Periodic (and tardy… so busy) clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Lorenzo Mattotti World Cup illustrations posted at the Forbidden Planet International Blog
• Bob Fingerman posts a couple of concept illustrations for his in-progress prose novel The Hell of It
• Dash Shaw posts some storyboards for his in-progress animated film The Ruined Cast
• Last week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman; also, if you want to see the scanned version of the current Barack Hussein Obama strip, it's here; also, the greatest Little League team photo ever
• From Frank Santoro: a subway sketch, a color-matching analysis swatch thingy, and a funny collage
• Noah Van Sciver recounts helping John Porcellino move, and at Covered, takes on an Al Feldstein EC classic
• From Kevin Huizenga: psychedelic explorations with Photoshop filters and aspects of McSkulls at Fight or Run; a helpful diagram at New Construction; and Glenn Ganges roughs at his flagship The Balloonist
"When you Orcs are through fighting, you can clean up this tell, it is a pig sty and a disgrace. Do you hear me? Just look at this mess– skulls and guts everywhere. Do you act like this at home?"
• The latest prose burst from Gary Panter
• Drew Weing's Set to Sea pages 108 & 109
• Richard Sala presents 3 original pages from Mad Night (and they're for sale)
• A mystery: is this lettering the work of Jim Flora?
• Jim Blanchard paints Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
• Debbie Drechsler sketches birds and mammals
• A Kevin Nowlan spot illo for The Comics Journal, 1981 (anyone who can identify the issue number, please leave a comment)
• Mark Kalesniko's second take on the Girl in Orange Stripes
• Sergio Ponchione posts part of the "bonus track" strip he did for the book La Legge del Cane by Jake La Furia & Guè Pequeno
• It's Paul Hornschemeier's majestic weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop
• Feel better soon, Laura Park
• From Josh Simmons & co., Quacker Supreme & Tiniest Quacker
• From Renee French: fly, hair rock, doodle, dude, rock
• Sophie Crumb posts a mess of new drawings and teases her upcoming book
• Stephen DeStefano talks about his Popeye art & design work (such as the DVD illustrations above) with Jason Anders of Fulle Circle
• Page 32 of Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary; also, a "forgotten Cochlea & Eustachia drawing " that makes a dandy desktop wallpaper
• Robert Goodin presents an excerpt from "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung," his story in Mome Vol. 19 (out tomorrow!)
• Tom Kaczynski's sketch and report from the Twin Cities Zinefest
• At the Rosebud Archives blog, another vintage Peanuts ad sheet