Ben Towle

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Project: Crackhouse – The Studio IV

Here’s the future studio (picture shot from the other end of the room in this one—looking into the laundry room), now with all the electrical roughed in and the walls insulated. (Click for larger image)

Project: Adodo pt. 2

I received an email update from Luca, one of the editors of the upcoming Italian literary magazine Adodo, to which I contributed a piece of artwork. Here’s what he had to say: “Adodo is in Italian, and contains mostly literature, but we cared a lot about the visuals. There’s a story from James Kochalka, titled …

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Crackhouse: odds and ends

The demolition work in the soon-to-be studio/workroom upstairs has resulted in a thin layer of sooty dust throughout most of the house. An interesting side effect of this has been that the dust gets on the cat’s paws as he roams around the house and leaves little cat paw prints showing places that he’s visited. …

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Comics Crime Watch: Albuquerque, N.M.

Thought Balloons: Comics Crime Watch: Albuquerque, N.M. I wonder if, before the bust, this store saw a dramatic increase in sales of Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb and Jim Woodring comics?

Leisure Town

Leisure Town Yay! Leasure Town is back online. Maybe this will mean that some new strips aren’t too far off…