Neil Fein's Blog

I'm rewriting Hold Up The Wall, so the demo that's up there will soon go the way of all early demos. I'm banging my head against the ending.

Towards the goal of procrastinating finishing this damn song, I've rearranged my desk at home. All papers and discs have either been organized, put to the side (I have a drafting table that's really just a filing cabinet without the filing or the cabinet), or shredded. All I lack is some sort of platforms to put the monitor speakers on, about 4" high, and I'll be happy.

Oh yeah... I called Aardvark-Vanaheim, the publishers of Cerebus^[1], on their order line. I asked about the availability of the final phonebook, and they told me it'll be out in (cross your fingers) June if all goes well. But the neat part was the guy answering the phone was Dave Sim himself. His reputation as a nasty misogynist is quite unwarranted, or at least not apparent; he was quite pleasant to speak to.

Cerebus 300, an essay by that guy who does Bob the Angry Flower.

"Holy crap, this is one big comic."
--Stephen Notley

^[1] Substantiated rumor time: Mr. Sim is, according to Gerhard, quite the technophobe, and consequently there's no direct weblink. Do a search at the Cerebus Yahoo group/mailing list thing -- watch out for spoilers! -- and you'll find the post I'm talking about. My theory is that he's been unwilling to let the unfolding phenomenon of the Internet distract him from finishing the 20-something year, 300-issue run of Cerebus. Irregardless, this site is the most comprehensive I've found. Don't let the apparent cobwebbiness of the front page fool you, keep digging.