Ben Towle

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The pail’s progress

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about cartooning is that it is a spontaneous process–that a cartoonist simply sits down with a blank piece of paper and an ink pen and starts drawing the final published piece. While it’s taken for granted that a prose writer goes through various planning stages and …

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Beards Ahoy!

I’ve been growing a beard in anticipation of the cold winter months. Reactions have been mixed.

Wanna buy some clothes?

My stuff for sale on Ebay Check out the above link for some sweet vintage clothes I’m selling on ebay, including a stylish “Camaro” windbreaker from the 70s, a nehru-collar shirt, and several westernwear shirts.

Holiday card

Here’s a scan of the Christmas cards I made for Katherine and I to send out this year. I silkscreened the cards using my Print Gocco home screen printer. This time I experimented a bit and did the original image using black, 30% gray and 60% gray. I then converted the image to a bitmap …

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The return of the boxing bucket

Here’s a recent sketch I did of the “Boxing Bucket” character that I’ve been working on with my friend Chris Reilly. The character began as a quick doodle he spotted in my sketchbook at SPX in Bethesda, and has evolved into a short story that is going to be featured in our upcoming anthology “Strange …

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