In case you didn’t catch the link on the winner’s list: you can view Dave Sim’s 3-part video acceptance speech for the Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist Award on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

To support the launch of his new website Cerebus TV, Dave Sim is auctioning himself off for one – and only one – store signing in 2010.

Here are the details:

The winning stores will win as in the eBay sense of course, to help fund the station. What will the highest bidder get?

1. Each customer gets his or her photo taken with Dave Sim (either with his or her own camera or with an on-site camera)

2. Everyone watching Cerebus TV gets to listen in via live feed to all of the completely unedited questions from fans and his answers live.

3. Your store staff each gets a Cerebus TV staff shirt with his or her name on it.

4. You get a “0ne & Only” Dave Sim 2010 signing plaque for your store.

5. Regular commercial breaks to plug your store, sale, website, subscription service, whatever.

6. Dave Sim available for local media interviews before, during and after with the support of the Cerebus TV on-line, Efax and phone sales team.

7. $1,000 (retail) worth of Cerebus trade paperbacks.
8. The signing starts at 9 pm and goes until everyone in line has gotten an autograph.

The bidding will close half an hour after Cerebus TV launches properly

In order to bid:

Call Dave up, leave him a message on +1  519 576 0610 and he’ll get back to you. Or fax him on +1  519 576 0955. E-mail? Sorry, like Alan Moore he doesn’t believe it exists. But you can email his associate John Scrudder on scrudder@hotmail.com, who will then print it out and fax it across.

As of today 10/01/2009 the leading store is Halifax’s Strange Adventures at $687.74 plus a steak and/or lobster dinner, a box of good comics, four rolls of paper for Dave’s fax machine, and a Strange Adventures mug and sweater.

Also it seems that CerebusTV is looking for advertisers and/or financial donations to operate the site:

Cerebus TV is intended as an environment primarily for independent creators, retailers and fans in order to avoid the content being influenced of controlled by large corporations. In order to accomplish that, Cerebus TV is going to need financial support from each community: whatever you can comfortably afford to contribute by Paypal. There will be a minimum donation of $5 for non-retailers and $10 for retailers specified when the actual website is up and running. At first, however, there will be just a Paypal donation button on the home page with no minimum specified.

But what he really wants right now is advertising, selling 15 and 30 second TV spots to bricks-and-mortar stores and independent publishers to run with the Unedited Preview Footage before the station launches properly. He’s looking for people to reserve rotational spots for their promotional films or for a placeholder logo until one is prepared,to upload as and when they like.

He’s also planning a “pay what you can afford” system, taking each and every advertiser’s personal circumstances into account.

Unless Cerebus TV is set up to allow everyone to participate
then the purpose of it will be defeated at the outset.

If you are interested in advertising, please contact Dave as above. If you would like to donate, please visit:
http://cerebustv.com/