So today was pretty much all Cerebus with a little glamourpuss and a bit of Patriots thrown in.

In my mail was Cerebus Archive #16 wherein Dave Sim talks about the creation of the logo for Deni Loubert’s fanzine, Cerebus. This logo would later morph into Cerebus the Aardvark. I read those pages first. . .still haven’t finished it. Savoring it. Read Secret Avengers #16 by Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie.  I brought it because of Warren Ellis’ writing credit, and found out I really liked McKelvie’s art. Typical Warren Ellis story and it reads as a stand-alone story. But for $4? For 20 minutes of reading entertainment? Meh. I still haven’t gotten to Batwoman #3 and 4 or to Rachel Rising #2 & 3 or glamourpuss #22.

Also in the mail were some Cerebus cover tee-shirts from the Poetic Press / Fantastic Apparel guys. Also issue #267 of The Comic Journal which has a Dave Sim essay on the passing of Will Eisner. The other item in the mail was a customized New England Patriots jersey. A #87 home jersey with the name on the back of ‘GRONNNNNNNK’. I would’ve put a ! at the end of that, but the NFL.com shop wouldn’t let me for whatever reason. Idiots. But I’m still pretty happy with my Gronkowski jersey.

This morning was spent stapling and folding various issues of newsletters. When I get them, they are usually correlated so the cover is followed by the interior pages, so I just need to separate one issue’s worth of pages, staple and fold. I usually do this to approximately 50 issues worth, and keep the other ones flat for storage.  The newsletters take up a small corner of the living room – several fedex boxes, 6″ x 12″ x 10″, plus a few out to grab quickly for orders or reference.

While I stapled and folded I watched the latest episode of CerebusTV. Luckily for me they went to a flash version so I can start from the beginning and pause if I need a bathroom break. It is also lucky for me because whatever plugin they are using for the stream says that it is missing when I check it on chrome (still works in firefox, but I use chrome now for various reasons). I usually watch it on SimTeeVee over on youtube, but that channel is playing a Christmas special – which I figure I can check out later in the week.

Then this afternoon I went to fellow Cerebite Jeff T’s comic book store and dropped off some Cerebus the Newsletters and pick up the comics I mention above along with a “As seen on CerebusTV” backer board and a copy of zootanapuss #1 – just glamoupuss #22 with a different cover – signed by Dave Sim and #428 out of 519 copies.

After I finish this, I’m going to be doodling ideas for the new logo for Cerebus the Newsletter. With the next issue, #22, that will be my 9th issue as publisher – which is more than Fred Patten (5, issue #1 – 5) and Aardvark-Vanaheim (8, #6 – 13). So if you want to get in on the fun of contributing an article, piece of art, essay, etc for the issue, just email them to me at cerebusfangirl at cerebusfangirl dot com.

If you didn’t notice, I’ve added a couple links to the side of the blog. There has been some interesting new Cerebus themed blogs popping up lately. A bunch of the ‘Cerebus ReRead’ themed ones and some others.

• Cerebus the Tumblr: As the title says “Tumbling the art of “Cerebus the Aardvark,” Dave Sim, and Gerhard”. A piece of Cerebus art a day or therebouts.
• A Moment of Cerebus: From the blog “”Every day we publish something related to Cerebus & the comics art of Dave Sim & Gerhard”.
• 2011: The Year of the Aardvark: Terrence has been blogging every day – reading an issue of Cerebus almost every day this  year, and when he finishes a phonebook, he posts a summary of it. He is getting close to finishing, up to issue 283 so far.
• Cerebus: A Diablog: They started off strong in 2009, but only got to issue 11. Still some good reading here.
• My Cerebus Year: Another blog started in 2009, only got to issue 20. Again, more good reading.
• Travels Through Iest: This blogger read Cerebus within a year and blogged it by phonebook. He is now reading and blogging about different books, but you can catch all his Cerebus blog entries at the link.

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Issue #17 of Cerebus the Newsletter has been reprinted with a color cover. Again I was tempted by a discount coupon and managed to get a color cover on glossy paper for the same price point as a B&W cover with cardstock paper. I like the thicker cardstock as it makes the newsletter beefier, but at the same time. . . color. . .

I tweaked the cover a bit so it fills more of the cover space so there is less white space near the margins (since I can’t afford full bleed to the edge). I also tweaked Steve Peters’ art inside so the image was higher res and I got rid of some of the ‘noise’ so it doesn’t look grainy due to the image scan. I also re-scanned Paul Hornschemeier’s art work and put it on the back cover. The original of it is in color so I figured I’d show it off. I put the Cerebus Archive ad in the back inside cover and moved some text to where Paul’s art used to be. Updated the contents page and voila.

I really like what Aviv did with the cover – just the red and the rest black and white. It is making me re-think the whole BW cardstock cover vs color cover on standard paper.