Ben Towle

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Supersize Me!

In the South, a man is often judged by the size of his back yard grill. Well, my days of hiding my diminutive Webber “Smoky Joe” grill (purchased for use on our balcony in Savannah, GA) are over! Feast your eyes on this full-sized Webber grill in action: (Click for larger image) An aside: for …

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MARVEL MONSTERS FIN FANG FOUR

I rarely find any comics published by Marvel or DC that I’m interested in enough to buy, but I took note of—and immediately ordered—this item being solicited for October release: Written by ROGER LANGRIDGE & MICK GRAY Penciled by ROGER LANGRIDGE Cover by ERIC POWELL Four giant monsters – incarcerated for years for their crimes …

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Midnight Sun – Characters (yet again)

Some jackass hacked my site over the weekend, so I’ve gotta repost these character designs since I lost the original posts as a result. Am I mad about being hacked? Nah…. I posted this stuff originally on Friday and noticed I’d been hacked on Sunday morning; if some pathetic soul has nothing better to do …

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Dog Days of Summer

Here, the worthless hound Sheila occupies the landing on the stairs, a curiously cool spot in the crackhouse. (Click for larger image)

Bill Mauldin book to mark end of World War II

Bill Mauldin book to mark end of World War II I’m excited to see that Bill Maudlin’s WWII cartoons are going to be collected. It seems like just about every few weeks the art house comics publishers like Fantagraphics announce some new collection of this sort, but Maudlin’s work has until now been neglected.