An Audio Moment Of Cerebus

An Audio Moment Of Cerebus

By Matt DowLeisureHobbies
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An Audio Moment Of Cerebus episodes

  • Please Hold For Dave Sim 3/2025

    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...

    1 hr 47 min
  • Please Hold For Dave Sim 2/2025

    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:

    • Manly remembers Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler in a story that touches on Dave's latest Kickstarter, and paying royalties to eight guys when the profits aren't that big to begin with.
    • Dave's thoughts/feelings about what is happening in Gaza.
    • Dave's thoughts on how current creators can overcome the problem of distribution as the industry contracts, and how Diamond's Bankruptcy will effect AV.
    • Then we got our first Podcaster, since Dave instituted his Podcaster Policy, April C. AKA: @creative_fey, host of the Off the Spinner Rack Podcast, who got an exclusive (which means I didn't slot the audio in, you can see it on her channel) from Dave, which can be viewed here.
    • MJ Sewall, proprietor of Alfie's Fish & Chips (stop in and tell your server you heard of Alfie's on Please Hold For Dave Sim for COMPLEMENTARY water, and a hug...), asks Dave "Where did your love of black and white art begin? "
    • Does Dave just randomly reread Cerebus?
    • The backstory on Cerebus being on the cover of Mile High Comics catalog in 1982.
    • Dave answers: "How would Dave rank each phonebook in terms of his personal enjoyment/satisfaction?" And "How would Dave rank each phonebook in terms with sales".
    • Will there ever be a remastered Cerebus issue 3?
    • Dave's ideas for the Cerebus Archive Portfolios after the first sixteen are done. (We're on number 11 for those playing along at home...)
    • How Dave and Gerhard split their original art between themselves when Ger left AV.
    • How Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler's untimely death led to a page of original art from the end of Church & State being lost to the wild.
    • Dave's thoughts on Josh Even's custom 3D printed Cerebus action figure.
    • And is Dave doing commissions?
    • Fernando H. Ramirez did a twelve page Cerebus story. Dave remembers the SPIRITS OF INDEPENDENCE tour stop in Austin, TX, and how he would try and help young upcomers like he was helped by a 1978 signing with John Byrne.


      • All this and Bernie Wrightson too!

      2 hr 3 min
    • Please Hold For Dave Sim 1/2025

      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:

      • Dave remembers Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler
      • which leads to Dave announcing Aardvark-Vanaheim's plans for 2025, first up (if Donald Trump doesn't crap all over Canada,) CAN11 and Narutobus on the Kickstarter!
      • Did You Know?: Dave was in discussions to license/sell Cerebus to DC Comics in 1985. Dave reads the thirty-nine year old proposal (spoilers: he turned down $100,000. Then he self-distributed the collected High Society and made $150,000 a year later.)
      • Now it CAN be told! DAVE screwed up your bookshelf...
      • Cerebus continuity
      • Matt's Steamboat Willie/Blade Runner mash-up (prints are coming soon?)
      • Neal Adams and Creator's Rights
      • 2025 Dave's thoughts on Deni Loubert and Cerebus in 1977
      • What does a normal day look like for Dave Sim?
      • Why an Aardvark?
      • Does Dave celebrate New Year's?
      • Anniversary tours?
      • A Cerebus bi-monthly spin-off book by other creators?
      • Dave's thoughts on modern day Canadian life.
      • The location and condition of Dave's Albatross notebooks (used in the creation of Cerebus from issues 20 through 300) (Trigger Warning for Margaret: it...it's not good...not good...)
      • Who was Dave's model for F. Stop Kennedy in Going Home? (spoilers: it was F. Scott Fitzgerald.)

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

        2 hr 56 min
      • Please Hold For Dave Sim 12/2024

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

        This time out:

        • Matt remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
          • Dave sets some Policy (this goes on for quite a bit.)
            • Dave and Matt discuss the Cerebus Facebook Group
            • Dave would like his Humble Bundle money
            • A surprise for a lucky Cerebus fan, and maybe a remastered Guys for the rest of us.
            • Why didn't Dave learn to drive?
            • Where's the third printing of The Last Day
            • The Friesens Remastered Edition Cerebus volume #1
            • What was the highest print run of an issue of Cerebus?
            • Does Dave ever get burnt out? (Matt does. Every damn month when it's time to deal with this stupid website...)
            • Praise for Cancel America
            • Inking Jack Kirby (well, kinda)

              • 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...

              2 hr 11 min
            • Please Hold For Dave Sim 11/2024

              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:

              • Dave's favorite comedians
              • Peter's Place
              • A Cerebus rarity from 1979
              • Living in a Swing State
              • God
              • Dave reprinting his work from Comic Art News And Review (CANAR)
              • Joe Matt
              • Steve Peter's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠, featuring signed and unsigned variant covers by Dave and a new 8 page story with art by Dave
              • Manly's "team-up" with Jack Kirby on a piece for Steve's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠
              • Dave wants to "team-up" with Jack too for Steve's ⁠New Sparky Kickstarter⁠
              • An Officially Licensed NECA Cerebus Action Figure?
              • Dave remembers Jeff Seiler

                • 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...)

                2 hr 14 min
              • Please Hold For Dave Sim 10/2024

                Cerebus Creator Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor "Manly" Matt Dow have been doing this for a few years now. If this is your first time, welcome. But we're reasonably certain that you're a returning customer, and know the score. Dave and Matt talk about:

                • The Continuity of TMNT #8 and Spawn #10
                • Steve Peters and his Sparky: Cosmic Delinquent Kickstarter
                • Who used the Lectratone, and when?
                • Dave's favorite Cerebus covers
                • What are the beliefs one has to hold to be a Marxist?
                • A correction regarding last month's discussion of Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
                • Why the earliest Cerebus Trade collections are "spineless"
                • Does Dave do commissions?
                • A discussion of Monotheism
                • A discussion of Jim Valentino
                • Dave's thoughts on Manga
                • The amazing price a slabbed Cerebus #1 went for
                • The two different covers of Swords of Cerebus #1
                • The 1982 Tour book

                  • It's the total package.

                  2 hr 19 min
                • Please Hold For Dave Sim 9/2024

                  Manly Matt Dow and Dave Sim do this again:

                  • Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
                  • Dave's tips on world building in a comic strip
                  • “Dave Sim’s 3 Minute Guide to Understanding Steve Ditko”
                  • We don't REALLY talk about Neil Gaiman and his ongoing headache
                  • MJ Sewall's questions about Albatross #1, Dave's first notebook used in the production of Cerebus. You can get your own replica of it ⁠here⁠
                  • Dave explains how he was inspired to furnish his apartment (it's actually a neat story...)
                  • More about Paul Anka's "My Way" than you would expect to find in a podcast about Cerebus the Aardvark. (Thanks ⁠Wikipedia⁠!)
                  • Chester Brown's MARY WEPT OVER THE FEET OF JESUS
                  • Friend to the ⁠Blog⁠: James Banderas-Smith has a new ⁠Kickstarter⁠
                  • Other friend to the ⁠Blog:⁠ Steve Peters' new Kickstarter, with a new 8 page story by Dave, launces next week

                    • Man, what a way to spend two hours and nine minutes.

                    2 hr 10 min
                  • Please Hold For Dave Sim 8/2024

                    For the EIGHTH time in 2024, Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow come together to answer questions from listeners and generally shoot the bull for 'bout three hours. This time:

                    • It's Matt's turn to remember Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
                    • The Upcoming TMNT/Naruto crossover and Cerebus' Naruto parody
                    • The difference between stealing, aping, copying, homage, influence, and spoof
                    • The cover to Cerebus Volume #8: WOMEN
                    • How much Aardvark-Vanaheim made of the recent Cerebus Humble Bundle
                    • The chances of Dave doing a collection of his early Fanzine interviews with Famous Comics Creators
                    • The differences between the eleventh and twelfth printings of Cerebus Volume #2: High Society
                    • Is Dave getting Canadian Pension and Old Age Security payments (the Canadian version of Social Security)
                    • Would Dave write and draw any more original Cerebus stories
                    • Dave and Matt discuss Neil Gaiman's recent troubles

                      • It's three hours of your life you weren't gonna spend productively anyway...

                      3 hr 3 min
                    • Please Hold For Dave Sim 7/2024

                      Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow return for the Please Hold For Dave Sim 2024 Fourth of July Spectacular!

                      In the shortest Please Hold they've ever recorded, Dave answers questions while Matt stays relatively quiet. Dave:

                      • Remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler
                      • Then a NON-Question from the STAR of Steve Peters Week, Steve Peters who's latest Kickstarter has a nifty piece of Dave Sim Original Art that could be YOURS
                      • Will Eisner's the Octopus and the strange Rip Kirby connection
                      • How Dave writes Cerebus in Hell?
                      • How the Cerebus Humble Bundle came to be
                      • The Cerebus "The Hell it's yours, put it back" bookplate pricing and when it will be next available
                      • The Original script to Spawn #10 has been found, and is being returned to the Off-White House
                      • How Al Nickerson inks

                        • All that and a Musical Interlude too!

                        51 min
                      • Please Hold For Dave Sim 6/2024

                        Dave Sim and A Moment of Cerebus' Manly Matt Dow return for the June edition of Please Hold For Dave Sim. This time out, Dave and Matt discuss:

                        • Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler
                        • Al Nickerson and his Graphic Novel: Sword of Eden and it's sequel: Sword of Eden Shinobi
                        • The change in size of Cerebus comics starting with issue #21
                        • MJ/Mike/Dodger/Shirley(?) Sewall makes Dave take a trip down Memory Lane to the FIRST Cerebus double issue: 112/113
                        • What ever happened to the idea of a collected Following Cerebus?
                        • Dave's enjoyment of the Santos Sisters
                        • When did Cerebus in Hell? one-shots become "Cerebus in Hell? Presents"?

                          • It's the most wonderful way you can spend two hours and forty-eight minutes. With our PATENTED double your money back guarantee: If not FULLY satisfied with your Please Hold For Dave Sim experience, return the unused portion for double the purchase price.

                          2 hr 49 min

                        About An Audio Moment Of Cerebus

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                        Matt Dow, the Interim Editor of A Moment of Cerebus: http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/ talks to Cerebus Fans who want to talk about Cerebus. It's a thing now, apparently...