Ben Towle

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Must… Stop… Spider

I’m a really terrible photographer, but every once in a while–just via random chance–I manage to get a picture of something kinda cool, in this case it’s a weird blurry picture of a spider:

Separated at Birth

Is us just me, or is cartoonist Jason Little looking more and more like A.W. Merrick, the newspaper publisher from Deadwood?

Crackhouse Wrap-up pt. 1

The “big dig” project here at the Crackhouse is just about wrapped up and we’re moving back into the downstairs of the place now. Needless to say this is all occuring four months after the project started, not four weeks as originally estimated. Anyway, here’re a few before/during/after pics of the living room, the new …

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Tokyopop’s Web Exclusives

Journalista » Blog Archive » Aug. 31, 2006: An act of sheer desperation The blogosphere is alive with the sound of bitching… that is, bitching back and forth about Tokyopop‘s recent announcement that it is making some of its titles available only via their online store.  That means that they’ll be cutting out the usual …

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Seth’s Nostalgia for the 20s and 30s

The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History I’ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists.  I listened most recently to the one about “Seth,” a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve.  The voiceover referred …

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