More Dave Sim Batshittery.

forks, it's not for the public prints, but i will tell you in person the next time i visit new york!

was also told - second-hand - that another very well known mainstream comics writer bought a jet out of the royalties they earned - true or not, the point is that there was an awful lot of cash sloshing around comics in the 1980s. i think the irony is is that these days, with the royalty system all but defunct, you really have to own your work - and sell it to TV/movies - to earn similar riches. so dave sim was basically...right?

oh man

http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/artists/nftp/

not referring to Deni Loubert tbc

no, you're referring to Dawn Nash ("Zee")

Aside from the pleasures of that kind of lifestyle, think Sim also wanted to show other comics people the riches they could earn from self-publishing

Also this was not necessarily a "lifestyle" - conventions weren't a 40-times-ayear proposition in the 80s because the distribution system worked, his expenses at home were probably minimal: he booked car services in other cities, but that would get him from interview to interview to store signing to hotel to convention and be a business expense, and he doesn't drive, so at home got/gets around by walking; when he and Ger went to Hawaii for a week and spent it drawing pages for the book on the balcony of their hotel, that would also likely be written off.

NFTP from 74 mentions Skidmore by name. Something in my eye.

Love how ILC springs to life whenever Dave's insanity is brought up.

I wonder what Dave Sim thinks of Donald Trump.

well there's an alarming thought

dave is kinda like a proto-redpiller i guess. who knows, maybe cerebus could be enjoy a glorious revival in alt-right circles soon

https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cerebus_066_throwing_babies2.jpg

this pic^^^ was used to comment on a baby-related incident during the campaign: question is, sim would vote for the aardvark?

I thumbed through Cerebus in Hell at the shop the other day. it was sad.

It's more cogent that parts of Latter Days! Alas without being good.

maybe cerebus could be enjoy a glorious revival in alt-right circles soon

I... can totally imagine this.

i'd never thought about it before i wrote that tbh but if alt-righters can force themselves to read mencius moldbug then cerebus will seem like a cool refreshment by comparison

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced Sim was alt-right 25 years early. All boxes ticked.

He's probably drifted away from being pigeonholed as such more recently thanks to his affinity with the other two big Abrahamic religions.

read a couple blogs and he seems to be amused by trump rather than a devout follower

he's proto-alt-right to roughly the same degree as DEVO

that's going a little too easy on him shakes

ha I thought it was being hard on DEVO tbh

that too

I was browsing for dumb Dave things and instead found this - what an amazing cover.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kmwlU7KhnHc/U6Rf7F3dufI/AAAAAAAAMSA/IDTFkZdHIOo/s1600/cerebus_053.jpg

So, after the less than successful (either financially or artistically) Cerebus In Hell, Dave has announced an extension of his reprint/paste-in line with Batvark as the launch title. "He's comics' most notorious homophobe!" This cannot end well.The plan is that there'll be a CiH one-shot on the final Wednesday of every month, and follows the conclusion of the CiH 'plot' that "of course you didn't think the Gustav Dore Hell is the only one, do you?".

I am still doing the Archive Print series, which is tremendous stuff but isn't creating much actual income for Dave due to the the unpredictable nature of release - 3 years on and there have only been 6 sets of the "quarterly" edition. Latest one is delayed indefinitely because the third (fourth?) collaborator on the prints has just left, leaving nobody to do the stuff Dave doesn't like computers. There's also an idea about a more affordable version of the prints being called the Postage Stamp Collection but my head says this is dead as a concept now. SDoAR is plodding on, largely supported by Patreon but I don't know about progress because updates are locked to donors. And I'm not at that stage yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4d0PzWGm_U
dang we're all getting old huh

Yikes

To be fair dave’s hairline is better than mine now

welp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABYiUhM4wA

there's

uh

there's a lot going on there

not really a fan of any of it, honestly

he's completely insane.

i mean i guess it's an achievement of some kind that he keeps managing to surprise me at this stage stage of batshittery

his crooner look made me think of
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnetstorage.metrolyrics.com%2Falbums%2F8560425jpg.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

nice to see you in the dave sim batshittery thread, senator romney

well, I've always been fascinated both by his exquisite lines and inventive layouts as well as his profound respect for traditional gender roles and deep faith in a cruel and inscrutable Father-God.

and who among us can say they haven't chuckled at his comical portrayals of the struggle against the dark forces of modern feminism.

pvmic

He's completely lost touch of what literally anyone in the world besides him finds relevant, interesting, or indeed comprehensible.

OTOH his singing voice is marginally better than expected.

fake fan. Dave didn't "always" have a belief, let alone a deep faith, in God

the senator has lost my vote, I'm afraid to say

The recommended videos when you check out that Youtube Dave Sim video are a trip or at the edge of the slide.

It is a strange and creepy time.