Ben Towle

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Prophet Fan Art

    Hand drawn, inked with Pentel brush pen and Micron. Colored in Manga Studio EX5. I tried to do a bit of “digital aging” on it via Photoshop, but I like the original better. I upgraded to Manga Studio EX5 this weekend and spent some time fooling around with its coloring tools–and I was …

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Manga Studio Drawings: Storm & Neil Gaiman

  Here’re a couple of recent drawings, neither of which I’m 100% happy with… but both were good Manga Studio practice. Storm was hand-drawn in my sketchbook, then inked in Manga Studio, and finally colored in Photoshop. You may recognize her costume there as being from the recent Brian Wood/Oliver Coipel X-Men series. I’ve not followed …

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Chaval: Forgotten, Controversial French Gag Cartoonist

I was recently at a library in Durham doing a comics talk and noted that the “books for sale” shelf there had a bunch of comics collections from the 1950s. Most of the collections were of were New Yorker cartoonists whose work I already owned–Arno, Darrow, etc.–but one book caught my eye and I bought …

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Wrap-Up: San Diego Comic-Con 2013

Well, I’ve returned from San Diego Comic-Con and I’m starting to get back settled in. As you probably know, Oyster War didn’t win the Best Digital Comic Eisner Award, but I had a blast at the show nonetheless and I’m really, really glad I made the trek. Here’re a few thoughts: San Diego – I …

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I’m Comic-Con Bound…

It’s been a while since I’ve made the trek out to San Diego for Comic-Con, but I’ll be attending this year. If I’m going to lose my third Eisner award, I’m damn well going to do it in person! I’m actually really looking forward to this year’s Comic-Con since it’ll be the first time I’ve …

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