It certainly seemed to be, until about half way through. Then it's like a switch flipped in his head and he decided that women were the source of all wrong in the world.

The editorial pages definitely say so, but I don't see the same thing in the storyline. 

In the Women arc, Astoria realizes that her actions will only bring her misery, that she never wanted power and unquestioning obedience. She then turns her back on her political career. That has to be the most mature thing any character ever did in the series.

In the Reads arc, a writer is seduced by the comfort that money brings and finally accepts to compromise his artistic integrity to keep the cash pouring in. He blames it on his girlfriend, but that's clearly a feeble excuse... anyone in an adult relationship could tell their significant other "sorry, darling, I know it means we'll have less money, but I just can't go that way professionally". That Viktor Davis fellow is just weak.

When Cerebus is stuck in that infernal bar in Guys and Rick's story, all male and female characters act like immature and emotionally dependent jerks. Nobody ends up looking good, neither men nor women.

During the F. Scott Fitzgerald storyline, Cerebus acts like a jealous prick while Jaka is bending backwards to soothe his ego even when he's clearly stopping her from pursuing her own dreams. And she cleverly saves his life at the end. That arc is certainly not misogynistic.

During the Hemingway period, Cerebus blames Jaka for delaying their journey through the mountain passes. Of course, being Cerebus, he never bothers to inform her that time is of the essence and that winter will soon prevent them from reaching their destination. Once again it's a guy who's acting like an idiot, not a woman. He then irrationally blames her for not having been present for his father's death... a father he left behind years and years ago. All I could think of saying to the little gray runt as he was berating his girlfriend was "for heaven's sake, man, grow up".

And then we get into the religious phase, where a young Jaka lookalike manages to make herself into a powerful religious figure. What can I say? Women can be ambitious, too.

As I said, I am not blind to Dave Sim's anti-feminism rants (although his anti-atheist rants stung just as hard), but the Cerebus story itself never struck me as being misogynistic. Certainly less so than the exploitative Titties-fests that could be seen in certain superhero comics at the same time!

Arrogant perhaps, but not an ass - IOW this was a powerful figure that had to be respected whether you liked her or not. There's little doubt in my mind that there was a strong element of misogyny involved in the transformation of this character first into a villain then to a kind of weak, misguided soul in need of "redemption".

One reason I can't take too seriously all this talk of how Marvel is striking a blow for gender equality by doing things like making Thor and Captain Marvel females or giving us yet another She-Hulk series is that they've never shown any signs of recognising the strongest and most original female characters that have been gifted to them by writers like Englehart (Mantis, Moondragon) and Kirby (Thena, from the Eternals), or of trying to redress the mishandling they've been subjected to over the years by incompetent or just plain hostile writers.

I've always had one question about Cerebus the series: why Cerebus the Aardvark? It's always seemed to me totally unnecessary from a purely creative POV: from the little I've read, Cerebus as a character would have worked as well or even better if he'd been a male human character.

My understanding is that the books was originally intended to be a simple parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy, so a funny animal barbarian hero fits in that milieu. However, the book soon morphed into something very different.

The post-9/11 Marvel Knights Captain America book. Within two story arcs, it went from Cap symbolically avenging the victims of the attacks by beating "totally not Bin Laden, you guys" to uncovering a nefarious conspiracy perpetrated by the U.S. government that retconned the events of Avengers #4.

It says a lot that the best arc of the book used the cliché plot of "what if the Nazis won the war."