Ben Towle

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Memorial Day Crackhouse Update

Well, it’s not technically Memorial Day yet, but it really doesn’t matter around the venerable Crackhouse since renovation work is going on unfettered. Today Dennis, the drywall finisher wrapped up the third pulling of the drywall mud, thus completing that end of things. Tomorrow the dried mud gets sanded, and on monday the painter comes …

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X3

X3, otherwise known as “X-Men: The Last Stand” comes out today. In celebration/anticipation here’s a Wolverine by J. Chris Campbell:

Marvel’s “Civil War”

There’s apparently some kind of big multi-book crossover event going on at Marvel at the moment called “Civil War,” and the Newsarama Art Group has selected as its drawing topic this week Captain America and Iron Man in some sort of a “Civil War” context. I’m guessing that Cap and Iron Man wind up on …

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Art Out of Time

Check out this The Comics Reporter preview of Dan Nadel’s forthcoming book Art Out of Time. I’m really looking forward to this book since it features a look at two of my very favorite–and often neglected–cartoonists: Dick Briefer and Ogden Whitney. Briefer did a great humorous take on Frankenstein’s monster and Whitney was the artist …

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Comicreaders.com Reviews Midnight Sun

Here’s the review: Added emotion to historical events by Chad Boudreau After reading the first issue of Midnight Sun, I took to the Internet to do a little research to see what Ben Towle had been up since receiving his 2004 Eisner nomination for “Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition” for his graphic novel Farewell, Georgia. …

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