Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman

• This week's Maakies by Tony Millionaire

• This week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane

• That version of a Jesse Marsh Tarzan cover by our own Eric Reynolds that I believe we've featured here previously has finally shown up on the Covered blog

• Derek Van Gieson claims to be "toning it down" as "Tales from Abstraction House" proceeds — lies

Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• Ellen Forney's on the cover (as both artist and subject, with her BF) of this week's issue of The Stranger

• On Facebook, Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Fan Page posts the most recent Unlovable strip from Bust

• Johnny Ryan says on his LJ "One of my comics will be in a group print show this weekend in France."

• Another really nice bird sketch (this time a Cooper's hawk) by Debbie Drechsler

• Meathaus posts scans of the latest issue of Charles Burns's Free Shit minicomic

• Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin drop themselves into their Quackers universe

• Kevin Huizenga illustrates a link to an article of interest

• Things in Derek Van Gieson's Abstraction House are really getting weird

• Here's this week's Truth Serum from Jon Adams

Shipping to comic shops nationwide (as noted by the comics cognoscenti quoted below):

The Culture Corner
by Basil Wolverton

160-page full-color 9" x 6.75" hardcover • $22.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-308-8

Joe McCulloch at Comics Comics describes it aptly: "An interesting experiment in Golden Age of Reprints presentational engineering, this new 160-page landscape-format Fantagraphics hardcover collects all of the great Basil Wolverton’s crackpot daily advice strips as seen in the pages of Fawcett’s Whiz Comics, 1945-52, presented in comparison with Wolverton’s original pencil roughs for what looks like every installment." The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon brings the basketball metaphor: "Who doesn't want to read as much Basil Wolverton as they can? He's not in the starting all-time five, but he gets a lot of playing time off the bench." At Comics Alliance Douglas Wolk declaims "Goofiness, history and process!"

Mome Vol. 18 - Spring 2010
by various artists; edited by Eric Reynolds

128-page color/b&w 7" x 9" softcover • $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-303-3

Joe McCulloch at Comics Comics opines "The centerpiece of this Spring 2010 edition of the Fantagraphics house anthology is, without question, the return of Dave Cooper to comics" and of the other contributors says "That really is a nice lineup"; Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter agrees that it "offers a super-strong line-up of creators." We can't disagree — you can see the full table of contents and samples from each contributor as part of our PDF excerpt.

So head on down to your local comic shop, but not before checking out the bountiful information and sneak peeks at the links above, and it's always a good idea to confirm availability beforehand.

Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• Catching up with the last two installments of The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour from John Kerschbaum — curse you, RSS-less ACT-I-VATE!

• Say it ain't so: the last New Character Parade strip by Johnny Ryan EVER!

• The new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond is brought to you by the letter F — what is it with Kevin Huizenga and that letter lately?

• Our counterparts over at D&Q have the rejected (!!!) cover for the Fortune "500" issue by Chris Ware

• Dan Clowes fans & Strand Bookstore tote bag collectors alike are sure to be thrilled with the Strand's latest tote release; those in the overlap area of the Venn diagram may explode from excitement. It's pretty damn cute! Peggy's got a close-up of the art.

• Marco Corona's story for a comics anthology on the theme of art theft (I think; Google Translate has a little trouble with the Italian)

• I really like the composition of Debbie Drechsler's sketch of her neighborhood vultures

• Oh man, these little hand-bound silkscreened books (titled Don't Drink from the Sea) by Lilli Carré look so great — more pics at the link

• Only Renee French knows whether this weasel is doing a jaunty dance or poised to scamper away — I vote the former

• That was fast — Steven Weissman's new series of Stinckers is almost ready to go to press already

• Andrice Arp is gearing up for the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend

• Derek Van Gieson takes us deeper into Abstraction House

Friday evening means a new batch of online strips:

Salem F.D. to the rescue in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson...

...Wedgie receives some "wisdom" in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan....

...and this week's is by far the weirdest installment of Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman yet.

Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• Paul Hornschemeier teases his contribution to Marvel's forthcoming Strange Tales 2, and does Denzel for the WSJ; also, he'll be at C2E2 tomorrow signing at the Chicago Comics booth!

• Johnny Ryan posts this and more Prison Pit fan art by Matt Furie for The Boys Are Back in Town art show at GRSF — dear Johnny, how about a series of Cold Heat Special-style Prison Pit Specials?

• Lumpy Noodle drops some Bible on you, courtesy of Steven Weissman

• Fletcher Henderson, 1942, by Jim Flora

• Kevin Huizenga draws Miyazaki and a monkey, maps his cartoon universe

• Jim Woodring did this

• More "Tales of Abstraction House" from Derek Van Gieson

Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• What Things Do has started excerpting strips from The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo.

• Johnny Ryan illustrates a short story by Gary Fairfull for Vice

• Bill Griffith recently posted his "Top 40 List on Comics and Their Creation" on Facebook and it's been making the rounds; you can see the whole thing at Cartoon SNAP

• This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman

• Tony Millionaire presents an all-tattoo Maakies this week

• Street sketching with soprano soundtrack, by Frank Santoro

• Sen. Mitch McConnell & pollster Frank Luntz by Steve Brodner, with commentary

• A splash page by Derek Van Gieson

Thanks to all the artists, attendees, and MoCCA staff & volunteers for helping make the 2010 MoCCA Art Festival our most successful ever! We sold out of numerous titles, some within hours (and to the chagrin of our artists who ran out of books to sign — sorry!), and had mobs of fans turn out for our signings.

I took a load of photos; some highlights are below, followed by an embedded slideshow with lots more shots (which you can also view full screen) and a mosaic of thumbnails to browse. You can also browse the full set of photos with captions on our Flickr page.

Our setup at opening time, dwarfed by the cavernous interior of the Armory.

Mome dudes Derek Van Gieson, Nate Neal, editor Eric Reynolds, and Jon Vermilyea.

Jaime Hernandez with a long line of fans.

Eric observes as Jaime & Adrian Tomine share a laugh; that's Todd Hignite, author of The Art of Jaime Hernandez, in the tan jacket.

Charles Burns & Jaime Hernandez.

Eric looks on in admiration as living legends Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee & Gahan Wilson sign and greet fans.

Hotwire editor Glenn Head and Squirrel Machine auteur Hans Rickheit.

We were all knocked out by this guy's Fantomah tattoo!

Kim Deitch & Paul Karasik.

Esther Pearl Watson, Miss Lasko-Gross & Sara Edward-Corbett form a trio of triple-named women.

Dash Shaw, Michael Kupperman & Charles Burns.

The End!

Bonus: We spotted Enid preparing to clobber a pair of amorous pandas in our mural-filled hotel.

Daily clips & strips — click on for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• At What Things Do, the first half of "The Ghoul Man," from Jaime Hernandez's 2002 mini-comic Death Tales No. 1

• Jim Woodring's Alaska diary

• Hey, John Kerschbaum has a new weekly strip, The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour, over at ACT-I-VATE — I'll try to remember to link to it each week (c'mon Dino, get an RSS feed)

• Noah Van Sciver illustrates another concert review for the Denver Westword

• It's a new New Character Parade strip by Johnny Ryan

• Three pages from John Hankiewicz's sketchbook

• There's a lot of stunning new work on Eleanor Davis's website (hat tip: Spurge)

• It's the latest installment of Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane

• Easily Mused presents "Sleezball," a 1982 goodie by Peter Bagge (via Steven Thompson)

• This appears to be the beginning of a new strip by Kevin Huizenga

• Hans Rickheit's Ectiopiary, page 19

• Perhaps you picked up a copy of Derek Van Gieson's rough-draft version of Whiskey is the Key Says Me at MoCCA — he's still working on expanding it, as evidenced by this brand new page

• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams

• Have a look at Andrice Arp's pieces from the last Post-It show at GR2

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship:

Mome Vol. 18 - Spring 2010
by various artists; edited by Eric Reynolds

128-page color/b&w 7" x 9" softcover • $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-303-3

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The multiple Harvey and Eisner Award nominee returns for its fifth year. With this issue, the series has now featured over 2000 pages of comics in its four and half years of existence (2109, to be exact), which may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology. This issue's cover is by Nate Neal, who delivers "The Neurotic Nexus of Creation," a 15-page explication of the creative process. MOME 18 also includes the first new comic in several years by Dave Cooper, as well as the MOME debuts of Tim Lane, Ivan Brun, Joe Daly, and Jon Adams. Also returning are MOME stalwarts Lilli Carré, Ben Jones, Frank Santoro, Jon Vermilyea, Nicolas Mahler, Ted Stearn, Renée French, Conor O'Keefe, Derek Van Gieson, and T. Edward Bak.

Download an EXCLUSIVE 15-page PDF excerpt (5.9 MB) with a page from every artist in the issue.