Dave Sim: Conversations Edited by Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace

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One of comics’ most original — and uncompromising — minds. Few figures in comics are as influential, or as provocative, as Dave Sim. In 1977, the Canadian cartoonist began self-publishing Cerebus, a 300-issue epic that became one of the most significant achievements in independent comics and a landmark of creator-owned publishing.

Dave Sim: Conversations, edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace for the Conversations with Comic Artists series, gathers the essential interviews with the man himself — candid conversations spanning decades, many out of print for years. Sim is generous, expansive, provocative, and sometimes deliberately antagonistic, holding forth on his craft, his uncompromising independence, and the creative process behind the epic Cerebus.

More than a career retrospective — a window into an artist who proved that comics could be literature, and that The interviews span decades — and Sim’s candor about his controversies makes this essential, not just interesting. independence was worth any price.

Few figures in comics are as influential — or as provocative — as Dave Sim. In 1977, the Canadian cartoonist (b. 1956) began self-publishing Cerebus, a 300-issue epic that became one of the most significant achievements in independent comics and a landmark of creator-owned publishing. Dave Sim: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) gathers the essential interviews with the man himself.
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nEdited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace for the Conversations with Comic Artists series, this volume collects candid conversations spanning decades of Sim’s career — many of them out of print for years. In these pages, Sim is generous, expansive, provocative, and sometimes deliberately antagonistic, holding forth on his craft, his uncompromising independence, his controversial views, and the creative process behind the epic Cerebus.
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nMore than a career retrospective, the collection is a window into one of comics’ most original and uncompromising minds — an artist who proved that a single creator, working outside the system, could produce a masterpiece on his own terms.
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nFor comics readers, scholars, and anyone fascinated by the intersection of art and stubborn independence, this is essential reading: Dave Sim in his own words, unfiltered.