Will the world every forgive/forget such people? Can these people be forgiven, why are such flaws allowable, would you admire someone who helps thousands but stomps one person into the dirt, or the opposite? Truly, the mass consciousness is a wonderous and awful thing to behold.

For what it’s worth, “Rocket 88″ predates Chuck Berry’s first single by a good 3 or 4 years.

And about a 1000 other performers as well.

Oh… and I’m also not sure about Dave Sim being “evil” per se. I think that’s stretching it. Delusional fits about right. While I don’t necessarily agree with it, I don’t mind at all his anti-feminism stance. That’s politics and can be debated fairly objectively with solid facts and statistics and whatnot.

If one cares to go that route.

It’s just when he starts in on this male equals light/female equals void stuff where he comes off as schizophrenic. Using a lot of made up metaphysical baloney to justify his anti-feminism is just sad. Reading his essays is like viewing the remains of a train crash with the bodies still in the wreckage. Something good destroyed by illness and a turn inward towards illness to the point where little of the initial brilliance remains unmarred.

Anyway, how can you have any kind of rational discussion with someone whose belief system comes from some internal chemical imbalance and inability to perceive reality? The problem is, he like a lot of people who need treatment believe their fancies to be concrete reality so much so they end up not getting professional help.

Sim truly lives in a world we cannot fully comprehend. One of his own making.

What the hell does that mean?

Sim’s a brilliant artist and writer. He has opinions that are deeply strange and if I was sitting over a pint with him we’d likely find a metric ton of disagreement. That does nothing to diminish his work or the quality of his craft. Cerebus is a monument, not only in it’s artistic achievement but what it contributed to indy publishing as a whole. Ike Turner was awful to Tina, but the man founded rock and roll. Keeping the art and the artist separate isn’t that hard.

Glamourpuss looks evil. More of that ‘void’ stuff, plus he’ll attach it to fashion. just sayin’.

Sim often and I’d say mostly does speak from his characters’ points of view, not his own. That’s probably because Sim’s so fiercely insane, he can do that with his brain. But Cerebus himself was the closest thing to a Sim mouthpiece, and he was portrayed as a hideous, miserly, ignorant tyrant who died alone and unloved.

Plus whatever else you might say about him, Sim is still a brilliant story-teller and an innovator in the medium. There’s really interesting work even in the last few years of Cerebus, with everything that represented.