“Depraved, politically incorrect, action-filled humour the way you like it.”
-Dave Sim on The Possum
Yesterday on Dave Sim’s Blog and Mail, Dave Sim (creator of Cerebus!) wrote a really nice review of The Possum! I’m really quite stoked about this.
I had met Dave Sim at the Paradise Con in Toronto, and nervously handed him the first 2 issues of The Possum. Me being a longtime Cerebus fan, I take a lot of inspiration from his comics, and what he has done in the comic industry. Mike and myself had a really nice chat with Dave after the show on Saturday, as everyone was packing up. He’s such a wealth of knowledge about comic books, and he was a really, really nice guy. I had met him only once before when I was about 15 years old, when Jeff Smith and Dave were doing a signing at the Silver Snail in Toronto. Jeff Smith had just started Bone at that time (I think he was on issue #5) and Dave did a cool Cerebus head sketch in my Cerebus phone book. I didn’t have much to say to him then, but even still, he took the time to have a little chat with us and answer all of our questions.
Anyways, quit reading this, and go read Dave Sim’s review of Cerebus here!: Dave Sim’s blogandmail #353 (august 30, 2007)
Next up?: The conclusion of the Fan Expo report. (Free sketch photos from Sunday)
Hey Blair, awesome review by a legend!
That’s totally awesome Blair, good for you, it’s well deserved!
I thought this part was interesting where Dave commented:
He’s really got that Chester Gould forward momentum thing nailed.
Refering to an earlier Blog and Mail entry (#334 August 11th, 2007) where Dave commented:
There was something that Chester Gould understood about the comics medium that I don’t think anyone else has really clued into to the same extent that he did. The whole thing is forward momentum. It is technically considered to be “bad comics” to take up half a panel with a caption that stiltedly describes everything that is going on. Chester Gould didn’t think that was “bad comics”. Just the opposite. If the gangster threatens to throw the bomb in one panel and you explain what Pat Patton is about to do and how Dick Tracy signals him in the caption in the next panel and then show Pat shooting the bomb out of the guy’s hand and into the pickle brine in the following panel…Chester Gould is saying, that’s GOOD comics. Set up, explanation, gunshot “OW!”. The reader wants to see the bad guy get shot in the hand so the sooner you can get him shot in the hand, the better your comics are. If you can get from point A to point C with one long-winded caption, that’s better than using two or three panels to get there.
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