Ben Towle: Cartoonist, Educator, Hobo

M is for Marvin Gaye If you don’t agree that What’s Going On is one of the ten greatest records of all time, I’m afraid we can no longer be friends. I started then scrapped a drawing of Matthew Sweet for this week’s “M” entry, but I’m much happier with how this turned out. It’s …

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L is for Lady Gaga —————– AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr: http://alphabands.tumblr.com/

K is for Karl Bartos Karl Bartos was a percussionist for the German band, Kraftwerk between 1975 and 1990. He played on and did songwriting on my favorite Kraftwerk record, Man-Machine. He recently released a solo record, Off The Record, which is fantastic. —————– AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and …

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J is for James Brown This week’s (late) AlphaBands subject is Mr. Dynamite, the amazing Mr. Please, Please, Please himself, the star of the show, James Brown. —————– AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. …

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I is for Iggy Pop One of my fave musicians, but for not one of my fave AlphaBands drawings so far. It lost something in the inking or coloring: ——— AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week …

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H is for Hank Shocklee Hank Shocklee is a member of The Bomb Squad, the influential production team behind many, many important hip-hop records, but best known for their work with Public Enemy. —————– AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of …

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G is for Greg Ginn Greg Ginn is, of course, the legendary guitarist for Black Flag and founder of SST records. He’s a somewhat controversial figure in music, but here’s one thing there’s really no debate about: he’s an amazing guitarist. This image was done in entirely Manga Studio on a Surface 2 Pro. (And …

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F is for The Flat Duo Jets My first encounter with the music of the Flat Duo Jets was via the 1987 documentary, Athens, GA Inside/Out. If I’m remembering correctly, a cassette of the soundtrack started making the rounds at my high school and we were all listening to it before anyone had actually seen …

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