A lot of catching up to do with this batch of clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing and possible artist commentary at the sources:
• A couple of things Bill Griffith has recently shared on Facebook: the rejected first draft of the home screen for the Zippy Comix iPhone app, and a "lost" Wacky Packages design that Bill says is "almost sacrilegious"
• Dr. Hermes Retro-Scans presents "The Photo-Finish!", a 4-page Kim Deitch story from Corn Fed, 1972 (via ¡Journalista!)
• At Potrzebie, Bhob Stewart presents Roy Crane's 1920s Mexico sketchbook (via ¡Journalista!)
• Jim Woodring presents "Spectacularly unpleasant goings-on from CONGRESS OF THE ANIMALS, page 60"
• It's Stephen DeStefano's 'Mazing Man redux (and seemingly feminized)
• From Matthias Lehmann, one more work-in-progress photo and, above, the finished product
• From Jason: promotional "bubblegum cards"; a catalog cover (one of ours? I don't have them handy to check); and a book cover illustration (with a different take on the dog-headed figure)
• From Steven Weissman: a new "I, Anonymous" spot; new stuff on sale at Comic Art Collective; the cutest damn sidewalk chalk drawing ever; "School Spirits" & "Series 3" Stinckers
• From Frank Santoro: more Silver Surfer art; something titled Pompe11; "Postcard from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania" for Internazionale, with translation
• A new batch of crafts & merch from Dame Darcy in her latest blog update
• 19 new illustrations by Eleanor Davis for a local organic farm newsletter and a letterpress print in the new edition of the Cloudy Collection
• A handful of vintage Richard Sala sketchbook pages
• The latest installment of Tim Lane's Belligerent Piano
• Now available, a licensed Jim Flora font complete with "Flornaments" dingbats
• From Debbie Drechsler's nature sketchbook: woodpeckers, turtles, fungi, squirrels
• From Lilli Carré: the cover of the Chicago Reader's Fall Arts Guide; animated loop drawings in progress, completed and projected
• Gabrielle Bell presents part 7 of her "San Diego Comic-Con Comicumentary" and her strip from the San Francisco Panorama
• More AMC Pacer studies for Freeway by Mark Kalesniko, including action/disaster shots
• A Sergio Ponchione illustration for a radio talent show (I think)
• A message from Noah Van Sciver, plus an announcement and other updates, and an excerpt from his Lincoln story at Top Shelf 2.0
• Laura Park documents a day in the life with chronic back pain
• From Josh Simmons: Rickles, swaying Quackers
• From Renee French: Bugatti toy photo, sculpt of slug masked girl, e's, Barry with stick, tongue mask, mitt dude, slug girl sketch, shadowy creature, turds, Otto
• Dash Shaw's Daily Drawings no. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14
• Steve Brodner's latest newsmaker portraits with commentary: Marty Peretz, John Boehner, Christine O'Donnell, Hamid Karzai, Cantor Yosele Rosenblatt, Sarah Palin & Rupert Murdoch
• Anders Nilsen's Great Gatsby cover for Penguin UK, with preliminary studies; a car engine; and a portrait of Richard Brautigan
• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 41 & 42, plus a poster for The Bad Seed
• A concert poster from Derek Van Gieson's archives
• The latest Maakies from Tony Millionaire
• Jordan Crane's cover illustration for the latest Cinefamily newsletter