A READER'S GUIDE TO SWORD & SORCERY

CEREBUS THE AARDVARK(AARDVARK-VANAHEIM)

One of the first independent comics. Writen and drawn by Dave Sim, Cerebus was a vehicle to parody Sword & Sorcery then moved onto Marvel superheroes and eventually became a complex world in its own right. The early issues were drawn in a mock Barry Smith style and poked fun at Red Sonja, Elric, Bran Mak Morn and S&S cliches. Collected in The Swords of Cerebus in the 1980s.

(December 1977- March 2004)