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Cerebus Links
Total Links: 180
You already know who Cerebus is, or else you wouldn't be here right? Well, even if you're aren't too sure what or who Cerebus is, you've found the right place for Cerebus resources! You come in search for information on Cerebus that you lack -- why else search the web? I can understand -- the story is over 6,000 pages and 300 issues (plus specials) long. That is a lot of information!
Well, I'm a Cerebus fan(girl) myself and got P.O.ed up having to jump from site to site in search of that hard to find tidbit that I was looking for only to find that the link doesn't work. Here I give you the many Cerebus sites on the web that I've found. I have them broken down into categories to ease your search. The number in () is how many sites I've listed in that cateogry. Sites with a  are newly listed on this links page.
- Story line (5): Sites that specialize in discussing the story or that have a synopsis of the story
- Dave Sim (33): Sites that have info on Dave Sim, discuss Dave's thoughts on the Issues, or have Sim interviews
- Extras (17): Sites that specialize in the "extras": maps, rules to diamondback, etc.
- Original Art (14): Sites that specialize in displaying pages of Cerebus Original art: pages from the comics & sketches.
- Personal Cerebus Homepages (13): Sites that don't have a focus other then a love of the comic Cerebus
- Cerebus Reviews and Articles (96): Sites with reviews (the good, the bad and the ugly) and articles on Cerebus.
Story Line Sites:
- Alexx's Cerebus Page: The complete timeline of Estarcion, Annotated Cerebus 1.2 insight into the comic to link up various events, The Cerebus Concordance 1.2: indexes the people, places, itmes and groups in the stories. Files are all text, but still are pretty large.
- Cerebus' Comics: This site has loads of info: Character descriptions, info about: groups / races, places, things & events, religions, Diamondback and some quotes.
- Cerebus Wiki: A Wiki devote to Cerebus.
- J. Stephen Bolhafner's Cerebus Page: Summaries of the major story lines thru 'Guys.'
- My World of Comics - Cerebus: a lot of information for issues #1-25
Dave Sim:
- Al Nickerson's Creators' Rights Site: Al has a bit on the Creator's Bill of Rights and this is a letter from Dave to Al concerning it.
- The Beguiling Art Store: Has a series of essays by Dave on different pieces of art they auctioned.
- Cerebus Live!: An MP3 of Dave's presentation of "Cerebus Live!".
- Comic Geek Speak: A comics podcast which have done some interviews with Dave
- High Society: No Dave in this one, the geeks just talk about High Society
- Indy Spinner Rack: An interview with Dave by Indy Spinner Rack
- Church & State: The geeks, Dave and special guest talk about Church & State I and II.
- Jaka's Story: The geeks, Dave and the Cerebus Fangirl talk about Jaka's Story
- Comics Journal Interview: Excepts from The Comics Journal interview from TCJ #184 & 192.
- Comic World News: "Even Aardvarks Have An Ending" an interview with Dave from March 2004.
- Coville's Clubhouse: An interview with Dave by Jamie Coville, 16 Jun 05
- Dave Sim's Fighting Aardvark: A CBC Radio interview from April 09, 1983. Features Dave, and also has Deni, Harry Kremer and Arn Saba.
- Dave Sim Memorial Notes From The President Archive: just what it says! Now on this site.
- The Dave Sim Misogyny Pag: "The Merged Void" has the complete text from issue #186 and the complete Tangents (either in HTML or Adobe PDF format)
- Dear Jeff Smith: Dave's Letter to Jeff Smith hosted by LinkMachineGo.
- Dear Jeff Smith: The whole shebang from Jeff's point of view.
- Eroomnala: Dave Sim Q&A: A fan posts Dave's responses to his questions in a letter he sent Dave.
- From Hell Letters: The Sim and Alan Moore text which where published in the back of Cerebus.
- Hail and Farewell: From the Diamond Comics Previews' "The Main Event" this is Dave's farewell which was published in an issue of Previews.
- I'm not really Stanley Lieber: A couple of letters from Dave to Ray and from Ray to Dave in PDF format.
- In Utah This Week: Interview with Dave during his trip out to Salt Lake City for the Ye Bookes of Cerebus show.
- J. Stephen Bolhafner's Cerebus Page: A Sim interview
- KPCW NPR station: An interview with Dave and Ger during their trip out to Salt Lake City for the local NPR station.
- My World of Comics - Cerebus: a small bio on Sim
- The Onion A.V. Club: Writer-Artist Dave Sim: An excellent 4,000 word interview by Tasha Robinson. Go here to read the Jeopardy parody Dave did which was to be run as the opener for the interview but didn't. Then go here to read Tasha's thoughts on Collected Letters 2004.
- Phantacea Info: Some info on the issues of Phantacea that Dave did and some art samples.
- Read Yourself Raw: Dave Sim: Has a short bio on Dave, some recommended comics and short reviews by Dave.
- The Sim / Fetch Dialogue: Toc Fetch posts his letters to and from Dave Sim. Some of which are in Collected Letters 2004.
- Sim Speech: A speech Sim made at a CBLDF gathering called "The Indiscreets of San Francisco."
- Spirituality Vs. God: The OOG files of the panel featuring Steve Peters and Dave Sim from the SPACE con, 05 April 2003. Dan is also working on getting transcripts of these MP3 files done also, which will be posted on his site when he is done.
- T Casey Interview by Sim: An interview/article by Sim on T Casey.
- Tangent: The entire tangent essay now on this site in HTML, PDF and Word Doc formats.
- The Art of Dave Sim: Has pictures of nearly all the non Cerebus Dave Sim stories.
- Two Handed Man: Interview with Sim
Extras:
- Apocalypse.org Cerebus Page: Some of the same stuff that was on the Crazed Ferret page: Alexx Kay’s Timeline and more, Cerebus Companion, and more.
- Can Anyone Really Know an Aardvark?: The 'Atlas' link has several excellent maps from the comic.
- Yahoo! Group: Cerebus: A Cerebus Email list (either email, digest or view at the website). Used to be EGroups, but has been brought out by Yahoo! Same basic format as before.
- Cerebus 3D: The website for the 3D animated film being made by Cerebus fans.
- Cerebus The Aardvark<: Has a lot of the Miscellany stories up, the animated Cerebus as movie files, and a pandorama of the room in which Cerebus spend his last day.
- Cerebus Radio Plays: Has MP3 files of the Cerebus Radio plays which adapts the first 6 issues of Cerebus.
- Counterfeit Cerebus #1: How to tell a real Cerebus #1 from a counterfeit.
- Diamondback: Play diamnondback with Cerebus, doesn't use the Diamondback cards, but you get to see how the game is played.
- From Fanboys to Pros: "A selection of letters from later-to-be comics professionals." Dave's letter from Superman #203 and a letter to Cerebus (scroll down a little bit).
- The Grand Comics Database Project: The index on Cerebus, contains hi-res scans of the individual covers for the main series.
- Melvinbone's Cerebus Page (version 3.0): Has a section on the card game of Diamondback.
- Michigan State University: Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection: A link to all the Dave Sim related materials in the MSU's library. Here is a link to all the Cerebus related material. And don't forget Gerhard who has his own section also.
- Steve's Reads: Steve has written many an excellent essay about Cerebus, from Cerebus Continuity, Redemption in Cerebus and Religion in Cerebus.
- Now and Then Books: The store where Sim once worked. Most of the links are dead but if you click around enough you'll find Power Comics #1 and a few other goodies!
Original Art:
- Cerebus Art: Dave & Ger's official site for displaying Cerebus art, prints, comics, etc. they are about to auction off on eBay.
- Amazing Comic Art: Issue 27 page 1, just scroll down to the Sim, Dave section. Also features lots of artists' original art.
- Brian's Cerebus Art Page: Lots of Cerebus art and some extra goodies. Has numerous Cerebus pages and sketches. Also has some cool extras (like what happened between issue #299 & 300
- Cliff Guy: A Cerebus sketch
- Darkside Daydreams: A sketch of Cerebus with a monocle by Dave
- Dave Sim: Let's Get Naked: Some sketches of Cerebus (not naked!) and several pages: issue #210 page #4 & 5 and issue #219 page #10.
- Hal's Con Sketches: Some nice convention sketches for you to enjoy.
- J. Ghataora's Cerebus Art: A sketch and (what looks like to me) to be a watercolor and ink sketch of Cerebus in color - very nice. The second picture is pretty large is it might take a while to download, but it is worth the wait.
- Pat's Cerebus Sketch and another Cerebus Sketch: A couple nice looking Cerebus sketches gotten from a comic convention.
- Red Sector Art: Info on the limited Cerebus Statue (plus a nice pic) and here is a link to info 'bout the CBLDF Most Holy tee-shirt.
- Steve's Original Comic Art: Issue #112/113 pages 2, 3 & 4
- Unovis' Art Page: Lots of nice original art pages, and a large section on Cerebus! Don't be too jealous, Unovis is a great fellow Cerebus fan so it is in good hands!
Personal Cerebus Webpages:
Cerebus Reviews and Articles:
- Abu Aardvark: Cerebus Rip: A short essay on the end of Cerebus
- Acephalous: This is part one of a three part essay. He links to part two on part one, and here is part three, comments section also. "I want to accomplish a number of things here, so bear with me as I approach Dave Sim from a couple of angles. Given my interest in the ideological conflicts within an author, I think it best to start from the biographical. Here's the condensed version"
- A Distant Soil: Colleen on Dave finishing Cerebus & his self publishing success: "Dave lost a lot of his fervent supporters with his strange ideology. Regardless, he has my congratulations for finishing Cerebus." + more in comments
- Akiko website Cerebus review: Part review and part overview with some pictures.
- Alliance Fiction Montreal: An article / review of Cerebus in French
- Andrew Rilstone: Note: Andrew has moved his site to the blogspot site, just search for Cerebus or Dave Sim and these essays by him should come up:
- Cerebus #300 A Critique: Andrew goes over the final issue of Cerebus in fine detail
- Dave-Watch: Andrew reviews issues #280 to 295 - now up to issue #299 (He reads it "so you don't have to" - mostly snippets of the stuff in the back of the book)
- Andrew Rilstone: Is Dave Sim Mad?: A commentary piece on Dave's musings.
- Cerebus The Aardvark: An Obituary Where Andrew discusses Dave's essay on the mama's boys / real men topic. Has a follow-up page.
- Andrew Rilstone: Is Dave Sim Mad? Update:
- Cerebus the Aardvark: Appendix: Andrew talks about Dave's essay "Mamma's Boys"
- Andrew's Cerebus Reviews: Reviews of Cerebus #184 to 199, Cerebus 1995 World Tour Book and 'Women'.
- ArtBomb.Net: A review of the first Cerebus Phonebook.
- Attempts: Covering Cerebus: Stephen Frug "covers Cerebus" in this 8 part (+ links appendix!) series of essays.
- Blog dot funtax dot org: Compares Dave to Henry Darger.
- Bob's Comics Reviews: Bob reviews the following phonebooks from Cerebus: High Society, Cerebus: Church and State, Jaka's Story, and Mother's and Daugthers.
- Bob Eichler's Cerebus Review: An overview and review of Cerebus book by book.
- Bob The Angry Flower: Cerebus: An overview of Cerebus by Stephen Notley
- Brevoort History of Comics: Cerebus #77: How this fan started with issue #77.
- Brian Cotts: "People Who Matter, part two: Dave Sim" Brian talks about Dave and what he thinks about 186, tangents and other such stuff.
- BUS on Cerebus: Why one fan loves Cerebus.
- Captain Comics Forum: A poster reviews the phonebooks Cerebus though Melmoth. Lots of follow up comments
- Cerebus #53: A "Comic a Day" reviews issue #53.
- CBR: Interview: An interview with Diana Schutz, one time proof reader of Dave. Scroll down near the end of the interview for some talk about Dave.
- CBR: Pipeline: Augie De Blieck Jr reviews the first Cerebus Phonebook.
- CBR: Pipeline: Augie reviews Cerebus 276 (Scroll down a bit).
- Cerebus: An Aardvark on the Edge: An essay by Kelly Rothenberg in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture.
- Cerebus Essay: An Essay on why Cerebus is one of a kind in the comics industry.
- Chris Winters: An article on some of the 1992 Tour stops by Chris Winters.
- Comic Book Galaxy - Pushing Comix Forward : ADD reviews Following Cerebus #1 (forgive him for making the Tangent essay plural and saying it came out in issue #186)
- Comic Book Galaxy - Pushing Comics Forward: ADD reviews Following Cerebus #3
- ComicUS.it.2.0: A review of Cerebus in Italian
- Creator's Bill of Rights: An article on the Creator's Bill of Rights (suggested by Sim). Also includes the full text of the Bill.
- Culture Cartel: Cerebus, the grey-haired Aardvark!: A review of the first phonebook by Chris Madsen.
- Culture Cartel: Cerebus, The Aardvarkian Wonder!: A review of the High Society phonebook by Chris Madsen
- Darcy's Book of the Month: Review of Latter Days: "Latter Days is the latest volume in the saga of Cerebus (number 15, if you're interested) and sees Sim returning to the comedic stance of earlier stories."
- Digital Eraser: Has a three part series on the design of Cerebus covers:
- Part 1: On issues 1 through 102
- Part 2: On issues 103 through 200
- Part 3: On issues 201 through 300
- Don Markstein's Cartoonopedia: Cerebus: A quick overview of Cerebus and part review.
- Don't Worry About Countdown: A review of Jaka's Story: "The things it has to say about relationships, about people, about actions and their unintended consequences, about resistance to tyranny, about art... they're true and speak to me in a way no other book does."
- Eolake's Blog: Eolake gives his take on Cerebus, plus lots of comments on this blog entry.
- Exlexys Reviews High Society: A review of High Society.
- Exhibit A Press: A review of Supernatural Law #33.
- Form & Void: A biweekly column by Rick Sharer that talks about some of the topics in Cerebus & Dave's essays.
- Fortress of Nerditude: Reviews the first phonebook: "What follows will not be censored for spoilers and such, so please only move past the cut if you’ve already read these issues and/or don’t mind having plot points discussed."
- Grovel: Reviews a couple of the phone books
- Hooked Utilitarian: One blogger looks at this thesis "...that heterosexual masculinity in our culture is defined in relation to, or by excluding, homosexuality..." with regards to Cerebus.
- Howard Eugene Day Memorial Award: Dave gives the first award.
- Incisivis: Moichandise, Part 2: A review of the phonebook Women.
- Indy Magazine: Cerebus: A Retrospective: A review of the entire Cerebus storyline by Adam White.
- James Bellows Cerebus Review: Reviews Cerebus though the Going Home story.
- Jeff's Favorite Comics: Reviews of all the Cerebus Phonebooks up thru Guys.
- Kill The Snark: Funny "what if" for a Cerebus film directed by Ralph Bakshi.
- Last Muse: On Tangent.
- Little Aardvark Who Could: A 65,000 word essay on Cerebus.
- Ludic Log: A blog entry from March 2002 entitled "A Male Void Speaks Out" about one guy's reaction to Dave's Tangent essay.
- MadInkBeard: A review of Cerebus #1 - 300.
- Matt Shepherd's Man-Man: The Blog: blogger Matt Shepherd talks about how he met Dave's cousin and the ensuing conversation about Cerebus.
- Mechanical Candle's Something Fell: This links to part 1 of a multi part review of every Cerebus phonebook in excuriating detail. Beforewarned about Spoilers, but it is a very good read. Click on the arrows at the top of the review to get to the next phonebook's review.
- Mirage Studios: A review of TMNT #8 in which Cerebus had a guest appearance. Also some art from it.
- More Coffee, Less Dukkha: An-ex fan's recollections of Cerebus with issue #300's release: "Well, here I am. That thirty-one year old is looking back sheepishly at his younger self and is thinking:'Erm… Got bored of it, to be honest. Gave it up years ago. Sorry.'"
- MoTime Like the Present: Dave Fiore rereads and reviews Cerebus. This is issues # 1 - 3. He is rereading a couple issues at a time and posting his thoughts on them. Look around the blog for current reviews.
- MoTime Like the Present: An essay entitled "Barbarism Begins at Home: Canadian Politics and the Politics of "Canadianness" in Cerebus #1-50"
- MSNBC: Beyond Batman and Catwoman: A commentary by Christopher Bahn on comics which should be made into movies, including Cerebus.
- Neuropsychosis & David Arroyo Blog: A blogger talks about why he enjoys Cerebus so much and gives short reviews of all 16 volumes.
- Ninthart: Article 10: Sim City: Population 1: An article by Paul O'Brien on the post-Tangents Dave Sim.
- Ninthart: Article 10: Return to Sim City: Paul O'Brien reviews the Latter Days story arc thus far.
- Ninth Art: A Woman of Cerebus: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the aardvark
- Now This Log: A review of Cerebus 281, just scroll down a bit.
- Obessed With Comics: Reviews Dave's work in Quack #4
- Optical Sloth: Reviews of the phonebooks, from volume one to Rick's Story (Vol. 12)!
- Perpetual Comics: An overview of Cerebus (part 1) by Mark Haden Frazer. Here is Part II.
- Pop-Culture-Corn: Reviews Cerebus #244
- Publisher‘s Weekly: article entitled: "DIY works for Cerebus creator Dave Sim" (Do a search for Cerebus and the article will appear). Requires a logon/password. Which you can get from BugMeNot.com.
- Reading Cerebus: A blogger reads and comments on the first 25 issues of Cerebus
- Reason Magazine: "The Embarassment of Riches" by Brian Doherty. An article on independent artists, which includes some bits on Cerebus.
- Requiem for an Earth-Pig: By Brian Doherty an overview of the complete Cerebus epic.
- The Self-Made Cynic: This blogger takes on Dave's 15 Things: "I know it's dangerous to wrestle a pig and all, but since this is my blog and I'm preaching to the choir, I thought I'd post my thoughts about the so-called "logic" of his arguments."
- Silverbullet Comicbooks: "Dave Sim, Off At A Tangent?" by Michael Deeley on Tangent and Dave.
- Something Fell: "BobbyLynn-Jo VS Dave Sim and The 14 Impossible Things to Believe before Breakfast AKA The things I do to try and win a $@!#$*&!!! Diamondback Deck. AKA Fun with Pheminiszm"
- Spatula Forum: A blogger talks about the end of Cerebus and what it means to him.
- The Successless Comics Blog: Starts their reread / review of Cerebus with book one. Just do a search for Cerebus, scroll down to the first entry, and start reading.
- TCJ: Newswatch: "In the company of Sim" by Michael Dean and Staff, talks about Sim and the post-tangent turmoil.
- TCJ: Newswatch: "Writer Cool with Unauthorized Use of Script in Cerebus" by Michael Dean.
- The Comics Journal #263: Masculinity's Last Hope, or Creepily Paranoid Misogynist? An Open Letter to Dave Sim: By by R.S. Stephen (aka "Sarcastic Girl")
- The Comics Journal #263: Our Northern Neighbors, The Cirinists: Essay from TCJ by by Colby Cosh
- Tip Tone Presents: An article by Tony P about his wife, him and a stuffed aardvark meeting Dave.
- Tom Spurgeon Review: Spurgeon (of The Comics Journal) reviews Cerebus.
- Tristram's MySpace Blog: A blogger describes his first meeting with Dave "That's my Dave Sim story. It was funnier then than it is now." and talks about Cerebus.
- Tuesday Morning 3am: "See, There's This Talking Aardvark" by Andre Salles on the completion of Cerebus.
- Suck.com: Hooked on Crank, an essay that talks a bit about Sim as a crank cartoonist.
- Udolpho: "Cerebus: The End": A review of Cerebus after issue #300.
- Villiage Voice: Readers of the Last Aardvark: by Grady Hendrix. A review of the completed Cerebus storyline.
- Vue Weekly: A MULTITUDE OF SIMS: An overview of the series by Stephen Notley.
- WEB! Comix: Cerebus phonebook reviews.
- Weird Stuff: An review of Cerebus overall
- Word Balloons: Cerebus Review: "Comic book's 27-year run comes to close" a review of Cerebus by Matthew Price printed in The Oklahoman originally, March 12, 2004.
- YABS on Dave Sim: Scroll down a bit for "12 WOMEN FOUND STUFFED IN DAVE SIM'S BASEMENT" and another YABS on "Dave Sim's Guide to Getting Chicks.
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