Yep.
I just finished the first page of a 12-page story that I’m writing/drawing for the upcoming issue of Jeff Seiler’s Cerebus Readers in Crisis (which will be available at SPACE), and the story will feature Blink & Sam (and myself~ sort of) along side the main aardvark himself, Cerebus.
My little tale takes place in between pages 266 and 267 of Minds (Cerebus, Volume 10). For those of you familiar with the story of the Earth-Pig born, you might recognize the location (featured below) in which Cerebus finds himself– he is trudging across the surface of (the object formerly designated as a planet)* Pluto.
It’s a treat to be able to play in Dave Sim’s sandbox for a little bit. (Yay! I can crosshatch to my heart’s content!) Dave’s 6,000-page story is a monumental acheivement in sequential art; I can take down any one of the 16 volumes of Cerebus from the shelf and learn something new (even the early stuff from the 1970’s!). And add that to the fact that Dave has always been so supportive of my work as an artists and writer over the years, I can’t imagine being where I am today without him.
*I find it funny that astrophyscist Neil deGrasse Tyson received hate mail from third graders because of what he did to Pluto:
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2009.02.01 at 11:21 am
Laurel Kornfeld
Pluto IS a planet because unlike most objects in the Kuiper Belt, it has attained hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning it has enough self-gravity to have pulled itself into a round shape. When an object is large enough for this to happen, it becomes differentiated with core, mantle, and crust, just like Earth and the larger planets, and develops the same geological processes as the larger planets, processes that inert asteroids and most KBOs do not have.
The IAU definition makes no linguistic sense, as it states that dwarf planets are not planets at all. That’s like saying a grizzly bear is not a bear. Second, it defines objects solely by where they are while ignoring what they are. If Earth were placed in Pluto’s orbit, by the IAU definition, it would not be a planet. That is because the further away an object is from its parent star, the more difficulty it will have in clearing its orbit.
Significantly, this definition was adopted by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists. No absentee voting was allowed. It was done so in a highly controversial process that violated the IAU’s own bylaws, and it was immediately opposed by a petition of 300 professional astronomers saying they will not use the new definition, which they described accurately as “sloppy.” Also significant is the fact that many planetary scientists are not IAU members and therefore had no say in this matter at all.
Many believe we should keep the term planet broad to encompass any non-self-luminous spheroidal object orbiting a star.
2009.02.01 at 11:26 am
blinkcomic
Hmm, that’s very interesting, Laurel.
Thanks for your comment!
2009.02.01 at 4:30 pm
NIK
Very cool, look forward to see you ‘do a Sim’ here!
2009.02.06 at 7:55 pm
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