Ben Towle

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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):

I Review Drawing Words and Writing Pictures

If you’re signed up for the Publishers Weekly Comics Week email newsletter (and you know you should be!) you’ve probably had this appear in your inbox already, but I’ve written a review of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s new comics teaching book Drawing Words and Writing Pictures in the current newsletter. As you can probably …

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