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.))