Dave Sim

We've discussed it on a previous episode, but there's a very well-regarded comic that was written by someone who's since gone a bit funny.

Oh, it's Cerberus, Dave Sim Cerberus, I think.

Yes, that one.

I bought it, but I set the slider to all the way to charity so that the problematic man didn't get the money.

I don't want to hear any more about the 1982 tour book.

I want Please Hold for Dave Sim to come back.

If you had donated $2 Canadian, roughly $1.40 US, I would be doing Please Hold for Dave Sim right now instead of the 1982 tour book.

although it would have been very difficult because I don't have any more Please Hold for Dave Sim questions, having used those all up the last time.

So, just saying.

and also in the just saying category uh leaving off last time with uh diana schutz and saying um this is this is one of those things where the 1982 tour book is going to have to be an agree to disagree publication because i'm not a feminist And a great deal of what Diana was writing, making her contribution to the 1982 tour book is definitely flat out feminism.

And this is the guy who's doing it.

It's not an exclusive deal.

Yeah.

who is currently writing a biography of Dave Sim.

And I apologize right now because I am suddenly realizing that I don't know enough about MJ Sewell, but I know that Sewell is a prominent figure in and around the moment of Cerebus folks and is, I think, still relatively involved with Cerebus fandom at this point.

So nice to hear from you.

I kind of, like, the first page, I don't feel like Cerebus adjusting his sleeves and checking his sleeves is, like, I don't think that's a mask we have seen Cerebus effectively put on before.

It feels a little out of character, but it still ultimately works.

Yeah, I think this worked a little more for me than it did for you because the impression that I came away with at this point was like, wow, it's so impressive that Dave Sim has managed to turn Cerebus into kind of the opposite of the guy he was at the start of this comic, but still an asshole.

And it's like, for me, it's believable.

I think it's the rules.

It's supposed to be just you because it was, you know, like that's Dave Sim and Eric Larson started it or whoever Scott McCloud or something.

But so it's been a, you know, this 30 year

tradition.

Which shows us

a frankly refreshing amount of consistency from Dave Sim at this point.

So true.

And it's all just Looney Tunes antics.

Yeah, it's kind of like a comics with an X episode of the Twilight Zone.

Yeah, exactly.

Marcus Aurelius also looks remarkably like Dave Sim will eventually.

I don't know what to make of

Moments of Cerebus.

When Dave Sim wanted to be funny, especially in the 1980s, he was capable of writing the funniest comic book there ever was.

Dave decided he had other things he wanted to do, so things went a different direction.

But both of those comics, Bone and Cerebus, have plenty of laugh out loud moments.

And I, I'd like to check it out.

I think if you had never read Concrete, you should check it out just to see another on the li- in the line of Dave Sim and Terry Moore and people like that who were making their own comics in the '80s and '90s, and-

The Hernandez brothers, yeah.

Yeah, all those...