Press Release –

World record holding graphic novelist announces
World’s first high fashion parody comic book, glamourpuss

Beginning in April, 2008, world-record-holding graphic novelist Dave Sim will officially return to periodical comic books with a new bi-monthly title called glamourpuss to be self-published by him through Aardvark-Vanaheim, Inc. which celebrated its 30th anniversary in December of 2007.

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Glamourpuss is partly Sim’s take on the history of photorealism in comics (starting with Alex Raymond’s Rip Kirby in 1946), partly a fashion magazine parody and partly a “sincerely weird super-heroine comic” (the fictional editor and publisher in her alcohol, caffeine and anti-depressant-enhanced imagination imagines herself to be the psychic, super-powered glamourpuss).

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“I’m starting it the same way I started Cerebus,” says Sim, alluding to his record-breaking 300-issue run on the title from 1977 to 2004. “Three bi-monthly issues and we’ll see how it goes from there.”


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So far, so good. Veteran comics retailer Ralph DiBernardo of Concord, New Hampshire’s legendary Jetpack Comics (www.jetpackcomics.com) has already committed to buying 250 copies of the first issue, sight unseen. Back in 1984, when DiBernardo was selling comics at a local flea market he bought 150 copies of a comic book written and drawn by then-unknown cartoonists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Maybe you’ve heard of it?


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Even long-time Cerebus fans are getting into the act. Robert Rowe of Reseda, CA has volunteered to buy 100 copies for resale.

“It’s great to see this level of support considering that I haven’t put out any new work in almost four years,” says Sim who will be mailing 2,000 copies of an Exclusive Fashion Industry Preview Edition of glamourpuss No.1 to noted fashion designers and senior editorial people at fashion magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair and 4,500 copies of an Exclusive Comics Industry Preview Edition to comics retailers everywhere in the English-speaking world.


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Sim has long been known for his resistance to commercializing Cerebus as an intellectual property, saying no to virtually all merchandizing opportunities and, in one notable instance, declining to take a call from Lucasfilm in the midst of a comic store signing in 1982.

Will he be that strict with the licensing of glamourpuss?


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“Oh no,” he says, laughing. “I plan on merchandising the heck out of glamourpuss. I want the logo on everything. Breakfast cereal, hoodies, perfume, make-up, jeans, running shoes, grease guns, you name it. She spends more time in rehab than Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears put together. I’ve got to find some way of paying for that.”

Interested grease gun manufacturers can check details at www.glamourpusscomic.com under “licensing glamourpuss”.

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So there will be a Glamourpuss the Movie?

“Let’s see if I can actually put three bi-monthly issues out first. But, if Nicole Kidman is reading this, my number is 519.576.0610. Maybe our machines can ‘do lunch’ or something.”