Cerebus the Aardvark, the creation of Canadian cartoonist
Dave Sim and the star of his 6,000-page epic Cerebus, conquers the new frontier
of digital comics as publisher Aardvark-Vanaheim joins the Diamond Digital
program for the digital release of the 25-part Cerebus: High Society.
Through Diamond Digital, readers can purchase the
Cerebus: High Society digital comics from their local comic shop and their
online stores and download the content to their mobile devices via the
"Digital Comics Reader" App for iOS and Android. A free download, the
Digital Comics Reader app can be downloaded at Diamond Digital or via
www.digitalcomicsreader.com and offers readers free cloud storage for all their
Diamond Digital purchases.
The first issue of Cerebus: High Society, which reprints
May 1981's Cerebus #26, is available for free through Diamond Digital, and
subsequent issues will be priced at 99 cents each.
Originally published in Cerebus in the early 1980s and
acclaimed as one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, Cerebus: High
Society brings the groundbreaking, yet timely and relevant, satire of Cerebus'
campaign for the Prime Ministership of Iest to the digital audience. Each issue features original documents from
the time period from Dave Sim's Cerebus Archive, pages from his original
notebooks, and his own annotations.
"Dave Sims' Cerebus is one of comics' singular
achievements and has been a mainstay of comic shops since the Direct Market's
earliest days," said Diamond Vice President of Purchasing Bill
Schanes. "This partnership between
Diamond Digital and Aardvark-Vanaheim will bring this important work to the
burgeoning digital market. Here at
Diamond, we look forward to conquering new digital readers together with
Cerebus: High Society."
Said Cerebus’ Dave Sim: “It’s hard to find anything to
say about digital High Society without tattooing Spoiler Warning across my
mouth – and being deathly afraid of jinxing both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
all the way from up here in the Great White North. Everyone just keep chanting as you download
each issue in your favourite comic store: ‘Hanging Chads! Never Again! Hanging
Chads! Never Again!’ And if that works,
remember: you have Dave Sim and Diamond Digital to thank. And if it doesn’t, Oh, Jeez. Don’t look at me. I’m just a hoser like you, so ‘Take Off,
Eh?’”
Issues 1 through 5 of Cerebus: High Society are currently
available to customers through comics retailers in the Diamond Digital program,
and future issues of the 25 issue series will be released weekly through March
2013.
Now Available (with Diamond Digital ordering codes)
• Cerebus:
High Society #1 – AUG128089
• Cerebus:
High Society #2 – AUG128090
• Cerebus:
High Society #3 – AUG128316
• Cerebus:
High Society #4 – AUG128317
• Cerebus:
High Society #5 – AUG128318
Forthcoming (with Diamond Digital ordering codes)
• Cerebus:
High Society #6 – AUG128414 (Available November 7, 2012)
• Cerebus:
High Society #7 – AUG128415 (Available November 14, 2012)
• Cerebus:
High Society #8 – AUG128416 (Available November 21, 2012)
• Cerebus:
High Society #9 – AUG128417 (Available November 28, 2012)