Ben Towle

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SPXpo.com Updated w/ 2007 Dates

SPX | The Small Press Expo I hereby recant my good-natured ribbing of the SPX website’s heretofore now sluggish updating schedule; the dates for this year’s show are indeed now up on the site–and announced also is the first guest, Jeff Smith.  Good news right out of the gate, I say.

Igor the Cowboy – Pg. 1

I decided to ditch the “Al Columbia” approach I was playing with a few posts ago for a couple of reasons: One, it’d have involved a ton of work to paint all the required backgrounds. I thought about trying to modify the story a bit so I could maybe get away with just two background/settings, …

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SPX 2007

I’m on the SPX mailing list and just received an email about the dates for the 2007 event, including registration dates. The SPX website is known far and wide for its “slow as molasses in (pre-global warming) January” update schedule, so for purposes of Google indexing, I’ll post the announcement here (although the email claimed …

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Igor the Cowboy

Before I get back rolling on the remainder of Midnight Sun, I’m going to be doing two pages of artwork for Chris Reilly’s next Igor book. It’s the sequel to 2006’s The Trouble with Igor, and its title is, I believe, Igor: Repaired by Frankensteins (both by Slave Labor Graphics). The art for both of …

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