Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• On Facebook Esther Pearl Watson gave this glimpse at her new work-in-progress graphic novel, a "Lady Rambo" style action-adventure!
• A self-portrait circa late-1990s and another uncollected strip by Jason; also, he's blogging about the films of Audrey Hepburn, beginning with Funny Face
• Jim Woodring presents "A matinee from CONGRESS OF THE ANIMALS"
• Drew Friedman recounts an evening at Mickey & Val Rooney's variety show
• Sergio Ponchione did the album cover & interior art for the debut album by Orangeproject
• Noah Van Sciver gives another glimpse at his book-in-progress The Hypo
• Deepest, sincerest condolences to Laura Park on the loss of her beloved and handsome cat Lewis
• Josh Simmons puts a Quacker between two Buns; also, Flexi-Quacker
• From Renee French: thumbnails, guys with mitts, something shadowy with maybe a bunny
• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 37
• John Kerschbaum's Cartoon Boy wraps up his current adventure — mmm, that's good denouement
• Matthias Lehmann updates his blog with nearly a dozen recent illustrations
• Steven Weissman takes another crack at that "Truman Capote" strip
• Oh Frank Santoro. His latest cut-n-paste job is decidedly NSFW. "Marvel Team-Up" indeed
• Welcome to Dame Darcy's dollhouse — this and more in her latest blog update
• Drew Weing's Set to Sea pages 124 & 125
• Illustrated border and hand-lettering by Richard Sala for a written piece by Nick Tosches, 1996
• An untitled Jim Flora painting from 1964
• A new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip by Kevin Huizenga
• Send Jim Blanchard your address and he'll happily send you one of these old postcards
• Sexual harrassment and chocolate figure in part 3 of Gabrielle Bell's "Comic-Con Comicumentary"
• Mark Kalesniko's third variation on "Tina in a Polka-Dot Dress"
• Steve Brodner presents a rejected New Yorker illustration
• Our Talented Staff Dept: office manager Stephanie Hayes is now posting flora & fauna sketches at The Gentleman Scientist