An Audio Moment Of Cerebus

So, they took away the editing function, and offered this new thing. So you're all subjects in this crazy experiment like Joel on MST3K.

Anyway, The March Please Hold For Dave Sim contains:

• MJ (Mike) Sewall's question about Image comics
• MJ (Dodger) Sewall's question about how to pronounce Melvinbone
• Dave's reminiscence about Jeff Seiler and a postcard he gave Gerhard
• Matt's investigation about WHEN that happened
• Dave breaking down when and where each version of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond was created and published
• Where Dave is now with SDOAR
• Michael R, of Easton PA's question about Marvel & DC comps
• Dave wants to back James Banderas-Smith's new Kickstarter
• Dave also wants to back Lee Thacker's new Kickstarter
• And we end on a Collected Letters cliffhanger

Hoo-boy, let's hope the crappy new service didn't F this up. (Video versions of Please Hold can be found on YouTube.)

LIVE FROM KITCHENER ONTARIO, CANADA AND TWO RIVERS WISCONSIN U!S!A!: IT’S THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE PLEASE HOLD FOR DAVE SIM CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!

FEATURING: THE LATE, GREAT, JEFF SEILER, LANK STEPHENS, MICHAEL DE SANTIS, ROB SNELL, CHRIS WOERNER, AARON WOOD, JOE GABBARD, STAR OF THE MULTIPLE STEVE PETERS WEEKS: STEVE PETERS, JOHN BAU , MIKE SEWALL, TRAVIS, MICHAEL GRABOWSKI , MICHIEL , MICHAEL R. OF EASTON PENNSYLVANIA!

SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY: MARGARET LISS, EDDIE KAHANNA, JAMES BANDERAS-SMITH

AND FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY: THE BAY CITY ROLLERS, BLONDIE, THE MORMAN TAPERNACLE CHOIR FEATURING ACE FREELY OF KISS, HALL & OATES, WHITNEY HOUSTON, ROD TORFULSON'S ARMADA FEATURING HERMAN MENDERCHUK, DEVO, THE ELECTRIC MAYHAM, AND UP WITH PEOPLE!

In this, the eighth month of Two Thousand Twenty-Three (16th of Av, 5783 if you're Jewish...) Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss/answer:

• Walter Winchell *trigger warning: Cerebus in Hell? Promos*
• Dave remembers Cerebus Fan Jeff Seiler *trigger warning: Covid lockdowns* *trigger warning: Karaoke*
• Twitter/"X" *trigger warning: Twitter* *trigger warning: "X"*
• glamourpuss #1 editions *trigger warning: exclusivity* *trigger warning: Cerebus ephemera in the garbage*
• Dave selling the original art to page 9 of glamourpuss #25 *trigger warning: I can't afford it* *trigger warning: off-model cartoon beverage*
• Dave selling prints of page 9 of glamourpuss #25 *trigger warning: Abortion joke* *trigger warning: shameless hucksterism*
• Does Aardvark-Vanaheim have any Guys Party Packs? (Answer: Yes, 21 of them) *trigger warning: "toxic" masculinity* *trigger warning: Popeye jokes*
• Dave remembers the beginnings of the Small Press "movement" *trigger warning: the word "Movement" (Jeff Smith only) *trigger warning: multiple uses of the word "Bone"* *trigger warning: 90s nostalgia*
• Will Dave, Emo Dave, or Jack appear in future Strange Death of Alex Raymond pages *trigger warning: discussion of human mortality*

It's a (to quote a Very Famous and Very old song) "gay ol' time! WILMA!!!!" *trigger warning: Honeymooners rip-off*

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return once again to answer submitted questions from listeners and generally just BS for two and a half hours.

This time:

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler with a prod from Matt and MJ Sewall
• Dave remembers Phil Seuling
• Dave remembers Bob Burden and the making of Cerebus #104
• Dave remembers MJ Sewall's book Where Monsters Dance About
• Dave remembers who was on the Cerebus Freebies list circa 1996
• Dave remembers being a "letter hack" in the 1960s
• Dave remembers how to write a cliffhanger
• Dave announces that a year from now, February 2024, you'll be able to buy a ALL NEW Cerebus comic that he's writing AND DRAWING!
• Dave learns there was a SF novel in 1953 titled Pirates of Cerebus
• Dave remembers the Cerebus: 6 Deadly Sins portfolio

And

• Matt spoils his Spawn Cerebus in Hell parody
• Matt spoils his surprise to the AMOC bullpen
• Matt decides to send his cheap P. Craig Russell art book to Dave
• Matt generally says the quiet part out loud more than a person should...like normal.

Holy @#%& Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow AREN'T done doing this every month!

"And there was much rejoicing"...

(HEY! I didn't hear any rejoicing from that guy in the back... You're on the List pal!)

In this, the first month of the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-three, Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow discuss:

• A couple of "shout outs" from Dave Sim
• Matt remembers Jeff Seiler and "Two Women Grinding"
• When's the Remastered Last Day a'comin'? (Not soon, unfortunately...)
• Dave Sim the Barbarian? Fictional AND Real...
• Larry Wooten and his new Art acquisitions (I hate him.)
• Helen and Alex Raymond's 1934 Christmas Card
• Loren Gray is living the Fanboy dream (and I hate him.)
• The PLETHORA of original Art that's reached Heritage auctions.
• Dave's dialogue for Mick, Keef, Richard, and Harrison. 
• Mungu mkono.

With answers for: Kyle Pinion, Travis, Larry Wooten, Michael R. of Easton PA, Steve Peters, and YOU (if you wondered about how Matt is rearing his kids...)

Well here we are, the FINAL Please Hold For Dave Sim. Of 2022.

Or, EVER.

I dunno. I just send the questions and record the answers, I'm not in charge of anything.

Anyway, this time Dave and Matt talk about:

• Jeff Seiler's Kansas City Royals annual (Let's hope it went to KC or Cooperstown...)
• Barry Windsor-Smith's Frost Giant's Daughter
• Harry Truman and the Sunday funnies
• If this is the FINAL Please Hold, or not?
• What Dave would change in Cerebus if he could
• What books Dave recommends
• If Dave would ever try a Cerebus-like project again
• An idea to make Dave some of that money we’ve heard so much about
• The contents of Cerebus volume 1, and what's missing and why
• The Form & Void remastered campaign
• What to do with your collection to keep your non-fan kids/heirs from missing out on cashing in when you cash out
• And if this is REALLY the FINALE, or not?

If this IS the last one, we had a pretty good four year run. And that means there's an end to what Jesse Herndon has to transcribe, and the book of transcripts can get sketched out in Matt's head.

(I wonder if Gerhard is gonna be busy in January?)

Oh geez...what DIDN'T Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow talk about?

(Seriously, I didn't take good notes again.)

• Jeff Seiler and "Madame X", and that time Jeff travelled to Canada to get his *really good* stuff back.
• Archbishop Posey and the crowd of Cerebus characters in the Afterlife in issue #300.
• Supposition on why most North American comics are printed in Canada.
• What Foreign Editions of Spawn #10 are in the Cerebus Archive.
• Where the script for Spawn #10 ended up (and the one for Spawn #9. Manly's got that one and will show you for a dollar...).
• Dave's wrist.
• Drew Hayes and Poison Elves.
• And tattoos.

It was a fun little nearly two hours...

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow once again do the Please Hold For Dave Sim thing.

This month:

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler
• Dave DOESN'T have any art in Psycho Annual #1 (1972) (Don't believe Margaret Liss' LIES!!!)
• Pablo Marcos (the guy who ACTUALLY drew the thing Margaret's website says Dave drew)
• Why Dave identifies as a "cartoonist"
• Will Dave release his Matisse "The Unknown Turtle" original art cards as a regular card set?
• Turtles #8 (Aardvark-Vanaheim Edition) coming in January from *SURPRISE SURPRISE*
• *YOU* TOO can get a Cerebus Sketch from Dave for...well, the more you pay, the better your sketch...(Last guy's getting it for a grand or two...)
• Will the Waverly Press be doing a Hardcover premium edition of The Last Day

And all the rambling fun from Matt you've come to know and loath...uh, "love"...

I've done one of these a month for the past couple of years. If you've listened to any of them, you know the score. 

If this is your first one, Dave Sim talks to Matt Dow (that's ME!) for a couple of hours and answers questions sent in by fans. 

If you got your question in to Matt before Wednesday night, he sent it to Dave, and Dave answered it.

Hey there!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow do the Please Hold thing...

Topics include (but are no way limited to):

• Dave remembers Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
• The auctioning of all 22 pages of original art to Cerebus #4
• Dave's views on seeking permission to use Cerebus in another creative work
• The inventory of Cerebus/Dave Sim material that A/V is willing to "entertain offers" on
• The 1982 Tour book (coming soon-ish from the Waverly Press...)
• Where you can get the remastered phonebooks including Reads
• Cerebus Archive Portfolios (and where/how they might be available)
• Dave's painted covers for Cerebus #23-35
• The telepathy that K'Cor displays in Flight

The May Please Hold For Dave Sim arrives, with:

• Manly Matt Dow and two of the biggest regrets of his life (that both involve Neal Adams).
• How a Luddite and Neo-Luddite celebrate 1500 YouTube subscribers.
• How many Cerebus Berserker posters are in the Cerebus Archive.
• Will Dave "boycott" Russian Cerebus collections?
• Pieces of Turtles 8.2, when it's for sale. And for how long?
• MJ Sewall's Original Art
• Where to buy Collected Letters

Boy Howdy, it's two hours and fifteen minutes of your life you'll never get back!!!

Dave Sim sent Matt Dow (that's me), an audio file of a phone conversation he had with somebody else (!?!?!), Kim Preney from Preney print and Litho. The printer of Cerebus from issue I'm-not-sure until issue #300. Turns out Preney had NINETY copies of #300 on their hands.

Kim explains why.

And, Dave is preparing to get them graded and available for sale. More information on A Moment of Cerebus as Dave gets it to me.

Dave Sim and Matt Dow record the April 2022 Please Hold For Dave Sim at the end of March because April is Ramadan.

Topics include:

• Jeff Seiler's history of Doc Holiday and how it relates to SDOAR
• Dave Sim's first poster, and what a disaster THAT was
• Selling the Cerebus Phonebooks
• Pieces of Turtles 8 #1 & 2 and how short the Canadian Swordfish sale for #2 is going to be (two hours?)
• Matt Wagner's Grendel and Jaka's Story
• Cerebus in the Public Domain
• The comic(s) that Dave considers the Heir to Cerebus (if any)
• Cerebus Online YouTube channel's (almost) 1500 subscribers

And all sorts fun little asides throughout.

Matt Dow's not gone, and Dave Sim's not sick, so "Once more into the Breach lads! Once more into the Breach..."

In this month's Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave and Matt talk about:

• Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
• Adapting Cerebus for the screen (if you're willing to pay for that sort of thing...)
• Dave turning to prose (he's not.)
• What Dave's work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond looks like these days
• Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend: fact or fiction (seriously, has anybody SEEN a copy physically?)
• Why is there no old old Cerebus in Dave's Notebooks?
• Is Dave REALLY gonna charge seventy bucks(!) for the next printing of Form & Void? (Yes, yes he is, and we discuss why...)
• And, like, twelve minutes on carrots...no, really...
• Are there gonna be any more Pieces of Turtles 8?

So, strap in, buckle up, and enjoy!

Or not. I'm not your father. You don't have to listen to me if you don't want to. (Although you'd be breaking your poor mother's heart... And get a haircut! No son of mine is gonna walk around looking like some galldarn hippie! And take out the trash. I HEARD THAT! YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOU OVER MY KNEE?!? Well? Do ya? THAT'S IT! YOU'RE GROUNDED YOUNG MAN! Go to your room!)

Dave Sim reads the Gospel of John.  As he said in a recent fax:

I also recorded all of John's Gospel and Sean is now editing it into an audio mp4. So If you're REALLY SELF-CONSCIOUS about this, all you have to do is arrive early, find a spot outside where your local City Council, State Assembly or Congress is about to sit, put in your earbuds, and LISTEN to John's Gospel, thinking the whole time "I'm OUTSIDE with God and God's Word. I align with THIS and not YOU. May God judge between me and thee.”

Dave Sim calls Matt Dow and Matt records it.

There's answers to questions...

There's embarrassing personal stories...

If this is your first episode, you might wanna go back and listen to all the previous ones...

Oh!

And a message from Little Orphan Aardvark to her Secret Society.

The November Twenty-Twenty-One Please Hold For Dave Sim.

Dave and Matt discuss (in part): Cats, the South Park kids, Baby's First Tattoo, Cerebus #1, Exes, The Guys Party Pack, Edgar Rice Burroughs, What the Green Martians are called, Exes, Vincent Van Gogh's ear, Dave's comic collection, Cerebus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8, A Cerebus action figure(?), and more.

And Matt has to figure out a way to give away an original piece of Dave Sim art. (Thanks Dave...)

AND Little Orphan Aardvark has a timely message for the members of the L.O.A.S.S. Get your Decoder Wheels ready!

Dave Sim once again joins Manly Matt Dow for Please Hold For Dave Sim the October 2021 edition.

In this one, Dave discusses:

the possiblity of a Cerebus Plush toy.

He and Matt remember Jeff Seiler (R.I.P.)
Answers a few questions from Michael R. (of Easton Pennsylvania)

And discusses collecting a few uncollected projects.

And for L.O.A.S.S. members, we end with a special message from Litle Orphan Aardvark for YOU!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return once again for their monthly discussion. This time they talk about:

Cerebus Archive Number Nine arriving (Matt got his the next day),

Aging,

The Taliban,

Shang-Chi and Gene Day,

GCG graded Signed Books,

Anything Goes #3,

Who the best interviewer who ever interviewed Dave is, AND who Dave thinks the best interviewer ever is.

And Matt talks a bunch about seemly random crap...

It's Please Hold For Dave Sim September 2021!!!

Dave Sim and Manly Matt Dow return for the August Please Hold For Dave Sim.

In this month's installment, we discover Cerebus' height, where Cerebus' dreams came from, Dave's advice to anybody getting married, how you can get a copy of The Last Day if you're in Italy, what happens when Dave and Matt get a repeat question, how Dave's wrist is doing, Dave's thoughts on the comparison between Jesus and Superman, if Dave will ever do a Kickstarter for limited phonebooks, the tale of Dave trading Cerebus original art for pre-Pearl Harbor DC Comics, who the two comic fan legislators in High Society were based on, and if Dave ever drew a African famine relief Cerebus story...

And Rich L. and Jeff Seiler's phone questions are at the end of the podcast because I couldn't get the audio to edit. And I'm feeling lazy...

The June Twenty-Twenty-One Please Hold For Dave Sim, wherein, once again Dave Sim speaks to A Moment of Cerebus Interim Editor, Manly Matt Dow, about all sorts of neat stuff. Whoo-boy are you in for a treat...

Dave Sim and Matt Dow once again return to do the Please Hold For Dave Sim for May, 2021.

This time out, Dave answers questions about:

The Cerebus 3-D animated movie.

New lettering for an unpublished and lost Cerebus story.

Cerebus the Action Figure.

Dave's address to the 1992 Diamond retailer's summit.

A Gene Colan-esque page from the Savage Dragon.

A Salvador Dali Cerebus?

The Waverly Press Cerebus hardcovers.

And where Cerebus teleported to at the end of Spawn #10.

Dave Sim and Matt Dow return for the April 2021 Please Hold For Dave SIm.

There are questions, there are answers. It's magical!

It's the March 2021 Please Hold For Dave Sim.

This time out all sorts of fun and shenanigans happen, fun for the WHOLE family!...of Dave Sim/Cerebus fans.

If THIS is your FIRST one of these, I'd highly recommend going back and listening to any/all of the others.

Dave Sim returns to call Matt Dow and answer listener's questions for the February Please Hold For Dave Sim.

Oh the joy!

Oh the happy!

All this and Fernando too...

Dave Sim and Matt Dow RETURN for the First Please Hold For Dave Sim of 2021! Dave starts answering reader questions around the 41 minute mark. The whole thing is over three hours long. ENJOY!

Dave Sim and http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/'s Matt Dow ONCE AGAIN, do their monthly phone call. This time they begin by finishing the discussion of Dave's list of significant events from his life that was listed in his notebook used to produce Reads. Then two more questions from http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/ Margaret Liss. Then more questions from: Michael R (of Easton Pennsylvania), Jeff Seiler, Bryon, and I feel there was one more...
ALSO, Matt FINALLY explains the Secret Origin of Ron Essler, how Matt broke his finger on Black Friday, and the Real History of Doug Ramsey/Warlock/and the New Mutants. (It was a thing.)

WITH: a special surprise guest appearance from Jeff Seiler, since technology is amazing and Matt got it to work.

AND: also with Dave paraphrasing Jeff's question since Matt's too lazy to edit that bit out...

The November 2020 Please Hold For Dave Sim.

Wherein Dave answers many questions from Cerebus fans.

(Dave reads the questions, so I'm not listing them here.)

ENJOY!

By POPULAR demand*: The SECOND Please Hold For Dave Sim from December of 2018.

Wherein Dave Sim and Matt Dow discuss... It was almost two years ago. I don't remember...(Comics?)

By POPULAR demand*: Here's the audio of the first ever Please Hold For Dave Sim from November 2018, wherein Dave Sim reminisces on the passing of Stan Lee.

So, here in all it's TWO HOUR PLUS glory is the September 2020 Please Hold For Dave Sim. Normally when Dave Sim calls A Moment of Cerebus' Matt Dow, it gets broken up into many many videos on the Youtubes. But this month Matt managed to get it to work as a podcast, do here you go. Dave reads the questions he's answering, so I don't need to write them out here, right? 

(These will still end up as videos, for you guys who need to see them that way...)

Welcome to the first Please Hold For Dave Sim podcast. (Which has historically been posted as videos on the YouTube.) Unfortunately, the two fifty-five minute segments I recorded with Dave Sim are just blank audio files (literally, the waveform when I try to edit them is just a flat line...) so all that exists are these two clips.

In the first, Dave is talking about Batvark:PENIS, and the "Censored for Grandma" variant: Batvark:XXXXX. And which is rarer. (Dave had told me that PENIS was going to be the rarer version, but that was based on preliminary order data, and is no longer true.)

The second bit is from the end of the call, right before we hung up.

NEXT month I'll have the whole thing figured out and it'll go off without a hitch...