Ben Towle

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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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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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