Aardvark endnotes: At Ninth Art, Paul O'Brien examines the achievement of Cerebus separate from the rantings and ravings of Dave Sim:

"... [I]t's worth taking some time to remember that CEREBUS is indeed a landmark comic, albeit a severely flawed one. Besides, it's easy to overlook the book or dismiss it as a bizarre freak title. CEREBUS remains determinedly cult material - unlike MAUS, it never became a byword for intelligent comics. Nor is it a SANDMAN or WATCHMEN, with an array of clone books that demonstrate how influential it was. Not many people are making biographical funny animal comics about religion, philosophy and gender politics. And the huge sprawling epic format has swung almost completely out of fashion in favour of the more concise, self-contained graphic novel. Nobody is doing this kind of thing any more. By contemporary standards, SANDMAN is regarded as a bit of an epic undertaking. CEREBUS seems more like an epic folly."