el estratografico put together a fun flickr set called retronomaopeya which is a collection of images that illustrate the sound and motion found in comics. Link
Every Monday you can read new installments of Next-Door Neighbor over at SMITH Magazine:
“Everybody has one. And, no matter how close or how far, we all live next to someone, and we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story,” says NDN Editor Dean Haspiel. “With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to create their favorite NDN stories so that we at SMITH Magazine could share them with you over the next year.”
glowingskeleton illustrated a series of one thousand illustrations of beasts which will be appearing in the the Fantagraphics art book Beasts! Volume 2 later on this year.
Jason bought Beasts! last year and it's actually quite a fascinating and eclectic book. The art book describes mythical beasts from around the world and the illustrations were provided by various talented artists.
Some famous cartoonists were asked to draw their popular comic strip characters while blindfolded in a 1947 issue of Life Magazine. See how they did. [via digg]