Melmoth (comics) Melmoth (comics) Melmoth is the fifth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's "Cerebus" comic book series. It follows Oscar (a caricature of Oscar Wilde) in his last days leading up until his death, while Cerebus sits catatonic, clutching the doll of Jaka, the woman he loves but believes has been killed. The novel was collected as the sixth paperback "phonebook" collection in the series in October 1991. After Jaka, Rick and Oscar's arrest (and Pud's death), Cerebus returns to the Lower City, where he uses a gold coin to buy room and board at Dino's for the rest of his
The eXile Pshevecherskaya to provide $10,000 of start-up capital. Citing Manfred and Marina's "incessant petty squabbles over money and title" Ames quit "Living Here" and began planning his own publication. Ames convinced most of the intermittently paid staff of "Living Here" to defect to the newly conceived newspaper, "the eXile", including sales manager Kara Deyerin, and his replacement editor Kevin McElwee. Manfred and Marina hired Matt Taibbi to counter this rebellion, but he became disillusioned after producing one issue of "Living Here". Taibbi also defected and became co-editor of "the eXile". Some of the contributors, including Ames, Taibbi, Alexander Zaitchik, and John