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Perce

Perce serves Cerebus some drugged wine

Perce was a Cirinist posing as a prostitute who drugged Cerebus' wine in order to attempt to see if he could be of use to the order.

Appearances[]

Dave Sim on Perce[]

  • "... As I was to decide with Astoria later on, I decided to draw Perce as a real-real person (for reference, I class Cerebus as fantasy-fantasy, Elrod as fantasy-real, Lord Julius as real-fantasy, Filgate as real-fantasy, The Moon Roach as fantasy-real. Get the idea?) So I decided Perce had to be real-real, about nineteen or twenty years old and that she would have the distinction of being a Cirinist pretending to be a Kevillist pretending to be a Cirinist. That's Togith for you. So I decided to be like the REAL cartoonists (Hal Foster springs readily to mind) and draw a real person as Perce.
"I decided on Deni's sister, Karen for a number of reasons. We had pictures of her, she was the right age, (she was the person who suggested "Aardvark Press" leading to the decision to do an aardvark mascot) and (ho, ho, ho) she would be easy to draw. I never made that mistake again. If I draw real people in the strip now, I always make them caricatures. It's not that the results were all that bad, but it took an awful lot of effort to make the pictures barely adequate. But the discipline required in learning how to draw a real person in cartoon form meant that I had a lot of time to contemplate the Kevillists and the Cirinists (since Togith is a major center for both groups). The more I worked on getting the pictures right, the more complicated the Cirinists and the Kevillists got and the more complicated the story line I was working on got. Anyway, I started building the cornerstones for all this intrigue in this issue with Perce (she's not really a prostitute, but I won't go into that now)."[1]

References[]

  1. Swords of Cerebus Volume Five, Introduction to issue #19
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