An Audio Moment Of Cerebus

Dave Sim returns with his (he says) final 1982 Tourbook notes.

(We'll see...)

To quote one of the greatest actors/musicians/sages/philosophers of our time: "Whoa."

Dave Sim finally gets around to answering the Faux he was sent that was to be the April 2026 Please Hold For Dave Sim AND the Faux that would have been the June 2026 Please Hold.

In this one:

• I don't record these live anymore
• So, consequently, I don't take notes on what Dave's talking about
• I guess you'll just have to listen and see what's happening
• It's a bummer for you, but I don't think I give a $#!*
• You LITERALLY get what you pay for, and I ain't making a dime off of this
• There IS a missing piece of Audio, so see if you can figure out where it goes
• (The highly superior people who watch these as videos on the YouTubes get shown where the gap is. That's because they are highly superior...)
• Sp*t*fy becomes more and more of a $#!*hole everytime I have to do one of these, and frankly: you SHOULD be paying me to deal with them.

See you, when next I feel like whoring myself for my vile corporate masters by tarting myself up and uploading more audio here (probably in a week... *sigh*...)

Dave Sim returns with more '82 Tour Notes, specifically addressing the 28 page Faux Matt sent up.

*Full disclosure, I ain't listened to this whole thing yet, so I've no idea what exactly Dave says...*

Also debuting this month: the 80's style synth pop theme song Matt had the robots do for him.

Dave's notes on the 1982 Tour Book.

Dave Sim returns and leaves the Please Hold behind. By POPULAR demand (hey, people paid to hear this...) Dave discusses his thoughts on the 1982 Tour Book.

Also, Dave got birthday presents for his 70th.

And Dave discusses the latest Kickstarter.

NEXT Month, if you people pay for Please Hold, we'll hold. Otherwise it's '82 for you!

For the April 2026 installment, Please Hold finally lives up to it's name!

Dave has decided that with the Cerebus #1 (and Spawn #10) in Spanish Kickstarter launched, and the CAN13/CiH? Kickstarter "on deck", he's either going to do Please Hold in May, or he'll work on going through the 1982 Tour Book for its Kickstarter.

How he's going to decide is up to YOU!

If you wanna hear Please Hold, donate here.

If you want Dave to work on the '82 Tour Book, donate here.

So while Dave holds for you to donate and see who wins, we Please Hold For Dave Sim!

We we hold:

• Dave gives us a forty-ish minute beginning to what his work on the '82 tour book will be like.

• Dave goes through the Mail:

1. including the box I sent him.
2. how Sean Robinson got 21 pages of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond for his Consigned Kickstarter
3. Chris Woerner's latest books came in
4. And makes an offer to Dustin Adrian (who works for Heroes Comics) who's apartment burned down

• And maybe some other stuff I don't remember...

So: 82 Tour. Please Hold 4/2026. YOU (or your pocketbook...) DECIDE!

(No clue what Dave's gonna do if there is a tie...)

(I'ma have to work on whatever it is anyways...)

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return for the third Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2026.

This time out:

• Matt discusses Dave objections to the 1982 Tour Book prototype
• Dave explains his objections
• Dave updates everybody on all the projects in the pipeline
• Matt (and David Birdsong) came up with Cerebus Eisner Hall of Fame Merch
• Dante Alighieri and his habit of hiding his work in walls?
• The Clint Eastwood film The Beguiled and Dave's Cerebus parody of it The Beguiling
• Cerebus in Absolute Wonder Woman?
• The worst best copy of Cerebus #1 you'll ever see
• Mrs. Tynsdale-Coyde's tea
• Dave answers a letter Al Nickerson sent
• Dave's favorite illustrators
• Writing the humor in Cerebus in Hell?
• Dave praises David Birdsong's work on CiH?
• How Dave pitched Cerebus #1 in 1977
• Dave's plans for getting help if he needs it now that he doesn't have a phone or fax anymore
• Two handed brush inking
• The really complex reason Dave wears the ring he does
• Dave's first drafting table
• Cheaper Cerebus in Hell? Kickstarter books

Woo doggie, it's a blast!

And now to get ready for next month's Please Hold For Dave Sim.

(If you've enjoyed this, or other episodes of Please Hold, please consider making a donation to the "Dave Sim Fund" to help support Dave since Diamond Comic Distributors have gone out of business, cutting of a key source of Aardvark Vanaheim's revenue.)

((Matt doesn't get paid either since Sp*t*fy took over. But he's living comfortably, so you don't gotta sweat about him.))

Dave Sim returns for the second Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2026

This time:

• Friend to the Blog Steve Swenson sent Dave something Margaret had and Dave didn't (not the obvious)
• Dave is getting inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame
• More discussion of Ernie Hemingway and his boxing
• Dave answers if the Varkdalorian will ever be in comic shops
• Dave discusses Tom Palmer Jr.'s idea of reprinting the Silverspoon strips
• Lee Thacker did a mock-up of Panther X, and Dave responds
• Dave answers to James Banderas-Smith's question
• Dave answers Anonymous' question about the unauthorized Citadel miniatures
• Dave answers April C.'s latest
• Dave got a fan letter
• Dave answer's MJ Sewall's question about the photo covers of Cerebus

We're back for 2026.

This time:

• Manly Matt Dow "cuts 'em off at the pass", and answers the question "How was your Christmas Matt?" before anybody can ask him...
• And Dave Sim gets indelicate...
• Dave Sim discusses the latest Tales From the Wedding Present Annual he received from Lee Thacker
• Dave Sim talks about a historical photo of Ernest Hemingway from 1953
• Dave Sim got a Christmas card from David L. Russell.
• Dave Sim discusses Christoph McNeill's 2010 Bill Sienkiewicz commission of Cerebus
• author MJ Sewall has a question for Dave about...rulers?
• Larry Wooten has a question about a con sketch he acquired
• author MJ Sewall has a question about Denis Kitchen and his role in the publication of "Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend", Susan Alston's (so far as I can tell) unpublished book on her relationship with Dave Sim.
• And Manly Matt Dow reminds Everybody about his "relationship" with Denis Kitchen
•  @creative_fey  has comments on last month's Please Hold, and new questions. Dave Sim has answers.

All this and more or something. Honestly, just listen to the thing. You ain't busy...

Cerebus creator Dave Sim returns for the last Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2025, and it's the Christmas episode!

In this Please Hold:

• I have no idea.
• Back when we recorded these things live over the phone, I'd take notes.
• But now that Dave doesn't have a phone, I send the questions and he records the answers.
• Usually I do the Audio after I edit all the videos, but this month I'm pressed for time and wanted to see how long the whole shebang was.
• An hour and thirty five-ish minutes.
• So I haven't listened to anything.
• I dunno if I was supposed to insert audio anywhere.
• It's a surprise for everybody!