Ben Towle

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Leisure Town

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

Quality art instruction II

I sent my friend James Sturm the “how to draw hobos” page below and inquired as to whether the cartooning school he’s founded in Vermont, the Center for Cartoon Studies, would be addressing the topic of how to draw hobos. He replied that the school will have “several classes dedicated to the hobo,” and included …

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Quality art instruction

Why don’t modern “how to” books on comics and cartooing include information like this? (Click for larger image)

NYPL Digital Gallery

NYPL Digital Gallery The New York Public Library has put its entire collection of images, most of them in the public domain, online. What an amazing resource—I know where I’m going first for photo reference from now on.

Project: Crackhouse – The Studio III

Here’s the future studio, now stripped down to the studs and featuring a lovely upwards view of the interior of the attic. (Click for larger image)