{"id":8132,"date":"2012-06-06T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2012-06-06T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:23:33","slug":"kickstarter-cerebus-high-society-special-audiovisual-digital-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/kickstarter-cerebus-high-society-special-audiovisual-digital-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter &#8211; Cerebus: High Society &#8211; Special Audio\/Visual Digital Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/189735833\/cerebus-high-society-special-audio-visual-digital\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480px\" height=\"360px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A MESSAGE FROM DAVE SIM:<\/p>\n<p><em>EVERYone keeps telling me: KICKSTARTER! KICKSTARTER! KICKSTARTER! So, um, here I am as part of a event\/partnership &#8212; Cerebus Digital &#8212; registered by John Scrudder in his home state of North Carolina. \u00a0You GO, TARHEELS! Okay, so John tells me I just have to sign my name and personalize CEREBUS esoterica a few thousand times and mail out a few hundred packages&#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(both of which I&#8217;m definitely up for since, fortunately, they don&#8217;t require computer literacy &#8212; I still use an electric typewriter, &#8220;escargot mail&#8221;, a fax machine and landline telephone to communicate with the outside world, relying on outside help for anything Internet-based (my MacBook is only for typesetting and downloading photoreference: God Bless Google Images!!!) \u00a0I have written\u00a0<\/em><em>instructions here from John telling me how to input this. \u00a0I hope I&#8217;m doing this right)&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So: \u00a0here&#8217;s my pitch for the $6,000 that I&#8217;m trying to raise:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEP ONE: \u00a0CEREBUS DIGITAL HIGH SOCIETY<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Continue to convert HIGH SOCIETY into digital files by producing a HIGH SOCIETY combination e-book, audio book\/ digital graphic novel\/ oral history\/weekly serialization at (so far) iVerse, Diamond Digital and Comixology and hope revenues can help things along by the time I&#8217;m getting paid early next year (The &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221; Pass Scenario)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEP TWO: CEREBUS DIGITAL 6000<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If more than $6,000 is raised (this is where I suspect John is pulling my leg: MORE than $6,000???) then the money would be put aside to do e-books\/audio books\/digital graphic novels\/oral history\/weekly serializations of ALL OF THE CEREBUS BOOKS, Beginning with CEREBUS (500 pages), CHURCH &amp; STATE vol. 1 (600 pages). CHURCH $ STATE vol. 2 (600 pages), and JAKA&#8217;S STORY (500 pages). \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, okay, John (I finally agreed). But make the pledges FUNNY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FUNNY? he says (from which I gather than Kickstarter doesn&#8217;t ordinarily, you know, DO &#8220;funny&#8221;).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yeah, you know &#8212; our &#8220;crazy Luddite technophobe senile dinosaur hermit routine&#8221; we do on the phone. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He goes, Are you SURE?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, definitely. If you want them to even READ all these pledge descriptions the LEAST you can is entertain them. \u00a0Just think of it as $20 for writing stand-up if we pull in $6,080. \u00a0(I knew exactly what would work on him).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And now. Heeeere&#8217;s Johnny! (he gets funnier in the Rewards section, trust me).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for reading all this (assuming I actually saved it all by hitting that green button down there)!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click Here to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/189735833\/cerebus-high-society-special-audio-visual-digital\" target=\"_blank\">Donate to Dave&#8217;s Kickstarter Campaign!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8133\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?attachment_id=8133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8133\" title=\"8201923_orig-cerebus-tmnt-davesim\" src=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/8201923_orig-cerebus-tmnt-davesim-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/8201923_orig-cerebus-tmnt-davesim-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/8201923_orig-cerebus-tmnt-davesim.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Sim TMNT Sketch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8136\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?attachment_id=8136\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8136\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8136\" title=\"7323158_orig-davesim-tmnt\" src=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7323158_orig-davesim-tmnt-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7323158_orig-davesim-tmnt-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7323158_orig-davesim-tmnt.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Sim TMNT Sketch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8134\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?attachment_id=8134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8134\" title=\"4908630_orig-davesim-tmnt3\" src=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4908630_orig-davesim-tmnt3-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4908630_orig-davesim-tmnt3-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4908630_orig-davesim-tmnt3.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Sim TMNT Sketch<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MESSAGE FROM DAVE SIM: EVERYone keeps telling me: KICKSTARTER! KICKSTARTER! KICKSTARTER! So, um, here I am as part of a event\/partnership &#8212; Cerebus Digital &#8212; registered by John Scrudder in his home state of North Carolina. \u00a0You GO, TARHEELS!&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/kickstarter-cerebus-high-society-special-audiovisual-digital-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[558,56,560],"tags":[45,300,948,956,955,182,563],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-shop","tag-cerebus","tag-dave-sim","tag-digital","tag-digital-comics","tag-kickstarter","tag-news-2","tag-shop-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/8201923_orig-cerebus-tmnt-davesim.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}