"Cerebus" redirects here. Not to be confused with Cerberus.
Cerebus the Aardvark
Cover to Cerebus issues 112 and 113, from 1988 by Dave Sim and Gerhard
Publication information
Publisher
Aardvark-Vanaheim
Schedule
Initially bimonthly, then monthly
Format
Limited series
Genre
Parody of sword and sorcery (early issues), fantasy, comedy, political satire, drama (mid-period issues), theological fiction (later issues)
Publication date
December 1977 – March 2004
No. of issues
300
Main character(s)
Cerebus
ISSN
0712-7774
Creative team
Created by
Dave Sim
Written by
Dave Sim
Artist(s)
Dave Sim Gerhard
Cerebus (/ˈsɛrəbəs/;[1] also Cerebus the Aardvark) is a comic book series, created by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim, which ran from December 1977 until March 2004. The title character of the 300-issue series is an anthropomorphic aardvark who takes on a number of roles throughout the series—barbarian, prime minister, and pope among them. The series stands out for its experimentation in form and content, and for the dexterity of its artwork, especially after background artist Gerhard joined with the 65th issue. As the series progressed, it increasingly became a platform for Sim's controversial beliefs.
The comic began as a parody of sword and sorcery comics, primarily Marvel's version of Conan the Barbarian.[2] However, it evolved to explore a variety of other topics, including politics, religion, and gender issues. At a total of 6,000 pages, it progressively became more serious and ambitious than its parodic roots. Sim announced early on that the series would end with the death of the title character. The story has a large cast of characters, many of which began as parodies of characters from comic books and popular culture.
Starting with the "High Society" storyline, the series became divided into self-contained "novels", which form parts of the overall story. The ten "novels" of the series have been collected in 16 books, known as "Cerebus phonebooks" for their resemblance, by way of their thickness, to telephone directories. At a time when the series was about 70% completed, celebrated comic book writer Alan Moore wrote: "Cerebus, as if I need to say so, is still to comic books what Hydrogen is to the Periodic Table".[3]
^Interview with Dave Sim Sim says the name Cerebus at 3:58 into the interview
^Uzumeri, David (May 5, 2020). "The Cerebus Celibate: Issues 1 – 50". Comics Alliance. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
^Moore, Alan (April 1997). "From Hell: Part 3". Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
and 19 Related for: Cerebus the Aardvark information
Cerebus (/ˈsɛrəbəs/; also CerebustheAardvark) is a comic book series, created by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim, which ran from December 1977 until March...
the besiegers were the soldiers of Cerebus, who was after some scrolls, that Romero had stolen. Romero also managed to grab the Time Scepter, and the...
adapted from the animal in the comic strip B.C., which the F-4 was said to resemble. CerebustheAardvark is a 300-issue comic book series by Dave Sim. Taylor...
Eason & Son Reads, the third book in the Mothers and Daughters graphic novel by Dave Sim, and the tenth CerebustheAardvark volume The Reads, an English...
295) Sim, Dave. Cerebus Number Zero ("Note from the President", inside front cover). Aardvark-Vanaheim, June 1993. ISSN 0712-7774. "Cerebus is a six thousand...
at Niya, an oasis in the Tarim Basin Tarim, the monotheistic god worshiped by multiple religions in Dave Sim's CerebustheAardvark graphic novel series...
Cerebus phonebooks are the paperback collections that Dave Sim has collected his comic book series Cerebus in since 1986. They have come to be known as...
Astoria, in comic book CerebustheAardvark Astoria (Marianas Trench album) 2015 Astoria, a 2006 album by The Shys Astoria: Portrait of the Artist, a 1990 album...
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted...
Berona's War Bone The Books of Magic Brath Camelot 3000 Castle Waiting Cavewoman CerebustheAardvarkThe Chronicles of Corum Claw the Unconquered Conan...
adopted the same speech patterns for Elrod the Albino, a character in his independent comic book CerebustheAardvark, but it is unknown whether the voice...
Tutu Arnie theaardvark in Boner's Ark. Arthur Read, the titular character of books and the animation show, Arthur. CerebustheAardvark, the titular comic...
featuring CerebustheAardvark. Veitch decided to follow suit, creating his own publishing imprint, King Hell Press. Operating without the editorial restraint...
follow-up design to the Garrison Melmoth Melmoth (comics), a graphic novel by Dave Sim featuring CerebustheAardvark Melmoth the Wanderer, a gothic novel...
in the pages of Aardvark-Vanaheim's Cerebus' #61–62 (cover-dated April–May 1984). The Carrot eventually guest starred in the series proper in Cerebus #104...
from this challenge in CerebustheAardvark; and Rick Veitch, who used it as a springboard for his comic Rarebit Fiends. In the early 1990s, McCloud began...
children's novel by K. M. Peyton Going Home (comics), a 1998–2001 CerebustheAardvark graphic novel and its first collected volume by Dave Sim Going Home...
Global Information