Friday, October 7, 2016
Fred Hammer Wins the Jakirbee Cup
MARGARET LISS:
A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sims notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.
Weve looked at Dave Sims notebook #33, the final Cerebus notebook, twice with the last time being in November of 2015 in Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk. The first time we look at it was The Final Notebook. It covers issues Cerebus #265 though 300.
Cerebus #267, If Five-Bar Gate Be My Destiny, is Cerebus time as a Five-Bar gate player who, much like the Toronto Maple Leafs, had a long losing streak, but unlike the Leafs, Cerebus broke his streak.
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Fred Hammer |
There are a couple pages in notebook #33 that have notes for issue #267. None have any sketches, just text. It was the text on page 6 that made me pause.
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Notebook #33, page 6 |
But on page six shown above, you see that Paul "Coffee" Annans wife stands up and started screaming at Cerebus
Instead of that gut punch, we get a left hook with Cerebus heading south to get the Cirinists to kill him.
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