This one's easy

Paul Rogers has a nifty ongoing series up now titled Name That Movie, where he presents six drawings based on a popular film, presented in chronological order, but with no sketches of actors or film stars, forcing you to suss out the name of the flick via a few props and scenic shots. (via)

From Berrio's 'Conversations'

Even if you can't read Spanish (and I totally can't) this sketchblog by Juan Berrio, based on snatches of overheard conversations is still worth checking out. (via)

Neill Cameron, who some of you may remember from his A-Z of Awesomeness, has started a new project, entitled Hashtag Funnies. The rules are pretty simple. Every day Cameron draws a strip based on or inspired by that day's trending topics on Twitter. The only catch is the strip can only take up one hour of his time. Those constraints have led to some rather inspired and hilarious strips, like the one above. Be sure and visit Neill's blog to read the rest.

Panels from 'Fielder'

Kevin Huizenga has a two-page strip in the Italian magazine Internazionale and gracefully decided to share the comic, sans dialogue with the rest of the Internet.

There's another video of him drawing the Prince of Persia at this link. A you can see the final version of the Catwoman piece here.

Sandman

Let's try to run through some of the more notable links of the past several days. My apologies if this is old news to you or I missed something.

• Kicking things off, I should note that the gang at the Hooded Utilitarian are offering an in-depth analysis of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. In order: Noah Berlatsky, Ng Suat Tong,  Tom Crippen and Von Marlowe.

• Ken Parille looks at the work of his fellow blogmate Tim Hensley, specifically his Wally Gropius series: "I can’t think of another cartoonist who approaches space -- and what we might call 'spatial color' -- in such a rigorously strange way."

• Abhay Khosla talks about comics by way of crime novels:

So: a year from now, if we’re unlucky and Vertigo Crime no longer exists, and some so-and-so is screeching that “None of youse fools on the internet people could have done better because we are geniuses who thought of EVERYTHING” … I would suggest that maybe one thing they could have done differently is launched their crime line with crime fiction…? Just a silly thought.

• Meanwhile, Savage Critics cohort David Uzumeri gives his thoughts on  a potpourri of manga and indie titles.

• Jeet Heer examines in depth how Robert Crumb handled the translation of the Book of Genesis in his new adaptation.

• Greg McElhatton reads the first volume of The Awakening and says: "In some ways Awakening actually reminds me of a computer game, but one where the player keeps running in circles and taking forever to get to the plot points that will advance the game into the next stage."

• Katherine Dacey expresses reservations about Ooku: The Inner Chambers Vol. 1: "For all its dramatic and socio-political ambitions, volume one isn’t nearly as daring or weird or pointed as it might have been." (Also: go see Dacey's thoughts on establishing a manga canon.)

• Derik Haliday isn't impressed with X-Men: Misfits: "It's so typically Shoujo that there's almost nothing standout about it."

• Jen Vaughn revisits Paul Kirchner's The Bus, dubbing it "tripsy fun."

• Sean Collins reviews The Squirrel Machine: "Given what I've been reading lately I can't help but compare Hans Rickheit to Fort Thunder."

• Oliver Ho has a lengthy review of Seth's George Sprott for PopMatters.

• Kristy Valenti digs deep in the longbox and comes up with a collection of horror stories overseen by Italian gore master Dario Argento. How's that for an oddity?

If, by some odd matter of happenstance, your love of comics just happens to coincide with a love of automobiles and all things pertaining to them, then you should by all means check out CARzy, a blog devoted to car-related comics and cartoons, particularly from such late, lamented magazines as (you guessed it) CARtoons. The blog is run by Nelson Dewey, who contributed 2,000 pages of material to these magazines (or so he claims). I found the above image by perusing his portfolio.

Cho's 'White Noise'

Illustrator and cartoonist Michael Cho recently revamped the cover for Penguin's edition of the Don DeLillo classic "White Noise." He talks at length about the process of putting the cover together and how he worked with editor Paul Buckley and Delillo to arrive at this final image.

I gotta say, I like it a lot better than the original cover.

(found via the Ephemerist)

Panel from 'Project Waldo'

Video game artist Nate Simpson is having a go at making his very first comic and blogging about the experience:

Sometimes it feels like I'm running a marathon while tied to the starting line with a bungee cord. Each step takes more effort. I'm like Steve Martin in the Three Amigos, held against the prison wall by weighted chains. "Gonna make it! Gonna make it! Gonna make it! Notgonnamakeit notgonnamakeit notgonnamakeit!"

(found via Drawn)

Image from one of Drechsler's notecards

Artist Debbie Drechsler (Summer of Love, Daddy's Girl) has a new blog up, which is mainly worth noting because a) she's got a online store where you can puchase some very nice notecards; and b) she's started a wonderful new sketch blog, entitled Just Around the Corner, where she draws the various plants she finds lurking in her neighborhood. (found via flog)