Dave Cooper has released a children’s book under the pen name Hector Mumbly from Chronicle called Bagel’s Lucky Hat. Over on Dave’s site, he is selling his original pencils and inks from the book. Check it out to see the artwork and Dave’s working process.

Caryl Strzelecki has been illustrating Bukowski’s poems and interviews and has them at his site here.

You can all thank Brian Heater for taking all the heat in an interview with Ralph so you don’t have to. Check out Brian’s complete four part interview with bigshot cartoonist-director Ralph Bakshi starting here on The Daily Crosshatch. Part two. Part Three. Part four of four.

Brandon Graham is thinking about posting new chapters from his book King City 2 on his blog and he’s already posted the first chapter to show you he means business. Above is a preview image from one of his other comics, Multiple Warheadz. Then there is Chris McD’s page of comics he did for Meathaus S.O.S., Meathaus 8: Headgames and Meathaus 7: Lovesongs. Don’t forget Dash Shaw’s ongoing Bodyworld. And then there is Matt Furie’s Boy’s Club comics free to read on his Myspace blog. There’s Jesse Moynihan’s free older comics here and even more and newer ones here.

Oh yeah and don’t forget about the recent Meathaus Week on NY Mag’s Vulture column. Read full comics from Meathaus S.O.S. by Farel Dalrymple, Zohar Lazar, and Jim Rugg / Brian Maruca.

Plus Brandon says all the Turtles and Elves he grew up on are all free and online now too.

Jon Vermilyea has some hillbilly drawings for you to see and comics on his new site design. Via Uncle Phil.

Pedro Lourenço has a blog and site with his art and drawings and mixtapes.

Outrageous journalistic practices aside, these altered photographs broadcast on Fox News show a very weak grasp of photoshop skills. The direction is all wrong. If you want to make an obvious photo alteration for humorous effect, go all the way and really make these guys ugly, malformed and caricatured. More insidiously (and probably the direction Fox wanted), if you are trying to alter photos to make someone unattractive or mutated, then you have to handle your tools with a lot more care and make more specific decisions then just pinching the whole head and cloning the hair.

Look at Nick Gazin’s Flickr collection of his art and these radical rabbis.

Jim Stoten the illustrator has updated his website with new and bendy work.