Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Gonked, Glooked & Slurped! share a recently-acquired original Eightball page by Daniel Clowes
• Michael Kupperman hijacks Beetle Bailey — according to this recent TCJ article I think Mort Walker would approve
• The Paris Review presents a gallery of Robert Crumb self-portraits through the years (via The Comics Reporter)
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum
• J.R. Williams has zillions of great prints for sale at his new J.R.'s Prints of Darkness site
• Robot 6 reports: Jon Adams does a Chick-style strip to promote a video game; also from Jon, a new Truth Serum strip
• From Kevin Huizenga: a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip; new Fight or Run action; new New Construction business
• From Steven Weissman: this week's "I, Anonymous" and three more Post-Its
• Three ironically-labeled "copies from famous artists " from the sketchbook of John Hankiewicz
• Aha! All those teasers from Frank Santoro have been leading up to this, "page 1 of a comic for Internazionale, an Italian independent weekly newsmagazine. Coming soon!"
• Speaking of Internazionale, Marco Corona has an illustration in this week's issue
• Richard Sala presents the original art for the cover of Evil Eye #10 and a 1987 rarity called "Haircut"
• From Tim Lane, this week's Belligerent Piano and this illustration for the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
• On the Jim Flora Art Blog: Electromechanical Design sales brochure; a children's book illustration detail; half of a 1950s business card illustration (above); and a link to the 1959 UPA animated adaptation of Flora's The Fabulous Firework Family produced by Gene Deitch
• Johnny Ryan's Lovecraftian creatures, coming soon to a Stinckers machine near you
• "Girl in Black Dress and Scarf " by Mark Kalesniko
• It's Paul Hornschemeier's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop and it incorporates the logo from his 2007 art show at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
• From Josh Simmons, various Quackers blog shenanigans and Randy Gander tomfoolery with Wendy Chin (including her version of Josh's "Jesus Christ" from his Mome story of the same name)
• So much great new stuff from Renee French — just go to her main blog page, there's too much to link individually
• Buy a drawing of two Popeyes punching by Stephen DeStefano to benefit Gulf Coast cleanup
• Speaking of the Gulf, this is just one of a trio of videos by Steve Brodner on the topic, including his latest segment on Need to Know on PBS
• Two of Anders Nilsen's entries in Post-It V
• Page 29 of Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary