Guide Note

Cerebus is a fictional character in Dave Sim's 300-issue independent comic book limited series, Cerebus the Aardvark. He is a three-foot tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic talking aardvark with amoral, misanthropic tendencies.

Fast Facts

1. Created by: Dave Sim
2. First appearance: Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (December 1977)
3. Inspired by Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck and Roy Thomas's adaptation of Conan the Barbarian
4. Longest running English-language comic book series by original creative team
5. Accidental misspelling of "Cerberus"
6. Home: Estarcion
7. Gender: Hermaphrodite
8. Was a vehicle for satirical subjects explored by Sim

Over the course of his long life, Cerebus was a barbarian mercenary, Prime Minister of Iest, tyrannical Pope of the Eastern Church of Tarim, murderer, revolutionary, bartender, and messiah. He received a prophesy that he would die alone and unloved as punishment for his self-centered and misanthropic ways, and indeed died attempting to kill his own mad son.