Ben Towle

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Book Festivals: Cartoonists’ New Turf? – The Decatur Book Festival (part 2)

In deference to the church-going crowd (or maybe the hung-over crowd… what do I know?), the Decatur Book Festival wasn’t set to get underway on Sunday until noon, so I took advantage of the only cool time of day here in Georgia–the early morning–for a quick jog around Decatur’s beautiful old cemetery.  After that I …

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Book Festivals: Cartoonists’ New Turf? – The Decatur Book Festival (part 1)

Now that “Crash, Boom, Pow–Comics Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore,” book festivals around the country seem to be slowly but surely dipping their toes into the murky pool of comics and graphic novels.  As mentioned in a previous post, this summer I’ll be attending Winston-Salem’s Bookmarks Festival in a few weeks, as well as this …

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Interview on NPR’s Voices and Viewpoints

Today the local NPR station, WFDD, will be rebroadcasting an old interview with me in which I discuss Midnight Sun (then still in “floppy” format), my other cartooning projects, and teaching comics.  If you’re local, it will be broadcast at 1pm and 6pm.  If you’re out there on the internets, you can catch it streaming …

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Sketchbook 08/26

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures – Week 2, Homework

Week two’s homework is basically just to execute a gag panel, the only other stipulation being to come up with three, rather than just one, potential captions.  Here’s mine: “If I’d known it  snowed this much around here, I’d have gotten a bigger dog” “That’s nothing–up North, I once lost my horse.” “They don’t make …

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