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Comment on Fuck it, I’ll start my own petition by Christopher Jardine

Christopher Jardine — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:42:53 +0000

Cerebus is very good. As for the petition, I disagree. Please attempt a degree of calm and then think a little. I for one do not see hatred or any mistreatment of women. Strongly held, critical opinions of feminism- yep, okay.

But a strongly held opinion does not equal hatred. Or does a politician basing a campaign around removing what he sees as the injustice of poverty hate the wealthy? I won’t bore with an endless list of examples. I fear the chances are near everyone is just going to say “You must be a misogynist too.” and then shut their ears (and minds?)

Comment on There really is no accounting for taste by Kelvin

Kelvin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:33:22 +0000

Regardless of how you feel about the recoloring, it was Dave’s choice and there would never have been any new Rocketeer collections if that key stipulation was not met- this includes The Artist Edition. As Laura Martin was and remains one of the top paid colorists in comics, IDW had to pay a pretty hefty tab to have this done.
Astute readers will notice that Laura’s first coloring over Dave’s work was actually published in Brush With Passion at the end of 2008. Dave had originally wanted her to recolor about a dozen images, but she was only able to work two into her schedule. Those two images are the reason she was his first choice for recoloring The Rocketeer.

Comment on Yoohoo sends Dave Sim a sign (UPDATED with mea culpa) by John Roberson

John Roberson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:56:07 +0000

PS And this is why in the CEREBUS GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING(before scanners were a thing) he said to always, always hold onto the films.

Comment on Yoohoo sends Dave Sim a sign (UPDATED with mea culpa) by John Roberson

John Roberson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:48:01 +0000

No, man, he sold all the originals long, long ago. The negatives are all that was left. Not just for this but for continuing to print the book. More here:
http://jlroberson.blogspot.com/2012/08/high-society-negatives-by-dave-sim.html
So this is a horrible thing for anyone who cares not just about CEREBUS(and again, this is from the period EVERYONE agrees was great) but art and comics in general. The best that can be done now is printing from second-generation. That’s it. And given the intricacy of much of the art–well. It makes one sick to really ponder it.
Nevertheless, thank you for seeing sense.

Comment on Yoohoo sends Dave Sim a sign (UPDATED with mea culpa) by Jones, one of the Jones boys

Jones, one of the Jones boys — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:02:30 +0000

You’re right, John, it is a revolting sentiment, and I am ashamed of myself. I genuinely mean that, and I meant it when I said it’s a real shame — I repeatedly sing the praise of Cerebus (although I rate the later work much, much, much higher than High Society).

But this was genuinely what I immediately thought of. Sim’s metaphysical/religious beliefs are one of the interesting parts of his character and work (and wasn’t he seeing signs well before his conversion?).

Confession: I don’t know just how serious a blow this is. He still has the original art, right, so he can make more negatives? Or is this way worse than that?

Comment on Yoohoo sends Dave Sim a sign (UPDATED with mea culpa) by John Roberson

John Roberson — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:54:32 +0000

What a disgusting thing to say. This is the best part of his life’s work and it’s from long before any of that. You should be ashamed.

Comment on There really is no accounting for taste by Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:16:44 +0000

I agree with your general point about the potential horrors of recolouring, but I got ‘The Rocketeer: An Album’ (Eclipse, ISBN: 0-913035-06-8) back in the early 90′s at the tender age of 10 or 11 and the “WOW” Betty page is coloured exactly like the recoloured version you mention above. The whole album is coloured in a similar fashion. I fell in love with it as a kid and I still love it now. Each to their own, I guess.

Comment on There really is no accounting for taste by James

James — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:12:37 +0000

Actually, the thick black holding lines in comics were developed to contain the badly registered color done on massive newsprint runs. So when modern perfectly registered color is applied to that, it most often looks like overkill, even if the colorists don’t do fake airbrushly schlock coloring such as that done by most of the digital technicians nowadays, that would look more appropriate on the sides of vans with Yes and Uriah Heep blasting from the speakers mounted over the waterbed in the back.