Gaze in wonder (and click for expanded/complete wonderment):

• Official images for the 2010 MoCCA Art Festival by Dash Shaw: poster (top), booklet (middle; hilarious) and t-shirt (bottom); Dash comments on his blog

• XOY, a new print by John Hankiewicz

• Don't miss Debbie Drechsler's frequent updates to her sketch blog, such as these lovely birds

• Steven Weissman's artwork for the "Year of the Tiger" show at GR2; also, the original sketch

• Paul Hornschemeier's cover art for the paperback edition of James Kennedy's novel The Order of Odd-Fish

• Is "Focus" a new mini from Kevin Huizenga? He never 'splains nothin' on his blog

• Part 3 of Chapter 2 of this Jordan Crane story at What Things Do

• Niño Milagroso — an illustration for a novel by Hernán Migoya by our own Eric Reynolds

• Don't forget to check Renee French's art blog for daily updates like this

Looky (and clicky for better lookies):

• Newave! contributor Molly Kiely poses for a self-portrait with the book

• These and more sketchbook wishbones by John Hankiewicz

• The Skittish Horse by Jim Flora

• An unpublished commissioned portrait of Johnny Cash by Jim Blanchard

• What's this, new Fight or Run art from Kevin Huizenga? (click for full image)

• Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary, page 10 (plus more on his blog)

• Ooh, Tim Hensley does Hitchcock: Frenzy (above), Marnie, Lifeboat

• A 2009 diary strip from Gabrielle Bell

Your periodic roundup of visual stimuli, still in its embryonic stages:

• Stephen DeStefano shares some concepts and developmental sketches for his forthcoming Fantagraphics graphic novel Lucky in Love

• Two Cups by John Hankiewicz

• Charlie Yup and pals from Jim Flora's rarest children's book (about which more info at the link)

• The Humanzee by Olivier Schrauwen

• Steve Brodner draws Howard Zinn in this video... straight to marker, no pencils, while talking... amazing (more on Zinn on Steve's blog)

• Don't forget Renee French posts new art every day

Starting with today's Online Commentary & Diversions, some minor formatting changes to hopefully make it easier to scan all that text:

• Review: "Published in the oversize Sunday page format ala the Fantagraphics’ Popeye collection (also, brilliant), Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 collects the earliest of Foster’s tales of the exiled Prince of Thule. ... The colors are warm and vibrant, and the line art pristine. The stories themselves are a delight. ... The art is consistently stunning... each page is spectacular to behold. ... The strips in Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 are merely the first installment of a massive, groundbreaking, and thoroughly exciting adventure saga that was better than nearly anything during its time, and remains better than nearly anything on the shelves today." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama

• Plug: On Twitter, The Believer calls Dash Shaw's animated IFC.com web series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. "eye-meltingly lovely"

• Plug: "Fantagraphics is so cool. If I won the lottery I’d buy a copy of everything they stock and build a library to house it all." Thanks, Anika in London!

• Things to see: Comic Book Resources presents a hilarious one-off Peter Bagge strip from Neat Stuff #1 as part of their "Year of Cool Comic Book Moments"

• Things to see: Comicrazys presents a bunch of classic Don Flowers strips (via Mike Lynch)

• Things to see: Sean T. Collins posts a bunch of updates to his awesome David Bowie sketchbook, starting with Jon Vermilyea

• Things to see & buy: Wow, this etching by John Hankiewicz is really something (having done some etchings myself, I know a lot of work went into it), and also for sale

• Things to see & buy: How'd you like a refillable glass water bottle with graphics designed by Ray Fenwick (or one of two other artists)? Faucet Face can make it happen (via Drawn)

• Real estate: If you have $2.9 million, you could own a house that Charles M. Schulz lived in in the 1970s, reports the San Francisco Chronicle (via Comix 411, who breaks the asking price down to 58,000  Complete Peanuts box sets)

Heads up, it's today's Online Commentary & Diversions:

• Review: "West Coast Blues is an adaptation of a 70s crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette (Le Petit Bleu de la Côte Ouest), and it is a reminder of how good they did paranoid crime thrillers in the 70s. It is also a reminder of how good Tardi has done comics for forty years. ...Tardi's remarkable energy and range as a visual storyteller... will have you gobbling this book up in one gigantic gulp and then going back to appreciate the details and the nuance." – Jared Gardner, Guttergeek

• Reviews/Preview: The Abstract Comics blog has links to several reviews of the anthology from around the world (and their translations), plus a video preview of the book which accompanies one of the reviews

• Profile: For the AIGA website, Michael Dooley casts a spotlight on Harvey Kurtzman: "Either directly or indirectly, he’s had an effect on everything and everybody: from Saturday Night Live to The Daily Show, from the Zucker brothers to the Wayans brothers, from National Lampoon to The Onion, and from John Kricfalusi to Matt Groening."

• Events: John Hankiewicz is having an exhibit of his prints right now at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL

• Things to see: Hypebeast has images of all the Jaime Hernandez Stussy t-shirts which I couldn't find yesterday (via The Beat)

• Contest: Also via The Beat: enter the Peanuts look-alike contest!

Original artwork from C. Tyler's imminent new book You'll Never Know, Book 1: A Good and Decent Man will be on display at SPACE (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) at the Aladdin Shrine Center in Columbus OH this Saturday, April 18. More info here.

(Also exhibiting at SPACE: John Hankiewicz. Looks like a good little show!)

Oops, I put yesterday's update together but forgot to click "publish." Here's a two-fer, then:

• Review: Rain Taxi says Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw is one of the best graphic novels of 2008

• Event: Chapman University in Orange, CA has an exhibit of original comic art by Tony Millionaire, Jeffrey Brown and Adrian Tomine currently showing through March 13

• News: On her blog, Ellen Forney celebrates the news that I Love Led Zeppelin is to be published in a Czech edition

• Things to see: New sketchbook drawings and comics by Anders Nilsen

• Things to see (and buy): Prints by John Hankiewicz

...and to buy: John Hankiewicz is offering three small drawings for sale. Actually there will probably only be two left by the time you read this.

• In a video clip from The Late Show embedded on The Huffington Post, David Letterman likens Sarah Palin's vice-presidential campaign to a Zippy the Pinhead cartoon in an interview with Katie Couric

• Pol Culture presents a contrary opinion about Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers

• Top Drawer: 10 Questions gets 10 answers from John Hankiewicz

John Hankiewicz presents the first half of a four-page collaborative strip he did with Onsmith for this month's issue of Chicago Artists' News.