Ben Towle

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My Review of Mastering Comics

I wrote a review of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s new comics how-to/textbook Mastering Comics in the current Publishers Weekly Comics Week. Check it out here.

Alphabet Press – At SPX 2012!

As you may know if you follow me on Twitter, I’ll be attending SPX 2012 this year, as I have pretty much every other year since about 2000 or so.  What’s different this year, though, is that I won’t be attending as a solo cartoonist, but as part of the collective Alphabet Press table–a big …

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Q is for Quasimodo

“Q” is already a pretty challenging letter, but if I was going to stick with my self-imposed AlphaBooks parameters of using only characters from books I’ve read, using the first letter of the character’s full name (rather than the last name as with “Don Quixote”), and using only one character from any given book, I …

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Animated GIF: And Oyster War Panel Start-to-Finish

I just thought this would be a fun thing to do:

&@$#! An Exhibition of Comic Artists

If you’re in/near Richmond, VA in September, be sure to check out this great exhibit of original comics art. I’ve got pieces up from Oyster War, Midnight Sun, Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, etc. There’s a pretty stunning array of cartoonists who will also have pieces up. Just to name a few: Farel Dalrymple, Fred …

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