Ben Towle

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Truer Words…

Ask The A.V. Club: December 18, 2006 | The A.V. Club on what sorts of graphic novels they’d like to see: I’d … like to see more graphic novels that aspire to be literary, and not mere post-adolescent soap operas and melodramas. Too many of the non-fantastic “mature” graphic novels rely on disease, abuse, cultural …

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Most Dangerous Toys Ever

Features : Radar Online Just in time for Christmas, this hilarious list of the most dangerous toys ever.  My personal favorite: The South did rise again, at least during playtime for the owners of the Johnny Reb, a 30-inch “authentic civil war” cannon draped in the confederate flag. The Reb fired hard, plastic cannonballs with …

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Comics-Related YouTube Roundup

First up: This clip of Invisible Hands, the great animated Richard Sala short series on MTV’s Liquid TV: Here’re a couple of animated versions of Michael Kupperman strips.  Unlike a lot of this kinda stuff, these both translate really well to animated versions I think.  And they’re both hysterically funny: And, finally, Al Hirschfeld drawing …

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Wha?!

It seems likely that using one’s nose for breeding purposes could in itself be the very cause of its being stuffed up.

ComicSpace.com

ComicSpace – benzilla’s Space I’m currently the only person in the world who doesn’t have a MySpace page.  I’ve been the last of the holdouts with this whole “social networking” deal, but I’m giving this new comics-specific site a try…. So visit my page and friend me up!