Apologies for the long delay since the last roundup. I enjoy bringing you these posts but lately it's been hard to squeeze them in. I may need to figure out a new approach or something. Anyway, on with the show:
• "Unemployment" strips by Tim Hensley
• Hey, a new comic from Jonathan Bennett! Spin commissioned a 2-page strip from Jonathan as part of their commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind and posted it on Facebook (Via Spurge)
• Nate Neal has a new website you should bookmark/subscribe to, with lots & lots of updates, including comics in the video "Comix-O-Matic" format, sneak peeks of a new book he's working on and a whole mess more
• Drew Friedman spotlights those awesome "Cool Art Pencils" that Pentech put out in the early '90s
• Dave Cooper shares this rough preliminary sketch and a whole mess of reference photos (and behind-the-scenes shenanigans) for a new painting he's working on
• Richard Sala — now on Tumblr! Still some previously unshared updates on his Here Lies Richard Sala blog too
• Tim Lane illustrates the poster & program for the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase festival
• Lorenzo Mattotti also illustrates for a film festival, Annency Cinéma Italien; plus a New Yorker cover and Johnny Rebb
• Lilli Carré illustrates for the Chicago Reader and animates a Wallace Stevens poem at The Hooded Utilitarian
• You may have heard we've signed Noah Van Sciver's in-progress graphic novel about Abraham Lincoln, The Hypo — here Noah presents an excerpt
• Stephen DeStefano continues to fill up his new Tumblr with Popeye designs, sketches and other stuff
• The usual amazing stuff from Renee French
• Steve Brodner on the debt-ceiling debacle for the Washington Post and additional recent sketches at his blog
• Yes, it's a panel from Kevin Huizenga's eagerly-awaited Ganges #4
• Four weeks worth of Paul Hornschemeier's daily sketches at The Daily Forlorn
• As we enter the dog days of summer Wilfred Santiago's arctic fox is looking mighty cool
• Johnny Ryan gets in the Smurf spirit (Seal Team Smurf? Smurf Team Six? Smurf Team Smurf?) and draws his favorite bullies
• Yowie, this back cover to Stan Sakai's latest annual sketchbook — yowie!
And more Things to See since the last update:
• Glimpses of a new comic from Matthias Lehmann
• Steven Weissman's latest "I, Anonymous" spots and more at his Chewing Gum in Church blog
• A figure painting from a life drawing class by John Hankiewicz
• Dame Darcy's developed a propinquity for dolphins
• Debbie Drechsler returns to her nature-sketching blog Just Around the Corner
• Sketches by Mark Kalesniko for his new graphic novel Freeway at his blog
• Sergio Ponchione gives some glimpses of his summer projects (if I'm interpreting the autotranslation correctly)
• Here's the blog of new Mome contributor Nick Drnaso
• Recent sketches (and aquarium videos) by Laura Park
• New drawings from Sophie Crumb
• Anders Nilsen 's book tour travel sketches
• Lots of updates on recent projects and an autobio-ish strip or two from Derek Van Gieson
• Anthony Vukojevich takes on Love and Rockets #1 at the Covered blog