Ben Towle

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Heroes ’07 Guest List

HeroesCon 07Guest List: It’s Forever Growing! It looks like a preliminary guest list for Heroes Con 07 in Charlotte has been posted to the site.  I’m glad to see some Indy Island “regulars” already on the list–folks like J Chris Campbel, Chris Pitzer… and me! Press-wise, it’s nice to see both Matt Brady of Newsarama …

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R. Crumb Supermarket Protest Art

I’ve been avoiding linkblogging of late, but I stumbled across this on the Robert Crumb site today and I’ve not seen any mention of it on the internets.  Click through the image below for the page on the Crumb site with the skinny:

Midnight Sun #3: Now (for Some Reason) Feb 14th

I have no idea why, but it looks like Midnight Sun #3 has changed ship dates from this week, to next week… so it looks like it’ll be in stores on the 14th

Midnight Sun #3 – This Wednesday

It is with mixed feelings that I inform the world (well, maybe not “the world” exactly–perhaps, “all three of you who are reading this” would be more apt) that the third issue of Midnight Sun will be arriving in comics shops this Wednesday, the 7th of February. I’m of course happy that the issue will …

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Eyemelt.com: DRM-Free Comics Downloads

With the release yesterday of Windows Vista and its somewhat onerous music and video content management/monitoring systems, digital rights management, a.k.a. “DRM,” is a topic that’s once again on people’s minds. DRM is, in short, technology used by someone who owns a copyright on digital intellectual property to attempt to protect that property from illegal …

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