Ben Towle

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Pan’s Labyrinth

I don’t have the background or expertise to write a film review that would even be considered well-informed (I’m all about the comics, see?…) but I will say that the new Guillermo Del Toro film, Pan’s Labyrinth, is awesome. Go see it. Given that all of my sketchbook doodles for some reason wind up with …

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“Bucky Katt is on Pot”

People these days have a tendency to get irrationally worked up about anything in the comics page of the paper that’s not totally innocuous. Just last week, for example, somebody had written their local paper about a Zits strip that had Jeremy doing the old mentos in the diet coke bit that’s been making the …

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Igor the Cowboy pg. 2

I’ve wrapped up my two page “guest appearance” for the forthcoming sequel to Chris Reilly’s The Trouble With Igor. I’m not sure how successful I’ve been at aping the “bigfoot” cartooning style of the ’20s–in fact, I don’ think I really get a decent bigfoot style drawing of Igor until panel five on page two. …

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Bill “Jack T. Chick” Gates

Microsoft to use comics in antipiracy campaign | CNET News.com From the article: Dubbed “Genuine Fact Files,” the campaign is now launching in the U.S. It went online last month in Italy, France, the U.K., Indonesia, Brazil, Australia and the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft plans to draw attention to it through banner ads on its …

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James Sturm at App State

[With the deadline for Midnight Sun #3 looming over my head like the proverbial sword of Damocles throughout the tail end of ‘06, I’ve only now had a few moments to write about my excursion up to Appalachian State University to hear a presentation given by cartoonist (and friend) James Sturm.] It was dark, raining …

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