Ben Towle

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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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Heroes Con: Sunday

Well, actually, it’s Monday now, but Sunday at the con started off busy (for a Sunday anyway) but slowed to the usual trickle by the end of the day. All in all, though, I saw some OK sales Sunday—and a number of other artists seemed to be doing lots of business. Rob Ullman, who was …

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Heroes Con: Saturday

 Saturday at Heroes Con was a day everyone expected to be a real zoo—and to a certain extent it was.  But it certainly never reached a point where it was uncomfortable or difficult to move around the floor, as in San Diego.  Most important, the “Heroes atmosphere” seems to be in tact, with most folks—mainstream …

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Heroes Con: Friday

I thought I was really on the ball for remembering to bring my camera to this event, but aparently not, since I forgot to bring the USB cable that allows me to hook the thing to my laptop and actually do something with the pictures.  Fridays are never super busy at Heroes (or really any …

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