Alone, unmourned, and unloved

[avram]

On the same day that BoingBoing announces that it’s publishing the newest Elquest story online, I read that Dave Sim seems to be quitting comics.

This is great news for the Pinis, but it’s unfortunate that the creator of the other big indie comic of that same generation can’t seem to figure out how keep his career afloat.

Granted, many of Sim’s problems are of his own making. Not only did his wife divorce him, but I’ve recently learned that Gerhard no longer associates with Sim either professionally or personally, and that Sim is estranged from his family. I don’t know the stories behind those latter two things (and only a bit about the first), but someone who wrecks all of his close relationships probably isn’t doing a great job with business relationships either.

(Also, if you’re building your career on a single massive comic-book project, you might want to think twice about inserting into it a crazy rant describing half the human race as parasitic leeches.)

Still, Sim’s failure makes me melancholy.

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[avram]

Not the complete set, just "High Society". Still, a horrible stroke of bad luck for Sim, Cerebus fans, and comics history, though most of all for Sandeep Atwal and other residents of those three buildings that burned down.

I think I saw a follow-up from Atwal saying that some of the scanned data files were safe (offsite backups, maybe?), so at least they only had to track down artwork for part of the story arc, rather than all of it.