Dave Sim
Dave Sim at home in Kitchener on December 15, 2003, shortly before finishing work on Cerebus. Photograph by Dave Fisher.
Born:	May 17, 1956 Hamilton, Ontario
Occupation:	Writer, Cartoonist
Nationality:	Canadian
Writing period:	1970s—present
Genres:	Political satire, fantasy
Website:	http://www.cerebusart.com/

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Early life

Sim was born in Hamilton^[1] and moved to Kitchener with his family when he was two. His father was a factory supervisor and his mother a secretary. He has an older sister named Sheila. Motto: Ex industria prosperitas (Latin: Prosperity through industry) Location of Kitchener in the Waterloo Region Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario  - Mayor Carl Zehr Area    - City km²  - Land 136. ...

He was interested in comics from an early age and dropped out of high school to pursue a career in the field. The only 'real' job he ever held was working as an employee at Now and Then Books.

He published a fanzine called The Now and Then Times (financed by Harry Kremer, the owner of the comic book store after which the newsletter was named) and did work for such other fanzines as John Balge's Comic Art News and Reviews and Gene Day's Dark Fantasy and National Advisor. Sim often interviewed professional comics artists such as Barry Windsor-Smith, Harvey Kurtzman and Neal Adams. A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ... Howard Eugene Day (born 1951; died 23 September 1982) was a Canadian comic book artist best known for Marvel Comics Master of Kung Fu and its Star Wars licensed series. ... Unity #0 for Valiant Comics cover by Barry Windsor-Smith // Biography Barry Windsor-Smith (formerly known as Barry Smith), born 1949 in Forest Gate, London, is a British cartoonist, comics-author, and painter best known for his work in American comic books. ... Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 - February 21, 1993) was a U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor. ... Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration. ...

Sim also created various other comics, including a newspaper comic strip called The Beavers which was published in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and wrote or drew stories published in anthologies such as Phantacea and Star*Reach. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... The Record, officially the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, is a daily newspaper published in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. ...

He has been caricatured as the DragonSlayer, or "earth-swine" character in Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Defined comic book series. Mage: The Hero Defined cover by Matt Wagner Grendel: Devil Tales cover by Matt Wagner Matt Wagner (born 1961) is an American comic book writer and artist best known as the creator of two irregular series, Mage and Grendel. ... Mage: The Hero Defined cover by Matt Wagner Mage is a semi-autobiographical superhero comic book written and illustrated by Matt Wagner. ...

Cerebus

In December 1977, Sim began publishing Cerebus, an initially bi-monthly, black-and-white comic book series. It began as a cross between Conan the Barbarian and Howard the Duck. Progressively, Sim shifted his narrative style from story arcs of a few issues' length to longer, far more complex "novels," beginning with the storyline known as High Society. The prominent sword and sorcery elements in the series up to that point were minimized as Sim concentrated more on politics and religion. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. ... Howard the Duck is a comic book fictional character created by Steve Gerber for Marvel Comics and featured in several comic book series of the same name about the misadventures of an ill-tempered humanoid duck trapped in a human dominated world. ... This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. ... Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ...

Cerebus was published through his company, Aardvark-Vanaheim which was run by his wife, Deni Loubert. The two met in 1976, married in 1979 and divorced after nearly five years. Aardvark-Vanaheim is a Canadian comic book company most known for publishing Dave Sims Cerebus the Aardvark and also the titles Journey by William Messener-Loebs, The Puma Blues by Michael Zulli, Flaming Carrot Comics by Bob Burden, Jim Valentinos normalman and Neil the Horse. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ...

In 1979, Sim was admitted to Kitchener General Hospital by his wife and mother after several days of taking LSD [1]. He has stated in his Getting Riel [2] dialogue with Chester Brown that he was "diagnosed as a borderline schizophrenic." During his convalescence, Sim hit upon the idea of making Cerebus into a 300-issue series, something that had never been done in Western comics with the same artist and writer. For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Grand River Hospital is a group of affiliated medical facilities in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph area in southwestern Ontario. ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960) is a Canadian independent cartoonist. ... Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion. ...

Sim continued to chronicle the life of Cerebus with the story arc Church & State.

In the 1980s, when Cerebus was a large independent-comics success, Sim did much travelling to promote the series, which was selling at least 30,000 copies an issue at its height. In 1984 Gerhard became his collaborator and handled the background drawings in the series. Aardvark-Vanaheim, managed by Loubert, began publishing other comics besides Cerebus, such as William Messner-Loebs' Journey and Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot. After Sim and Loubert's separation, Loubert started Renegade Press, which assumed publishing duties for all non-Cerebus Aardvark-Vanaheim titles. Sim completed the Cerebus series on schedule in March, 2004. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gerhard is the professional name of a Canadian comics artist known for the elaborately detailed background drawings in Dave Sims series Cerebus the Aardvark, on which he has worked since that comics 65th issue. ... William Messner-Loebs (known informally as Bill Loebs) is a Michigan comic book writer and artist. ... Journey can refer to: Journey (band), an American rock band. ... Bob Burden is the creator of The Flaming Carrot. Categories: Eisner Award winners | Comics creator stubs ... Flaming Carrot Comics is a surrealist comic book by Bob Burden between 1979 and 1993. ... Renegade Press was an originally Canadian based comic book company that operated from 1984 to 1988, founded by Deni Loubert. ...

Creators' Rights

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Sim used his sales leverage from Cerebus to act as a major proponent and advocate of creator's rights and self-publishing. Sim was instrumental in the fight for creators' rights. He helped write the Creators' Bill of Rights along with Scott McCloud and Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In addition to speaking on these topics at comic book conventions (as in his 1993 PRO/con speech[3]), Sim also published the seminal The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing in 1997, which instructed readers on the ins and outs of how to successfully self publish their own comics. Sim often promoted other creators' fledgling work in the back pages of Cerebus. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Sales, or the activity of selling, forms an integral part of commercial activity. ... Leverage (or gearing) is using given resources in such a way that the potential positive or negative outcome is magnified. ... Self-publishing is the publishing of books or other media by those who have written them. ... The cartoon Scott McCloud as he appears when narrating his own works such as Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. ... A fan convention, or con, is an event in which the fans of a particular TV show, comic book, or actor, or an entire style of entertainment such as science fiction or anime, gather together to meet famous personalities (and each other) face-to-face. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Feminism controversy

In the course of writing Cerebus, Sim expressed views contrary to feminism, modern materialism, and leftist politics. Sim chose to make his views on gender public in issue No. 186 of Cerebus, in a text piece as part of the story arc Reads (one of four books in the larger Mothers & Daughters arc), using the pseudonym Viktor Davis. [4] The piece categorized humanity into metaphorical lights, which tended to reside in biological men, and voids, which tended to be in biological women. Feminism is a collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies largely motivated by or concerned with the liberation of women. ... In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ...

These views caused major controversy in the comic book industry and among his readership, resulting in a substantial decline in sales. In 1995, issue No. 174 of The Comics Journal featured a Bill Willingham caricature of Sim on one of the covers, bearing the title Dave Sim: Misogynist Guru of Self-Publishers. Inside was a lengthy article written by Jonathan Hagey and Kim Thompson about responses to Sim’s piece. The article published responses from comics creators such as Alan Moore, Canadian Gregory Gallant (better known by his pen name Seth), Rick Veitch, Steve Bissette and Sim’s friend (and fellow Canadian) Chester Brown. The responses ranged from anger to a belief that Sim was joking. The article also included a short interview with Sim’s ex-wife, wherein she described the essay as evidence of Sim being "very scared".^{[citation needed]} The article was accompanied by an illustration depicting Sim as a Nazi German concentration camp warden, standing in front of a gate with the name of his publishing company on the top. Piles of emaciated bodies lay within. Sim refers to this as the “Dave Sim is a Nazi” issue of The Comics Journal.^{[citation needed]} Look up Controversy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Comics Journal is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books and strips. ... Bill Willingham (born December 1956 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American writer and artist of comic books. ... Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. ... Gregory Gallant Birth name of canadian cartoonist Seth (cartoonist) ... Seth or Shet (Hebrew: שֵׁת, Standard Å et, Tiberian ; Arabic: شيث Shith or Shiyth; Placed; appointed), in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, is the third listed son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel and is the only other son mentioned by name. ... Rick Veitch is an American comic book artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics. ... Stephen R. Bissette (also known as Steve Bissette) is a comics artist and publisher best known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC comic Swamp Thing in the 1980s. ... Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960) is a Canadian independent cartoonist. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ...

In 2001, Sim published another essay called "Tangent" [5] in Cerebus No. 265, (April 2001). In it, Sim furthers the themes from Reads, describing the veering-off course (or tangent) he contends western society has taken due to the widespread acceptance and proliferation of feminism, beginning in 1970. The Comics Journal posted the full essay on its website, although a short introduction by staff distanced the Journal from the ideas therein, calling them among other things "nutty and loathsome." 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For alternative meanings for The West in the United States, see the U.S. West and American West. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

As a result of the essay, the site's message board filled with many opposing responses to Sim’s arguments. The next issue of the journal included a rebuttal to the first Tangent by Ruthie Penmark, a pseudonym for Anne Elizabeth Moore, one of the Journal's editors. Several years later, in TCJ issue #263, the Journal devoted a section to discussing Cerebus. In it was a reprint of a 'zine essay by Renee Stephen, written in 2001 about the Tangents, titled Masculinity's Last Hope, or Creepily Paranoid Misogynist? : An Open Letter to Dave Sim [6] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Sim and The Comics Journal

Dave Sim and Gary Groth, editor-in-chief of The Comics Journal, have enjoyed a combative relationship over the years. Groth and Thompson are co-owners of Fantagraphics Books, which publishes such high-profile creators as Daniel Clowes, Peter Bagge, and Chris Ware. The magazine was the first to publish a review of the first dozen or so issues of Cerebus, by Kim Thompson in 1979. Gary Groth (born 1954) is an American comic book publisher, critic, editor in chief of the Comics Journal and co-founder of Fantagraphics Books. ... The Comics Journal is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books and strips. ... Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. ... Daniel Clowes The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ... Peter Bagge is an American comics artist and creator of Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop. ... The cover to the collected edition of Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the Acme Novelty Library, and a graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. ...

Early in the 1990s, Groth took issue with Sim’s stance of self-publishing as the best option for creators, and began to disseminate the view that it was best to work for a publisher, mentioning Ivan Boesky's address to the University of California's commencement ceremony in May 1986 where Boesky informed his audience that "greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." Sim took this as Groth implying that the motivation for self-publishing is greed, whereas his belief was that self-publishing was the best option for for reasons of principle: creative autonomy and ownership of one's own creations. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Ivan Frederick Boesky (born March 6, 1937, in Detroit) was notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s. ...

In 2000, Groth and Thompson published "The Comics Journal's 100 Greatest Comics of All Time", a list selected by its writers, which some commentators noted appeared biased towards Fantagraphics titles and seemed to pointedly omit Cerebus. The Comics Journal is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books and strips. ...

Later, on a panel at the San Diego Comic Con Groth indicted Sim in a "Nuremberg-style tribunal designed to bring to light the most deserving criminals who had over the past decade and longer besmirched the good name of the comics art and industry"[7] Sim was charged with boosting the speculation boom in the comics market in 1992, early boostering of Image Comics, making a "misogynist rant", and boostering self-publishers at their expense, this last wherein Groth accused Sim of promoting self-publishing to the point of possibly bankrupting thousands of self-publishers. Comic-Con International is an annual comic book convention held in San Diego, California. ... Image Comics Logo Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. ...

Sim was interviewed by Tom Spurgeon for the magazine in 1996, the second part of which interview was published eight issues after the first, which was interpreted by Sim as a slight. Despite this adversarial relationship over the years, Groth telephoned Sim to congratulate him upon the completion of his share of Cerebus in December 2003, and later published an issue of the Journal featuring a critical roundtable on Cerebus. Tom Spurgeon is an American writer and editor. ...

Modern Sim

Post-Cerebus Sim still lives in Kitchener. He is ostensibly retired, however he still provides occasional guest work, goes to conventions and regularly attends city council meetings and provides interviews and art for a Texas-based magazine called Following Cerebus and reports on Kitchener politics for a local magazine called Versus. Following a religious conversion from atheist secular humanism to an unusual and non-mainstream monotheism of the Abrahamic religions which occurred upon his reading of the Bible and the Qur'an beginning in December 1996, he lives a lifestyle of fasting, celibacy, prayer and alms-giving and considers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures to be equally valid as the Word of God. Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the converts previous beliefs; in some cultures (e. ... The 18th-century French author Baron dHolbach was one of the first self-described atheists. ... Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as warrants of moral reflection and decision-making. ... In theology, monotheism (Greek μόνος(monos) = single and θεός(theos) = God) is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. ... map showing the prevalence of Abrahamic (purple) and Dharmic (yellow) religions in each country. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... The Qurān [1] (Arabic: ‎, literally the recitation; also called ‎ The Noble Qurān; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and Al-Quran) is the central religious text of Islam. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and/or drink, for a period of time. ... Celibacy refers either to being unmarried or to sexual abstinence. ... Mary Magdalene in prayer. ... Alms Bag taken from some Tapestry in Orleans, Fifteenth Century. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... // Most religions have religious texts they view as sacred. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...

As of 2006, Sim is working on the Cerebus Archive Project, an online searchable database of Cerebus materials. Sim is also in the process of reading the gospels and The Book of Revelation out of Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort's 1881 interlinear Greek to English translation of The New Testament semi-weekly and taking notes. At first he may have planned to publish his commentary on it. He inquired whether Chester Brown would be interested in letting him use his unpublished artwork for the Gospel of Mark from his unfinished gospel project (only the Gospel of Matthew has been finished and published so far) in conjunction with the book but at last mention Brown hadn't said yes or no. Recently Sim said he may make his notes available as a free print-on-demand book on the internet. This project was discussed in Collected Letters: 2004, and in recent letters between Sim and his readers. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... For other uses of the word Archive, see Archive (disambiguation) Archives refers to a collection of records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept. ... Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ... The term or expression database originated within the computer industry. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... Visions of John of Patmos, as depicted in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. ... Brooke Foss Westcott (January 12, 1825–July 27, 1901) was an English churchman and theologian, Bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death. ... Fenton John Anthony Hort (April 23, 1828 - November 30, 1892) was an English theologian. ... The term interlinear, literally between lines, refers to additional text inserted between the main lines of text in a written work. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... Biblical exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσθαι to lead out) is an extensive and critical interpretation of the Bible. ... The Gospel of Mark, ascribed to Mark the Evangelist, is traditionally the second Gospel of the New Testament. ... The Gospel of Matthew (literally, according to Matthew; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ...

Sim is currently conducting public readings of the 1611 King James Bible at a small theatre in Kitchener in order to raise money for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. He has booked various Sundays at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener until early 2007. His stated intention is to read the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qu'ran. All of these readings have been taped and are being sold on ebay to raise money for the foodbank. This project was discussed in Collected Letters: 2004 (ISBN 0-919359-23-X) and in recent letters between Dave and his readers. This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...

Once the Cerebus Archiving Project is done he may also plan to have similar or the same readings on a Kitchener community channel or on Public access television channels. Previously he had considered asking retailers to show a planned taped or filmed Cerebus mini-documentary in their stores or on one of their local Broadcast television system channels as an infomercial, but now may also ask them to show it on their public access television channels. This project was discussed in part in Collected Letters: 2004 (ISBN 0-919359-23-X) and in part in recent letters between Dave and a reader. Community Channel Community Channel broadcasts across the UK on digital cable (NTL and Telewest) and digital terrestrial television (Freeview), and also both the UK and Republic of Ireland on digital satellite television (Sky). ... Look up public access television in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... There are several broadcast television systems in use in the world today. ... Infomercials are television commercials that run as long as a typical television program (roughly thirty minutes or an hour). ...

He is also working with Win-Mill Productions on the comic-sized magazine Following Cerebus [8], writing for local publications and doing work for creators, including Howard M. Shum's Gun Fu and Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Shannon Wheeler is the creator Too Much Coffee Man. ... Too Much Coffee Man is a satirical comic strip, created by Shannon Wheeler. ...

Sim has made arrangements for the copyright of Cerebus to fall into the public domain following the deaths of Gerhard and himself. Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

Siu Ta, So Far

Beginning in 2006, Sim began publishing his follow up to Cerebus, an on-line comic book biography of Canadian actress Siu Ta titled Siu Ta, So Far found at http://www.urge2film.com/index.php?go=12 Cerebus the Aardvark (or simply Cerebus) was an ambitious monthly independent comic book begun by Canadian artist Dave Sim in 1977, and running for 300 issues and 6,000 pages, through March 2004. ... Siu Ta is an actress and independent short film producer based in Toronto, Canada. ...

Awards

His work has won him a good deal of recognition in the comics industry. Along with being nominated for many awards, Dave has won several awards for his work on Cerebus:

• Eisner Award: Best Graphic Album: Reprint, 1994, for Cerebus: Flight by Dave Sim and Gerhard (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
• Harvey Award: Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist), 1992, Dave Sim, for Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim) and Best Letterer, 2004, Dave Sim, for Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
• Ignatz Awards: Outstanding Artist, 1998, Dave Sim, Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
• Kirby Award: Best Black & White Series, 1987 and 1985, Cerebus by Dave Sim (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
• Shuster Awards: Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Achievement, 2005, Dave Sim and Gerhard for completing Cerebus in 2004 and Canadian comics Hall of Fame, 2006, Dave Sim, Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
• Squiddy Awards: Best Creative Team, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 (all for the team of Dave Sim and Gerhard); Best Letterer, 2001.

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Day Prize

In 2001, Sim and Gerhard founded the Howard E. Day Prize recognizing excellence in self-publishing in memorial of Sim's mentor Gene Day. Sim selects a Short List of nominees from the applicant pool, then names the annual winner. 2003 winner Owly: The Way Home by Andy Runton Created by comic-book writer-artist-publisher Dave Sim and his collaborator, Gerhard, in memory of Sims late mentor and self-publishing pioneer Gene Day (née Howard Eugene Day), the Howard E. Day Prize is awarded yearly for oustanding... Howard Eugene Day (born 1951; died 23 September 1982) was a Canadian comic book artist best known for Marvel Comics Master of Kung Fu and its Star Wars licensed series. ...

Collections of Sim's writing

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (ISSN 0712-7774) collects selections from Sim's 'Notes from the President' column that dealt with self-publishing, the Pro/Con speech from 1993, and more.

Collected Letters: 2004 (ISBN 0-919359-23-X) collects Sim's responses to readers' letters (the original letters are not included) after the publication of Cerebus #300.

See also

• Cerebus the Aardvark
• Diamondback (game)

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External links

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Dave Sim

• Art of Dave Sim Has an extensive collection of Dave Sim artwork.
• Cerebus Fangirl Site The Artists Page [9] contain many of Sim's essays and interviews including "Tangent" the complete text from Sim's essay on women and feminism [10]. The Checklist for Dave [11] has a list of non-Cerebus Dave Sim work.
• Cerebus Art This is Dave and Gerhard's page for auctioning original Cerebus art, signed issues and limited edition prints.
• Cerebus The Aardvark Fan site featuring summaries, artwork, an interactive world map, etc.
• Interview by Tasha Robinson at The Onion A.V. Club
• Cerebus Newsgroup on Yahoo A newsgroup with over 900 members and frequent posts.
• Dave Sim's blogandmail copies of Dave Sim's daily "blog" postings on the Cerebus Yahoo group. Atom Site Feed linked.
• The Merged Void A compilation of Dave Sim's writings on women.

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References

1. ^ www.sfcrowsnest.com Biography: Dave Sim. Retrieved on 2007-01-18.