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

• Another new episode of The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE

• "Tuppence" is another Butter and Blood piece from Steven Weissman, who adds "There are photos here and a catalogue eventually here."

• New Stinckers, including 2 new Steven Weissman designs, are now in stock at GR2

• Dame Darcy announces a sale in her Etsy shop and an extensive tour of Portugal!

• Richard Sala presents "Recent drawings commissioned for a book of ghost stories"

• Gabrielle Bell presents her full-color strip from the current issue of The Believer (based on a poem by Sasha Chernyi)

• "Girl Wearing Red Sunglasses" by Mark Kalesniko

• Sergio Ponchione posts this teaser from Grotesque #4 (available soon!) and announces he'll be at the Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin this weekend

• Steve Brodner brings you a news dispatch from "Matt Sludge"

• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary, page 23

• "Children of the Grave" (in color!) and another "Abstraction House" page from Derek Van Gieson

Online Commentary & Diversions:

• Commentary: At The Groovy Age of Horror, Richard Sala, Josh Simmons and others answer the question "Can comics be scary?" It's a good read (via Robot 6)

• Reviewer: Bob Levin is a guest reviewer at Comic Book Galaxy this month

We are exceedingly pleased to report that Fantagraphics publications and artists received a record 18 nominations for the 2010 Eisner Awards. To celebrate, we're offering these titles at 18% off for a limited time! Click here for the full sale selection. (Sale is valid for online and phone orders only.) Winners will be announced at a ceremony on Friday, July 23, 2010 at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Congratulations to all the nominees! Fantagraphics' nominations are as follows:

• Best Short Story: "Because I Love You So Much," by Nikoline Werdelin, in From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium  

• Best Single Issue: Ganges #3, by Kevin Huizenga

• Best Humor Publication: Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, by Tony Millionaire

• Best Humor Publication: Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations, by Peter Bagge

• Best Anthology: Abstract Comics, edited by Andrei Molotiu

• Best Adaptation from Another Work: West Coast Blues, by Jean-Patrick Manchette, adapted by Jacques Tardi
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material: West Coast Blues, by Jean-Patrick Manchette, adapted by Jacques Tardi

• Best Archival Collection — Strips: The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons 1913-1940, edited by Trina Robbins
• Best Publication Design: The Brinkley Girls, designed by Adam Grano

• Best Archival Collection — Strips: Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, by Gahan Wilson, edited by Gary Groth
• Best Publication Design: Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, designed by Jacob Covey

• Best Archival Collection — Strips: Prince Valiant, Vol. 1: 1937-1938, by Hal Foster, edited by Kim Thompson

• Best Archival Collection — Comic Books: Blazing Combat, by Archie Goodwin et al., edited by Gary Groth

• Best Archival Collection — Comic Books: Humbug, by Harvey Kurtzman et al., edited by Gary Groth

• Best Writer/Artist — Nonfiction: Carol Tyler, You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man
• Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Carol Tyler, You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man

• Best Comics-Related Periodical: The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, Michael Dean, and Kristy Valenti

• Best Lettering: Richard Sala, Delphine (Fantagraphics), Cat Burglar Black (First Second)

• Some lucky 5th-grader is getting this in the mail from Steven Weissman

• Richard Sala presents "Strange Question," a story dated 1985/2003, in two parts

• A nautical-themed Jim Flora piece from around 20 years ago

• OMG, Gabrielle Bell draws Stephen Colbert in her new Lucky strip

• Mark Kalesniko presents a roughed-out page from Mail Order Bride

• Woo woo! It's Paul Hornschemeier's latest WSJ illustration

• More Renee French-drawn teeth. Gaaaah. Whew!

• A quarterly alternative comics anthology with a funny-sounding four-letter name? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea? Kidding aside, Robot 6 and The Beat report on pood, a newsprint broadsheet-format comic which debuts at MoCCA this year and features Sara Edward-Corbett (above), Hans Rickheit and many others

• Speaking of Hans Rickheit, here's his Ectopiary page 16 and an album cover commission

• "Pequeño Unicornio Tamale, Detective Privado Sobrenatural" by Derek Van Gieson

• "Meteorite swarm" (above) and "moulded gravity" from Tom Kaczynski

• Two more possibly-related pieces of evidence for the greatness of Johnny Ryan

I might have to start posting these art-blog roundups on the weekends too... these Monday updates are outa control...

• Airbrushed Zippy the Pinhead art (artist unknown)! Posting this on Facebook, Bill Griffith says "This is the 2-page spread ad for the 'Zippy Movie' from Variety magazine, 3/29/90. The ad was taken out by the Aspen Film Society (at that time they were the producers of the movie) in hopes of attracting a studio/distributor. Are we in turnaround yet?" More about it (and the likewise never-to-be Zippy TV show series) here

• Check out all the artwork from the Covered art show here on the Secret Headquarters Flickr page — I'm pretty sure I haven't featured this Johnny Ryan piece on Flog before — and organizer/curator Robert Goodin has a report and photos from the opening on his blog

• Michael Kupperman awards the Oscar for best Oscar

• John Hankiewicz does Ditko , plus another sketchbook page

• A 1994 minicomic by Frank Santoro & Jon Good

• Jewelry and accessories "made from 100% genuine doll" by Dame Darcy

• Several new pieces by Richard Sala available at Comic Art Collective or direct via Richard's blog

• Detail of a mid-1990s Jim Flora illustration

• The conclusion of Gabrielle Bell's New York story

• Mark Kalesniko is really channeling Egon Schiele in this one

• Yowie! Sergio Ponchione presents a full-color Grotesque story from the pages of the new issue of Linus

• This one from Renee French is even creepier as the follow-up to this one

• Ectopiary page 14 and a Cochlea and Eustachia one-pager from Hans Rickheit

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

• Three more structures by Tom Kaczynski: "incoherent amalgamation," "basalt garden" and, above, "The Tomb of Jack Kirby"

• More new Jordan Crane at What Things Do

Your daily art bloggery:

• Reminder: the Covered art show at Secret Headquarters opens tomorrow night! Here's a piece by show curator/organizer Robert Goodin as revealed on Steven Weissman's blog...

• ...and Richard Sala posts his own contribution

• Tim Lane's serialized strip Myth of Jack Theatre Presents: Belligerent Piano begins running this week in the St. Louis Riverfront Times and on Tim's blog

• Corporate motivation, Jim Flora style, 1956

• Paul Hornschemeier on the Oscars for the WSJ, with process art on his blog

• Pucker up for some Renee French — and this one too, ooh

• You want a bunch of Jaime Hernandez superheroine sketches gathered all in one place? Scans Daily has you covered

• Derek Van Gieson keeps up his feverish pace — can't go wrong with a cat in a suit

• Tom Kaczynski captioned this drawing "unnatural megalithic formation" — 'nuff said

• T. Edward Bak draws Dr. Strange??

Good grief, all you art bloggers sure stay busy over the weekends...

• Man, remember the awesome comics that Tower Records' Pulse magazine ran back in the 1990s, like this one from Frank Santoro?

• A piece by Richard Sala for an Oz-themed art show at Gallery Meltdown in L.A. which opened on Saturday (Steven Weissman's in it too)

• Speaking of Steven Weissman, here are some ideas he's working on

• Nautical sketches circa 1950s by Jim Flora

• Two from Jim Blanchard, who describes the commissioned drawing at top as "Definitely the high point of my art career so far"; at bottom, a record cover (click through for even more groovy lettering on the back cover)

• A series of mother-with-child sketches by Mark Kalesniko

• God damn, Renee French

• Alain Saint-Ogan fan art and "F" is for Fielder by Kevin Huizenga

• This and two more sketchbook spreads by Anders Nilsen

• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 13, plus a singing monkey

• The continuation of a New York Lucky story by Gabrielle Bell

• Nate Neal sneaks a guy into this page of Derek Van Gieson's story

• More new Jordan Crane at What Things Do

• Talk about a blockhead (haw haw): I'm Learning to Share! shares a Charles M. Schulz rarity, Two-by-Fours (via Robot 6)

Click to see more better:

• 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)

The official announcement is as follows:

Looks like these posts are pretty much daily, huh?

• Three "lost" prints from Paul Hornschemeier's vaults have been found and are now for sale on his blog

• Holy smokes, it's a multi-page Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond epic by Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch, from the pages of the Riverfront Times (with "DVD extras" on Zettwoch's blog)! Will someone in St. Louis PLEASE send us some copies of this?

• Speaking of Huizenga, holy moly, he just opened up a memory that's been dormant in my head for around 30 years with this bit of Jan Lööf fan art (click for full version) — what a great book that was

• Several black & white pieces from the early 1990s by Richard Sala