Ben Towle

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PR Round-up!

I haven’t done a PR round-up in a while because… well, because I haven’t had a book out for anyone to write about in forever. But there’ve been a few recent write-ups about my work in the last week or so. Here they are: First, blogger/comics-er/all around nice guy Shannon Smith is counting down some …

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P is for The Pirate Captain

My other contenders for this week’s “P” drawing were pretty easy to eliminate since I’ve already drawn characters from both of the books they’re from: Pilon from Tortilla Flat and Portunus from Lud-in-the-Mist. That left just this fella: P is for The Pirate Captain — From Pirates! In Adventure With Scientists by Gideon Defoe Before …

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Hellboy!

Here’s a quick ink & watercolor Hellboy I just wrapped up. I just started re-reading some of the early Hellboy comics. What great stuff–and so beautifully drawn and colored!

For Jack Kirby’s Birthday: Lockjaw vs. The Purina Chuckwagon

It’s August 28th–the day Jack “King” Kirby was born back in 1917. Lots of folks will have posts with great things to say about Kirby today, so I’ll let them do the talking. Needless to say, comics wouldn’t be comics without Kirby. Here’s a drawing I did for today, King Kirby Day. It would have …

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O is for Octavia

OK… Octavia is a pretty minor character in The Hunger Games, but she was just about the only “O” character I could think of from a book that I’d read and not drawn someone from already. O is for Octavia — From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Octavia is part of the protagonist, Katness’s, …

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