Ben Towle

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General Tso’s Sizzling Mini-comic

Also for the Charlotte con, I’ll be offering a all of my current mini-comics as part of a single package: General Tso’s Sizzling Mini-comic: (Click for larger image)

The Boxing Bucket’s Final Round

Here, hot off the paper cutter (?), is The Boxing Bucket’s Final Round, a minicomic that I’ve managed to get together just in time for the HeroesCon in Charlotte this weekend. The content is the Bucket “couch comic” I just wrapped up. I had considered calling it “Beyond the Pail,” but the pun made my …

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The Comics Reporter

The Comics Reporter Ever since the demise of The Comics Journal’s Journalista column/website, Tom Spurgeon’s The Comics Reporter is the best and only place to go to get a daily fix of what’s going on in the world of comics. The site’s clean, easy to navigate, updated daily and—amazingly—ad-free. This week, though, he’s been asking …

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Sean Puckett – Random Word Generator

Sean Puckett – Random Word Generator I teach cartooning classes during the summers and one of the first things I try to get the students to do is to come up with a lot of characters very quickly. In the past, I’ve started with simple geometric doodles that I’ve handed out to each student, who …

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Boxing Bucket Couch Comic, final page

Here’s the tragic conclusion to the Boxing Bucket couch comic. The original final line, written by Chris Reilly, was “Though I will always admire the way he devoured those who opposed him, I will remember him for how his dead hand reached for one last drink,” but I had to just use the last section …

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