Dave Sim (acoustically) and Matt Dow (spiritually/editorially/technically/not-actually) return for the...uh...eight, nine, SEPTEMBER Please Hold For Dave Sim. In this one:

• Dave and Matt need to change how they do these things.
• And then Dave discusses the Late Jim Shooter's remembrance of the Wolveroach affair.

• MJ Sewall (who's writing a biography of Dave Sim, I know, Jeff Seiler is spinning in his grave...) has a question that Dave has a sorta answer to.
• Dave remembers the late Jim Shooter and their relationship, including how Dave's portfolio of Marvel characters "Original Sim" appeared in Marvel Fanfare #25. And how the planned Cerebus/X-Men crossover came to be.
• Dave gets follow-ups to the July/August Please Hold from our resident transcriptionist  @SanctuaryofReality ​
• Dave answers questions and comments from  @creative_fey  .
• Dave answers Rodney Schroeter's question.
• David Birdsong has some questions, and Dave has some Cerebus in Hell? ideas...
• Dave answers a number of questions from MJ Sewall relating to MJ's upcoming biography about Dave.
• Dave's dramatic reading of a short story sent in by Byron Dunbar, which ties in to the last two pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Dave has completed.

Geez, you thought it was over just because it was the first Saturday of the month?

Fool!

"Having no working phone or fax, the idea of recording these as a live conversation between Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow on the first Thursday of the month has pretty much gone out the window. Now, Matt sends whatever questions he's gotten up to Dave once a week, and Dave records answers and sends those files back. And then Matt edits them into these things forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and..."

Dave talks alot about the things I sent him. I dunno, writing these synopsizes is a pain...

In this, quite possibly the Last Episode of Please Hold For Dave Sim ever published through this @#*!ing piece of shit "service" (@#*! SPOTIFY!), Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss:

• Dave's favorite comedians
• Peter's Place
• A Cerebus rarity from 1979
• Living in a Swing State
• God
• Dave reprinting his work from Comic Art News And Review (CANAR)
• Joe Matt
• Steve Peter's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠, featuring signed and unsigned variant covers by Dave and a new 8 page story with art by Dave
• Manly's "team-up" with Jack Kirby on a piece for Steve's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠
• Dave wants to "team-up" with Jack too for Steve's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠
• An Officially Licensed NECA Cerebus Action Figure?
• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler

And I don't @#*!ing rmember, @#*!ing Spotify deleted the earlier funnier version of this description which is why this is probably gonna be the last audio version of these things since I @#*!ING hate Spotify and have LITERALLY NO DAMN reason to use this "service" (how can they call it that when they've systematically removed every feature and tool that would make a person want to deal with these useless @#*!S...)

Cerebus Creator Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor "Manly" Matt Dow have been doing this for a few years now. If this is your first time, welcome. But we're reasonably certain that you're a returning customer, and know the score. Dave and Matt talk about:

• The Continuity of TMNT #8 and Spawn #10
• Steve Peters and his Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent Kickstarter
• Who used the Lectratone, and when?
• Dave's favorite Cerebus covers
• What are the beliefs one has to hold to be a Marxist?
• A correction regarding last month's discussion of Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
• Why the earliest Cerebus Trade collections are "spineless"
• Does Dave do commissions?
• A discussion of Monotheism
• A discussion of Jim Valentino
• Dave's thoughts on Manga
• The amazing price a slabbed Cerebus #1 went for
• The two different covers of Swords of Cerebus #1
• The 1982 Tour book

It's the total package.

Manly Matt Dow and Dave Sim do this again:

• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
• Dave's tips on world building in a comic strip
• “Dave Sim’s 3 Minute Guide to Understanding Steve Ditko”
• We don't REALLY talk about Neil Gaiman and his ongoing headache
• MJ Sewall's questions about Albatross #1, Dave's first notebook used in the production of Cerebus. You can get your own replica of it ⁠here⁠
• Dave explains how he was inspired to furnish his apartment (it's actually a neat story...)
• More about Paul Anka's "My Way" than you would expect to find in a podcast about Cerebus the Aardvark. (Thanks ⁠Wikipedia⁠!)
• Chester Brown's MARY WEPT OVER THE FEET OF JESUS
• Friend to the ⁠Blog⁠: James Banderas-Smith has a new ⁠Kickstarter⁠
• Other friend to the ⁠Blog:⁠ Steve Peters' new Kickstarter, with a new 8 page story by Dave, launces next week

Man, what a way to spend two hours and nine minutes.

For the EIGHTH time in 2024, Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow come together to answer questions from listeners and generally shoot the bull for 'bout three hours. This time:

• It's Matt's turn to remember Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
• The Upcoming TMNT/Naruto crossover and Cerebus' Naruto parody
• The difference between stealing, aping, copying, homage, influence, and spoof
• The cover to Cerebus Volume #8: WOMEN
• How much Aardvark-Vanaheim made of the recent Cerebus Humble Bundle
• The chances of Dave doing a collection of his early Fanzine interviews with Famous Comics Creators
• The differences between the eleventh and twelfth printings of Cerebus Volume #2: High Society
• Is Dave getting Canadian Pension and Old Age Security payments (the Canadian version of Social Security)
• Would Dave write and draw any more original Cerebus stories
• Dave and Matt discuss Neil Gaiman's recent troubles

It's three hours of your life you weren't gonna spend productively anyway...

Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow return for the Please Hold For Dave Sim 2024 Fourth of July Spectacular!

In the shortest Please Hold they've ever recorded, Dave answers questions while Matt stays relatively quiet. Dave:

• Remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
• Then a NON-Question from the STAR of Steve Peters Week, Steve Peters who's latest Kickstarter has a nifty piece of Dave Sim Original Art that could be YOURS
• Will Eisner's the Octopus and the strange Rip Kirby connection
• How Dave writes Cerebus in Hell?
• How the Cerebus Humble Bundle came to be
• The Cerebus "The Hell it's yours, put it back" bookplate pricing and when it will be next available
• The Original script to Spawn #10 has been found, and is being returned to the Off-White House
• How Al Nickerson inks

All that and a Musical Interlude too!

Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow return for the June edition of Please Hold For Dave Sim. This time out, Dave and Matt discuss:

• Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler
• Al Nickerson and his Graphic Novel: Sword of Eden and it's sequel: Sword of Eden Shinobi
• The change in size of Cerebus comics starting with issue #21
• MJ/Mike/Dodger/Shirley(?) Sewall makes Dave take a trip down Memory Lane to the FIRST Cerebus double issue: 112/113
• What ever happened to the idea of a collected Following Cerebus?
• Dave's enjoyment of the Santos Sisters
• When did Cerebus in Hell? one-shots become "Cerebus in Hell? Presents"?

It's the most wonderful way you can spend two hours and forty-eight minutes. With our PATENTED double your money back guarantee: If not FULLY satisfied with your Please Hold For Dave Sim experience, return the unused portion for double the purchase price.

In this, the fifth Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2024, Aardvark-Vanaheim President Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Interim EditorManly Matt Dow answer/discuss:

• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler

• "Anything done for the first time unleases a demon"

• Graft: Boon or Blessing?

• Dave's birthday present from MJ Sewall

• A visit from the Home Office in Easton, Pennsylvania

• A NEW "Swordfish" offer.

• Did the First Fifth prints solve Aardvark-Vanaheim's Cerebus the Animated Portfolio cashflow problems?

• Will Dave ever "do" a collected glamourpuss?

• While you wait, email Matt, and get a FREE digital glamourpuss collection

• Dave offers custom Cerebus Archive Portfolios: $10USD a page for any original art page in the Cerebus Archive (minimum order of ten pages at a time). ANY page: Cerebus the Aardvark, glamourpuss, Strange Death of Alex Raymond (including the pages Dave has drawn in the past year), Cerebus in Hell? (I would suggest sending in a list of pages you're interested in, and include alternates in case Dave sold the page you REALLY want years ago.)

• Dave's thoughts on Todd McFarlane's "breaking" Dave's 300 issue record.

• What Dave wants for the Cerebus Archive from Steve Peters' "Ghosts of Rabbit Hell" Kickstarter campaign.

All this and the usual sidetracks, asides, and general tomfoolery you get from Matt & Dave.

In this, the April 2024 Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave and https://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/https://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/' Manly Matt Dow discuss:

• March's cliffhanger
• Dave's Collected Letters
• Digital Cerebus in Hell?
• Dave's first notebook, Albatross #1, and how you can get a Facsimile of it
• Matt remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
• Fantastic Four #252 and it's Eerie similarity to Cerebus #44-50
• The Remastered The Last Day
• Idyl by Jeff Jones
• The return of the $900* tour of the Off-White House
• Dave's take on the most pivotal/crucial part of Cerebus
• A page from the "debris field" and how it may become a swordfish
• Dave's three page Howard the Duck story that NEVER was (well, it is, but it's not finished)
• Dave's thoughts on Ed Piskor's suicide

All that and Matt's usual bullshit too...

*adjusted for 2024 inflation

So, they took away the editing function, and offered this new thing. So you're all subjects in this crazy experiment like Joel on MST3K.

Anyway, The March Please Hold For Dave Sim contains:

• MJ (Mike) Sewall's question about Image comics
• MJ (Dodger) Sewall's question about how to pronounce Melvinbone
• Dave's reminiscence about Jeff Seiler and a postcard he gave Gerhard
• Matt's investigation about WHEN that happened
• Dave breaking down when and where each version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond was created and published
• Where Dave is now with SDOAR
• Michael R, of Easton PA's question about Marvel & DC comps
• Dave wants to back James Banderas-Smith's new Kickstarter
• Dave also wants to back Lee Thacker's new Kickstarter
• And we end on a Collected Letters cliffhanger

Hoo-boy, let's hope the crappy new service didn't F this up. (Video versions of Please Hold can be found on YouTube.)

It's the SECOND Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2024!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss/answer:

• Steve Peters' latest Kickstarter
• Steve Peters remembrance of Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler (R.I.P)
• Dave's latest Kickstarter
• Why Dave originally planned Cerebus to run for EXACTLY 26 years
• Taylor Swift wait, #TaylorSwift
• Taylor! Swift!
• Michael R. (of Easton, PA)'s question, about digital Collected Letters volumes, and Dave has an offer for anybody who wants more...
• Michael R. (of Easton, PA)'s comment about Catherine Zeta-Jones and Gheeta.
• Strange Death of Alex Raymond and Jen DiGiacomo's GoFundMe efforts to raise cash to keep Dave working on it.
• Dave offers a "Swordfish" deal to get a reproduction of his first notebook for $100 (US).
• A message for Eddie Khanna, Dave's chosen successor as President of Aardvark-Vanaheim.
• Dave remembers the ONE time he met Jeff Jones.

There's a bunch of Visual aspects, so you're gonna wanna swing by A Moment of Cerebus for the videos...

Having no working phone or fax, the idea of recording these as a live conversation between Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow on the first Thursday of the month has pretty much gone out the window. Now, Matt sends whatever questions he's gotten up to Dave once a week, and Dave records answers and sends those files back. Which means it's easier to produce the video version on the YouTube then it it to make the audio version on the Spotify...

This month, Dave talks for around three and a half hours. And this isn't even all the questions, so there will probably be a part two...

Cerebus creator Dave Sim returns to once again talk to A Moment Of Cerebus Interim Editor, Manly Matt Dow for the FIRST (of we hope twelve) Please Hold For Dave Sims of 2024.

What da fuq we talk about this time?

• Steve Peters has a new Kickstarter.
• So I got him to remember Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler for me.
• Dave has some tips for would-be creators.
• M-I-C-K-E-Y IN-THE-PUBLIC-DOMAIN! Steve asked, Dave answers.

• Lee Thacker should be involved in a Kickstarter soon, and Dave REALLY likes the art. (Possible Spoilers)
• Dodger asks about Stan Sakai. Dave asks how to pronounce "Usagi Yojimbo"?
• Dodger gets the REALLY. BIG. PRIZE!
• Zipper has an answer and a guess, he's not even close...
• Michael Grabowski has an answer.
• Fernando H. Ramirez found something Dave didn't know...

And Matt talks a bunch about...not...Cerebus...

Good times. Good times...

LIVE FROM KITCHENER ONTARIO, CANADA AND TWO RIVERS WISCONSIN U!S!A!: IT’S THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE PLEASE HOLD FOR DAVE SIM CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!

FEATURING: THE LATE, GREAT, JEFF SEILER, LANK STEPHENS, MICHAEL DE SANTIS, ROB SNELL, CHRIS WOERNER, AARON WOOD, JOE GABBARD, STAR OF THE MULTIPLE STEVE PETERS WEEKS: STEVE PETERS, JOHN BAU , MIKE SEWALL, TRAVIS, MICHAEL GRABOWSKI , MICHIEL , MICHAEL R. OF EASTON PENNSYLVANIA!

SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY: MARGARET LISS, EDDIE KAHANNA, JAMES BANDERAS-SMITH

AND FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY: THE BAY CITY ROLLERS, BLONDIE, THE MORMAN TAPERNACLE CHOIR FEATURING ACE FREELY OF KISS, HALL & OATES, WHITNEY HOUSTON, ROD TORFULSON'S ARMADA FEATURING HERMAN MENDERCHUK, DEVO, THE ELECTRIC MAYHAM, AND UP WITH PEOPLE!

Holy crow! It's the FIFTH anniversary episode of Please Hold For Dave Sim! Five years of holding. Five years of two dudes talking about a cartoon aardvark. Over sixty hours of AMOC's Manly Matt Dow trying to make Dave Sim laugh. Five years with a lot of answers to a lot of questions. Like these:

• Matt remembers Jeff Seiler's car.
• Dave skips Lank Stephens because, oh god the questions...
• VGDC Maroro asks about:

1. Judith Bradford
2. a sort of "list of exercises" for one to learn how to ink lines
3. How does one figure out how far one can push the expression of a character until it becomes off-model
4. How did you go about making the rock-climbing scene from Church & State so heartpoundingly thrilling that it took me all the way to 5 paragraphs of the brick wall that is Chasing YHWH in like 2 days
5. If you had the ability to draw without any pain in any bit of your arms tomorrow, would you attempt a second magnum-opus like Cerebus was? 
6. What is your take on the ethics of artists using an AI trained nonconsensually on the work of other artists as a tool to help them?
7. Does Glenn Vilppu's technique work for cartoon characters that were constructed two-dimensionally like Fred Flintstone rather than ones made of 3D forms like Mickey Mouse?

• Dodger wants to know about Dave's thoughts on Marvel & DC's B/W reprint lines.
• Steve has inquiries about Jeff Seiler's copy of The Cerebus Guide to Self-Puplishing.
• Margaret has one of them notebook questions.
• Zipper wants to know if he has a rare misprint.
• Christon has questions about Cerebus #1.
• Philip Fry has questions about two unnamed guys from the first 13 issues.
• Mike Sewall wants to know how long SDOAR is gonna be.
• James Windsor-Smith has questions about Matt's favorite cartoon.
• Wayne Thomas has questions about Deni Sim's signature.
• Aaron Wood makes us hungry...
• And has questions about Superman.

It's another two hours and twenty minutes added to the pile of content we provide you...for free.

Dave Sim, and Manly Matt Dow REUNITE, again, for the October 2023 Please Hold For Dave Sim!

This month's collection of wonders include:

• Dave Sim's remembrance of Cerebus Super Fan Jeff Seiler (1962-2021) gets to the weird confluence of: Karaoke, Covid lockdowns, Yusuf Islam, Neil Gaiman, Sandman, The Book of Genesis, Surah 12 of the Quaran, a riddle, and, a cat.
• David Birdsong's Kickstarter for MarvelManVark
• Dave answers a question from his YouTube Channel, from Lank Stephens, about collaboration between a foreground and background artist. (Dave promises this might be an ongoing discussion...)
• Dave answers a question from Dodger about inkers.
• And Dave's thoughts on Wally Wood.
• And Matt stuns Dave with Tomb of Dracula Artist edition, and Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns. (Which Dave suggests anyone interested in inking should check out.)
• Dave and Matt answer Jason Trimmer's question about the resemblance between President Biden and Mary Hemingway.
• And Dave answers a hypothetical (I KNOW!)
• Dave answers Christon's question about Zipatone/Letratone.
• And Dave answers if he's doing conventions or signings.
• Michael R. (of the FAMED Easton, Pennsylvania Rs) explains Reed Waller's birthday
• And Dave answers Michael's questions about The Last Day widescreen remarque catalogue.
• And Chris W. has a question that's more a "Matt" one than a "Dave" one.
• And a message from Little Orphan Aardvark for her Secret Society. Set your decoder wheel's to the Steve Ditko's Mr. A code!

It's two hours and nine minutes of Please Holdedy goodness!

So, due to a technical error, the first few minutes of this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim were accidentally erased. (My phone restarted, and the file is unsavable. NORMALLY there's the back-up, but I forgot to push the button... "Mistakes were made.")

This month Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss

• I dunno, the audio was lost
• Matt remembers Jeff Seiler: Parrothead
• Dave mentions some things Matt doesn't know, and didn't take notes on...
• Dave talks about Hot Wacks, again (previously discussed in January 2019.)
• Dodger asks about changing art styles
• The Origins of Spore Batvark and how Zipper fits in to it.
• Whatever happened to Harry Kremer's comic and art collection?
• Dave's favorite independent character, story and creator
• The numbers on AMOC and Matt's disinterest in them
• Michael R. of Easton PA, and the terrible vengeance that will be visited upon him
• Steve Peters and his Kickstarter for Tails of Spary #4 that will feature new original Dave Sim art that Matt's gonna pay for...
• Steve Peters' song mungu mkono inspired by Dave Sim and Cerebus
• Taylor Swift? I remember her coming up a couple of times.

Good Times! Good Times! Well worth the two and a half hours of your ever dwindling life you'll never be able to get back...

In this, the eighth month of Two Thousand Twenty-Three (16th of Av, 5783 if you're Jewish...) Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss/answer:

• Walter Winchell *trigger warning: Cerebus in Hell? Promos*
• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler *trigger warning: Covid lockdowns* *trigger warning: Karaoke*
• Twitter/"X" *trigger warning: Twitter* *trigger warning: "X"*
• glamourpuss #1 editions *trigger warning: exclusivity* *trigger warning: Cerebus ephemera in the garbage*
• Dave selling the original art to page 9 of glamourpuss #25 *trigger warning: I can't afford it* *trigger warning: off-model cartoon beverage*
• Dave selling prints of page 9 of glamourpuss #25 *trigger warning: Abortion joke* *trigger warning: shameless hucksterism*
• Does Aardvark-Vanaheim have any Guys Party Packs? (Answer: Yes, 21 of them) *trigger warning: "toxic" masculinity* *trigger warning: Popeye jokes*
• Dave remembers the beginnings of the Small Press "movement" *trigger warning: the word "Movement" (Jeff Smith only) *trigger warning: multiple uses of the word "Bone"* *trigger warning: 90s nostalgia*
• Will Dave, Emo Dave, or Jack appear in future Strange Death of Alex Raymond pages *trigger warning: discussion of human mortality*

It's a (to quote a Very Famous and Very old song) "gay ol' time! WILMA!!!!" *trigger warning: Honeymooners rip-off*

The July twenty twenty-three Please Hold For Dave Sim has all the answers to all the Mike's questions. And even some Non-Mike questions. It's a hoot!

• Matt remembers Jeff Seiler, but not to print out his bit.
• Dave answers the last of Adam J. Elkhadem (R.I.P.)'s questions about making comics.
• Dave answers Mike's question about marketing your work...by reading one of Mike's stories.
• Dave answers Mike's question about Dave's drawing hand.
• Dave answers Mike's question about Jack Kamen's method of stylized realism in comics art.
• Dave answers Mike's question about...well, it's more a comment, but we discuss it...
• Dave answers NOT Mike's (oh thank god, I was beginning to think I was stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare of Mikes...) question about Rodney Schroeter's book, Mission of Benevolent Greed.
• Dave answers another NOT Mike question, this time about where the Cerebus warehouse books ended up, and offers a new "Swordfish" deal to all the listeners who find themselves in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
• Dave answers Tony "Michael" Dunlop's question about Cerebus Archive Portfolios.

What I say? A "hoot"! (If you find yourself "hoot-less", contact me for a full refund.)

It's June! It's 2023! It's Please Hold For Dave Sim! It's the Please Hold For Dave Sim of June 2023!

This time Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow discuss/answer/talk about or around:

• "What is Jaka's inseam?"
• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler
• Dave answers the next question in the pile from Adam J. Elkhadem, creator of Octave the Artist. This time it's about dialogue.
• Dave answers Dodger's question about sales numbers (grab a calculator and add along!), and if you wanna see/hear more, we need to raise $45 to pay for it...
• Dave answers Jeff Stoltman's question about the The Last Day spine labels. And Matt starts watching for the mail, anxiously...
• Zipper has a question about the 2023 Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe, and Dave has an answer.
• Zipper has an answer about Lone Star Comics, and Matt whiffs the question.
• "anonymous" asks a question, and against policy, Matt sent it up, and Dave answered it.
• Dave answers a question about his "Lord Rodney" parody of Rodney Dangerfield in High Society.
• And then a “Things You May Not Know About the Beatles” gets Comics Art Metaphysical...
• and somewhere in there Manly talks about his upcoming "shakedown" of Cerebus fans...

It's a good time.

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return, once again, for their monthly discussion we call Please Hold For Dave Sim

This time Dave and Matt talk about:

• Star Wars
• Free Comic Book Day
• Why Matt lives with Jeff Seiler's wife
• Dave answers the next question from Adam J. Elkhadem, creator of Octave the Artist.
• Dave answers Dodger's question about Cerebus covers
• Dave answers Zipper's question about Mike Allred
• Dave answers Matt's question about a flash sale for the International buyers of the Remastered The Last Day (signed by Dave & Gerhard, with a Remarqued Cerebus head by Dave)
• Dave answers Leo's question about Small Press cameos in Guys
• Dave answers Charles' question about Cerebus circulation numbers

With Matt's bullsh*t liberally sprinkled throughout. Because can it BE Please Hold For Dave Sim without Matt's Bullsh*t???

"Dapper" Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return, once again, for their Monthly phone chat that Manly records and edits together and posts here.

We call it Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In the April 2023 Please Hold, Dave and Matt discuss:

• Can Matt refer to a Strong. Independent. Female. As a... "broad" (Manly sez: "Dude, she invites four underage dudes to move in with her within hours of first meeting them. Broad is one of the NICEST terms I could use...")
• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan, Jeff Seiler.
• A BIG "Thank You!" to the 608 people who gave $88,508 to fund The Waverly Press & Aardvark-Vanaheim’s Remaster of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Number Eight Featuring Dave Sim’s Cerebus the Aardvark. Thank you, again.
• Manly let's YOU, yes, YOU! know that if you missed out on The Waverly Press & Aardvark-Vanaheim’s Remaster of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Number Eight Featuring Dave Sim’s Cerebus the Aardvark, you gots the 2nd chance thanks to the The Waverly Press & Aardvark-Vanaheim’s Remaster of Eastman & Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Number Eight Featuring Dave Sim’s Cerebus the Aardvark Indiegogo campaign.
• An announcement that "Mistakes were made." regarding the Remastered The Last Day.
• And Manly christens the new version "The Last Void". (See, the spine reads "Form & Void", even though it's the Remastered The Last Day, as we said, "Mistakes were made." It's either "The Last Void", or "Form & Day"...)
• Dave announces the beginnings of a plan to sell copies of the Remastered The Last Day, Signed by Dave AND Gerhard, with a Last Day Cerebus head sketch Remarque in silver on the cover by Dave, on CerebusDownloads.com for the low low price of $XXXCAD (we're still working out the price. BUT, the first Day will have a discount for loyal listeners/readers. More details as Dave and the Cerebus Braintrust make them up...)
• We take a "moment" (Heh.) to remind everyone that James Windsor-Smith has a Kickstarter for Papa Balloon and Cactus #2 WITH a Dave Sim Variant Cover. And JWS had me send stuff to Dave, and we talk around that...
• Dave answers the second (in a series of questions) from Adam J. Elkhadem, creator of Octave the Artist.
• Then Dave discusses Frank Thorne at the request of Travis H.
• Mike Sewall wants to know about Remastered Diamondback decks. Dave and Matt got answers...and memories.
• Dodger wants to know about CerebusTV. Dave and Matt have answers...and memories.
• John Gilsmann's question about the number 7 in The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.
• And somewhere in there Dave answers why he and Mark Gruenwald signed a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #59 to "Jim".

Boy howdy, that's some good Holdin'... See ya next month when we do it all again...

(If YOU want YOUR question asked, feel free to send whatever ya wanna know to momentofcerebus@gmail.com.)

((And be sure to check out A Moment of Cerebus daily for all sorts of Cerebus/Dave Sim/Gerhard/whathaveya updates every. dang. day. (Including Dave's Weekly Update EVERY Friday.) (Margaret Liss' selections from Dave Sim's Cerebus Production Notebooks EVERY Thursday.) (Benjamin Hobbs Cerebus & Hobbs EVERY Wednesday.) (Jen DiGiacomo's Strange Death of Alex Raymond 2023 GoFundMe Updates EVERY Tuesday.) (And Manly Matt Dow's Bull$#!* the rest of the week. Gah-daymn there's a lot of it...))

So... Dave Sim currently has no working phone, or fax machine.

"That means no more Please Hold right?"

Sorry Imaginary Spotify listener, who I didn't even realize lives rent free in my head, as they say "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". Which means, Dave and I found a workaround. I email the Qs to the printshop, and they print them out, Dave's assistant picks them up, and then Dave records his As on his professional recorder (so the sound is REAL good!), has it sent to me, and I cobble it all together.

"Wait, no Matt-meandering-gobbledeygook? That's gotta make this pretty short..."

You'd think that, but the Audio runs two hours and thirty-five minutes...

This time: (I haven't listened to these fully, so I can only go by what I sent Dave)

• Dave discusses a box of stuff Matt Sent
• Then a PRE-Hold For Dave Sim, of things I would have just faxed up as they came across my desk, but I sent to be printed the same day as this month's questions
• Then the official questions:

1. Matt remembers Jeff Seiler
2. Dave remembers Jackson "Butch" Guice and Peter David
3. A message from Zolastraya
4. Fernando Ramirez's next Cerebus short story
5. @creative_fey AKA April C.'s next batch of questions
6. Jesse Herndon's Please Hold transcript for July 2024
7. Zombie Cerebus covers
8. "CEREBUS ARCHIVE - FIRST RELEASE" gold seals
9. the indicia on issue #6
10. the day Elvis and his mom died and Madonna was born
11. Strange Death of Alex Raymond original art portfolios?
12. This month's Please Hold strip

That's what I asked, but, again, I haven't listened to the whole thing, so no idea what Dave may have skipped/cut out.

Let's find out together!

Once again, Aardvark-Vanaheim President Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor Manly Matt Dow take three-ish hours out of their busy days to answer reader questions, drop some news, and generally "shoot the $#!*" in a lil' sumthin'-sumthin' we call Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In this, the THIRD installment for 2023, Dave and Manly discuss:

• Matt remembers Cerebus fan, and Dave Sim Superfan, Jeff Seiler. Specifically that time Jeff nearly cancelled Judenhass and glamourpuss. Good times.
• Dave answers the first (in what will be a series of questions) from Adam J. Elkhadem, creator of Octave the Artist
• Then we head to the Big Board to see how the Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 Kickstarter is doing. As of this writing, it's at $35,775 with 250 backers.
• What music Matt used for the TMNT #8 countdown video he made.
• Then a deep dive into the can of worms Darrell Cook opened in the Cerebus Faceybookee group, wherein he talks about Jaka's molestation as a child, and his suspicions that Lord Julius was the culprit. This goes on for a while... 
• MJ Sewall asks about the Cerebus Radio Show.
• Matt & Dave do a bit for Escape Pod Comics.
• Michael R., of the Easton, Pennsylvania Rs, asks about the "apposite biblical reference" of Jaka and the red wine at the end of Rick's Story.
• Michael Grabowski asks about the Cirinists adulation of Jaka in Going Home.
• And then three questions about the Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 Kickstarter all came in AT THE SAME TIME. What. A. Coincidence.

And more! (Maybe. Probably. You got the time, listen and find out for yourself...)

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return once again to answer submitted questions from listeners and generally just BS for two and a half hours.

This time:

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler with a prod from Matt and MJ Sewall
• Dave remembers Phil Seuling
• Dave remembers Bob Burden and the making of Cerebus #104
• Dave remembers MJ Sewall's book Where Monsters Dance About
• Dave remembers who was on the Cerebus Freebies list circa 1996
• Dave remembers being a "letter hack" in the 1960s
• Dave remembers how to write a cliffhanger
• Dave announces that a year from now, February 2024, you'll be able to buy a ALL NEW Cerebus comic that he's writing AND DRAWING!
• Dave learns there was a SF novel in 1953 titled Pirates of Cerebus
• Dave remembers the Cerebus: 6 Deadly Sins portfolio

And

• Matt spoils his Spawn Cerebus in Hell parody
• Matt spoils his surprise to the AMOC bullpen
• Matt decides to send his cheap P. Craig Russell art book to Dave
• Matt generally says the quiet part out loud more than a person should...like normal.

Holy @#%& Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow AREN'T done doing this every month!

"And there was much rejoicing"...

(HEY! I didn't hear any rejoicing from that guy in the back... You're on the List pal!)

In this, the first month of the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-three, Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss:

• A couple of "shout outs" from Dave Sim
• Matt remembers Jeff Seiler and "Two Women Grinding"
• When's the Remastered Last Day a'comin'? (Not soon, unfortunately...)
• Dave Sim the Barbarian? Fictional AND Real...
• Larry Wooten and his new Art acquisitions (I hate him.)
• Helen and Alex Raymond's 1934 Christmas Card
• Loren Gray is living the Fanboy dream (and I hate him.)
• The PLETHORA of original Art that's reached Heritage auctions.
• Dave's dialogue for Mick, Keef, Richard, and Harrison. 
• Mungu mkono.

With answers for: Kyle Pinion, Travis, Larry Wooten, Michael R. of Easton PA, Steve Peters, and YOU (if you wondered about how Matt is rearing his kids...)

Well here we are, the FINAL Please Hold For Dave Sim. Of 2022.

Or, EVER.

I dunno. I just send the questions and record the answers, I'm not in charge of anything.

Anyway, this time Dave and Matt talk about:

• Jeff Seiler's Kansas City Royals annual (Let's hope it went to KC or Cooperstown...)
• Barry Windsor-Smith's Frost Giant's Daughter
• Harry Truman and the Sunday funnies
• If this is the FINAL Please Hold, or not?
• What Dave would change in Cerebus if he could
• What books Dave recommends
• If Dave would ever try a Cerebus-like project again
• An idea to make Dave some of that money we’ve heard so much about
• The contents of Cerebus volume 1, and what's missing and why
• The Form & Void remastered campaign
• What to do with your collection to keep your non-fan kids/heirs from missing out on cashing in when you cash out
• And if this is REALLY the FINALE, or not?

If this IS the last one, we had a pretty good four year run. And that means there's an end to what Jesse Herndon has to transcribe, and the book of transcripts can get sketched out in Matt's head.

(I wonder if Gerhard is gonna be busy in January?)

A week late and Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return with the best Please Hold For Dave Sim since the last one!

In this one:

• Steve Peters (who has a new comic on crowdfunder) remembers Jeff Seiler
• Hal Foster tries to get a Sunday page from Milt Caniff (in 1939) (And Dave and Matt discuss the letter Hal sent)
• Dave doesn't believe Austin Briggs kid's story about Alex Raymond: SPEED FREAK!
• Mike(MJ) Sewall wants to know what Dave's plan is after he's dead (Dave, not Mike.) Eddie. Eddie is the plan...
• Michael R. of Easton, PA wants to know about Dave's collection of Canadian Price Variants
• Margaret Liss has a question about Dave's notebooks. (She always has questions about Dave's notebooks...)
• And Rick Norwood (of the Comics Revue Norwoods) asks about Politics and Prince Valiant...
• Which leads to a question Dave got in the mail from Travis H. In. The. Mail!
• All that and how Dennis Kitchen was almost sorta kinda (if you squint) Matt's Daddy! (Not really...)

Oh geez...what DIDN'T Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow talk about?

(Seriously, I didn't take good notes again.)

• Jeff Seiler and "Madame X", and that time Jeff travelled to Canada to get his *really good* stuff back.
• Archbishop Posey and the crowd of Cerebus characters in the Afterlife in issue #300.
• Supposition on why most North American comics are printed in Canada.
• What Foreign Editions of Spawn #10 are in the Cerebus Archive.
• Where the script for Spawn #10 ended up (and the one for Spawn #9. Manly's got that one and will show you for a dollar...).
• Dave's wrist.
• Drew Hayes and Poison Elves.
• And tattoos.

It was a fun little nearly two hours...

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow once again do the Please Hold For Dave Sim thing.

This month:

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler
• Dave DOESN'T have any art in Psycho Annual #1 (1972) (Don't believe Margaret Liss' LIES!!!)
• Pablo Marcos (the guy who ACTUALLY drew the thing Margaret's website says Dave drew)
• Why Dave identifies as a "cartoonist"
• Will Dave release his Matisse "The Unknown Turtle" original art cards as a regular card set?
• Turtles #8 (Aardvark-Vanaheim Edition) coming in January from *SURPRISE SURPRISE*
• *YOU* TOO can get a Cerebus Sketch from Dave for...well, the more you pay, the better your sketch...(Last guy's getting it for a grand or two...)
• Will the Waverly Press be doing a Hardcover premium edition of The Last Day

And all the rambling fun from Matt you've come to know and loath...uh, "love"...

I've done one of these a month for the past couple of years. If you've listened to any of them, you know the score. 

If this is your first one, Dave Sim talks to Matt Dow (that's ME!) for a couple of hours and answers questions sent in by fans. 

If you got your question in to Matt before Wednesday night, he sent it to Dave, and Dave answered it.

Hey there!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow do the Please Hold thing...

Topics include (but are no way limited to):

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
• The auctioning of all 22 pages of original art to Cerebus #4
• Dave's views on seeking permission to use Cerebus in another creative work
• The inventory of Cerebus/Dave Sim material that A/V is willing to "entertain offers" on
• The 1982 Tour book (coming soon-ish from the Waverly Press...)
• Where you can get the remastered phonebooks including Reads
• Cerebus Archive Portfolios (and where/how they might be available)
• Dave's painted covers for Cerebus #23-35
• The telepathy that K'Cor displays in Flight

The May Please Hold For Dave Sim arrives, with:

• Manly Matt Dow and two of the biggest regrets of his life (that both involve Neal Adams).
• How a Luddite and Neo-Luddite celebrate 1500 YouTube subscribers.
• How many Cerebus Berserker posters are in the Cerebus Archive.
• Will Dave "boycott" Russian Cerebus collections?
• Pieces of Turtles 8.2, when it's for sale. And for how long?
• MJ Sewall's Original Art
• Where to buy Collected Letters

Boy Howdy, it's two hours and fifteen minutes of your life you'll never get back!!!

Cerebus creator Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor Manly Matt Dow return for the May 2025 Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In this four HOUR+ conversation, Dave and Matt discuss:

• Is it TOO SOON for the next Cerebus Archive Portfolio Kickstarter?
• Last month's Please Hold strip.
• THIS month's Please Hold strip.
• The wonderous dangers of Internet access.
• The insane legal precedent of the word "Medieval"
• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler.
• Dave's answers to the latest questions from April C. AKA @creative_fey
• Dave answer's Robin McConnell's questions about Canadian comics work published from the late 60's to about 1982.
• The Fish Slingin’ Auteur of Lompoc, California: MJ Sewall's question about Dave's comic collection.
• Dave's idea for MJ's next book.
• Matt's childhood.
• The radio voice of the Yankees...Dave SimS?
• The Guys Prizes from the LAST Kickstarter.
• Owen Kline's film Funny Pages and the Cerebus cameo that wasn't.
• Dave's favorite Jam pieces and creators rights
• Dave's studios
• Matt's fundraising efforts for his daughter's dance team.
• AV in 3D
• How Dave did the colour for early Cerebus covers
• The price of original art on Heritage
• Dave's exclusion from Eclipse comics 1992 Famous Comics Creators trading card sets
• SPOGZ!
• The origin of the Fleagle brothers
• Dave discusses lettering
• Matt reminds Dave of the time Dave impressed Will Eisner.
• Page 5 of issue #173
• Dave's answer to four "celebrity questions"

All this and more (it's four hours long!) await you in this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim!

Dave Sim sent Matt Dow (that's me), an audio file of a phone conversation he had with somebody else (!?!?!), Kim Preney from Preney print and Litho. The printer of Cerebus from issue I'm-not-sure until issue #300. Turns out Preney had NINETY copies of #300 on their hands.

Kim explains why.

And, Dave is preparing to get them graded and available for sale. More information on A Moment of Cerebus as Dave gets it to me.

Dave Sim and Matt Dow record the April 2022 Please Hold For Dave Sim at the end of March because April is Ramadan.

Topics include:

• Jeff Seiler's history of Doc Holiday and how it relates to SDOAR
• Dave Sim's first poster, and what a disaster THAT was
• Selling the Cerebus Phonebooks
• Pieces of Turtles 8 #1 & 2 and how short the Canadian Swordfish sale for #2 is going to be (two hours?)
• Matt Wagner's Grendel and Jaka's Story
• Cerebus in the Public Domain
• The comic(s) that Dave considers the Heir to Cerebus (if any)
• Cerebus Online YouTube channel's (almost) 1500 subscribers

And all sorts fun little asides throughout.

Matt Dow's not gone, and Dave Sim's not sick, so "Once more into the Breach lads! Once more into the Breach..."

In this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave and Matt talk about:

• Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
• Adapting Cerebus for the screen (if you're willing to pay for that sort of thing...)
• Dave turning to prose (he's not.)
• What Dave's work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond looks like these days
• Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend: fact or fiction (seriously, has anybody SEEN a copy physically?)
• Why is there no old old Cerebus in Dave's Notebooks?
• Is Dave REALLY gonna charge seventy bucks(!) for the next printing of Form & Void? (Yes, yes he is, and we discuss why...)
• And, like, twelve minutes on carrots...no, really...
• Are there gonna be any more Pieces of Turtles 8?

So, strap in, buckle up, and enjoy!

Or not. I'm not your father. You don't have to listen to me if you don't want to. (Although you'd be breaking your poor mother's heart... And get a haircut! No son of mine is gonna walk around looking like some galldarn hippie! And take out the trash. I HEARD THAT! YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOU OVER MY KNEE?!? Well? Do ya? THAT'S IT! YOU'RE GROUNDED YOUNG MAN! Go to your room!)

Dave Sim reads the Gospel of John.  As he said in a recent fax:

I also recorded all of John's Gospel and Sean is now editing it into an audio mp4. So If you're REALLY SELF-CONSCIOUS about this, all you have to do is arrive early, find a spot outside where your local City Council, State Assembly or Congress is about to sit, put in your earbuds, and LISTEN to John's Gospel, thinking the whole time "I'm OUTSIDE with God and God's Word. I align with THIS and not YOU. May God judge between me and thee.”

Dave Sim calls Matt Dow and Matt records it.

There's answers to questions...

There's embarrassing personal stories...

If this is your first episode, you might wanna go back and listen to all the previous ones...

Oh!

And a message from Little Orphan Aardvark to her Secret Society.

The November Twenty-Twenty-One Please Hold For Dave Sim.

Dave and Matt discuss (in part): Cats, the South Park kids, Baby's First Tattoo, Cerebus #1, Exes, The Guys Party Pack, Edgar Rice Burroughs, What the Green Martians are called, Exes, Vincent Van Gogh's ear, Dave's comic collection, Cerebus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8, A Cerebus action figure(?), and more.

And Matt has to figure out a way to give away an original piece of Dave Sim art. (Thanks Dave...)

AND Little Orphan Aardvark has a timely message for the members of the L.O.A.S.S. Get your Decoder Wheels ready!

Dave Sim once again joins Manly Matt Dow for Please Hold For Dave Sim the October 2021 edition.

In this one, Dave discusses:

the possiblity of a Cerebus Plush toy.

He and Matt remember Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
Answers a few questions from Michael R. (of Easton Pennsylvania)

And discusses collecting a few uncollected projects.

And for L.O.A.S.S. members, we end with a special message from Litle Orphan Aardvark for YOU!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return once again for their monthly discussion. This time they talk about:

Cerebus Archive Number Nine arriving (Matt got his the next day),

Aging,

The Taliban,

Shang-Chi and Gene Day,

GCG graded Signed Books,

Anything Goes #3,

Who the best interviewer who ever interviewed Dave is, AND who Dave thinks the best interviewer ever is.

And Matt talks a bunch about seemly random crap...

It's Please Hold For Dave Sim September 2021!!!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return for the August Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In this month's installment, we discover Cerebus' height, where Cerebus' dreams came from, Dave's advice to anybody getting married, how you can get a copy of The Last Day if you're in Italy, what happens when Dave and Matt get a repeat question, how Dave's wrist is doing, Dave's thoughts on the comparison between Jesus and Superman, if Dave will ever do a Kickstarter for limited phonebooks, the tale of Dave trading Cerebus original art for pre-Pearl Harbor DC Comics, who the two comic fan legislators in High Society were based on, and if Dave ever drew a African famine relief Cerebus story...

And Rich L. and Jeff Seiler's phone questions are at the end of the podcast because I couldn't get the audio to edit. And I'm feeling lazy...

“We choose to Please Hold and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…and because we ain’t too bright…” -Manly Ferry-tits Kennedy

This month:

• Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler: REMEMBERED!
• Please Hold For Dave Sim comments: ACKNOWLEDGED!
• Canadian Underground Comix: BEGRUGINGLY RECOGONIZED!
• Beavers (and How Yours Is): REVEALED!
• Questions: ANSWERED!
• Prizes: WON!
• This bit: ANNOYING!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss all the things they're asked about. Was your question/comment/marriage proposal dealt with? Listen pal, I just RECORD the damn thing, I don't LISTEN to it...but sure, they dealt with you and your problems. How's about you just listen and see if any of it is familiar to you? Capisce?

Great! See ya next month...

It's July, and Dave Sim and Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor, "Manly" Matt Dow ONCE AGAIN talk on the phone and Dave answers viewer/reader questions while Matt tries (usually unsuccessfully) to not go off on odd tangents.

This month has answers for Jeff Seiler, Margaret Liss, Michael R. (of Easton, Pennsylvania), Jesse Herndon (who transcribes these things. THANKS Jesse!), Steve Swenson, Mike Young (on behalf of William Messner-Loebs), and Me.

You too can get answers in August by submitting your question(s) to momentofcerebus@gmail.com (questions get faxed to Dave the first Wednesday of the month, and we record these things on the FIRST Thursday.)

More Cerebus related silliness every day at http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/

All 16 volumes of Cerebus are available digitally from CerebusDownloads.com

Most of the 16 volumes are available from your local comic book store (Use the Star codes:)

Phone Book Title: Star Code:                ISBN:

Cerebus               STAR00070            978-0919359086

High Society        STAR00071            978-0919359079

Church & State I   STAR00271            978-0919359093

Church &State II   STAR00321            978-0919359116

Jaka's Story        STAR00359            978-0919359123

Melmoth             STAR00431            978-0919359109

Flight                 STAR00543            978-0919359130

Women              STAR00849            978-0919359147

Reads                 STAR01063           978-0919359154

Minds                 STAR01916           978-0919359161

Guys                   STAR06972           978-0919359178

Rick's Story        STAR08468           978-0919359185

Going Home       STAR10981            978-0919359192

Form and Void    STAR13500            978-0919359208

Latter Days         AUG031920            978-0919359222

The Last Day       APR042189            978-0919359215

The June Twenty-Twenty-One Please Hold For Dave Sim, wherein, once again Dave Sim speaks to A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor, Manly Matt Dow, about all sorts of neat stuff. Whoo-boy are you in for a treat...

Dave Sim and Matt Dow once again return to do the Please Hold For Dave Sim for May, 2021.

This time out, Dave answers questions about:

The Cerebus 3-D animated movie.

New lettering for an unpublished and lost Cerebus story.

Cerebus the Action Figure.

Dave's address to the 1992 Diamond retailer's summit.

A Gene Colan-esque page from the Savage Dragon.

A Salvador Dali Cerebus?

The Waverly Press Cerebus hardcovers.

And where Cerebus teleported to at the end of Spawn #10.

Dave Sim and Matt Dow return for the April 2021 Please Hold For Dave SIm.

There are questions, there are answers. It's magical!