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Periodic clips & strips (normal posting schedule returns next week, probably) — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • On the Rosebud Archives blog, a rare Peanuts promotional flyer (Rosebud Archives at Fantagraphics) • A video from Dash Shaw… some kind of teaser or something? Even if it's just a joke, it's pretty funny • T. Edward Bak, Lilli Carré and John Hankiewicz (top to bottom) all have pieces in Pony Club Gallery's current print show The Great Outdoors (available for purchase here) • This is one part of a three-piece screenprint by Eleanor Davis for a print show…

Come down and hang out with the enchanting Dame Darcy this Saturday, July 10 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. To celebrate the publication of her new MEAT CAKE anthology there will be an exhibition of her exquisite artwork, a musical performance, book signing, fortune telling, and doubtless a few surprises. If you’re new to Dame Darcy’s singular neo-Victorian aesthetic you’re in for a treat. Longtime fans will enjoy an opportunity to experience her diverse talents in the intimate atmosphere of Fantagraphics colorful showroom, located at 1201 S. Vale Street at Airport Way S. just minutes…

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Exploration, thankfully, is precisely what Weathercraft is all about. Woodring’s latest graphic novel is a deep exploration of Unifactor, through looking glasses, behind tears in the world’s fabric, under sea and into space, this time all experienced through the beady eyes of Frank’s principle antagonist, Manhog." – Brian Heater, The Daily Cross Hatch • Interview: At Newsarama, Michael C. Lorah discusses Weathercraft with Jim Woodring: "This is Manhog’s book. He’s a more interesting character than Frank in a lot of ways. He’s deep, whereas Frank is bottomless." • Review: "Fantagraphics has done the world…

Follow The White Rhinoceros for all things pertaining to the eponymous Mome serial (beginning in Vol. 19) from Josh Simmons and his collaborators.

Look what arrived on our doorstep today: advance copies of The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978! This new volume will be debuting at Comic-Con and should hit stores in August.

Vol. 19 of Mome isn't even out yet and we're already wrapping up work on the landmark 20th volume, due in October. Beginning with this issue the anthology sports a new design by Fantagraphics Art Director Adam Grano. The cover star is Fuzz from Ted Stearn's current ongoing Fuzz & Pluck serial "The Moolah Tree."

A set of photos from the 1974 San Diego Comic-Con at the Comic-Convention Memories blog has been making the rounds. Of particluar interest at the end of this batch: photos of Charles M. Schulz on stage talking and sketching, joined by Peanuts animation director Bill Melendez. Oh, to have been in that audience!

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "This graphic memoir chronicles the author’s struggle with the aging of her father and stepmother. The subject matter isn’t pretty. Still, [Special Exits] is intriguing, well-written and thought-provoking."  – Nick Smith, ICv2 • Reviews: The new episode of Easy Rider, the radio show for "rock, punk rock, country, power pop, garage and comics" from Radio PFM out of Arras in northern France, features Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire, Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane, and Hate Annual #8 by Peter Bagge among their Comics of the Week • Review: "You have…

Our weekly visit with the stubbly girl and the PotUS: Here's something I don't think very often: I wish the world were more like this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… …Meanwhile, the Secret Service gets a little road rage in this week's Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman.

Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Set to Sea pages 104 and 105 from Drew Weing • It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum • Lots of Kevin Huizenga updates: a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip, Fight or Run's Chopper at rest; and minicomic sketchbooks at New Construction (not to mention a peek at his new D&Q book) • A heartbreaking "I, Anonymous " from Steven Weissman • Sketches of sculptures by Aristide Maillol by John Hankiewicz • A scene with power lines by Frank…