Ben Towle

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Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together

Could coffee protect your liver against alcohol? In the “Best News EVER” category: Drinking coffee may shield the liver from the worst ravages of alcohol, a study of more than 125,000 people suggests. The risk of developing alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver dropped with each cup of coffee they drank per day.”Consuming coffee seems to …

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Indy Panels at Heroes Con

The schedule of panels for Heroes Con is beginning to come together and is being posted at the Heroesonline site. Here are the two to which I’ll be contributing: Friday at 3:00 pm: How To Get Ahead In The World Of Indie Comics, Part One: Minicomics Location: TBA Last year’s panel on creating minicomics was …

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Take a Free Jung Test

Try it out here. Here’re my results: INTJ – “Mastermind”. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI) Yep, that’s me…(joking of course) You can check out J. Chris Campbell’s results here.

Finally: Popeye

It looks like decent pressings of the animated Popeye cartoons are finally going to be released. I have to admit I have some mixed feelings about the animated Popeye–while the early Fleischer cartoons are great, they also adversely affected the newspaper strip, somewhat wattering down the Popeye charcter. At any rate, if it’s got the …

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Wide Awake 666

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover of the next Wide Awake Press anthology: Wide Awake 666, for which I did this Count Stinkula story. WIDE AWAKE 666 This October you’re in for a real treat! Prepare to savor every gooey drop of this deranged collection of drawings, comics and stories from some of your …

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