Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 10/22

Ron Wood – of The Faces, one of my all-time favorite rock bands.

TIME Magazine Adds Comics Section, No One Notices

You’d think that when a magazine with a weekly circulation of over four million copies (that’s about 240 times the monthly numbers of, say, an issue of Batman, for example) adds a comics section there’d be some talk about it in the usual comics circles…. but I sure haven’t noticed any.  This actually isn’t that …

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Week 5 Exercise 1

So here’s week five’s in-class exercise.  The idea is to select a panel from the “Jack and Jill” story and re-thumbnail it three different ways–in this case, I’ve used the penultimate panel from the second page.  I don’t think I got as adventurous here as the directions really suggested, and I probably should have experimented …

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Glactus Pinup

I received some good-natured ribbing from friend Isaac Cates about my half-assed thumbnail drawing of Galactus from my last Drawing Words & Writing Pictures post and so I figured in an attempt to redeem myself (and to start building up some artwork to sell on the convention circuit next year) I’d do a decent drawing …

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My “Stay TOONed” Interview

As mentioned a few posts back, an interview with me is appearing in the newest issue of Stay TOONed magazine.  The issue (issue #2) is now available and can be ordered from the Stay TOONed site.  The interview was conducted by comics writer, professor and friend Craig Fischer and as we’re wont to do in …

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