Ben Towle

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A Visit to the N.C. Ukulele Academy

The weather here at the beach had been fantastic up until now, but some thunderstorms have blown in as of last night.  With beach-going out of the picture at least temporarily, I figured this’d be a great time for a road trip to Wilmington, N.C.’s North Carolina Ukulele Academy, so I hit the road this …

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Sketchbook 5/24

The lastest in a series of sketchbook drawings of rock and roll people which only vaguely resemble their subjects–in this case Mick Jagger and Brian Jones.  I like to tell myself that my sketchbook drawings aren’t good likenesses because I draw directly in pen… yeah, that’s the ticket.  Sorry about the washed out/blurry quality of …

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Sketchbook 05/21

So, apparently there’s a new Bob Dylan record….

Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark

I just uploaded the completed files for the third installment of SLG’s occasional anthology, Strange Eggs.  This issue is titled Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark and here’s the official skinny: The Strange Eggs are making the jump to the big time – television, video games, cartoons, the works! We get several different takes on the …

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Completed Sketchbook Grid

Here’s the completed sketchbook grid exercise I’d posted an in-progress version of a while back.  These things usually yield one or two “panels” that are passable, but I think I actually like three of these: the characters in panels eight, ten and eleven.