Ben Towle

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(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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Midnight Sun GN Cover

Things are winding down as far as Midnight Sun goes.  The folks at SLG are looking over some low res comps of the book, and a friend has graciously volunteered to proof read the thing (thus saving me from my own terrible spelling), but beyond that, the book is pretty much done–so much so, in …

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Shetchbook 10/24

Chris Ware and Perspective Drawing

The most recent Mad Magazine (the one with the insurance caveman on the cover) includes a Chris Ware parody among the gags in the “Fundalini Pages” at the beginning of the issue. Mad‘s comics/graphic novel parodies are usually presented in the form of a review, with text above and a (supposed) excerpted page from the …

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