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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Dave Sim: Some Recent Updates
:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/18/2007 06:05:00 AM Reading Dave Sim's blog is hard but occasionally enlightening, but not in the way you might think. Or maybe you might.
The blog is kind of weird: Sim isn't online (is, in fact seemingly characteristically suspicious of the interweb and computers) but sends (via fax?) typewritten entries to a fan who transcribes them on a computer. Each entry has lots of ads for Sim product and each begins with a long list of things about modern Canada that Sim finds hard to believe, like daycare subsidies and affirmative action. Hard to read unless I'm really bored.
There, that's out of the way. I had to do it to fulfill a Sim prophecy, from one of the following links,
"nothing good is said about CEREBUS or Dave Sim unless it is prefaced by at least three caveats to make sure that the listener is aware that the speaker is absolutely and unequivocally establishing from the outset that they couldn't be further apart from Dave Sim and his ideas if they had been shot out of a cannon in the other direction"
Some recent tidbits:
-Sim is apparently currently living off of art commissions and is concerned that an art collector named Brian Coppola may have too much influence over the market for his drawings
-Sim and Jeet Heer correspond about the need for a book collecting Sim's writings about comics, and how the two have different aesthetic preferences
-Sim talks about the upcoming Comic Eye anthology and provides an update on cartoonist Larry (Silent Invasion) Hancock, who is also apparently an accountant who specializes in helping out other cartoonists and creative types with their taxes
-Sim discusses Chester Brown's plans to edit Harold Gray's comic strip Little Orphan Annie into a graphic novel format by eliminating the redundancies of daily comic strip publishing, in a project for D+Q that may or may not involve Jeet Heer
-Labels: blogosphere, comics history, links, publishing
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