Ben Towle

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Teaching Gag Cartooning

I’m currently teaching two two-week sections of comics art for the Sawtooth School’s Summer Art Honors program for rising 8th through 12th graders. Today I did a section on gag cartooning, which–aside from the occasional Nickelodeon Magazine reader–seems to be a pretty much unknown art form among this age group. I took in a couple …

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2008 Subaru WRX: Dumpy

I’m the proud owner of a 2002 Subaru WRX and despite its somewhat controversial “bug eye” styling, I think it’s a great looking car.  Styling-wise the WRX has gone through some minor changes between the 2003 and 2007 models, but all retained pretty much the same sheet metal, changing mainly things like the headlights, tail …

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Sketchbook 6/28

Sketchbook 6/27

Heroes 07 Mini-comics Panel Podcast

The folks from The Dollar Bin Podcast just posted audio from this year’s mini-comics panel, featuring Andy Runton, J. Chris Campbell,  Jim Mahfood, Rob Ullman and me.  I just listened to the beginning bit of the recording and the sound quality of the thing sounds great.  As I recall, the panel had some pretty hilarious …

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