Frasi di Dave Sim

Dave Sim è un fumettista canadese. La sua fama si deve alla creazione di Cerebus.

✵ 17. Maggio 1956
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Dave Sim Frasi e Citazioni

Dave Sim: Frasi in inglese

“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)

“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<!--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)

“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

“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”

No. 11, p. 27
Following Cerebus (2004-)

“No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully.”

Origine: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), pp. 50-51

“Get out of your own way. (p.28)”

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)

“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)

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