Ben Towle

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WAP Michael Jackson Tribute Now Online

Not too long ago I did a Michael Jackson pinup for a Wide Awake Press MJ tribute book.   The whole book is now online and you can check it out for free here.  It features comics an illustrations from Duane Ballenger, J Chris Campbell,  Gregory Dickens,  Juan Díaz-Faes Díaz,  Scott Elingburg,  Mike Gowan,  Jason Horn,  …

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Weekend o’ Book Festival Appearances

I’ll be appearing at two book festivals this weekend.  The first is the Bookmarks Book Festival here in Winston-Salem on Saturday and the second will be at the North Carolina Literary Festival in Chapel Hill on Sunday.  Here’re details: Bookmarks The New Frontier: Graphic Novels, Webcomics and Manga Saturday, 2:00 pm – at the DADA …

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Sketchbook 9/10

After looking over some of my character sketches that I posted yesterday, I selected a few that I thought were promising and refined them a bit:

Sketchbook 9/9

For the second part of the first act of Oyster War, I’ll be doing a a pretty textbook-style “gathering allies” sequence and so I’m needing to generate a crew (literally) of beat-down has-beens à la Terry Gilliam’s Baron Von Munchausen.   As with most sketchbook endeavors, I think there’s maybe one or two usable concepts …

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Marvel/Disney Mashup: Steamboat Spidey

With the news last week of Disney’s planned purchase of Marvel comics came an onslaught of often hilarious “mashups” of Marvel and Disney characters.  Two of my personal favorites are on display here: Gooflactus (Goofy and Galactus) and M.O.D.U.C.K (M.O.D.O.K. and Donald Duck).  I finally got around to cranking out one myself but boringly I …

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