Ben Towle

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Winter Wuf-Fest ’05

Katherine and I have just returned from Raleigh NC, the site of the Winter Wuf-Fest flyball tournament. I’ve posted some pictures from the event at the top of my photo gallery page: Winter Wuf-Fest ’05 (Click for larger image)

The pail’s progress, pt 6

Well, here’s the final inked page. I still don’t like the way the first panel turned out, but at this point I’ll chalk it up to a learning curve since I’m attempting an inking style that’s somewhat new to me. Depending on how I feel about it once all four pages are complete, I may …

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The pail’s progress pt. 5

Normally I wouldn’t start inking until I had all of the penciled pages of the story done, but just for the sake of this experiment I decided to go ahead and ink this one page and see it through to completion. I pretty much always start inking with a brush, then fill in smaller details …

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The pail’s progress pt. 4

Well, here’s the completed pencils of the first page. This page threw me a few loops, and I’ve wouund up breaking a few generally acccepted “rules” of comics storytelling in order to set this page up the way I wanted to. First, I’ve made some changes from the script. This isn’t really a “rule” per …

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Comic Book Pioneer Will Eisner Dies at 87

Comic Book Pioneer Will Eisner Dies at 87 Anyone interested in comics and its history should be saddened by the passing of this great artist and advocate for the medium. The NPR story above is significant as well in that it’s the first time I can recall that something notable has happened in the comics …

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