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

• Whoa, how come I didn't know that Kevin Huizenga has a Fight or Run blog? Now I do, thanks to Sean T. Collins. Meanwhile, over on his main blog, a screenshot of a scan of something wild

• Michael Kupperman gives a blurry sneak peek of a work in progress (I took the liberty of bumping up the contrast)

• A new Johnny Ryan comic for Vice; elsewhere, this

• A sketch for The Groovy Age of Horror by Josh Simmons (uh, NSFW) — via Sean T. Collins again; meanwhile, on Josh's own blog, a sketch of Malibu

• Post-It naughtiness by Steven Weissman; elsewhere, sketchbook pages

• Speaking of Post-Its, here's 10 amazing ones from Eleanor Davis

• "White Cats of the Red Sea," an illustration by Marco Corona

• Head to Jim Blanchard's blog for the uncensored versions of his diseased Norwegians (and the story behind the censor bars)

• Girl in Fish Net Stockings by Mark Kalesniko

• If Noah Van Sciver knew my email address he'd probably be asking me to plug the new issue of his self-published comic Blammo — hey Noah, send me a copy and I'll think about it, cough cough

• From Renee French, Rock Hudson (ha ha), some embarrassment, and a dead bug photo

• Page 28 of Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary

• Two introductory pages by Derek Van Gieson — oops, one more

• T. Edward Bak's sea otter linocut print

• It ain't a cartoon but I'd be a fool not to link to this short prose story by Gary Panter

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

• From Jim Woodring, a glimpse at his next book following Weathercraft, Congress of the Animals

• The genius of Johnny Ryan brings you "Tron of Finland"

• What Things Do begins serialization of Kevin Huizenga's Rumbling

• Gabrielle Bell continues and concludes reporting from her Stockholm trip

• Renee French does hilarious and alarming with equal aplomb

• Hans Rickheit presents Ectopiary page 22 and his description of this illustration is priceless

• Recent illustrations by Marco Corona: Sports! Magic!

• Character sketches from Mail Order Bride by Mark Kalesniko

• I do believe the cabbit is a Josh Simmons creation on his & Wendy Chin's Quackers blog

• Here's a sneak peek at a future installment of Derek Van Gieson's Mome serial "Devil Doll"

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

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

• Via the Family blog, Gary Panter draws a chalk mural (YouTube link)

 A bunch of g-g-g-ghosts in development by Steven Weissman

• Sketchbook page by John Hankiewicz

• Some kind of stuff in progress by Frank Santoro

• An old Fantagraphics issue of Usagi Yojimbo gets the Covered treatment by Carla Rodgrigues

• Steve Lafler's 1980s Fantagraphics series Dog Boy is being serialized at CO2 Comics

• Google translates the title of this Marco Corona story excerpt as "Merits of Satan" (very NSFW)

• Johnny Ryan presents a bit of Prison Pit fan art by Markus Toivonen

• Double whoa from Renee French

• Make way for Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin's Quackers

• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 18, plus another unpublished Cochlea & Eustachia strip

• Dash Shaw models his "Dieball Trophy" BodyWorld silkscreen print, now available from Desert Island in Brooklyn

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

• At The Hooded Utilitarian, Ng Suat Tong examines some examples of Hal Foster's original art

• Marco Corona presents some "drawings from the crypt"

• Renee French is on a mouth/teeth kick lately

• Glenn & Wendy looking grumpy, presented without context by Kevin Huizenga

• 'Nother one of these guys from Tom Kaczynski

Your daily Fantagraphics-related artblog links:

• The penultimate installment of Steven Weissman's "This Already Happened" at What Things Do

• Rick Veitch presents part 1 of a mid-1990s comic based on a dream he had while being interviewed for The Comics Journal #175 (via The Comics Reporter)

• A censored cover by Marco Corona

• This week’s episode of Belligerent Piano from Tim Lane

Your daily allowance of Fanta-related cartoon art:

• The Awesomenomicon posts 17 of Popeye's "Greatest Hits," saying "Of course we're all familiar with Popeye the Sailor Man and his penchant for fisticuffs, but unless you've read his origins in Segar's Thimble Theatre strip, you have no idea how truly dynamic and visceral his unique brand of cartoon violence could be. ... Thankfully Fantagraphics has spent the last several years publishing those handsome oversized collections of Segar's Thimble Theatre, from which I have assembled this small repository of Popeye punching things.

• More "Buongiorno" from Marco Corona

• More "Abstraction House" absurdity and a band flyer design from Derek Van Gieson

• Another of Tom Kaczynski's inscrutable structures

For your viewing and clicking:

• A quashed illustration by Marco Corona for an article about a festival of African cinema. Now there's an ass R. Crumb could get behind, if you'll pardon the expression

• A bit of a departure for Debbie Drechsler, who draws the gear she takes on her nature/sketch walks (also, I didn't know she was on Flickr)

• I've gotta get me a copy of this nutty book Derek Van Gieson keeps posting previews of

• Ha! It's Steven Weissman's latest "I, Anonymous" spot

• A Covered contribution by fresh Mome face Jon Adams

• Kitty portraits by Andrice Arp (part of a group show that's up now)

• Recent sketches and a 2007 comic from Sophie Crumb

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• A recent commission by Richard Sala

• Marco Corona draws a platypus for the launch of a new magazine by that name

• More sketches (above) and the resulting finished watercolor (not shown here) by Mark Kalesniko

• Steve Brodner's New Yorker ode to the Village Vanguard (with lots of preparatory sketches)

Lookit (& clickit):

• Part 6 of Steven Weissman's "This Already Happened" at What Things Do

• Mike Loveland takes an interesting approach to Jason's Pocket Full of Rain on the Covered blog

• Buongiorno, Marco Corona

• The Perils of Overexuberance, a mid-1990s painting by Jim Flora