Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing and possible artist commentary at the sources:
• Jason presents two cover illustrations: one for a biography of Henrik Ibsen, the other for a 1989 issue of a Norwegian fanzine (oh yeah, and the cover for his next Fanta collection What I Did is in there too)
• Steven Weissman's latest "I, Anonymous" spot and some sketchbook pages here and here
• A couple of witty recent entries on the Covered blog: Valerie Fletcher's version of The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 and Anthony Vukojevich's take on Eightball #2
• Dave Cooper gives a peek at a few of the 96 little drawings he's bringing on his West Coast book tour, with commentary
• An unpleasant new Jim Woodring panel
• The final part of Jordan Crane's "Chapter Two: Unraveling" at What Things Do
• A bit of Dungeon fan art by Drew Weing
"Greetings, stranger of the future. If you are reading this, it means the written word has survived, that the world of tomorrow still exists, and that for some reason my ramblings are still considered worth reading. My name is Mark Twain, and I write these words to you in the good old days of August 2010."
• A prose story from Michael Kupperman: "From the Newly Discovered Second Autobiography of Mark Twain"
• Richard Sala presents a whole bunch of production, concept, and storyboard art from his animated serial "Invisible Hands" from MTV's Liquid Television, in 4 installments (so far) here here here and here, with commentary
• "Benemerenze di satana" by Marco Corona
• A woodcut illustration of Cincinnati (1941), an uncompleted sketchbook drawing (circa 1950) and a magazine proposal sketch (1956), all at the Jim Flora blog (with commentary from Irwin Chusid)
• A black phoebe and some ground squirrels from Debbie Drechsler's nature sketchbook, with commentary
• It's part 8 of Gabrielle Bell's "San Diego Comic-Con Comicumentary"
• Noah Van Sciver's historical strip "Elijah Lovejoy November 7 1837" part 1 and part 2
• Laura Park gets anatomical with a how-to and a note to her doctor
• From Renee French: hairy girl, fly with stick, dog, Ikea roof, guys (photo), baby, rodents, thing roofs
• Dash Shaw's Daily Drawing nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20
• Recent Steve Brodner sketches, with commentary, of Dinesh d'Souza, cowardly Karl Rove, the corpse of Harry Truman giving Obama what-for, and Truman's bones revisited
• It looks like Kevin Huizenga is sending Glenn Ganges on some kind of Hardy Boys adventure or something
• I didn't know that Roger Langridge had done rejected cover comps for our Jules Feiffer novel reprints (one of which got canceled anyway)
• New sketchbook pages from Anders Nilsen
• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 43; Hans also has a song for you
• The cover to Derek Van Gieson's evocatively titled upcoming publication
• Tigers clustered and solo by Andrice Arp for an old Giant Robot art show
• From Wilfred Santiago, page 91 of 21, plus process images for pages 120 & 121, and a postcard illustration
• Two weeks worth of Tony Millionaire's Maakies
• Work in progress (presumably) by Joe Kimball
• Recent spot illos by Ray Fenwick for Cottage Life Magazine