Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 12/31/12

I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook lately–mostly, that’s been because a lot of my evening sketching time over the last few months has been consumed by the AlphaBooks project. Now that that’s over, though, I’ve been back working in my sketchbook on some non-alpha project things. With these sketches I was trying to work …

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Spain Rodriguez’s Trashman

As you’ve probably heard, underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez died last week. Here’s a illo I did of his iconic post-apocalyptic Marxist-anarchist superhero, Trashman: The original art for this is for sale here.

Comics Roundtable at Chapel Hill Comics

Just FYI, if you’re in the Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham area: I’ll be a guest at this comics roundtable this Saturday, December 1st at Chapel Hill Comics. Come on by for a round-robin discussion of the current comics scene with five North Carolina cartoonists–lead by Rio Aubry Taylor. (And also: Chapel Hill Comics is one of the very …

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Oyster War: Now Syndicated Online by GoComics!

Yeah, that’s right: GoComics.com, the home of Peanuts, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Fox Trot, Cul de Sac, and many, many more amazing comics is now syndicating Oyster War online, starting from the beginning. If you have a GoC0mics account, please pop in and say Hi! And, don’t worry… If you’ve been following Oyster War at …

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I’m on Sound Opinions Talking About The “5” Royales

A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR’s music show/podcast Sound Opinions. You can find the show here. I’m at the very, very end of the show–around 59:30 minutes–talking about the influence of Winston-Salem’s own “5” Royales on James Brown’s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed …

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