Daily clips & strips — click for improved viewing at the sources:
• Drew Friedman strikes straight to the heart of the zeitgeist in his new cover illo for The Nation
• Tim Hensley takes you through his process for creating the cover lettering for D&Q's new Tatsumi book
• This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman
• This week's Maakies from Tony Millionaire
• We've featured this Robert Goodin piece before but it's up on the Covered blog today
• At Three Men in a Tub, Ted Dawson presents the original art for a 1933 Popeye vs. Bluto Thimble Theatre strip (published in Popeye Vol. 3: "Let's You and Him Fight!"; via The Comics Reporter )
• Celebrities is a new fine art print available from Jim Flora Art
• More preliminary sketches from Mail Order Bride by Mark Kalesniko