Dave Sim's final 1982 Tour Book Notes

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.

I've made my case to Matt Dow and Margaret Liss as to why I think particularly that holds true in this case.

trying not to get boxed into the situation of having to say something unchivalrous about my ex-wife.

I'm not going to put myself in that nutcracker just because feminism is universally accepted as an unalloyed good in our society.

But continuing from that, You know, I don't want to make it sound as if I am crushing Diana Schutz's free expression rights to say what it is that she wants to say.

That has to be a contextual thing.

So one of the compromise that I'm offering is the 1982 tour book is going to have to be completely feminist agnostic.

We agree to disagree.

It can't be turned into a piece of feminist propaganda.

so that I can say what I have to say and see it reflected in the 1982 tour book.

And Diana and Denny can say what they want to say and have it reflected in the 1982 tour book.

But I'm not going to be boxed into making it look as if I'm a champion of feminism, which I'm not.

But in terms of Diana, what I was going to say was, if Diana wants to say whatever it is that she wants to say about Cerebus and turn Cerebus into a feminist propaganda device, that is possible.

What I was going to suggest, because Diana is bilingual, that she would publish a French translation of, I was going to suggest, Swords of Cerebus Volume 1, the first four issues of Cerebus.

In which case, having reprinted the first four issues and translated them into French, she would then be welcome to do however long an introduction that she wants to do, explaining why Cerebus wouldn't exist without feminism, and why 50% of Cerebus' success is attributable to Denis Loubert, you can extend that and say, without French, Cerebus wouldn't exist, because Denis definitely came from a French environment.

Timmins, Ontario, which is fluently bilingual, pretty much balancing English and French.

So, you know, that's an extension of what's already going on in Spanish, which I think emphasizes the point that I'm trying to make here.

One of the exhibits that Rolly will have scanned and relayed to Rolly Matt, at a moment of Cerebus, is the poster here, the next Cerebus appearance in Mexico City.

And translating, Mexicanesano a Cerebus el comic que cambio la industria.

which translates as Mexicanizing.

That's easy for you to say.

Cerebus, the comic that changed the industry.

This is, you know, obviously...

This is Luis Gomez... perspective on Cerebus.

The comic that changed the industry is an opinion.