Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 11/11

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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