From the desk of Lou Copeland:



I'm very pleased to announce the details of a project that's been in the making for three years, and is the first major work from the drawing table of Dave Sim since he completed Cerebus four years ago. The project, Judenhass, is a personal reflection on The Holocaust in the form of a 56 page comic book. Begun in response to the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (2005) it will be released during the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel.

In order to avoid trivializing the Holocaust, Dave Sim will be doing almost no active promotion for Judenhass. Fortunately, others have risen to the occasion. An advance copy was sent to less than a dozen respected individuals on short notice. About half of them, including Joe Kubert and Neil Gaiman, responded with very favorable support, several of them with dizzying speed. While unfortunately we're not able to send out full copies of the work for you to judge at this point, our website has a seven page preview section which should help introduce you to the work.

We also have an assortment of graphics to download should you be interested:

http://www.judenhass.com/press.html

Judenhass is a project I've devoted two years of my personal time to on a strictly volunteer basis. In my opinion it's a powerful, moving, and meaningful experience. I couldn't be prouder of being able to assist Dave in bringing Judenhass into this world.

Going live this evening is our website, which I hope you'll be kind enough to link to:

http://www.judenhass.com

Wow. Powerful stuff. The impact of that time period resonates still. The evil is hard to comprehend so some deny it, some trivialize it, some bury it and the bravest face it and try to make sense of it. I look forward to the release of this book.

Just read the preview at the website above.

Wow. Glamourpuss is kind of intriguing ... this is something else entirely. This is just the sort of thing I hoped to see from post-Cerebus Dave Sim. This looks stunning. Difficult and powerful, but stunning.

Both the book and the website look great.

I'm going to sticky this for a day or three. Try and stop me.

At one point better than 170 issues into Cerebus, Sim bluffed that he was shortening the project to 200 issues. I'm sure many reacted with horror. But I was excited. I liked Cerebus, but it seemed like Sim's reach was shortened by the series funny animal-Conan roots (and the endless complaint that the old stuff was funnier). I couldn't wait to see what he would do next, when he had more room to move in other directions. What I've seen of Glamourpuss and Judenhass make me think I was right.

A challenge was made
Defy him at your peril
Why would we want to?

Wow. This certainly comes as a surprise announcement. He never let on that he had anything going except that "Glamourpuss" project.

Wow. My own haiku. Thanks.

I've never read Cerebus, but this looks pretty interesting. I'll check it out.

Very, very true.

No surprise that I'll be buying this....

He did mention it here. Elsewhere it's been known for a while. In fact Glamourpuss was originally known to fans as Secret Project Two, but it was unveiled first.

I have to agree with Taft, the preview looks stunning. I've already added it to my preorder list.