Ben Towle

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Old Skool: Stately Thunderchild Manor

Way back, lo many years ago, before I was a starving artist, I pursued even less-green pastures and was a starving musician. I, along with two of the other three members of the band I was in, Come on Thunderchild, purchased a circa-1910s house in Cornelius, NC (known among us locals as “Corntown”), which we …

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Spx Finds – pt 2

(If you don’t know what the heck “SPX Finds” is all about, see the original post…) Urban Legend – Bradley Day Mini-comic series, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, ~36 pages each, B&W interiors, color covers Autobio comics, particularly autobio minis, are often the subject of a fair bit of scorn. What I find interesting about …

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Sketchbook 11/02

(Almost) 100 Demons in H.P. Lovecraft Mag

Here’s some cool news: the current Spring/Summer issue of H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror has begun running selected illustrations from my (Almost) One Hundred Demons drawing exercise. The feature starts as a page of “Nine Little Demons” and continues with further batches of nine demon illustrations printed between articles through this issue, with the next …

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SPX Finds – pt 1

Well, not really finds, I guess. Here’s the deal: If you’ve ever been an exhibitor at SPX, you know that people will often just walk up to you and give you stuff. Some of this turns out to be good, some of it terrible, and a lot of it somewhere in the middle. Anyway, since …

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