Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing and possible artist commentary at the sources:
• Drew Friedman illustrates the latest crop of pop stars-cum-reality TV stars for Billboard (with commentary)
• The cover of a new minicomic Miss Lasko-Gross is debuting at SPX (via Facebook)
• From Kevin Huizenga, a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip
• Two more stages in Matthias Lehmann's scratchboard work in progress
• From Jason: a 1996 anthology story page; a lizard lady; an illustration of U2; and three early cartoons
• Steven Weissman drew Courtney Love for The Stranger's Bumbershoot guide; also, "I, Anonymous" (original, as printed), and ice cream roundup
• Two more panels from an upcoming comic by John Hankiewicz
• Two good ones at the Covered blog: Jeffrey Meyer does Al Columbia's Pim & Francie and Derek Van Gieson does New Mutants #33
• Relatedly, at his Wood Paneled Basement blog Robert Goodin says "The Criterion Collection curated a film festival for this year's All Tomorrow's Parties in New York. Comic artists were asked to create posters for the different movies and I did the one above for Gomorrah."
• Original art, crafts and other good stuff in Dame Darcy's latest blog update
• Drew Weing posts this snippet of a comic story he has in the current issue of the Oxford American; Josh Simmons posts an even less revealing bit of his strip from the same issue
• The latest installment of Tim Lane's Belligerent Piano
• At the Jim Flora art blog: a 1960 tempera sketch, 1991 sketchbook & journal pages
• Debbie Drechsler sketches squirrels and other fauna, plus a heron
• Gabrielle Bell's San Diego adventures continue in part 6 of her Comic-Con Comicumentary
• Mark Kalesniko's AMC Pacer reference sketches for Freeway move to the interior
• Sergio Ponchione presents "Riunione di Condominio" ("Condo Meeting") from the new issue of Linus
• Paul Hornschemeier's latest t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop
• Another heartrending Lewis strip from Laura Park
• Josh Simmons presents his strip from Bound & Gagged; also, "Quacker Alley" isn't credited to Josh but it sure looks like one of his
• From Renee French: scrote face girl, Barry the bird swimming, bunny with twine, a popsicle, and a series of shadowy things
• Dash Shaw's Daily Drawing nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, plus his animated sitcom pitch — I'd watch it
• Steve Brodner takes on a hero and a villain: Paul Conrad and Pastor Terry Jones respectively
• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 40 — our Dutch-speaking readers may be interested to know that Ectopiary is being translated and serialized at Serieland