Effective as of December 31st, 2006 Gerhard has parted ways with
Aardvark-Vanaheim and long time partner Dave Sim.

Dave is still in the process of gathering the funds necessary to buy
out Gerhard's 40% share of the company, but this will not affect the
publication of future Cerebus volumes or, presumably, Following
Cerebus (which is experiencing its own in-house delays at Win-Mill
Productions). In fact, the proofs are in for the fourth printing of
Form & Void and soon we will see the first Cerebus book *not*
printed by Preney Press.

As a result of the split, Gerhard will not be attending the SPACE
convention in Columbus, OH this year. Bob Corby has been notified
and will be adjusting the website accordingly in due time.

Sorry I couldn't say anything earlier, but with SPACE approaching
and people trying to finalize plans I asked Dave, and he said it was
OK to announce it.

I have exchanged emails with Gerhard. He seems like he's doing well,
but is understandably keeping his distance a bit while the reality
of the situation settles in.

On the plus side, Dave sounded *much* better today on the phone - a
dramatic improvement (while it will probably take a little while for
his hearing to get back to normal).

Beyond that, I'm not at liberty to discuss any details of the split.

-Jeff