Ben Towle

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Hello Kitty Used to Punish Thai Cops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6932801.stm  Unfortunately none of the articles on this new development feature a picture of the actual patch that’s being used to punish the officers. From the article: Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules – an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband. The armband is …

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Strangely Appropriate Ad

I’ve got nothing against having kids–in fact, I’ve got one on the way myself–but I was reading with some disbelief this article about an Arkansas woman who recently gave birth to her sixteenth child. The article itself was frankly, snarky and meanspirited, but I couldn’t resist checking out the accompanying photo. As you can see, …

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Satisfactory Comics: Shufflepagus

Issac Cates and Mike Wenthe of Satisfactory Comics seem to be blogging now over at satisfactorycomics.blogspot.com and the most recent post there is generally all about the “shufflepagus” comics jam technique, but uses as an example the particular shufflepagus that I participated in, back before SPX 2006, with Mike, Issac and Adam Rosenblatt. The shufflepagus …

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Harry Potter “Cliffs Notes”

  As you’re likely aware unless you’ve been living in a cave (you’re off the hook, Osama)  the next and final installment of the Harry Potter saga is coming out at midnight tonight.  In a perfect world (or at least one where I were more of a fanatical Harry Potter devotee) I’d have reread all …

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Sketchbook 07/19