Ben Towle

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Comics on NPR

Kudos to NPR which has done two comics-related stories in the last few days. The one on the Angouleme Festival of course features the obligatory interview with Art Spiegelman, the American cartoonst without whom NPR apparently cannot put together a comics-related story: Jim Ottaviani and Jay Hosler Angouleme Festival

Teaching comics in Loncoln, Nebraska

Here’s an article on teaching comics in the student paper of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A couple of folks from NACAE are mentioned, including me: Daily Nebraskan

Boxing Bucket pg. 4

Here’s page four… One more to go. (Click for larger image)

No comics for kids!?

comics.212.net – Cautiously Optimistic This guy really hits the nail on the head in this post. He’s reacting to a recent incarnation of the oft-cried mantra “There are no comics for kids any more!” I’ve heard everyone from comic book store owners to author Michael Chabon claim this, and each time I hear it I’m …

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Beards Ahoy! – The Final Chapter

As proof of my belief in the “spring is coming” predictions of local pig L’il Bit (see a few posts below), I decided to bid farewell to my beard today… but not without a bit of fun in which I removed small sections at a time in order to yeild the most ridiculous facial hair …

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