Ben Towle

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Midnight Sun Reviews: Part II

Here are a few more reviews of Midnight Sun that have rolled in over the last week or so: THOR’S COMIC COLUMN : RevolutionSF – Can’t See the Forest #70 : Feature Cosmic Comix Reviews – Current Welcome to Silver Bullet Comics! // THE source, nuff said …

Midnight Sun #1: Review Roundup

I know some will argue, but I think any creative person who puts his or her work into the public arena, but who then claims complete indifference to any critical reaction to that work, is pretty much a big fat liar.  Most of us creative types are curious to know how our work is received.  …

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Teaching Comics: Lesson 8

Now, I know I said in the last lesson–the one about pencilling–that that was the real nitty gritty, but I’ve decided now that I was wrong; inking is the real nitty gritty! So, nitty-gritty in fact that in order to cover all the ground I want to cover, I’m going to break this inking lesson …

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Midnight Sun/Ssalefish Ad

A big thanks to Brett and folks over at local comics shop Ssalefish, for featuring Midnight Sun #1 (or maybe it should be “Midnight Ssun”) in their newspaper ad yesterday: (Click for larger image)

Heroes Con: Peter Bagge Sketch

As with most comics events I go to these days, I purchased pretty much only minicomics and other similar items not available via the usual retail channels.  My one “big ticket” item, though (if’n you think $20.00 is “big ticket”) was a commissioned sketch of Thomas Paine done by Peter Bagge—as featured in the story …

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