Ben Towle

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FCBD – Piltdown Is Here!

Since it’s now officially Free Comic Book Day, you can cruise on over to www.wideawakepress.com and download Piltdown, the dinosaur/caveman-themed comic book for free as a PDF. If’n you’re one ah’ them youngsters, what with your “manga” and whatnot, and you like to read the funnybooks right on your computer, I’ve made a quick CBZ …

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Christophe Blain Book Tour of the U.S.?

Normally I pretty much skim over the “Comics Briefly” section of Publishers Weekly Comics Week newsletter; I read ComicsReporter and Journalista! pretty regularly during lunch each day, so usually there’s nothing there I haven’t seen before. When looking over this week’s issue, though, I spotted the heading, “Blain U.S. Tour” and wondered: that can’t be …

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Gimme Some Ninjas, Bub

This is another piece, like the Inhumans thing I posted a few weeks back, that I’m putting together with an eye toward the upcoming convention season.  As you can tell, I’m a fan of the old-timey ’80s Frank Miller-style Wolverine who smokes cigars (I almost gave him one here) and fights ninjas.

Piltdown: Free Comic Book Day

J. Chris Campbell just sent out this fantastic cover image from the upcoming Wide Awake Press book for Free Comic Book Day: The title of the book obviously is Piltdown, and here’s the skinny: Wide Awake Press follows up last year’s successful download comic EATS with an anthology of prehistoric tales. Go to wideawakepress.com on …

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Sketchbook 4/23

Confederate submariner and Maryland Oyster Navy Captain, Hunter Davidson (original sketch, and sketch with underdrawing removed with Photoshop):