Ben Towle

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The Spitsbergen Airship Museum

I had been scouring the web, looking for some illustrations of the airship Italia I wanted to potentially reference for my work on the final chapter of my forthcoming graphic novel, Midnight Sun, when I stumbled on the website for the Spitsbergen Airship Museum. It looks like, at this point, the museum is in-progress and …

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Dame Darcy Update

The vote totals have been hidden (for reasons not really explained) and supposedly the contestants are appearing on the site in random order…. but, for whatever reason, whenever I refresh the “Who’s Winning” page over at the Flavor of Love site, I’m getting the same 25 people over and over again… and among them, Dame …

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Blogs I Has Been A’digging

Here’re a few blogs that I’ve been frequenting of late which, for whatever reason, don’t seem to turn up linked much from the usual places. Satisfactory Comics This blog is run by Isaac Cates and Mike Wenthe, the longtime collaborative cartoonists behind Elm City Jams and Satisfactory Comics.  They’ve just started blogging relatively recently, but …

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It’s Voting Time!

 No, not for any of those jackasses in the race for president of the U.S., but for cartoonist/musician Dame Darcy!  If you’ve enjoyed her past appearances on “Blind Date” and “Fifth Wheel” (and I know you have), please take a few days off from work to spend online, voting continuously for Dame Darcy to be …

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Sketchbook 08/27