Ben Towle

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SPX 2007 – Day 2

Saturday, traditionally the more heavily attended of the two days of SPX, lived up to that reputation and more today with pretty much everyone I talked to reporting really strong sales and a few folks going as far as to say that this has been the strongest SPX so far. I’d agree with that as …

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SPX 2007 – Day 1

Yesterday, Friday the 12th, began the first day of SPX in Bethesda, MD. For Adam Casey and me, traveling from North Carolina, it unfortunately got rolling a bit late as (predictably) our progress toward the Bethesda North Marriot and Convention Center ground to a near-halt as we neared the metropolitan D.C. area. After a grueling …

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Funkywinkerbeanization

Aside from some great parody strips, the best thing to come out of the recent “cancer” storyline in Funky Winkerbean is a term recently coined by a friend of mine: funkywinkerbeanization.  Employed as a noun, the term refers to a situation in which something that was originally lighthearted, fun and/or enjoyable later becomes laborious and …

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Midnight Sun GN Press Release

An official press release for the Midnight Sun graphic novel is up over at the SLG news blog: International Mystery in Midnight Sun New Historical Fiction Graphic Novel in December In May 1928, the Italian airship the Italia embarked on an ambitious and dangerous expedition to the North Pole. A celebratory radio communiqué from the …

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Sketchbook 10/10