Ben Towle

Most commented posts

  1. Care and Feeding of the Leroy Lettering Set — 54 comments
  2. Craft: A Review of the New Koh-i-nor Rapidosketch Pen — 45 comments
  3. The Comics Journal Message Board: A Requiem — 36 comments
  4. Service Review: Ka-Blam Print on Demand — 33 comments
  5. Christophe Blain’s Colorists: An Appreciation — 23 comments

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Aug 22 2007

Original Jack Patton Cartoon

More original art for that Comics Journal thread, this time a cartoon by Jack Patton for the Dallas Journal from May of 1937.  Patton is best known as the artist for Texas History Movies.

Aug 22 2007

Original Pete Bagge Page

There’s an interesting thread going on over at the Comics Journal message board in which folks are posting scans of original art they own.  I have only a small handful of original comics art pieces, but I thought I’d scan a few and post them.  Here’s one.  It’s the original art for page 2 of …

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Aug 19 2007

Sloths are the New Pirates

That’s right, folks–you heard it here first.  It’s skipping right over hobos and going directly from pirates to sloths. Both from today’s Sunday comics section:  

Aug 17 2007

Sketchbook 08/17

Aug 16 2007

Sketchbook 8/16