good is this Comic by the Cartoonist You Love to Hate?
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It really pleased me to hear him called the best letterer.
His lettering skills are crazy. Particularly in the way later half. Really impressive balloon placement tricks too.
This was another one that seemed designed specifically for me.
I love it when some grandiloquence creeps into Piskor's folksy Baltimore brogue.
His education shines right through his demeanor.
Speaking of which, you two guys have a great repartee.
So glad this is getting more love. I'm currently making Cerebus: Grand Design for A-V.
To answer the question of who all was represented on the Single Page in Cerebus Bi-Weekly, here's the ones in the issues I managed to dig up: Michael Zulli, Eddie Campbell, John Barclay, Jim Bricker, Jeff Nicholson, Constantine Markopoulos, Martin Wagner, Evan Dorkin, George "Beau" Brummell, Mike Rudyk and Jan Saavedra. There were up to three Single Pages in each issue, and of course the regular Cerebus comic often ran longer back up tales by amazing creators running the gamut from Bob Burden to Neil Gaiman...
GUYS was the first collection I picked up and read. Have a few others. Met Gerhard at Heroes one year
I wish you guys would look at Erik Kriek's THE EXILE. I would love your thoughts on it, on how it was made, lots of negative space and lovely blue hues throughout the book.
That's a great book! The author's love for the subject really shows and the art is remarkable.
Got the first phonebook pretty cheap on ebay a while ago. Read the first few story's just a few days ago. Enjoying them alot, exactly what I looked for
Kayfabe Request: BAKER STREET from Caliber Press, by Gary Reed & Guy Davis (unless I missed it already?)!
Feels like I learned something here about a first issue.
As far as the text pages of the series go:
Jaka's Story and Melmoth have pretty manageable prose pages. Flight, Women, Reads. Minds are where it's especially bad, that's when the Viktor Davis stuff happens and it really stinks things up.
Guys has a few Norman Mailer pastiche prose pages, but is otherwise fine. Rick's Story has excruciating bible pastiche, and then it's kind of smooth sailing towards the end. Jaka's story levels of manageable in Going Home, and then not really any in Form and Void. Latter Days back half is essentially unreadable because of the Torah text pages, and even the non-prose stuff in that book is kind of hard to get through. The Three Stooges stuff is ok, but then having the climax of the series hinge on a Todd McFarlane parody, is completely baffling. Last Day's opening is kind of shitty too.
A series worth reading, but not without about 30 different caveats.
Cerebus was the 3rd volume I read after Jaka’s Story and High Society. (I picked up the Guide to SelfPublishing and then six random issues out of guilt). That first collection was really encouraging to a neophyte comic artist finding where the gorgeous art started from. Favourite volume is still Minds, but there’s something in each to learn from (and laugh - humour all the way through, visual or quips).
You guys gotta get some smoke signals up to Ontario for the Sim Shoot Interview!
When he was giving out the Day Prize, I think he ran a small excerpt of the winner in the back.
Jim - I used to have a skeleton . Ed - ... A real life human skeleton...? Jim - .....yes. i love it lol
It’s nice to see some Sim appreciation still percolating, hope it continues to grow. Dave can be his own worst enemy, but he’s done a lot for comics, cartoonists beyond just his contribution to the form itself and deserves some recognition for it.
I had the pleasure of being able to jump into the monthlies at the start of Going Home and seeing it through to the end- I’ll probably never have a similar monthly revelatory experience with the form again, it changed my entire view and experience of the medium.
This gets a shout out in Jeffery Lewis’s song “cult boyfriend”
I love love loved Cerebus the early stuff. All the funny Cerebus, I think through Church and State. Very fun
Cerebus is easily the most unique comic ever published (and one of the best). Its evolution and transformation throughout the years is fascinating. A true masterpiece. As Alan Moore once put it: "Cerebus is to comics what hydrogen is to the periodic table."
I'm 31 years old and I think I'm the youngest person to have read all of Cerebus. My favourite indi comic. Personally, I think one of the reasons I like it is because it gets so hard to categorize. It's like trying to solve a mystery. "Who is this made for".
I applaud you guys, it's a daunting task to talk about Cerebus for a number of reasons. If you continue to talk about Cerebus, maybe do a long format video that dives in to an entire storyline from the phonebooks sort of like how you did with the "From Hell" or "Akira" videos.
Sim shoot pls 📹🎥📸
Dave Sim was one some shit like the part about plus sized mannequins in going home was considering an absurd straw man of feminism and look where we are now. A lot more of cerebus makes sense when you look at the history of gender dynamics in Europe and the transition from matriarchal old Europe and her single civilization, Crete, to the indo European patriarchy. Cerebus is exploring the flip side of that of what happens when matriarchy returns. Say what you will about Dave's opinions but he was very well read and meticously researched so much of cerebus ontop of the incredible art a shame he let his schizophrenia go untreated (Dave is actually schizophrenic he frequently writes about YWHW and the feminist marxist axis trying to kill him with natural disasters and spying on him when he leaves him house).
Really hope you guys might be able to get Dave, Kevin & Peter together at some point to discuss TMNT #8. That would be an amazing and fascinating scoop!
Sim has a CZcams channel where he ran a multi-part interview with Eastman. Long and rambling but fascinating.
Yes I watched all those videos when he posted them. They were interesting, but as you say, a little rambling and unfocused. A Kayfabe discussion between all three artists would be amazing and a great supplement to the other TMNT deep dives already posted. I’d love to see discussions on all of the E&L TMNT books eventually - if the stars align!
Genio absoluto. GERHARD, también. El final de READS, las páginas sin diálogo de la pelea entre Cerebus y Cirin, tendrían que estar en la capilla sixtina
Ordered a copy of the volume one phone book on eBay just yesterday. Serendipity.
I really dig the first issues of Cerebus. Those were awesome adventure stories that people dont care enough about it.
To this day, Ssim is still probably the best letterer out there.
13:40 Godzilla meets Devil Dinosaur meets Kirby? What an imagination in first issue. Need more of this these days.
I love Dave Sim, I dont care what anyone says.
Actually you can't care about what he says 😅 great artist
Same!
The dude's an admitted child groomer
He’s a deeply weird but fascinating guy. Cerebus is a masterpiece, in my opinion, even when it was going deep into Sim’s religious phase toward the last two books. There’s something in every volume that is mindblowing and thought provoking, both in in the art and the writing. Reading the series a completely unique experience.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
These are great comics, right up to Jaka's Story, where Sim's weirdness kind of takes over. His devotion to screwball comedies makes these very funny comics as well as being beautiful. Sim's strip in Quack was called The Beavers, and it was pretty terrible. He has a CZcams channel, and it's just as weird as you'd think. Yeah he's a crank and his politics are odious but he's a genius level cartoonist.
@@fireinthesky2333 no pumpkin spice in my latte, please
I got into Cerebus in 1983 and was reading the Swords of trades during breaks at jury duty! My first LCS issue was 57 called Suddenly! Read the monthly along with the reprints in Swords! Dave Simm definitely set an example of what you could do if you owned your characters, he could be very eccentric at times but he backed it up with creative ingenuity and I’m old enough to separate the characters from their creator! Which means I don’t really care about Simm’s behavior/politics etc etc! Innovative comic, Wolveroach, Mick Jagger cover, Lord Julius, endlessly creative parities! My favorite issue is 104,This Flame,This 🥕 Carrot! Recommended reading,start with the first 25 and work your way up! Eventually I did bail on the book because I became busy with work and I prefer a story that has a catch 22& some payoff! I did read the last 3 issues going into 300! 🎯👍 The evolution of the art/storytelling is one of the examples of how to do your comics free of corporate censorship BS! Keep making and reading comix!👍
Love seeing Sim getting some love. Aside from the obvious disappointing aspects of his history, I discovered him when I was a mere child and though I didn't understand it all, I often thought the comedy was hilarious and the cartooning top notch. His lettering is inspired. One of the greats of the medium.
Pretty sure Sim never did anything for Star*Reach or Quack.