From: jester@ihlpl.att.com (Enrique Conty)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: The Cerebus Checklist
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:22:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsl.1992Aug14.182215.14266
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
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People have been asking for this for some time now.  It seems that the
new list owner has disappeared from the 'Net, so I pulled out an old
copy.

Share and Enjoy!

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This is a listing of all the known official appearances of Cerebus the
Aardvark.  Also included are Aardvark-related merchandise and any other
stuff I decided to throw in.  Corrections and additions are encouraged
(nay, demanded!!)

And without further ado, we present:

			     THE CEREBUS CHECKLIST
			     =====================

				   Written by
			  THE REC.ARTS.COMICS GESTALT

				   Edited by
				    E. Conty

AARDVARK-VANAHEIM COMIC BOOKS:

- CEREBUS 1-current.  A 300-issue limited series.  Backgrounds by Gerhard.
	Foregrounds, plotting, scripting, damn fine lettering, editing and
	publishing by Dave Sim.
	NOTE:  Cerebus #112-113 will not be reprinted.

- CEREBUS phonebooks.  Available through Aardvark-Vanaheim Press (see the back
	inside cover of any issue of CEREBUS).  These are HUGE trade
	paperbacks, costing about $25-$30 dollars each.
	CEREBUS - reprints stories from CEREBUS 1-25
		(a.k.a. Cerebus the Barbarian).
	HIGH SOCIETY - reprints story from CEREBUS 26-50.
	CHURCH & STATE I - reprints story from CEREBUS 52-80.
	Church & STATE II - reprints story from CEREBUS 81-111.
	JAKA'S STORY - reprints story from CEREBUS 114-136, and the Epilogue
		from 138.
	MELMOTH - reprints story from CEREBUS 139-150(?)

- CEREBUS BIWEEKLY 1-25.  Reprint Cerebus the Barbarian (including the
	cover, editorial and letters page).

- CEREBUS BIWEEKLY: NOVEMBER 24, 1989 (no issue number).  Also known as
	CEREBUS BIWEEKLY #26.  Reprints "Magicking" and "Silverspoon" from
	Swords of Cerebus #4 (see below).

- CEREBUS: HIGH SOCIETY 1-25.  Reprint CEREBUS 26-50, same format as CEREBUS
	BIWEEKLY.

- CEREBUS: CHURCH & STATE.  After the first-ever reprint of CEREBUS #51 (a
	between-stories issue absent from the phonebooks), this series will
	reprint CHURCH & STATE in its entirety, in the same format as CEREBUS
	BIWEEKLY.

- SWORD OF CEREBUS 1-6.  Each issue reprinted four issues of Cerebus the
	Barbarian.  The following stories were backup stories in SOC.  Unless
	indicated, none of them have ever been reprinted.

	#1: "The Name of the Game is Diamondback" - Rules and 7 page story.
		Layouts and roughs by Marshall Rogers, everything else, Dave
		Sim.  Set during Cerebus #11, and tangentially referred to in
		Mind Game II (Leopold the Gambling Priest).

	#2: "The Morning After" - 6 pages, inks by Joe Rubinstein.  Cerebus
		curing his hangover.  Helps explain certain cryptic hangover
		references recurring throughout the series, but otherwise
		unimportant.

	#2: "Demonhorn" - 5 pages, Cerebus vs. a bored god.  A much less
		experienced Sim tries to write a story in verse.  Originally
		appeared in NUCLEUS #1.

	#3: "What Happened Between Issues 20 and 21" - 8 pages, parts done by
		Gene Day.  A conversation between Astoria and Sir Gerrick
		explaining just how did Cerebus get from Togith to Beduin (he
		was put in a freak show while drugged).

	#4: "Magicking" - 10 pages.  The ability of Estarcion aardvarks to act
		as magic focii is explained to Cerebus.  Reprinted in CEREBUS
		BIWEEKLY #26.

	#4: "Silverspoon" - 11 one-page strips.  Originally appeared in 11
		issues of THE BUYER'S GUIDE FOR COMIC FANDOM (now COMICS
		BUYER'S GUIDE), circa 1980.  First appearance of Lord Julius
		and his son, Prince Silverspoon (a parody of Prince Valiant).
		Sets the stage for the Palnu Trilogy of #'s 14-16.  Reprinted
		in CEREBUS BIWEEKLY #26.

	#5: "Cerebus Dreams" - 6 pages, by Barry Windsor-Smith with no input
		by Dave Sim, but with his full approval.  Cerebus dreaming,
		with a pesky chicken.
		Note:  The front and back covers of SOC 5 were also done by BWS.

	#6: "A Night On the Town" - 7 pages, by Dave & Ger.  A drunken Cerebus
		having fun with a lifeless friend (a frozen corpse, actually).
		Reprinted in Fantagraphics' THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE,
		Volume 1.

	#6 Supplement:  SOC #6 was supposed to reprint *5* issues, not just
		4 like all the others, so as to complete the Cerebus the 
		Barbarian arc.  But somebody screwed up and left the last
		story ("This Woman, This Thing") out of the original printing
		of the book.  So they printed a special Swords Supplement to
		#6, containing this story and an apology.  It's as thin as a
		normal comic, and has the same front and back cover as Swords
		6, with the notation 'Supplement' on it.  (Note:  The second
		and further printings of SOC #6 had all five issues).

- Other Cerebus backup stories.  A very few.  Except "Goat", they are not
	reprinted in the phonebooks.
	52: "ElfGuest" - Two of the elves from Richard and Wendi Pini's
		S&S epic ELFQUEST pop in, invite a blasted-drunk Cerebus
		to "do lunch" with them sometime, and pop back out.  Cerebus
		ambles off, murmuring something about "apricot brandy"...

- AARDVARK-VANAHEIM 3D - "Cerebus Dreams II", 4 pages.  This is the dream C
	describes to Bran in the "handwriting" issue.  Also, "The Bandit
	Moons", a 4Pg. Flaming Carrot piece (by Bob Burden, natch) that has
	several plot elements in common with the Carrot's guest appearance in
	Cerebus (no Cerebus here, though).

- CEREBUS JAM 1 - (mostly Young Cerebus).

- FLAMING CARROT #? - cameo where he says, "Jeepus the Sweeper? My Gawd."

- normalman #6 - Cover (by Valentino).
- normalman #10 - 2 pages by Sim of Cerebus discussing politics with a drunk
	normalman.


OTHER BOOKS:

- AARGH! - "An Untold Tale of the Secret Sacred Wars", a (slightly dubious)
	Wolveroach cameo.

- ANYTHING GOES #3 - Cerebus Cover by Neal Adams, parodying Adam's Armor
	character.  "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" - 3 pages of illustrated text
	by Sim.  The story of how Cerebus broke up with Michelle (the first
	one, not the countess).

- EPIC ILLUSTRATED (Marvel) - Cerebus in color!
	16: "Arnold the Isshurian" - A spoof of both Little Nemo and Conan.
	    Arnold was a minor character in High Society (a barbarian
	    mercenary).
	26: "His First Fifth" - 9 pgs of Dave 'n' Gerhard.  Cerebus' first
	    experience with alchohol.
	28: "A Friendly Reminder" - Cerebus's days as a tax collector.
	30: "Selling Insurance" - 2 pages.  Young Cerebus enters the
	    extortion trade.
	30: "The Girl Next Door" - 3 pages.  Young Cerebus getting his first
	    crush on a girl. The girl shows up in a dream sequence in C&S,
	    so this one is almost significant :-)
	32: "Ages of Cerebus"  A portfolio of 5 plates on 3 pages.  Cerebus the
	    Barbarian, Cerebus the Candidate, Young Cerebus, Most Holy, and
	    ..... Cerebus the Samurai ?!?!
 
- MIAMI MICE #4 - Similar to the Turtles appearance, in that DS writes, draws
	and letters Cerebus. He appears in 6 totally pointless panels, with a
	final thought-balloon reading "Giant talking _MICE_ now... Cerebus is
	getting sick of these crossover spells..."

- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 8 - crossover.  Cerebus is drawn by Dave Sim,
	everything else by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird.   Reprinted in the
	First Comics Graphic Novel TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, Vol III.

- THE TRUE NORTH #1 (benefit book) - cover
  THE TRUE NORTH I (benefit book) - cover.
  THE TRUE NORTH II (benefit book) - cover.

- 1987 AMAZING HEROES PREVIEW SPECIAL - cover (with Groo the Wanderer).


PORTFOLIOS:

- THE ANIMATED CEREBUS.  A bunch of Cerebus stories that were supposed to be
	part of an CEREBUS (animated movie?, cartoon show?) that never came
	into being.
	- A Well-Equipped Bar - 16 plates.
	- Add one Mummified Bat - 12 plates.  Cerebus studying under Magus
	    Doran (This is his only pictured appearance so far.)
	- His First Sword - 17 plates.

- THE SIX DEADLY SINS OF CEREBUS.  Quite difficult to find.  Though this
	doesn't tell any stories, as with THE ANIMATED CEREBUS, it does
	feature six fabulously detailed and humorous black & white plates.

- A plate in the F.O.O.G. (FRIENDS OF OLD GERBER) portfolio.  Cerebus and a
	Kirby-esque Howard the Duck tilting at a windmill that has a silhouette
	of a duck hanging by the neck from the vanes of the windmill.  Cerebus
	is dressed in High Society garb.

- An advertised but never released portfolio, THE FIRST FIFTH (not related to
	the EPIC ILLUSTRATED story) was supposed to contain one B&W print for
	every 10 of the first 60 issues of Cerebus, to celebrate the completion
	of the "first fifth" of the 300 issue series.


MISCELLANEA:

- TV broadcast of "The Making of 104".

- A Cerebus radio play.  An adaptation of the early issues of the comic.
  It was done as a segment of "Shockwave", an sf-oriented radio show broadcast
  on public radio station KFAI-FM of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  There had been a
  plan in the works at one point to issue the adaptations on cassette tape,
  but it never came to fruition.

- THE CEREBUS COMPANION - A guide to Estarcion, including important places,
	people, political and religious movements of the Aardvarkian Age.
	Published in a very limited edition by the author, Jerry Sweet (he
	reads rec.arts.comics and still has some copies left).  An electronic
	version is going to be made available by the author through anonymous
	FTP Real Soon Now (his words).

- Hand-made Cerebus the Aardvark doll.  (originally sold for $10-20 but now
	impossible to find at any price)

- Limited edition Cerebus poster.  (featuring the early cruder art of Sim)

- Poster of the cover of THE TRUE NORTH #1 (see above.)

- Official Cerebus Diamondback deck of playing cards (with instructions).

- Some Cerebus fan club materials.
	- At least 13 issues of the newsletter.
	- Signed photograph of Dave Sim.
	- 1985 Friends of Cerebus card with a picture of Most Holy.
	- Any other materials?

- Cerebus T-shirts:
	- "Cerebus for Dictator" (High Society)
	- "Cerebus the Aardvark"
	- "He Doesn't Love You, He Just Wants Your Money" (Church & State)
	- "I survived Jaka's Story" (Jaka's Story)
	- A t-shirt for a Minicon for which Sim was the GOH.  The design
	  (by Sim) has Cerebus in a stereotypical bubble-style space
	  helmet with a word balloon that says, "Cerebus feels like an idiot."

- Comix & Books Unlimited Cerebus Buttons (Black and white, circa 1982):
  	- Cerebus with sword
	- Cerebus in a Tuxedo
	- Elrod
	- Moon Roach
	- The McGrew Brothers

- Cerebus Cloissone pins
	- Young Cerebus
	- Cerebus the Barbarian
	- Cerebus the Candidate
	- Cerebus the Prime Minister
	- Most Holy
	- Cerebus logo (only in a limited edition set containing the previous
		five)

- Cerebus Hologram

- Unauthorized Cerebus lead miniature from Citadel Miniatures, circa 1981.
	They stopped production when asked to do so.


CEREBUS INFORMATION:

- Letter Column (but he doesn't answer letters in the column anymore).

- Notes from the President (CEREBUS editorials)

- Interviews (like COMICS JOURNAL).  Not always reliable.
	- COMICS JOURNAL #83-#84
	- AMAZING HEROES #42.

- Pub/Store/Convention/Party gossipping. Not very accessible to us, but some
	of it is propagated through other sources (like r.a.c.).

- His notebooks. Even less accessible.

- rumors

- imagination

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ADDITIONAL NOTES:

- It's "normalman".  Not "NORMALMAN" or "Normalman".
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