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[ghini]

I think Beaker and Deena will be interested in this, but maybe some of you will to.

Ever read Cerebus, the comic book? It was part Monty Python, part Conan, and park Aardvark.

Well, the creator, Dave Sim went through a nasty divorce and in the 90s the comic got strange. Sim began posting these bizarre rants about the evils of feminism and "creative male light" and the "emotional female void." He went kind of nutso.

The latest development is that he's found religion. He was an athiest for decades, but he apparently decided Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all the same, so now he practices a combo of all three.

Comments

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

how odd, i used to read cerebus....but yea, it did get a little strange so i dropped it.

[happyfunnorm.livejournal.com]

I always thought he was more like Groo

[mumpish.livejournal.com]

I loved Cerebus at first; I tore through the first four or five compilations. It was brilliant stuff; I gave up, finally, when Cerebus discovered he was hermaphroditic and went to the moon. I read some of his anti-feminist rants with great amusement, though. Interesting that he's going through another phase. Out of curiosity, did he ever finish Cerebus? DId anyone read it if he did?

[uglor.livejournal.com]

He finished. It ended with the death of Cerebus in issue 300 about a year or so ago.

[violin.livejournal.com]

It wrapped up. I seem to recall readership had declined by quite a lot at that point.

I read the first compilation, and just wasn't impressed. It was very hit or miss.

Dave Sim also convinced Alan Moore to do the self-publishing thing. So Moore, his then wife, and their then shared lover (near as I could suss out) started a self-publishing company. It tanked, Moore lost a ton of money, and his wife and the lover ran off together.

[happyfunnorm.livejournal.com]

I love happy endings

[quandry.livejournal.com]

I never read Cerebus. Well, I read a few pages of the first one once, at a friend's apartment, but then got distracted by drinking :)

Still, as for what I think of Dave Sim, and people like him... schizophrenia is an adult-onset disease. Sad but true. People can be brilliant, show amazing potential, and then their brains just flame out. The really terrible thing is that it's not their fault. As amusing as this kind of stuff is, I sort of feel sad watching it, and like a dirty bastard for thinking it's funny and passing it around.