Comments on: “Cerebus Valentines for That Special Void in Your Life”

By: Ross Rosenberg

Ross Rosenberg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:33:26 +0000

Man, these are awesome. Part of the advantage of getting the phone-book collections of Cerebus was the fact that you could enjoy the comic without having to deal with Sim’s insanity. Also, ask Jeff Smith if he thinks Dave Sim is joking.

By: Tequila

Tequila — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:03:31 +0000

@cheezewizz…First time I’ve heard that, sources?

It’d be a pretty gimmicky way of making a point though. He’d have to have some Andy Kaufman level of focus to stick to such a “joke” for so long. Plus he’d be doing more of a disservice to his argument by painting all feminists in a Valerie Solanas kind of mold.* His rant wasn’t exactly a delicately worded bit of scholarly insight to begin with. The stuff that followed less so.

Was he being dead serious? Probably not to the level some painted it but he wasn’t being coy or misinterpreted either.

I always found his stance more of a distraction than anything. It did more damage to his work than he’ll probably ever admit to…though I would love to have seen this play out NOW. Just to see how much it would snowball online.

*I’ve nothing against Solanas but I always got the impression it was feminists like her that Sim had such hostility for.

By: octopod

octopod — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:44:24 +0000

OH RIGHT. THE HIVE VAGINA COMMANDS IT. BAD OCTOPUS! ::splat::

By: Mer

Mer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:46:46 +0000

NO OCTOPOD WE ALL THINK EXACTLY ALIKE DIDN’T YOU GET THE MEMO?

By: octopod

octopod — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:17:15 +0000

cheezewizz, I think it makes feminists not all agree with each other.

Citation please, though? That’s pretty funny if it’s true.

By: cheezewizz

cheezewizz — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:05:31 +0000

I’d like to point out that alot of Sim’s famous misogynist rants were just copied feminist writings with the sexes reversed. The point of the ‘joke’ was that if he was an evil sexist pig for publishing that stuff (and cerebus is an ardvark or ‘earth pig’) what does that make feminists?

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By: Tequila

Tequila — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:02:18 +0000

If you can give one of those to a girl and instead of kneeing you in the testicles she laughs…she’s a keeper.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:39:08 +0000

I rofled hard. And also reminded myself it was time to finish those phone book sized Cerebus Omnibuses. Çomneribuses.

By: Milja

Milja — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:43:15 +0000

OMG, these are brilliant. I wish I had a comics-savvy girlfriend.

Also, Dave Sim needs to take more lessons on the proper placement of boobs.