Ben Towle

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P is for Peryton

So after ragging on the mongrelman a while back, I’ve wound up drawing one of those silly “mash-up” beasts after all: the peryton. According to the Monster Manual, the peryton is, “the result of the same type of experimentation as brought about the owlbear.” Experimentation, eh? One hopes the deer was on the receiving end …

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Midnight Sun: One of The 15 Best Free Comics on the Kindle Fire

This popped up in my Google alerts a few days ago. My 2007 Graphic novel, Midnight Sun, is included on the Comics Alliance list of 15 best free comics for the Kindle Fire. I don’t have a Kindle Fire, so I honestly have no idea whether the article is referring to the freebie Chapter One …

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A Year of Weekly Portraits

Roughly one year ago, I decided that the only way to get better at drawing faces was…. to draw faces–and to draw them regularly. So, beginning on January 25th of last year, I drew a portrait every week and posted each to Twitter (with the #PortraitNight hashtag) on Tuesday nights. My goal was to do …

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My Top Three Most Overlooked Books Of 2011

I neglected to do a top ten list for 2011. Partially I was just busy–but also, looking at the lists that other people together, I realized that there are a lot of major books that dropped in 2011 that I’ve not read yet. I have, though, noticed a conspicuous absence in most of these Best …

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Portrait Night 1/24 (Ben Towle)

Well, that’s all folks. It was one year ago that I set out to draw a portrait every Tuesday night for a full year. I thought it would be appropriate for my final entry to attempt a self-portrait, something I don’t think I’ve done since I was a college sophomore in the late 80s. I …

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