Dave Sim
Dave Sim è nato il 17 maggio 1956 ad Hamilton in Canada. Scrittore e disegnatore di fumetti, la sua fama si deve alla creazione di Cerebus (Cerebus the Aardvark).
Gli inizi
Sebbene sia nato ad Hamilton, Sim ha vissuto dall'età di due anni a Kitchener, una città nella regione di Waterloo, nel cuore dell'Ontario nord-occidentale. Il suo interesse per i fumetti si manifesta fin dalla più tenere età; pubblica una fanzine (rivista per appassionati) chiamata Comic Art News and Reviews (Notizie e Recensioni sul mondo dell'arte del Fumetto), in cui intervista professionisti come Barry Windsor-Smith e Neal Adams.
Dopo
After doing various other comics including a newspaper strip called the Beavers which was published in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and writing or drawing various other stories published in fanzines such as Phantacea, Sim began publishing Cerebus as a black-and-white comic book series in December of 1977. Cerebus was published through his company Aardvark-Vanaheim, which was run by his wife, Deni Loubert, whom Sim met in 1976, married in 1978 and divorced after five years.
In 1979 Sim, hit upon the idea of making Cerebus into a 300 issue series, something that had never been done before with the same artist and writer. It would tell the story of a character's life, with him dying in the final issue, which appeared in March 2004.
Sim lived it up in the 1980s when Cerebus was a large success and did much travelling to promote the series, which was selling at least 30,000 copies an issue at its height. In 1984 Gerhard became his collaborator, and handled the background drawings in the series. Aardvark-Vanaheim also published other comics besides Cerebus, such as William Messener-Loebs' Journey and Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, although eventually Sim focused the company's energy solely on publishing Cerebus.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Sim used his notoriety to serve as a major proponent of creator's rights and self-publishing within the comics industry. In addition to speaking on these topics at comic book conventions, Sim published The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing and often promoted other creators' work in the back pages of Cerebus.
Sim completed the series on schedule. His life has changed radically since he began Cerebus. In the course of working on the series, Sim developed views hostile to feminism, to modern materialism, and to leftist politics. The most prominent of his writings against feminism is his 'Tangent' essay; originally published in Cerebus #265 [1].As he refined these views, he made progressive changes to his lifestyle -- eliminating television and radio from his home, and limiting his consumption of alcohol and tobacco. He now has limited contact with women, and considers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures to be the Word of God, upon which he bases his current lifestyle. This includes fasting, praying and alms-giving.
Sim's forcefully stated views on male-female relations, politics, and modern culture have caused considerable controversy within the comic book industry.
Citazioni
"In one of those Poor Us studies for which the Emotional Female Void is notorious, it was pointed out that after a divorce, the average male standard of living rises... the average female standard of living drops... I think the...explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six- foot leech from the surface of a human body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry."
"No corporation will ever pay a creator enough to sue them successfully."
Collegamenti esterni
- Art of Dave Sim
- Cerebus Fangirl Site
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- In italiano