Ben Towle

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Tonight: Alternative Champs at The Garage

Like it says, Charlotte’s (and kinda Wintson’s I guess, since ex-Husbians Rick Randall is based in Winston) Alternative Champs are in town tonight playing at The Garage. The Champs also feature my former band-mate, ex-Come on Thunderchild vocalist/guitarist/keys player John Morris… and of course “Big Mike” of Jolene and The Hardsoul Poets as well. Here’s …

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SSalefish Featured in Llocal PPress

Via the new issue of Winston-Salem Monthly (who may be sending something else to my home shortly–a cease and desist order for scanning and posting this): Here’s the text of the article: Bret Parks, a Walnut Cove native, says it was a childhood dream come true to open Ssalefish Comics & Toys in January 2006. …

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Marvel Indie Anthology

Apparently there’s a cool-looking new Marvel indie creator-centered anthology in the works–kind of an official Coober Skeeber by the looks of it.  So far you can see some amazing looking Dr. Strange pages by Richmond, VA.’s Dash Shaw here.  James Kochalka has confirmed via the Comics Journal message board that he’s done some sort of …

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Comics Lolcat

Over at the SLG News Blog, they’re calling for comics-related lolcats.  Seein’ as how it’s 5:30 on Friday evening–aka quittin’ time–I drummed one up.  Submissions so far seem to be following the general meme of cats asking to have their work published, so I’ve followed suit.

30 Years of Star Wars

There’s tons of hoopla going around of late–NPR stories, postage stamps, etc. regarding the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of Star Wars in the U.S., which is today. While the whole Star Wars machine these days can be cynically viewed solely as an entity which produces lackluster films designed to sell cheap crap to little …

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