Pimpin’ on the Pulse

Here’s a pre-Heroes con, pre-Midnight Sun #1 release interview with yours truly conducted by comics journalist and all-around nice person Jennifer Contino:

COMICON.com: BEN TOWLE SLG’S MIDNIGHT SUN

(Crack)House Update

I haven’t posted any pics of the “big dig” downstairs renovation project, so here goes. Since last update crown molding has gone up, baseboard trim is up, doors have been hung (although some have since been removed), and painting is well underway. Starting from the front of the house:

Living room/foyer. Note awesome custom shelf on the left. These carpenters are old school.

Living Room
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Hallway: seen from the living room. Half bath on the left, looking into the bedroom in the back.

Hall
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Dining room:

Dining Room
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Bedroom:

Bedroom
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Master bathroom:

Master bath
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Joey Weiser’s The Ride home

COMICON.com: INTRO TO WEBCOMICS: JOEY WEISER’S THE RIDE HOME

Check out some pages from fellow SCAD grad and occasional Strange Eggs contributor Joey Weiser on The Pulse.  His work The Ride Home is discussed here as a webcomic—and it is indeed being serialized online—but, I think the eventual vision for this work is for it to be published in graphic novel format.

Stevie on Sesame Street

If you’re of the age to be wearing and/or owning one of those “Transformers” T-shirts, please feel free to go ahead and remove it, hiding it shamefully out of much deserved embarasment, before you watch this clip of Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street—a childrens’ program from the 70s which, instead of selling toys, distributed good wholesome funk:

Sketchbook Image

I did this in my sketchbook a couple of nights ago.  I think it’s inspired partly by that bearded guy that works in the Grand Central hotel in the show Deadwood and partly by the very similar looking character, Skinny, in James Sturm’s book Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight.