Ben Towle

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SPX Sketch

Vy’s got a sketch I did at this year’s SPX posted over on her Flickr account along with a ton of other great sketches and photos from the show.  The theme of the sketchbook was “dreams” and most folks were doing visual interpretations of their dreams.  I, though, rarely remember any of my dreams and …

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Week 4 Homework

Yikes!  I’ve been busy, busy and then out of town for first SPX, then a vacation, and I’ve fallen way behind on my Drawing Words and Writing Pictures project.  I’m going to try to catch up this week, though.  So here goes… Week four’s homework was to thumbnail a two-page version of “Jack and Jill” …

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Midnight Sun 20% off, w/ Free Shipping in October

Yeah, that’s right: if you want to get a copy of Midnight Sun for only 11.95, instead of the cover price of $14.95, just go to the SLG web store and enter the promo code msunpromo, you’ll get: 20% off cover price Free shipping A free copy of the anthology Strange Eggs #1 “Graphic novels” …

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Con Report: SPX 2008

Much as with Heroes Con earlier this summer, I’ve once again proved to be too lazy and disorganized to do a nightly roundup post during the show… but, frankly, there were plenty of press folks floating around the place who will most certainly do a better job covering the show than I could–especially since I …

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Orignal Comics Art on Display in Winston Friday

The “5” Royales strip that I built a “frame” for in a recent post will be on display starting Friday at the 5ive and 40rty gallery here in Winston as part of the exhibit Seeing Winston-Salem: Contemporary Artists’ View of the City. Unfortunately, I’ll not be at the opening, since I’ll be en route to …

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