Co: Journalista
From one Aardvark to another
Cerebus RIP : Abu gives us his thoughts on the arc of Sim's Aardvark
Not an entirely scathing review but Abu takes up more than just a few issues with the series…
"…if Cerebus had ended with issue 200 it would have been able to claim a place with the very greatest achievements in the history of comic books. The early Palnu stories, High Society, Church and State, Jaka's Story (not Melmoth - ugh), Mothers and Daughters... all brilliant on an epic scale. Cerebus was a quintessentially political book, and Sim showed a remarkable political maturity and subtlety in the first 200 issues which make his latter days that much harder to take…">>>
From Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture
Cerebus: An Aardvark on the Edge
[A Brief History of Dave Sim and His Independent Comic Book]
By Kelly Rothenberg [Independent Scholar]
Less critical, Rothenberg takes a look at Sim's roll in the world of Independent Comic Books…
"But this is supposed to be a funny comic book, right? About a guy who looks like he is dressed up in a rabbit's outfit, right? Right? Right… and wrong. Cerebus did appear at first to be a funny-man's comic book, taking everyone along for the ride for the first year and a half. The fact that Cerebus is an aardvark and everybody else is human, although never mentioned, is just one small thing (although Cerebus is described from time to time as anything from a short midget to a guy wearing a bunny's costume). The early stories were populated with parodies of famous fictional characters and figures from Marvel Comics. These lampoons of standard comic book clichés made Cerebus stand out in the early days from the rest of the pack; Sim was thumbing his nose at the corporate comic book machine…">>>
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