Ben Towle

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Midnight Sun on ComicsWorthReading

Johanna Draper Carlson has posted a great review of Midnight Sun over at ComicsWorthReading.com, Midnight Sun – Recommended.  Among other things, she mentions the book’s trim size: Plus, the package is well-chosen. It’s a squarer book than typical, making for a compact volume that feels great in the hand and suits the rectangular panels and …

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ThoughtBalloonists.com

Comics scholars/writers Craig Fischer and Charles Hatfield have launched a new comics blog of comics writing and criticism at: http://www.thoughtballoonists.com. Both writers are involved with teaching comics curricula, have worked together on The International Comic Art Forum, and both have written for publications such as The Comics Journal. It looks like the plan is to …

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Final Chapters of Midnight Sun Available for Download

The portions of the recent Midnight Sun graphic novel that would have been the final comic book issues of the series are now available together as a single download on SLG’s digital download site, eyemelt.com.  I know some folks who bought issues 1-3 have bristled at the prospect of potentially having to “rebuy” that same …

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Pub. Weekly: Haunted Mansion Hardcover

The most recent Publishers Weekly Comics Week contained a writeup about the recent SLG Hardcover collection of its Haunted Mansion series.  The book collects the first six issues of the anthology, issue five of which contained a story I did about one of the few non-ghost characters in the Mansion cast, the Loup Garou.  I …

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Midnight Sun on CreativeKungFu

John Morris has posted a lengthy review of Midnight Sun on his blog, CreativeKungFu. John has a lot of good things to say about the book, but in the interest of full disclosure, this probably isn’t the most objective review out there. See, John and I have known each other for years, having first met …

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