Welcome Dave Sim!

[Dave Sim]

Hi, Dave Sim just popping in to let you all know I'll be back here 10:30 am EDST Tuesday February 26 to get caught up on some of these questions and maybe answer some new ones!

Hope to see you then!

[Darren Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Dave Sim

...get caught up on some of these questions and maybe answer some new ones!

Cool - What's this about a secret project soon to be released?

Is their much of a comics community in Kitchener?

Any pulling of whiskers to be seen in Glammourpuss?

Are comics art or a disposable medium?

What does the term small press mean to you?

What got you interested in telling stories?

What would you expect to find in the perfect comic shop?

[vark]

Here's a flashback for ya', Dave me lad:

"Just draw your favourite characters," I suggested. Now there's your glamour, puss!

Oh, and if anyone ever stumbles across a first edition copy of Swords of Cerebus vol. 1, signed by Deni ("Famous the publisher", I believe she wrote), it's really, really, really stolen.

[Dave Sim]

Since this will be the last FULL day I'll be spending at one location on the 100 Hour Internet promotion tour --

[tomorrow, Wednesday February 27, I'll be revisiting Panel & Pixel from 10:30 to 11:45 am EDST; MillarWorld from 12:30 to 2:45 pm EDST; IMWAN (Iron Man With A Nose) from 3:30 to 5:30 pm EDST and finishing off at Comic Forums from 6:15 to 7:00 pm EDST]

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of the website moderators for their hospitality and their assistance. Thank you, Comics Village, The Comics Journal, Comics Bulletin, Comicon, NEWSARAMA, Sequential Tart, Comic Book Resources, Brian Bendis' JINXWORLD and all of the above websites!

I'd also like to thank Jeff Tundis and the Cerebus e Yahoos -- Jeff Seiler, Margaret, Rick Sharer, Rantz, L nny -- and the others for helping to "fill in the blanks" in the last month (in so many ways!),

all of the retailers who gave unstintingly of their valuable time throughout my "cold call" phone campaign of January and who have been instrumental in "getting the word out" about glamourpuss through the February solicitation period which ends this Friday

[If you're interested and you still haven't had a chance to see GLAMOURPUSS No.1, when you go in to your local comic store tomorrow on New Comics Day -- or Thursday or Friday -- ask your retailer if you can see their COMICS INDUSTRY PREVIEW EDITION and I'm sure he or she will be glad to let you take a look and make up your own mind about whether you want to order a copy...and reserve one for you if your answer is YES!]

Finally, I'd like to thank John Brenner of LOOKIN FOR HEROES, his son Jake, Duane the Amazing Comics Guy and "Monday and Thursday" Richard for making room here at 93 Ontario St. S. in Kitchener throughout the month of February for an "Internet challenged" individual like myself.

"Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility, Shared Rewards"

The creator and publishing side of the comics business have a ways to go in catching up to the comics retailers when it comes to work ethic and reliability...but ANY time is a good time to both resolve to start anew, giving 110% and then to DO SO.

I'll be doing my best to fulfill my own commitments starting March 3.

Okay, let's see what I missed over the last couple of weeks.

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by ClaudeFlowers

To return to Glamourpuss for a sec (I know you want to keep on target), might we see decade-themed issues? I.E. really "do" Twiggy and her contemporaires?

Hi, Claude. No, in Glamourpuss I'm really trying to visit the fashion industry on their own turf and within their own frames of reference which holds that the only real fashion is today's fashion.

They frequently revisit "looks" from the past -- the
1940s, 1950s and 1960s particularly -- depending on the season and mood so the 60s "look" will be turning up in glamourpuss as frequently as it does in the fashion world itself...

...but the goal is really to stick as strictly as possible to "the high fashion comic book that's SO six months ago." One of the first things I have to do when I get back from S.P.A.C.E. is the cover to issue 2, which will be cover-dated July (so I can get hit the 12 March solicitation deadline). I'm going to try to find a usable photo in the January GLAMOUR issue. If necessary I'll look at December or February but I'd really like to be "bang on" the six months where possible.

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by GlennCarter

I find it immensely fascinating that this idea keeps popping up. When I originally read Blake, I had trouble following him as I was only about 18 when I studied him in art history, but, I think I will re-examine his, yours and michaelangos viewpoints because this idea of 2 gods has always stuck with me.

Well, not to belabour the subject when I'm trying to stick to promoting glamourpuss, but my own views have been shaped strictly by Scripture. Not only would I avoid Blake when it comes to theology, I would also avoid St. Paul, the Talmud and the Hadith since they're a) commentaries and b) not divinely inspired.

I think Scripture has been misread pretty much from the beginning and the Torah, the Gospels and the Koran constitute a dialogue between God (that is, that actual One Divinity) and YHWH (who isn't actually God or even a god -- a "god", and I think that's being charitable). So in my view it isn't 2 gods, it's God and 'god'.

Thanks for posting.

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by stanleylieber

Unless you forget!

Or PRETEND to forget because you don't want to see!

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by stanleylieber

Here is Dave's thread at IMWAN.com:

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewtopi...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Remember: that's IRON MAN WITH A NOSE: so you know that it will consist only of the most scholarly treatments of all subjects related to the graphic storytelling medium (HONK! HONK!)

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by Jeff Tundis

In case anyone is interested, I did take a stab at a "rough cut" and posted the results over at www.cerebustheaardvark.com

Just click on the "COLOR MISCELLANY" link.

-Jeff

As I've said elsewhere, Bob Chapman of Graphitti Designs -- who has the negatives for most of the Young Cerebus stories from EPIC MAGAZINE -- is still considered by me to be a driving force behind this still-tentative project. Erik Larsen of IMAGE also expressed interest, so we'll see how it develops. If either of them choose to pass on any involvement, I'd be glad to look at serious offers from other publishers.

Personally I'm just not inclined towards colour particularly in this day and age when colour shifts so dramatically as you move from one computer to another. All colour proofs in this day and age would be better described as "proofs":

"This is roughly what it's going to look like with an allowance of 2 or 3% plus or minus YELLOW, CYAN or MAGENTA 19 times out of 20."

It's going to be someone else's headache, whoever the publisher ends up being.

[Dave Sim]

Originally Posted by Jeff Tundis

You might want to check out Manichaeism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

Also, for those curious, here's a preview of Dave and Chesters Koin Greek commentaries:



-Jeff

Just to keep the record straight, Manichaeism for me is in the same category as Wm. Blake: non-Scriptural and consequently not relevant to the discussion.

In my view the danger is that the further you get from Scripture the more you're trafficking in Jungian archetypes (i.e. here's something Isaiah has in common with Greek mythology) and turn the quest for Truth (or Reality, if you prefer) into an intellectual exercise, LitCrit and so on.

The Chester Brown illustrations will accompany my commentaries, Big Little Book style -- although probably not on every other page.