Dave Sim

Dave Sim is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher born in Hamilton, Ontario, on 17 May 1956. He is best known as the writer and artist of Cerebus, a comic book that began in December 1977 as a parody of sword and sorcery comics and grew into a single 6,000-page work of 300 issues, completed in March 2004. Over its run the series moved from parody toward politics, gender and philosophy, and it became widely noted for its experimental storytelling and artwork; from issue 65 Sim drew the figures while his collaborator Gerhard drew the backgrounds. Sim ran the small press publisher Aardvark-Vanaheim, which he co-founded in 1977, and became a leading voice for self-publishing and creators' rights, helping to create the Creator's Bill of Rights in 1988. He later made Glamourpuss, a study of photorealistic comic art, and Judenhass, a reflection on the Holocaust, and he has arranged for his work to enter the public domain after his death. His political and philosophical views have been controversial. In 2026 he was selected for the Eisner Hall of Fame.