Ben Towle

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How to Divide a Comics Page Row into Three Panels

Like it says up top, this is a short and easy tutorial about how to divide a row (or “tier” as it’s sometimes called) on a comics page into three equally-sized panels. Why am I writing about this? Because I was really surprised by the fact that a Google search for how to do this …

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Polar Bear Attack!

Folks over at the Blog@Newsarama Fringe Benefits column, did a nice review of Midnight Sun, and gave special mention to the encounter one of the characters has with a polar bear in the book.  Since drawing the page they sample there, I—like a lot of folks—have been following the “career” of Flock the baby Polar …

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Comics Terminology: “Alternative,” “Indie,” etc.

This question was posted over at the Indie Spinner Rack message board: What’s the definition (if any) of the various terms such as Independent, Small Press, Alternative, etc. What do you call companies in Previews outside of the Big Four (DC/Marvel/Dark Horse/Image)? Outside of the Established (Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly, Oni, AdHouse, etc)? …

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“Rent” Party for Comics Artist Craig Hamilton

I got a ginormous long email this morning from friend and comics artist Craig Hamilton, but I’ll condense it for you here: He’s been renting a cool house that he loves in downtown Macon for years, and now he wants to buy it.   So, he’s having a “rent” party, but instead of rent money, he’s …

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More Midnight Sun Reviews

Lately, I’ve been using the occurrence of each new review of Midnight Sun as an opportunity to talk about my comics-making process.  I’m currently under the gun to get my pages for the WAP Free Comic Book Day issue done by the end of the month, so I’m just going to post excerpts and links …

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