Dave Sim é um autor e desenhista de histórias em quadrinhos canadense, conhecido por seu trabalho na série Cerebus, uma paródia ao gênero a Conan e outras obras de espada e feitiçaria. Sim foi indicado ao Eisner Award de "Melhor Escritor" por seu trabalho na série em 1991, 1992, 1993 e 1994. A série seria indicada à categoria de "Melhor Série" nesses mesmos anos, e Sim ainda seria indicado às categorias de "Melhor Letrista" em 1993, 1994 e 1995; "Melhor Capista" em 1993 e 1994; "Melhor Conjunto de Escritor e Desenhista", ao lado de Gerhard, em 1992, 1993 e 1994. O arco de história publicado entre Cerebus #154 e #165, Mothers and Daughters, foi indicadao ao Eisner Award de "Melhor História" em 1993. Cerebus:Flight, reunindo o início da história, ganharia o Eisner Award de "Melhor Graphic Novel" no ano seguinte. Wikipedia
“Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/108250
Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)
Usually quoted with "Anything" unspaced (as in the title p. 7), sometimes quoted spaced (as in the art p. 273, as<!--variant requoted in full to be googlable too--> "Any<!--spaced--> <!--here-->thing done for the first time unleashes a demon.") because the cover art http://www.comics.org/issue/175338/ piles "Any" and "thing" (though they are joined, the leg of the "y" being also the bar of the "t").
Compare to a quote misattributed to Emily Dickinson: "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." (origin and date unknown, also attributed to Dave Sim<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=q4D2Xz5N3xkC&pg=PA66 -->)
Church & State volume I (1987)
Fonte: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 21
“Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane.”
ibid, p. 28
Following Cerebus (2004-)
“I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/104999
“I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/105562
“Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy…”
Fonte: Church & State volume I (1987), p. 296
http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/artists/tangent1.php
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/100634
“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”
No. 11, p. 27
Following Cerebus (2004-)
Fonte: Melmoth (1991), p. 41
Fonte: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 20
“No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully.”
Fonte: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), pp. 50-51
http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0306talk.php
Fonte: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 21
“Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.”
Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273
Usually quoted with "Anything" unspaced (as in the title p. 7), sometimes quoted spaced (as in the art p. 273, as "Any thing done for the first time unleashes a demon.") because the cover art http://www.comics.org/issue/175338/ piles "Any" and "thing" (though they are joined, the leg of the "y" being also the bar of the "t").
Compare to a quote misattributed to Emily Dickinson: "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." (origin and date unknown, also attributed to Dave Sim)
Church & State volume I (1987)