Here’s a nifty selection of art and comics featuring John Byrne’s robot creation, Rog-2000, who went from fanzines to prozines to mainstream comics and apparently almost ended up at Marvel.

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/08/complete-rog-2000.html

Here’s a selection of cartoons and art from Shel Silverstein, Jack Davis and Jack Cole-all from early issues of Playboy and topped off with Milton Caniff’s Male Call from issue two of Hef’s mag.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2010/07/miss-lace-and-navel-gazing.html

Ger Apeldo0rn has been running a number of stories from Jack “King” Kirby’s pre-Marel Universe era at DC in the late fifties. Here’s the latest but you can backtrack from there for a number of others.

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/07/challangers-of-wonderful-jack-kirby.html

Finally today, here’s a whole lot of Walter Lantz’s Andy Panda in The Isle of Mechanical Men-some great cartoon art from 1950!

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/07/andy-panda-in-isle-of-mechanical-men_31.html