Issue 114
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| September 1988: Prologue | |
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| Issue 114 | |
| President | Dave Sim |
| Backgrounds, cover-colour, and tones | Gerhard |
| Administrator | Karen McKiel |
| Circulation | 26,000 |
| Jaka's Story: Prologue | |
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Issue Summary
The beginning of the graphic novel that is a biography of Jaka's childhood in Palnu and of her marriage to Rick Nash. Sections include the morning ritual, run by Nurse; the introduction of Jaka's doll, Missy, confidant and protector; and the wooden horse, Magic. In between these sections of the biography, we see Jaka and her husband, Rick. Jaka is not pregnant, and there is no sign of a baby. Rick is out of work, and not overly zealous in his search for it.
Characters
- Jaka (last seen in issue 102; next appearance in issue 115)
- Also in flashback (first chronological appearance; next appearance in issue 115)
- Nurse Flashback only (first appearance; next appearance in issue 115)
- Rick (first appearance; next appearance in issue 116)
Locations
Artist Notes
Dave Sim in the Note from the President Cerebus #120
"The original idea had been to do a Prologue that was all text about Jaka's earliest years. Try as I might to compress her childhood (mentally) into twenty pages of text and single illustrations (which had initially seemed like a lot of pages to fill) it just wasn't going to fit. I tried the first two pages. One tenth of the way through, she was out of bed and having a bath. It did not bode well for that...word that means intimidating but on a grander scale...climb to age twelve." link to NFTP from issue 120
Gerhard on the basis for the cover
"Rose and I had taken a trip up to Bruce Mines, which is up north of Lake Huron here in Ontario and I took a photo into the woods shooting into the light with all the trees back there or all the leaves backlit and all the trunks of the trees in silhouette basically – and that's sort of what I used as the basis for the wooded part." Interview
Annotations
- Dave uses an interesting technique throughout Jaka's Story. He uses text next to a single panel of art for the extracts from Jaka's biography, and then his usual pages for actions in the "present."
- This is the second issue of the series in which Cerebus does not appear. It last happened in issue 62, and will happen again.
