Geez, you thought it was over just because it was the first Saturday of the month?

Fool!

"Having no working phone or fax, the idea of recording these as a live conversation between Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow on the first Thursday of the month has pretty much gone out the window. Now, Matt sends whatever questions he's gotten up to Dave once a week, and Dave records answers and sends those files back. And then Matt edits them into these things forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and..."

Dave talks alot about the things I sent him. I dunno, writing these synopsizes is a pain...

Having no working phone or fax, the idea of recording these as a live conversation between Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow on the first Thursday of the month has pretty much gone out the window. Now, Matt sends whatever questions he's gotten up to Dave once a week, and Dave records answers and sends those files back. Which means it's easier to produce the video version on the YouTube then it it to make the audio version on the Spotify...

This month, Dave talks for around three and a half hours. And this isn't even all the questions, so there will probably be a part two...

So... Dave Sim currently has no working phone, or fax machine.

"That means no more Please Hold right?"

Sorry Imaginary Spotify listener, who I didn't even realize lives rent free in my head, as they say "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". Which means, Dave and I found a workaround. I email the Qs to the printshop, and they print them out, Dave's assistant picks them up, and then Dave records his As on his professional recorder (so the sound is REAL good!), has it sent to me, and I cobble it all together.

"Wait, no Matt-meandering-gobbledeygook? That's gotta make this pretty short..."

You'd think that, but the Audio runs two hours and thirty-five minutes...

This time: (I haven't listened to these fully, so I can only go by what I sent Dave)

• Dave discusses a box of stuff Matt Sent
• Then a PRE-Hold For Dave Sim, of things I would have just faxed up as they came across my desk, but I sent to be printed the same day as this month's questions
• Then the official questions:

1. Matt remembers Jeff Seiler
2. Dave remembers Jackson "Butch" Guice and Peter David
3. A message from Zolastraya
4. Fernando Ramirez's next Cerebus short story
5. @creative_fey AKA April C.'s next batch of questions
6. Jesse Herndon's Please Hold transcript for July 2024
7. Zombie Cerebus covers
8. "CEREBUS ARCHIVE - FIRST RELEASE" gold seals
9. the indicia on issue #6
10. the day Elvis and his mom died and Madonna was born
11. Strange Death of Alex Raymond original art portfolios?
12. This month's Please Hold strip

That's what I asked, but, again, I haven't listened to the whole thing, so no idea what Dave may have skipped/cut out.

Let's find out together!

Cerebus creator Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor Manly Matt Dow return for the May 2025 Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In this four HOUR+ conversation, Dave and Matt discuss:

• Is it TOO SOON for the next Cerebus Archive Portfolio Kickstarter?
• Last month's Please Hold strip.
• THIS month's Please Hold strip.
• The wonderous dangers of Internet access.
• The insane legal precedent of the word "Medieval"
• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler.
• Dave's answers to the latest questions from April C. AKA @creative_fey
• Dave answer's Robin McConnell's questions about Canadian comics work published from the late 60's to about 1982.
• The Fish Slingin’ Auteur of Lompoc, California: MJ Sewall's question about Dave's comic collection.
• Dave's idea for MJ's next book.
• Matt's childhood.
• The radio voice of the Yankees...Dave SimS?
• The Guys Prizes from the LAST Kickstarter.
• Owen Kline's film Funny Pages and the Cerebus cameo that wasn't.
• Dave's favorite Jam pieces and creators rights
• Dave's studios
• Matt's fundraising efforts for his daughter's dance team.
• AV in 3D
• How Dave did the colour for early Cerebus covers
• The price of original art on Heritage
• Dave's exclusion from Eclipse comics 1992 Famous Comics Creators trading card sets
• SPOGZ!
• The origin of the Fleagle brothers
• Dave discusses lettering
• Matt reminds Dave of the time Dave impressed Will Eisner.
• Page 5 of issue #173
• Dave's answer to four "celebrity questions"

All this and more (it's four hours long!) await you in this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim!

“We choose to Please Hold and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…and because we ain’t too bright…” -Manly Ferry-tits Kennedy

This month:

• Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler: REMEMBERED!
• Please Hold For Dave Sim comments: ACKNOWLEDGED!
• Canadian Underground Comix: BEGRUGINGLY RECOGONIZED!
• Beavers (and How Yours Is): REVEALED!
• Questions: ANSWERED!
• Prizes: WON!
• This bit: ANNOYING!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss all the things they're asked about. Was your question/comment/marriage proposal dealt with? Listen pal, I just RECORD the damn thing, I don't LISTEN to it...but sure, they dealt with you and your problems. How's about you just listen and see if any of it is familiar to you? Capisce?

Great! See ya next month...

Cerebus, glamourpuss, and The Strange Death of Alex Raymond creator: Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor: Manly Matt Dow are back with another one of these things...

This time:

• Dave isn't entertaining visitors Rob...
• Matt remembers Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler
• Dave remembers Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler
• Dave does another episode for April C. AKA: creative_fey of the Off The Spinner Rack podcast
• Then, straight from Alfie’s Fish & Chips (610 N H St, Lompoc, CA 93436, (805) 736-0154), mention A Moment of Cerebus AND Please Hold For Dave Sim ANNNDDD “swordfish” for NINETY, I say NINETY percent off strange looks from thewaitstaff…MJ Sewall asks about the Origin of Cerebus Phone Book Collections
• James [insert funny pseudonyms here] Smith's colours for the Spawn #10 Script book, and Dave's notes
• From the Home Office in Easton. PA, Michael (#26) R. asks about the future of Aardvark-Vanaheim's collaborations with The Waverly Press
• Christon asks about Cerebus circulation numbers and Cerebus #1 and the 1000ish crappily printed covers
• And how to draw Cerebus

Oh what joyous fun for all!

Tune in next month when we find out what was in the box..?

Join the fun by sending questions/comments/promises of large piles or currency to [email protected] before April 3rd when we do this again...

Cerebus creator and Aardvark-Vanaheim President Dave Sim, and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor Manly Matt Dow are back with the SECOND P.H.F.D.S. (that's Please Hold For Dave Sim for the acronym deficient amongst you...) of 2025!

How's everybody holding up? Great. I don't care.

Anywho, this month Dave and Manly have a lively and fun discussion of:

All this and Bernie Wrightson too!

The Year? 2025. Which is when Stephen King’s novel The Running Man (published as written by Richard Bachman.) is set. People aren’t currently being hunted for television, but we’re only three days into this crapfest, so “there’s still time”?

This time out, Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus's Manly Matt Dow discuss:

Hoo-boy it's two hours fifty-six minutes of distraction from the fact that their gonna hunt you down for May sweeps!

Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow return for the last Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2024.

This time out:

It's two hours and ten minutes of your life you'll never get back, but heck, you weren't doing anything anyway...

What?

Don't give me that look. Search your feelings, you know it to be true...

In this, quite possibly the Last Episode of Please Hold For Dave Sim ever published through this @#*!ing piece of shit "service" (@#*! SPOTIFY!), Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss:

And I don't @#*!ing rmember, @#*!ing Spotify deleted the earlier funnier version of this description which is why this is probably gonna be the last audio version of these things since I @#*!ING hate Spotify and have LITERALLY NO DAMN reason to use this "service" (how can they call it that when they've systematically removed every feature and tool that would make a person want to deal with these useless @#*!S...)