Cerebus is, as some of you know, an Aardvark. Over the years, the author, Dave Sim, has let us follow this odd creature through his adventures as a barbarian, mercenary, drunk, Prime Minister and even, Pope. Cerebus is a man, excuse me, an Aardvark, of big ambitions. His ambitions involve grabbing as much gold as possible. He does well. Cerebus is a morally ambiguous character, at times sympathetic, at others callous. He is often foul-mouthed and uncouth, has a vicious temper, and loves getting drunk. Cerebus is a warrior by heart, his favorite weapon is his sword. His most unusual weapon: the dreaded pig snout punch.

It began as a spoof of Conan the Barbarian, mixed with a dash of Howard the Duck. But over the years Cerebus the Aardvark turned into something much more: an intricate socio-political allegory and an epic labor of love for its creator. In 1976, cartoonist Dave Sim drew a fanzine logo for his girlfriend, Denise Loubert. It was only later that they realized they'd misspelled the name of Cerberus, the mythical three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hades, so they decided it was the name of the company mascot, instead. (The company name, Aardvark-Vanaheim, was created by combining suggestions from Loubert's two siblings.) So when, in 1977, Sim decided to publish a comic book of his own creation, "Cerebus the Aardvark" just seemed like the natural way to go.

Cerebus the Aardvark (or simply Cerebus) is an independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard. Now complete, it marks the longest-running English-language comic book series ever by a single creative team and one of the longest works of fiction in literature. Sim began the series in 1977, running for 300 issues and 6,000 pages, through March 2004.

Cerebus and Elfquest are generally considered the two pioneers that sparked the self-publishing movement in comics — and of the two, Cerebus was self-published first, by several months. At the time Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's run of 100 issues on The Fantastic Four was still the longest run of any creative team on a comic, and that was a team rather than a single individual.

"He came to our city in the early dawn...

Though later he would be called the finest warrior

to enter our gates, at the time, he was but a curiosity...

You see, he stood only five hands high, had a lengthy snout,

a long tail and was covered with short grey fur...

He was, in short.............CEREBUS THE AARDVARK."

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