Cerebus by Dave Sim
So Cerebus. Lets get one thing out of the way first. Dave Sim. Dave Sim is crazy. Not wacky, not eccentric. Bug-fuck, rat-shit, random animal-random swear CRAZY. This is unarguable to anyone who’s read his non-comics writings. Well its arguable, and lots of people DO, but they’re really, really wrong. Misogynist + Crazy = Dave Sim. Simple fact. Which doesn’t change how really fucking good much of Cerebus is…
What started as a funny animal parody of Conan morphed into a satire on comics and then into just lots of weird philosophy, action, humor, celebrity cameos and more. Three hundred issues of it. Some of it is actually pretty terrible, having too much of the “real-world” Sim in it. Other stuff is just full-on awesome. Volume 1 here is the first 25 issues and its full of parody, barbarians, the greatest use of a fake Groucho Marx ever, violence, artists, weird women, weirder men, the Roach and more…
So there you go. Cerebus. Mostly excellent comic written by a really crazy person…
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1 The Pretentious Fool // May 3, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I have to agree 100%. The early books were awesome, then in the middle he experimented too much with prose and his own crazy. By the end, it was good again. Impressive that he accomplished a 300 issue series all written and drawn by the same guy.
I think his Church & State storyline (which was 2 volumes collected) was by far the best. That was the high point for me.
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