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DAVE SIM (5/25/07) Dave Sim, creator of the Cerebus comic book (independently published for 300 issues between 1977 and 2004), is not only a great artist and writer (and puller of pins on socio-political grenades), but he also is an astute historian and critic of the medium. (Above: Ditko panel taken from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 to the left - self-portrait of Sim to the right; © 1964, Marvel Comics, and 2007 Dave Sim) Whilst Dave is finishing his latest secret comic book project, tentatively scheduled for release later this year, he also blogs daily at his Blog and Mail site (the name of the site being a parody of Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail), and this year has seen many Ditko entries where Dave comments on Ditko's career and politics, but also critiques Ditko's work. Whilst I continue to work on my Ditko book for Fantagraphics in 2008, I took the above as an opportunity to send Dave some 1950s/60s pre-Spider-Man Ditko stories that wouldn't make the book, so he could review them for my Ditko Looked Up web site. Dave spent copious amounts of time reviewing all the material, and all I had to do was put it all up as a page on the Ditko site, with links to his blog and information about the Cerebus graphic novels. We're going to put up his entries in two parts - on Sunday and Monday - but we couldn't resist adding his intro. today to the whole project (which will appear as a Blog and Mail entry on June 5th).
Part 2: Dave reviews 1950s Ditko. Part 3: Dave reviews 1960s Ditko.
Cerebus Art.com
If you wish to contact Dave Sim, you can mail a letter (he does NOT receive emails) to:
Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc Looking for a place to purchase Cerebus phonebooks? You can do so online through Win-Mill Productions -- producers of Following Cerebus. Convenient payment with PayPal: Or, you can check out Mars Import: Or ask your local retailer to order them for you through Diamond Comics distributors. Here are the Diamond Star System codes: Cerebus #1-25 $30.00 STAR00070 High Society #26-50 $30.00 STAR00071 Church and State I #52-80 $35.00 STAR00271 Church and State II #81-111 $35.00 STAR00321 Jaka's Story #114-136 $30.00 STAR00359 Melmoth #139-150 $20.00 STAR00431 Flight #151-162 $20.00 STAR00543 Women #163-174 $20.00 STAR00849 Reads #175-186 $20.00 STAR01063 Minds #187-200 $20.00 STAR01916 Guys #201-219 $25.00 STAR06972 Rick's Story #220-231 $20.00 STAR08468 Going Home I #232-250 $30.00 STAR10981 Form and Void #251-265 $30.00 STAR13500 Latter Days #266 - 288 $35.00 AUG031920 The Last Day #289 - 300 $25.00 APR042189 Collected Letters - $30 FEB052434 |
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