Ben Towle

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Geof Darrow on Moebius (Panel From Heroes Con 2011)

If you’re even tangentially involved in comics you’ve heard by now of the passing of Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius. Moebius was one of  the last living giants of the comics field (Robert Crumb being the only other one I can think of off the top of my head) and despite his having been …

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U is for Umber Hulk

Yet another fairly silly Dungeons & Dragons character design: the umber hulk. You’re asking for trouble any time you put together a creature that has a set of eyes where it’s nose normally would be–and then eliminate the nose altogether.  I found the original published image of the umber hulk on the webpage of someone …

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For Creator Owned Day: The Georgia Peach

So apparently the comics community has decided that March 1st is “Creator Owned Day” and who am I to argue with them? To celebrate I figured I’d post some of my own creator-owned work. Actually, other than the Amelia Earhart book I did for Hyperion, pretty much all of my work is creator owned–so I …

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T is for Thought Eater

From the original Monster Manual: second only to 1986’s live action Howard The Duck in the “simultaneously creepy/dopey duck-based character design” department, the Thought Eater. T is for Thought Eater The original art for this is for sale here.   You can follow the other “T” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning …

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Sketchbook 2/23 – Baseball Players

For the last few days I’ve been on a baseball kick in my sketchbook. Maybe I’m just ready for spring to arrive–who knows? I’ve posted phone pics of some of these to various social media sites, but here are decent scans of them all together. They’re all taken from Ken Burns’s Baseball: an Illustrated History, …

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