[Malpractice]

No, as far as I know Pete just doesn't want Cerebus in there and since he has absolute control over the Turtles, it's his call to make. I don't think it's a huge deal. As Kevin pointed out between the original comic book and the First Comics reprint there's probably over 100,000 copies in circulation. I've always held that any artist or writer can reprint anything that they worked on so obviously I'd like to have the original duo-shaded Kevin Eastman story with my Cerebus pictures in the CEREBUS MISCELLANY b&w collection, but I also know better than to go head to head with Pete's a) millions and lawyers. Same as with SPAWN 10. I'd like to reprint it in black and white in CEREBUS MISCELLANY and (possibly) redraw the Cerebuses. But unless Todd wants that happen that isn't going to happen no matter what foundatons I choose to conduct my own business on.

Thanks for posting.

Well thank you for clearing that up for me once and for all. Hopefully i'll see you at NYCC and i'll bring my TMNT #8 with me to sign. I might as well mention this as well since it's Turtles related but i don't know if you have seen any of the new TMNT cartoon that's been airing on Fox for the last 5 years or so, but they did an adaptation of issue #8 entitled "Time Travails" which came out pretty good, and there's actually a small nod to Cerebus in it.

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[SuenteusPo]

Well thank you for clearing that up for me once and for all. Hopefully i'll see you at NYCC and i'll bring my TMNT #8 with me to sign. I might as well mention this as well since it's Turtles related but i don't know if you have seen any of the new TMNT cartoon that's been airing on Fox for the last 5 years or so, but they did an adaptation of issue #8 entitled "Time Travails" which came out pretty good, and there's actually a small nod to Cerebus in it.

Indeed! You can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfynuYTi6ZE

At exactly the 6:00 mark, an aardvark walks across the screen:)

-Jeff

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[lionsunmind]

Dave, thanks for responding to my questions! Maybe I'll get around to sending you an in-depth Cerebus-tradition mail letter one of these days (are you sick of those things yet?) Best to you and the best of success in your current and future endeavors! PEACE

[max headroom]

This was the best thread I will read for a while. Thanks to Peter and Bryan for making 'all this' happen.

[Peter]

Many, many thanks to Dave Sim for stopping by thecomicforums.com on his internet tour. And thanks to Dave and Jeff Tundis for making it happen! Dave might return in the future so we'll keep everyone posted!

[deathincalabria]

This was awesome!

Thanks to Dave Sim for taking the time and thanks to the Geeks for setting it up!

[Steve Bryant]

CGS and Dave Sim make me want to make better comics.

Thanks, guys, for reminding me about what I love about this medium.

-Steve

[Paul]

Interestingly, while Dave was typing his response to my question, I was at Paradise Comics in Toronto reading through their copy of Glamourpuss. It's definitely different, radically different, from Cerebus. The artwork is just stunning. I added it to my pull list, and I'm looking forward to it.

I think it's fantastic that Dave is finding ways to get out there and talk to people about the book, and his career and techniques. Thanks go to him for taking the time to talk to us, and to the Geeks for making it happen.

I find it especially great that, of all the threads that he has participated in over the last couple of weeks, this one was definitely the most insightful!

[Dave Sim]

Interestingly, while Dave was typing his response to my question, I was at Paradise Comics in Toronto reading through their copy of Glamourpuss. It's definitely different, radically different, from Cerebus. The artwork is just stunning. I added it to my pull list, and I'm looking forward to it.

I think it's fantastic that Dave is finding ways to get out there and talk to people about the book, and his career and techniques. Thanks go to him for taking the time to talk to us, and to the Geeks for making it happen.

I find it especially great that, of all the threads that he has participated in over the last couple of weeks, this one was definitely the most insightful!

Well, thanks to everyone for the kind words. I'll be back here at 3:30 pm EDST Feb 27 until 5:30 pm to answer any of the questions that I missed.
See you then!

[WetRats]

Dave,

Since you were here the other day, I've seen the previews for No-Longer-Secret Project One.

Wow.

The panel of all the comic book legends as young men and contemporaries of the holocaust casualties actually made me tear up.

I can't really say I'm "looking forward" to reading the book, because I know how painful an experience reading it will be.

Despite never having the honor to have met him, I think I can say with some certainty that Will Eisner would be proud of you.

I am, too, for whatever that's worth.

[Dave Sim]

Dave,

Since you were here the other day, I've seen the previews for No-Longer-Secret Project One.

Wow.

The panel of all the comic book legends as young men and contemporaries of the holocaust casualties actually made me tear up.

I can't really say I'm "looking forward" to reading the book, because I know how painful an experience reading it will be.

Despite never having the honor to have met him, I think I can say with some certainty that Will Eisner would be proud of you.

I am, too, for whatever that's worth.

Thanks, "WR" I appreciate the sentiment. Sorry I'm so late getting back, but I had to make up an invoice for the CEREBUS trades LOOKIN FOR HEROES has sold in the last month I've been here.

I'm hoping the inclusion of the comic-book legends in JUDENHASS will make it an easier "sell" to schools -- in a way a sad commentary that you would have to frame it in those terms: No Jerry Siegel, no Superman -- but at this late date anything that makes the Shoah more real for school kids, the better, in my view.

I hope Will would be proud of me.

I'm glad you are.

Lou said he was up pretty late last night answering e-mails. Said it was all good news and he'll be faxing me some stuff over the weekend while I'm gone.

Nice to hear but I've been in this business and I've been Dave Sim for too long to read too much into that. People have a tendency to vanish into the woodwork when the Journal message boards have a chance to figure out what high crime or misdemeanour I've committed this time.

We'll see what the orders look like in mid-April. That's a long ways away.

[Dave Sim]

Indeed! You can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfynuYTi6ZE

At exactly the 6:00 mark, an aardvark walks across the screen:)

-Jeff

I'll take your word for it. And "Mal" I'll look forward to signing your TURTLES #8 at NYCC. The inside front cover is the only really good white area -- apart from the big display picture of Cerebus which I can never find when I need to.

[Dave Sim]

Dave, thanks for responding to my questions! Maybe I'll get around to sending you an in-depth Cerebus-tradition mail letter one of these days (are you sick of those things yet?) Best to you and the best of success in your current and future endeavors! PEACE

Thanks lionsunmind. No, I never get tired of in-depth Cerebus-tradition letters. Of course I haven't got a computer any more so all of my responses are going to be in the form of very short handwritten courtesy notes from now on but if you can live with that, by all means send the letter when you get it written -- and thank you, again.

Best to you and the best of success in your current and future endeavours as well!

[WetRats]

Nice to hear but I've been in this business and I've been Dave Sim for too long to read too much into that. People have a tendency to vanish into the woodwork when the Journal message boards have a chance to figure out what high crime or misdemeanour I've committed this time.

Yep.

[Dave Sim]

Many, many thanks to Dave Sim for stopping by thecomicforums.com on his internet tour. And thanks to Dave and Jeff Tundis for making it happen! Dave might return in the future so we'll keep everyone posted!

I'd like to apologize for not getting the announcement on here that I was going to be back today until I was already here. One thing I will definitely not miss is typing in URL's and trying to figure out/remember how to navigate my way around a new/old site. It was just too much to picture typing in four of them in a row last night.

CGS is more my speed -- blah blah blah into a phone and then I'm done. Next one is FLIGHT, so I'll look forward to hearing from Jamie, Peter and Bryan when it's time again!

[Dave Sim]

This was awesome!

Thanks to Dave Sim for taking the time and thanks to the Geeks for setting it up!

Thanks, Mario -- for taking time out of what is, I imagine, a busy schedule with the magazine!

[Dave Sim]

CGS and Dave Sim make me want to make better comics.

Thanks, guys, for reminding me about what I love about this medium.

-Steve

Hi, Steve. That's some beautiful work there (I threw caution to the winds and actually went to look at your website). I was interested in your comments on trying to get work on IDW's ANGEL book. When Rob Walton and Chester Brown were up visiting, we got into a discussion about the BUFFY comic -- Chet hadn't seen it yet -- which led to a discussion about photorealism as it applies to movie and TV adaptations. One of the best that I ever saw was Sean Scofield's work on the ...science fiction show (my memory is going) X-FILES (that's the nice thing about doing this in a comic book store -- I just walked out of the office and said "Science fiction show, two FBI agents, the paranormal...no brainer...

It was incredibly accurate, very good likenesses of the cast. But it took him too long to do. Most places will trade a good likeness for being able to turn the pages around in a hurry on a licensed property (in no small part because there's no way of telling how long the property is going to be hot). The difficulty in doing a good likeness is always underrated. The average person is going to say, "Well, you're the artist, make with the art -- make it look like this person." I've often wondered how much photo reference Neal got for SUPERMAN VS. MUHAMMAD ALI. He's got some beauts in there but I suspect he used up everything they gave him -- and the Ali camp would just go, "Well here's ten pictures of The Champ" how many do you need?

Well, how good a likeness do you want it to be?

Anyway, I like what you're doing here. A LOT. Don't get discouraged.

[Dave Sim]

Interestingly, while Dave was typing his response to my question, I was at Paradise Comics in Toronto reading through their copy of Glamourpuss. It's definitely different, radically different, from Cerebus. The artwork is just stunning. I added it to my pull list, and I'm looking forward to it.

I think it's fantastic that Dave is finding ways to get out there and talk to people about the book, and his career and techniques. Thanks go to him for taking the time to talk to us, and to the Geeks for making it happen.

I find it especially great that, of all the threads that he has participated in over the last couple of weeks, this one was definitely the most insightful!

Well, I'm very glad you thought so. After thirty-one days, it's all starting to blend into One Big Thread but I'm glad you found some insight on this one.

Thanks for posting!

[Dave Sim]

Well, I'm very glad you thought so. After thirty-one days, it's all starting to blend into One Big Thread but I'm glad you found some insight on this one.

Thanks for posting!

Okay, I'm headed over to IMWAN. I think I got these in the wrong order. Then I have a prayer time. Then we're all done.