| High Society | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:CerebusVolume2HighSocietyWraparoundCover.jpg) Wraparound cover to Cerebus Vol. 2: High Society. The Regency Hotel drawn by Gerhard, though his art does not appear within the book. | |
| Date | 1986 |
| No. of issues | 25 |
| Series | Cerebus |
| Page count | 512 pages |
| Publisher | Aardvark-Vanaheim |
| Creative team | |
| Creator | Dave Sim |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Cerebus |
| Issues | 26–50 |
| Date of publication | May 1981–May 1983 |
| ISBN | 0-919359-07-8 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Cerebus (1987) |
| Followed by | Church & State (1987) |
| Cerebus novels |
|---|
| Phonebooks, Characters |
| Cerebus |
| High Society |
| Church & State |
| Jaka's Story |
| Melmoth |
| Mothers & Daughters |
| Guys |
| Rick's Story |
| Going Home |
| Latter Days |
High Society is the second collected volume, and first volume-length story, of Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's Cerebus comic book series. It focuses mainly on politics, including Cerebus's campaign for the office of Prime Minister, in the fictional city-state of Iest in Sim's world of Estarcion. It is generally considered the best book for beginning Cerebus readers to start reading,[1] and has been called "one of the finest storylines of the 1980s".[2] The story was published in individual issues from May 1981 (issue #26) to May 1983 (#50), with the collection published in 1986.
The story is considered a turning point in the Cerebus series, as Sim moved from the "Conan pastiche" of the stories contained in the Cerebus, to making a "piece of political satire,"[3] the beginning of Sim moving away from individual issue-focused stories and short, two- or three-issue story arcs, to "longer, far more complex 'novels'"[4] lasting hundreds of pages, that were the focus of the rest of the series.
The storyline became the first of the Cerebus "phone book" paperback collections to be published. Its success led Sim to abandon the Swords of Cerebus series of four-issue collections in favour of the larger collections for the final format of the 6000-page Cerebus saga.
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