Cerebus creator and Aardvark-Vanaheim President Dave Sim, and A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor Manly Matt Dow are back with the SECOND P.H.F.D.S. (that's Please Hold For Dave Sim for the acronym deficient amongst you...) of 2025!
How's everybody holding up? Great. I don't care.
Anywho, this month Dave and Manly have a lively and fun discussion of:
- Manly remembers Cerebus fan Jeff Seiler in a story that touches on Dave's latest Kickstarter, and paying royalties to eight guys when the profits aren't that big to begin with.
- Dave's thoughts/feelings about what is happening in Gaza.
- Dave's thoughts on how current creators can overcome the problem of distribution as the industry contracts, and how Diamond's Bankruptcy will effect AV.
- Then we got our first Podcaster, since Dave instituted his Podcaster Policy, April C. AKA: @creative_fey, host of the Off the Spinner Rack Podcast, who got an exclusive (which means I didn't slot the audio in, you can see it on her channel) from Dave, which can be viewed here.
- MJ Sewall, proprietor of Alfie's Fish & Chips (stop in and tell your server you heard of Alfie's on Please Hold For Dave Sim for COMPLEMENTARY water, and a hug...), asks Dave "Where did your love of black and white art begin? "
- Does Dave just randomly reread Cerebus?
- The backstory on Cerebus being on the cover of Mile High Comics catalog in 1982.
- Dave answers: "How would Dave rank each phonebook in terms of his personal enjoyment/satisfaction?" And "How would Dave rank each phonebook in terms with sales".
- Will there ever be a remastered Cerebus issue 3?
- Dave's ideas for the Cerebus Archive Portfolios after the first sixteen are done. (We're on number 11 for those playing along at home...)
- How Dave and Gerhard split their original art between themselves when Ger left AV.
- How Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler's untimely death led to a page of original art from the end of Church & State being lost to the wild.
- Dave's thoughts on Josh Even's custom 3D printed Cerebus action figure.
- And is Dave doing commissions?
- Fernando H. Ramirez did a twelve page Cerebus story. Dave remembers the SPIRITS OF INDEPENDENCE tour stop in Austin, TX, and how he would try and help young upcomers like he was helped by a 1978 signing with John Byrne.
All this and Bernie Wrightson too!
