David Victor Sim, nacido el 17 de mayo, de 1956 en Hamilton, Ontario es un artista y escritor de historietas canadiense, conocido por su novela gráfica de 6000 páginas Cerebus the Aardvark. 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)
Fuente: 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…”
Fuente: 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-)
Fuente: Melmoth (1991), p. 41
Fuente: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 27
Fuente: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 20
“No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully.”
Fuente: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), pp. 50-51
http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0306talk.php
Fuente: 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)