An Audio Moment Of Cerebus – Details, episodes & analysis

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