Ben Towle

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Mama Said Knock You Out

16 Faces, One of Which is a Small Dog

The Greatest of All Time

I was looking through Diamond’s solicitations that are due in this week to see if there’s anything I wanted to order last minute, and I noticed that Drawn & Quarterly was soliciting a collection of the first fifty or so issues of John Porcellino’s King Cat Comics. I like Porcellino’s work and ordered the book, …

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“Bucky Katt is on Pot” pt. 3

In what will likely be the final installment of this tempest in a teapot that wasn’t–namely last week’s Get Fuzzy story arc–I’ll post a small update with a few bits of info I received yesterday from folks who read my initial posts. First off, I heard back from my friend at our local paper, The …

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More on the “Get Fuzzy” Marijuana-themed Strips

I noted last week a curious absence of protest about a current story arc in the comic strip Get Fuzzy in which Bucky Katt’s presidential campaign slogans are all–supposedly inadvertently–pro marijuana slogans. A bit of over-the-weekend Googling, though, has brought to light some interesting tidbits. First and foremost, the storyline appears to have just been …

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