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| Cerebus #162 (September 1992) Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard |
(from The Idler, Spring 2004)
...When all the dust has settled, Sim's greatest achievement may be seen as his success in maintaining complete independence for so long. By ensuring that the lion's share of the book's income comes directly to the people who create it he has managed to parlay a small but loyal readership into absolute artistic freedom and a higher standard of living than most conventional comics artists could hope for. Cerebus has never been a top-selling book, but that has clearly never been Sim's measure of success.
He addressed this point in the farewell letter to Cerebus readers which appeared earlier this year."I find it difficult to view the twenty-six-year-and-three-month Cerebusproject as a failure," he wrote. "The fact that Ger and I enter our respective retirements unencumbered by any debt, the fact that we have never been forced by financial necessity to relinquish any part of our absolute control over Cerebus as a creative work and the fact that I am typing these words in a 100-year old Victorian house fully paid for by our joint creativity is a source of no small gratification."
He addressed this point in the farewell letter to Cerebus readers which appeared earlier this year."I find it difficult to view the twenty-six-year-and-three-month Cerebusproject as a failure," he wrote. "The fact that Ger and I enter our respective retirements unencumbered by any debt, the fact that we have never been forced by financial necessity to relinquish any part of our absolute control over Cerebus as a creative work and the fact that I am typing these words in a 100-year old Victorian house fully paid for by our joint creativity is a source of no small gratification."
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