Ben Towle

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Have a Very E.C. Christmas!

Here’s an invite I just completed for the annual holiday get-together of our local Winston-Salem comics group, The Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild & Social Club.  I’ve already parodied this particular E.C. cover a few years ago for a Heroes Con panel on E.C./Mad Magazine, but hey, it’s a classic! …and this, of course, is the …

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40% off Sale at SLG

I normally confine my “shameless commerce” stuff to the Buy Stuff page on my site, but SLG is having a big 40% off sale at the moment, so I thought it’d be worth mentioning.  You can find everything I’ve done that SLG has published all grouped on my creator page.  You’ll get 40% off the …

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Count of Monte Cristo – Lettered Thumbs

My next step, once I’ve got reasonably solid thumbnails (as seen last post) is to scan those thumbnails and pull out all the colored planning drawing, leaving just the final pencil lines.  This can be done easily in Photoshop by going into image –> adjustments –> hue/saturation and then, in turn, selecting “reds,” “cyans” and …

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Count of Monte Cristo – Thumbnails

Just for fun, I thought I’d drum up maybe five pages or so of my imagined graphic novel adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.  This obviously isn’t a “front burner” project for me at the moment, but I’ll post progress on these pages as I work on them with an eye toward discussing process.  …

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If This Isn’t Paul Pope…

…then someone’s stealing his bit. I saw this ad in a local weekly and I immediately thought, “Paul Pope.”  I think I was reacting to the loose brush-work and the way the lips are drawn in the image.  On the other hand, that gooey amorphous figure above (a snowboarder on a lift, I think) doesn’t …

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