If you don’t follow my twitter feed you’ve might have miss these:

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CerebusTV is on summer hiatus, but Dave Sim did a quick skit of voices: Lord Julius and Cerebus the most notable. It is just an audio file, but pretty fun to listen to (watch out though, it starts automatically and there are no volume controls for the segment so have your speak volume controls handy):

http://cerebustv.com/audio/SimCerebus.html

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No compare that Cerebus with this Cerebus voice. The Cerebus Animated film crew has gotten their voice for Cerebus, played by John DiCrosta (who played the Doctor in the 2nd Transformers movie):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsydjgpvTuE

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Cerebus has been making a guest appearance in the webcomic Weird Crime Theater. Cerebus is being drawn by Dave for the webcomic, and Cerebus is sporting a smoking jacket and a large pipe. I don’t know if Dave is doing the writing for Cerebus (though it looks like he is lettering the writing), but it is pretty fun stuff. Cerebus is due to appear in three days worth of comics. Here is Day One, Day Two and day three should be Monday.

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Have you been to the CerebusWiki lately? Thanks to Gilgamesh, a lot of updating is being done. . .he even inspired me to reread Minds and update the issue summaries for that phonebook. We even put this picture up for issue 4:

Thanks to the eagle eye of a Cerebus Yahoo!Group member (hi ekhanna!) who pointed out that a character in issue 4 looked a lot like Dave. So I dug out that picture of Dave from 1982 and put the panel with the character on top. They do look similar. . .

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I got this sweet piece of Bob Burden art of an ashcan edition of Cerebus #104 guest starring Bob’s creation Flaming Carrot:

Always interesting to see Cerebus as drawn by other artists.

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Over at the Cerebus the Original Aartvark blog, Brian has been showcasing the Six Deadly Sins portfolio, as colored by Gerhard! Originally Dave drew the Six Deadly Sins of Cerebus portfolio back in 1981, it was the first Cerebus portfolio to be issued, back before Gerhard was part of Cerebus. You can also read more about t he portfolio (along with the First Fifth portfolio) here on the Beguiling comicbook store website)

So I subscribe to Warren Ellis’ blog. I really enjoy his writing and usually he is throwing new and interesting ideas our way. One of the things he showed us today was episode one of Pioneer One. The shows description from their website: “An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.”

It is an teevee show being distributed on the internets, and can be watched on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCBk6LTmNY

Pretty interesting first episode – makes me want to see the rest of the season.

So a while back I traded issue #8 of Cerebus the Newsletter to another Cerebite for other issues of Cerebus the Newsletter I was missing. Well, turns out, I managed to get every issue except #8.

That was until Monday when I saw it on eBay with a buy it now of like $9. w00t! So I got it of course and finished my collection:

(click on the picture to get an even bigger version of that picture).

Up at the top left hand corner is #1, with issue #8 being the one in the second row down in the middle, with the X-Men cross over cover. Really. I even put issues #14 – 17 which I published, since they are technically Cerebus the Newsletters (given the okay by Dave and Fred themselves, w00t!). I even took a picture of the back covers:

Same as above, #1 is in the upper left hand corner.  Only issue #12 (the second row from the bottom, second one from the left next to the blue mind game IV one) is a wrap around cover. The current incarnation of the newsletter has put ads for Aardvark-Vanaheim on the back, either the phonebooks or for Cerebus Archive. Since Dave is allowing us to continue on with the newsletter, I thought it was only right that we give AV something in return.

Eric is putting together a book about Cerebus, and he has a ‘call for papers’ out, from this website:

Length: 2,500-7,500 words with maximum 10,000 WORDS

Call for papers for a collection of critical essays on various aspects of or
approaches to Dave Sim’s comic book Cerebus, both a scholarly and popular, though coherent, companion (and introduction) to the series. Any subject matter is welcome, so long as it pertains to Dave Sim and/or Cerebus. Some recommendations of subjects that in which I am most interested:

• Discussion of 1970′s comics scene in which Dave first started to contribute together with a discussion of the various influences on Cerebus (Howard the Duck, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja)
• Cerebus as satire of the comics medium (The Roach, “reads,” etc)
• Cerebus as social satire (political and religious satire)
• The shift in tone from earlier and later Cerebus as a result of Dave’s conversion
• The influence of Cerebus on the comics industry
• Cerebus and the graphic “Novel”
• Dave Sim as self-publisher and his feud with Gary Groth and the Comics Journal
• Dave Sim and the CBLDF
• Comics fandom and Aardvark Comment (& the Yahoo Group)
• Narrative structure in Cerebus
• “Mind Games”
• “Something Fell”
• Dave Sim as magpie (Barry Windsor-Smith, Mort Drucker, etcetera)
• Gerhard’s impact on Cerebus
• Sim’s use of literary characters (Wilde, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc)
• Sim’s use of public personas (Elrod, Mick and Keef, Lord Julius, Konigsberg, The 3 Stooges, etc)
• Meta-narrative in Cerebus (Viktor Davis/Reid in Reads, Sim in Minds and Guys)
• Cerebus and Religion (both pre-and post-conversion)
• Cerebus as a critique of feminism
• Gender issues in Cerebus (male/female light/void, he/she/it, YHWH, God, ”Tangent,” “10 Impossible Things,” etc)

There is contact information at the website linked to above. Lots of good ideas for the basis of some interesting essays.