Ben Towle

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A is for Ash (from Alien)

Alphabots cranks up today! I’m not an admin this go round nor will I probably do a complete alphabet, but I have doodled up a few ‘bots for the introductory letters. Here’s the first one: A is for Ash (from Alien) The original art for this is for sale here.   You can find all …

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Alien Legion Pinup

I’m not sure exactly why, but last week I got a hankering to read some old Alien Legion comics. I really loved that series as a kid and I was actually surprised at how well it holds up. Just for fun, I drew some of the characters from the first issue. (I posted the original …

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Musician Drawings: Everly Brothers, Fleetwood Mac

For some reason, I’m back on a musician-drawing kick in my sketchbook. Here’re two drawings I did recently. They were all originally brush pen or brush/India ink, then scanned and colored in Photoshop. The Everly Brothers Fleetwood Mac (well, some of them anyway: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham)

Tashaki Miyaki (Illustration)

Here’s an illustration I did for the Aquarium Drunkard blog of the band Tashaki Miyaki. They’re a very cool band–they remind me a bit of maybe The Jesus and Mary Chain or Mazzy Star. I particularly dug the cover they there of Unsatisfied by The Replacements. The original art for this is for sale here.

These Are a Few of my Favorite (Comics) Things (from 2012)

OK, just a quick note on this list: “Few” – Like it says, this is just a small list with a few items highlighted among the many great comics-related things I really dug this year. I could only include a small sub-set of the stuff I really enjoyed and I’m sure I’ll remember about a …

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