At Freaky Triggers, Tom Ewing concludes a massive project, reading and pondering Dave Sim’s Cerebus. “In writing these posts, I’ve written about Cerebus as it’s legally available now: organised by phonebook collections. I’ve separated the 6000 pages of work from the many extra thousands of backmatter, even ignoring the notes Sim began to add to make sure readers Got The Point about Mary Hemingway being a bitch or whatever. But to a great extent this method is a lie. As I keep saying, the work is the work, but it was monthly work, deep in conversation – and also often shallow in conversation – with the rest of the comics market, with the retailers, distributors and critics who held sway in it, and with the fellow creators making their way through it.”

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