Well, Neil Gaiman talks about Cerebus in his latest journal... sort
of. It's not Neil's promised long post about he Cerebus story line
but is instead a sort of promotion for a free issue of Cerebus from
Dave. I wonder if Dave realizes the HUGE audience that Neil's journal
gets on a daily basis? Of course people still have to go and mail
something the old fashion way, but I have a feeling Dave will be
sending out at least a thousand free comics, if not more. Also
Marget's Cerebus Fan Girl website even gets mentioned! :-)

From: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/08/lewis-and-clarke-not-
to-mention-snuff.asp
"I don't want to be rude, but when are you going to talk about
Cerebus?"

Well, it was going to be at length in the same post that I talked
about Gene Wolfe's The Wizard and the new Diana Wynne Jones book. But
that one hasn't happened yet, mostly because I fell asleep on both of
the plane journeys to and from Mythcon, so didn't get the writing
time I'd hoped for.

So the long Cerebus post will have to wait. Still, I think it might
be a good idea to kickstart the meme from the Cerebus post-that-
hasn't-been written yet, and leave out all the stuff around it:

Amongst many other things, in Dave Sim's Cerebus (which is a story
that took Dave and his partner-in-art Gerhard 300 issues to tell) he
did, in the Women storyline, easily the best parody of Sandman
anyone's ever done, as various members of the Cerebus cast of
characters become Snuff, Swoon and the rest of the Clueless. It was
wickedly funny, and had the author of Sandman curling his toes when
he read it.

Dave Sim has made an extremely generous offer to readers of this
journal (and indeed, to readers not of this journal, but just people
who simply hear about his offer elsewhere on the Internet. Memes
propagate, after all), which is the kind of offer that I found as
interesting as he did. It's this:

If you'd like to read one of the Sandman parody issues of Cerebus,
Dave will send you one. He'll send it to you very happily, free of
charge. He will sign it for you, too. And he won't charge you a
thing. Not even postage.

And if you're wondering what the catch is, it's this: Dave wants to
know (as, I have to admit, do I) how many of the people out there in
internet-land will actually go and do things that don't involve
passively clicking on a link and going somewhere interesting. So what
you have to do is write Dave a letter (not an e-mail. Dave doesn't
have e-mail) telling him that you read that he'll send you a signed
Cerebus, and telling him why you'd like him to send you a copy. It's
as easy as that. And, quite possibly as difficult.

The address to write to is:

Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc
P.O. Box 1674 Station C
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4R2

Dave, I suspect, thinks he'll get a handful of requests. In my more
pessimistic moments, I think he's right, although I'd love it if he
got deluged with letters, like those kids in hospitals who don't
exist but are still collecting postcards...

We have a second-part of the plan too, which involves doing good
things for the CBLDF. But that's for later. For now, if you're even
mildly curious, write Dave a letter. Tell him you're curious...

(And for those of you who aren't sure if they want to risk having to
go and find a stamp, you could go and look at
http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/ -- and at
http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/stories/stories.html you can even read
several Cerebus short stories from Epic Illustrated, or the four
pager from Alan Moore and partners' AARGH anthology.)

(But once you've read them, write Dave the letter. Don't forget to
put your address on it, or to say why you'd like him to send you a
signed Cerebus comic. And feel very very free to pass the word on to
the comics news-sites or groups, or just to anywhere that people who
might be interested congregate.)