Ben Towle

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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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Early Shout-Outs for Midnight Sun

Here’re a couple of early (and positive!) mentions of Midnight Sun around the internets:First, Scott Tingley has posted an expanded review of the book over at comicsintheclassroom.net. Scott mainly reviews books for younger readers, so I was slightly surprised that he wanted to read a copy of the book for a possible review. As he …

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The Beat’s Annual News Survey, 2008

At the end of each year, the comics/pop culture news site The Beat asks a handful of comics folks what they’ll be working on in the coming year, what they think the big story was from the past year, and what they predict the big story will be in the coming year.  I was among …

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Welcome, Marion Keith Towle

 Born in the early hours of Saturday, December 29th, weighing 7 lbs 7oz.

Midnight Sun Mentions

A couple of early mentions for the book around the internets… From Justin of the review site/blog, 13 Minutes: Midnight Sun (SLG): Ben Towle’s little masterpiece finally sees print in one complete smaller-than-digest-sized format. One of the best books from 2007! And from fellow comics educator Scott Tingley’s site Comics in the Classroom’s holiday book …

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