MetaFilter posts tagged with davesim

Canadian artist Gerhard defines a post-Cerebus identity

nanojath — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:32:46 -0800

"I'm on record as saying that Gerhard was, for twenty years, the best pure pen-and-ink artist in the comic-book field and that it was unfortunate that he got pigeon-holed as a mere inker and that Dave Sim's "pariahdom" extended to someone who never voiced an opinion about anything one way or the other." - Dave Sim Independent comic mega-series Cerebus and creator Dave Sim have provided many prior posts on Metafilter. Significantly less has been featured of its co-creator, Gerhard. In the last year particularly Gerhard has greatly increased his online presence, discussing his post-Cerebus career and projects on his personal blog, and making regular appearances in the Moment of Cerebus blog, where his contributions suggest that the reason that he appears in so few photographs during the Cerebus years is that he preferred being on the other side of the camera. His blog includes regular updates on the children's book project he has been developing for some time and the occasional glimpse of life outside the artist's studio. (Sim's quote on Gerhard is from a post on his long-retired Glamourpuss blog).

Will his masculine light remain shining?

MartinWisse — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:25:24 -0800

After a very successful Kickstarter campaign Dave Sim had started work on republishing the entire Cerebus series, starting with High Society as high quality digital comics, including all the ephemeral content left out of earlier reprints. And then a fire happened which destroyed a lot of the Cerebus negatives, which, combined with the end through low sales of his latest project left Dave Sim pondering the end of his cartoonist career. But there's hope, as Fantagraphics bigwig Kim Thompson offered to help.

I’d be perfectly happy to repackage the CEREBUS material in a more bookstore-friendly format than those fucking phone books and give the material the new lease on life it (or at least the first two thirds of it) so richly deserves.

Dave Sim is of course famous for his anti-publisher stance, having long believed the only way to keep control as a cartoonist is to self publish, which he has done ever since the first issue of Cerebus. Thompson argues that while this stance was understandable at the time:

The dynamics of the marketplace have changed so fundamentally that something that made (relative) sense 20 years ago doesn’t necessarily make sense today. The market has turned decisively against pamphlets and against self-publishers, and that’s just a reality. The battlefield is littered with the corpses of self-publishers. A sensible person adapts to reality.

Dave Sim's response?

Okay, well, Kim. Howdy. The short answer to your question would be, “No.”

That might not be the end of it though. Sim at least seems open to the idea of Fantagraphics publishing some of his back catalogue, if not entirely in the way they would like to do it. Meanwhile he is going ahead with the digital publishing of High Society, with a free audio book version of the first issue scheduled to be available for free on October 10.

The Masters Of Comic Book Art; or, Seven Cool Poses Which Can Be Struck in a Bright Yellow Jacket

Alvy Ampersand — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:42:59 -0800

Released in 1987, The Masters of Comic Book Art is a collection of interviews with notable cartoonists on their creations, creativity, and craft, introduced by Harlan Ellison. Some segments are better than others; Eisner and Kirby are a bit dry and Ditko, who doesn't appear on-screen, provides an Objectivist spiel. But Dave Sim in full 1980s mode is certainly worth seeing. Segment Links Will Eisner Harvey Kurtzman Jack Kirby Steve Ditko Neal Adams Bernie Wrightson Jean (Moebius) Giraud Frank Miller Dave Sim Art Spiegelman

"An aardvark with exceptional spell resistance, a propensity for rolling natural 20s, and multi-classed to boot."

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:10:44 -0800

Cerebus: A Diablog. Every week or so,Laura and Leigh read, review, and discuss an issue of Dave Sim's seminal comic series Cerebus.

Dave Sim is not... no, wait... actually he is.

Karmakaze — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:59:14 -0800

Comic book author Dave Sim is shocked, shocked, that anyone might have gotten the impression from his own words that he is a misogynist. So he's sent out a form letter saying that he'll only talk to people who will sign an online petition or send him an letter affirming that it's not so. Hilarity ensues. Prevously: [1] [2] [3], (also a conversation between Sim and fellow comic book author Gail Simone, known for coining the phrase Women in Refrigerators).

Cerebus creator Dave Sim's new comic glamourpuss

nanojath — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:57:32 -0800

Aardvark Vanaheim presents: The Fabulous World of glamourpuss. Four years after publishing the 300th and final issue of his epic-length Cerebus, comic artist Dave Sim has announced that he is launching a new bi-monthly title debuting April, 2008. The topic? Fashion. In the intervening years, longtime collaborator Gerhard severed ties with Sim's Aardvark-Vanaheim publishing company, and Sim published essays and correspondence in his Blog and Mail website, including contemplations on whether, given popular opinion on his (disputed, at least by him) misogyny, politics, religion and sanity, it would make sense for him to bother even attempting to publish new works. He completed but ultimately canceled a single-volume "secret project" - with an essay that suggested his belief that forces, both worldly and spiritual, were acting against him. But you have to admit that the new project, described as "part haute couture magazine parody that's SO 'six months ago'," part "homage to the classic photorealism black & white 'beyond noir' comic strips of the 1940s and 50s," and part "strangest super-heroine comic book of all time," does sound interesting. Although given Sim's much discussed misogyny, "a train wreck waiting to happen" seems a likely opinion as well. Previously on Metafilter.

When even Dave Sim finds you weird...

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:12:35 -0800

Dave Sim gets a book proposal from a furry.

Lonely, Hateful, Bitter, Insane? or Defendable?

Peter H — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:14:35 -0800

The Dave Sim Misogyny Page - and a recent Onion interview. I find Dave Sim (comic book artist, notable for long-running, multiplevolume C e r e b u s) to have deeply troubling, almost poisoned ideas about women.(despite his efforts, these bitter screeds are almost unexplainable,unless someone here can explain them, that is - please!)Beware if you've never read them. And laugh with me, an apparentlyweak male-feminist (and lovin it!) if you have. Viva la Void.

Is Dave Sim going mad?

Joey Michaels — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:27:28 -0800

Is Dave Sim going mad? Speculation has been running rampant in the Interweb comic book community that Dave Sim, writer and artist of Cerebus, arguably one of the greatest comic book series of all time, has lost his mind. Granted, many of Sim's essays have been misogynist, and he has publicly challenged Bone creator Jeff Smith to a fist fight for a somewhat trivial slight, but that is hardly evidence of insanity. Has he crossed the line from extremist to madman? Is his writing a Swiftian satire or, as one critic called it, the Mein Kampf of misogyny?