I might have to start posting these art-blog roundups on the weekends too… these Monday updates are outa control…
• Airbrushed Zippy the Pinhead art (artist unknown)! Posting this on Facebook, Bill Griffith says "This is the 2-page spread ad for the 'Zippy Movie' from Variety magazine, 3/29/90. The ad was taken out by the Aspen Film Society (at that time they were the producers of the movie) in hopes of attracting a studio/distributor. Are we in turnaround yet?" More about it (and the likewise never-to-be Zippy TV show series) here
• Check out all the artwork from the Covered art show here on the Secret Headquarters Flickr page — I'm pretty sure I haven't featured this Johnny Ryan piece on Flog before — and organizer/curator Robert Goodin has a report and photos from the opening on his blog
• Michael Kupperman awards the Oscar for best Oscar
• John Hankiewicz does Ditko , plus another sketchbook page
• A 1994 minicomic by Frank Santoro & Jon Good
• Jewelry and accessories "made from 100% genuine doll" by Dame Darcy
• Several new pieces by Richard Sala available at Comic Art Collective or direct via Richard's blog
• Detail of a mid-1990s Jim Flora illustration
• The conclusion of Gabrielle Bell's New York story
• Mark Kalesniko is really channeling Egon Schiele in this one
• Yowie! Sergio Ponchione presents a full-color Grotesque story from the pages of the new issue of Linus
• This one from Renee French is even creepier as the follow-up to this one
• Ectopiary page 14 and a Cochlea and Eustachia one-pager from Hans Rickheit
• More from "Tales of Abstraction House" by Derek Van Gieson
• Three more structures by Tom Kaczynski: "incoherent amalgamation," "basalt garden" and, above, "The Tomb of Jack Kirby"
• More new Jordan Crane at What Things Do