Ben Towle

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The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz

Check it out! I got ten right out of fourteen. Of my wrong answers, two were Hitler quotes I mistook for Coulter quotes and two vise versa. powered by performancing firefox

Ditko’s The Thing Cover

I occasionally post to a Newsarama sketch group that does weekly themed drawing projects.  This week’s mission: to reacreate your favorite comic book cover.  So…here’s my version of Steve Ditko’s amazing cover to The Thing # 15: And here’s the original: I think my drawing turned out well, but getting that great watercolor coloring with …

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Scott McCloud: Making Comics II

Yesterday, Joe Zabel, who conducted the interview with Scott McCloudI blogged about yesterday left me an interesting comment, which I thought I’d reproduce here since it addresses further the always contentious relationship between the media of film and comics.  Here’s what Joe had to say: Interesting comment, Ben. As a matter of fact, I’ve criticizedUnderstanding …

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Scott McCloud: Making Comics

It’s an unfortunate situation that there really isn’t a good “nuts and bolts” instructional textbook that covers in any wholistic way the art and craft of creating comics.  There are two on the horizon, though, that seemed to show some potential—one is Making Comics by Scott McCloud, the other an instructional text by Jessica Abel …

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That Wacky Disaster!

I stumbled upon this while searching for photo reference of ocean liner cabin interiors.  Is it just me, or is this bizarre and/or in really bad taste? Titanic Slide – 33″ dual slideThe Titanic Slide has 2 – 35’ Long 50 Degree Sliding Lanes with a Enclosed Cabin Stairway for hours of slip, sliding fun. …

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