Ben Towle

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Oyster War Nominated for 2013 Eisner Award

Shock and awe! I’m incredibly honored–and more than a little bit surprised, given the incredible volume of amazing comics currently being published directly to the web–to have Oyster War be nominated for a 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the category of Best Digital Comic. You can read the whole list of 2013 nominees …

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I’m Interviewed on Comics Coast To Coast

Last week I was interviewed on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast.  I discuss Oyster War, fantasy and historical fiction, coloring, my (possible) next project and more. Listen here.

I is for The Iron Giant

I is for The Iron Giant The original art for this is for sale here.   You can find all the AlphaBots entries to-date at the AlphaBots tumblr: http://alphabots.tumblr.com. You can also follow many of the entries as they’re posted in real-time by following the #AlphaBots hashtag on Twitter on Mondays

H is for H.E.R.B.I.E.

H is for H.E.R.B.I.E. from The Fantastic Four The original art for this is for sale here.

From 2006: Charles M. Schulz: His World in Art and Objects.

There’s a recently-published article over at the Hooded Utilitarian blog speculating about the origin of some replacement Peanuts strips “ghosted” by cartoonist Al Plastino in either the late 70s or early 80s. In discussion on Twitter, I mentioned asking Schulz’s widow, Jeannie, about this back when there was a Schulz/Peanuts exhibit here at Wake Forest University. …

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