Ben Towle

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SPX Trauma…

It looks like there’s some of the ol’ SPX organizational weirdness afoot according to the Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild and Social Club’s blog, The Three Cent Pup. I’m one of the folks whose table space is part of the application packet mentioned in the post–so here’s hoping this gets cleared up–I loves me the SPX! …

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Reading Comics (Criticism) in Public

For years aficionados of the comics art form have bemoaned its apparent lack of respectability with the mainstream public and wondered when comics would, finally, gain the cultural cache they deserve. An oft-discussed scenario in these ruminations is the prospect of reading comics in public places–as if the true harbinger of comics’ cultural “arrival” would …

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Wide Awake Press FCBD: Eats

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover (by Brad McGinty) of the upcoming Free Comic Book Day book from Wide Awake Press: Contributors include: Duane Ballenger, Chris Campbell, Andrew Davis, Justin Gammon , Josh Latta, Pat Lewis, Brad McGinty, Rich Tingley, Ben Towle, Rob Ullman and Gregory Dickens.

My Publisher is Dan Vado, and Dan Vado Says…

For those you not as ancient as I, that post title is a reference to some TV ads from the 1970s for a brokerage firm. The gag in the ads was that entire rooms of people would stop whatever they were doing, and turn around to listen, whenever they realized a client of the brokerage …

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2001 Interview with Art Spiegelman

I was rooting through some old archived CDs of some of my assignments from art school looking for a comp to send a potential client and I stumbled on the following interview I did with cartoonist Art Spiegelman for the school paper. I hadn’t thought about the interview in a long time, but after reading …

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