Ben Towle

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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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Get Ya’ Original Art Heah’!

Previous to now, aside from a few sales from folks who’ve contacted me directly via this site and the occasional sale at a convention where I’ve had the foresight to bring along my portfolio, I’ve never devoted much energy to selling my original artwork. Recently, though, I’ve hooked up with the folks at A Cosmic …

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My Musical Past – On Indie Spinner Rack

The most recent installment of the Indie Spinner Rack podcast (direct link here) is a special episode that features music by cartoonists and one of the songs included is “That Mile” by my old band, Come on Thunderchild. This is a great idea for a show–and one that I’m surprised hasn’t been done before. There …

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Behold, The Inhumans! (Again)

I’ve recently been working with a comics art dealer who’s going to be helping me sell some of my original art both at conventions and online, and so I’ve been trying to get together some smaller pieces with recognizable characters to have available for these things at less than a full page’s price.  I’ll eventually …

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“Hey, Teach” Guest-Starring Jason Lutes and MODOK

So, I found that I did in fact have this mini, referenced in my previous post, saved somewhere. It occurred to me that even if I hadn’t scanned the pages when I originally put the mini together, that I’d probably posted it to my website at some point. Thanks to archive.org I was able to …

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