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The Guardian exclusively reveals today that Lenny Henry "loves comics and has been reading the Cerebus books sine 1977. Dave Sim came to my birthday party as a surprise once." Finally, the meeting of the minds.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

My favourite Sim-related story of last year.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

“Hmm,” Chris said. “I remember his girlfriend left him in the Eighties and he really took that hard.”

“Yes,” I said, “if you read his comics, you can sort of get that impression.”

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

If only Dave and Deni's firsthand accounts both at the time and subsequently supported this theory, that guy would be insightful!

Lots of Sim/Henry references in Collected Letters 2004, incidentally.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

my friend MH said: "L.henrys female void = larger than average"

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

one is beginning to kind of suspect cerebus was originally plotted by his wife

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

― c(''c) (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Operation Enduring Dave Sim

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 2 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/paulisaacs/Simcopy.jpg

Convincing!

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Superb.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

he looks face-lifted.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

I have it on very good authority (some bloke that worked in the comic shop years ago) that he had to have reconstructive surgery on his nose in the eighties because of too much coke.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Comic Shop Guy is good authority?

If it's true, that makes 6000 on-schedule pages an even more amazing feat.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

That's weird, I totally meant to write 'very dubious authority'. I suspect it's bullshit.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Monday, 3 April 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

DOUG WOLK I JUST READ DAVE SIM SAY THAT YOU'RE A PRETEND FEMINIST

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

This is his response in Following Cerebus to the article I did in The Believer? Yeah. Sigh.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

yah i can copy it if you want? wtf is that book anyway i just found it randomly at a shop. its just a bunch of people kissing his ass?

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

sometimes it's a fascinating discussion about indie comics/comic writing. but mostly asskissery.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

No, no, I've got a copy already, thanks...

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

I kind of jealous you've been hated on by Sim ('pretend feminist' - that's bad right?). Probably means you're sane.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm dissed by Sim somehwere in his collected mentallism book, it's quite easy Joe -- you should try too

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

He calls me a "confirmed atheist" and imagines me agonizing over which wine to order with dinner at delicate snobbish Portland restaurants, both of which are pretty funny to anyone who knows me.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

cuz we know you're a Carlo Rossi man.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

To be honest, there was no slur specifically directed at me, it was more of a generalised "journalist are untrustworthy, lying scum -- why would i, dave sim, need publicity?" type-comment that prefaced his (faxed) answers to my questions.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Wait, if Sim thinks that Douglas is a fake feminist, does this imply that on some level he thinks Douglas is just like him, but won't admit it in public or something? What's the context?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to explain, because he's grasping so hard for something to be indignant about, but I gather that he doesn't see how somebody can be both an admirer of his work and not at all down with his agenda.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Dave is fascinating, but it's sort of circuitous and pointless (albeit fascinating) to wonder about what his "feelings" are. You need a ball of string to find your way back out.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

i think that sim was saying that doug couldnt get his complimentary article PUBLISHED unless he pretended he was a feminist!!

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Mr Sim against the whole idea of 'feelings' as opposed to MANLY MANLY THORTS?

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70797

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

WTF WHY IS EVERYONE IN THAT THREAD LIKE "WOAH I WISH I COULD GO TO THAT" WTF?!?!?

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Because it's on Newsarama, the house of empty platitudes.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

DAVE SIM TO READ INGREDIENTS LIST FROM EVERY FOOD PRODUCT IN HIS KITCHEN

I am so totally there, dude.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I hope he reads out Cerebus 289/290 instead.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I like "No Preaching, just the scripture."

But, uh, Dave is not the most engrossing of live speakers.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Dave Sim fanboys in having douchebaggy taste non-shocker

― Dan (Come On Now) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Are you saying those bible passages are douchebaggy choices or that Dave Sim is himself douchebaggy (I keep thinking douchebuggy, like a dunebuggy only for douches instead of dunes) or merely that, oh, I give up.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I am saying that if you are chomping at the bit to go see Dave Sim read Bible passages, you might have the tastes of a douchebag.

― Dan (For Douches Instead Of Dunes????) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Did you mean: douchebaggery

Your search - douchebuggy - did not match any documents

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

To the Douchebuggy, BidetBoy!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

test test

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps a taste FOR douchebags.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps a taste FOR douchebags.

That's called douchebuggery

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

But, uh, Dave is not the most engrossing of live speakers.

The weirdest things you run across on YouTube

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 August 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Um... Judenhass... um... wow.

― aldo, Monday, 21 April 2008 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

EXPLAIN PLZ

― David R., Monday, 21 April 2008 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

also, so not googling "Judenhass"

― HI DERE, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Judenhass is Dave's SUPER SECRET PROJECT #1 which is written by DAVE-THE-WANNABE-JEW rather than DAVE-THE-JEW-HATER and is a series of hyper-realistic (think Raymond school) images of Jews in the concentration camps backed out by text from world leaders (the Americans come out particularly badly in the WWII era) and 'great' thinkers through history about how the Jews are a blight on civilisation.

It's a very, very difficult work to read and, in fact, to critique. I think everyone should read it, but I can't (for the moment) think of a reason why.

― aldo, Monday, 21 April 2008 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think everyone should read it

I have literally zero desire to do so.

― chap, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4d0PzWGm_U
dang we're all getting old huh

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:05 (six years ago)

Yikes

To be fair dave’s hairline is better than mine now

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 00:01 (six years ago)

one month passes...

welp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABYiUhM4wA

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:08 (six years ago)

there's

there's a lot going on there

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:12 (six years ago)

not really a fan of any of it, honestly

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:13 (six years ago)

he's completely insane.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:29 (six years ago)

i mean i guess it's an achievement of some kind that he keeps managing to surprise me at this stage stage of batshittery

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:33 (six years ago)

his crooner look made me think of
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnetstorage.metrolyrics.com%2Falbums%2F8560425jpg.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:53 (six years ago)

nice to see you in the dave sim batshittery thread, senator romney

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:00 (six years ago)

well, I've always been fascinated both by his exquisite lines and inventive layouts as well as his profound respect for traditional gender roles and deep faith in a cruel and inscrutable Father-God.

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:06 (six years ago)

and who among us can say they haven't chuckled at his comical portrayals of the struggle against the dark forces of modern feminism.

― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:10 (six years ago)

pvmic

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:10 (six years ago)

He's completely lost touch of what literally anyone in the world besides him finds relevant, interesting, or indeed comprehensible.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:42 (six years ago)

OTOH his singing voice is marginally better than expected.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:43 (six years ago)

fake fan. Dave didn't "always" have a belief, let alone a deep faith, in God

the senator has lost my vote, I'm afraid to say

― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:47 (six years ago)

The recommended videos when you check out that Youtube Dave Sim video are a trip or at the edge of the slide.

It is a strange and creepy time.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 03:25 (six years ago)

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