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| Cerebus #207 (June 1996) Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard |
(from I Stayed In Norman Mailer's House..., Vice.com, May 2013)
I didn't really know why I'd been invited to stay at Norman Mailer's house. My knowledge of the late writer was limited to what I'd gleaned from a quick skim through The Fight (Mailer's excellent account of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle) and the obligatory Wikipedia scan.
Even going on these limited preconceptions, there were certain things I didn't expect to find in Mailer's former home. For example, an attic study full of hundreds of books on Hitler, the Forrest Gump soundtrack on cassette and the complete set of Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark graphic novels all seemed like unusual cultural touchstones...
(Submitted by Sandeep Atwal)
(Submitted by Sandeep Atwal)
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