Buckle in for two weeks worth of clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Jaime Hernandez, 1977 (from friend/fan Bernie Ramirez on the Love and Rockets Facebook page)
• Anders Nilsen's Dennis Hopper for Cinefamily is magnificent
• How about a little Dennis the Menace/Lost mash-up at Big Shiny Robot?
• Moscow-born San Francisco-residing cartoonist Roman Muradov sends us some pages done in homage/tribute to Jason — they're good, and got a thumbs-up from Jason
• Again with the Comics presents a Scooby-Doo story drawn by… Ivan Brunetti?? (via Steven Thompson)
• Jason's sketch of Jean-Pierre Melville, plus more recent blog entries about Lino Ventura, Alain Delon, and summer reading
• Rosebud Archives presents a super-rare promotional flyer for Charles M. Schulz's Young Pillars
• It's the two latest weekly installments of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum
• Gipi describes his new video "Antony" as "a classic film thriller"
• For The Bold Italic, Jon Adams profiles 3 real-life Bay Area Comic Book Guys (via Robot 6); also, two installments of Truth Serum
• From Kevin Huizenga, a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond
• From Dash Shaw: a new silkscreen print; sketchbook pages; Ruined Cast sketches; The Lion King
• From Steven Weissman: "I, Anonymous" for last week and this week; Lumpy Noodle
• Frank Santoro gives another sneak peek at his Strange Tales Silver Surfer
• Drew Weing presents Set to Sea pages 112, 113, 114 & 115. Also, could someone snag me a set of these buttons?
• Tim Lane's Belligerent Piano episodes 21 and 22
• A 1950 profile of Jim Flora
• Johnny Ryan has a bunch of new prints for sale. We saw Matt Groening admiring the one above at Comic-Con, our own Kristy Valenti very happily bought the cat one, and the "Nachos" one is just 100% pure genius
• Debbie Drechsler's latest round of nature sketches features squirrels, birds, bugs & spiders
• From Mark Kalesniko, two sets of quick sketches
• Sergio Ponchione posts some pages of his artwork from Cattivi Soggetti, an anthology of noir stories written by Danielle Brolli
• Paul Hornschemeier's latest t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop
• Noah Van Sciver posts an excerpt from Blammo #5
• From Josh Simmons & co: King Quackers, Skeezy Quacker, Quacker dreams, Quokkers, cupcake crimes
• Renee French has too many updates to link all of them individually; just go to her blog and work your way down. This, this, and this are highlights for me
• Steve Brodner's latest segment from PBS's Need to Know, "Obama Where Art Thou?" and his tribute to the late John Callahan
• I think the painting from Josh Simmons's House snuck into Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary
• Tom Kaczynski's sketches from the La Mano 2nd Annual Report and another show
• Something new & untitled from Joe Kimball