Ben Towle

Author's posts

Illos From An Abandoned Boneshaker Comics Adaptation Pitch

OK, “abandoned” isn’t the most accurate turn of phrase–maybe “on hold for the time being” is better. Anyway… a while back, my then-agent and I were mulling over possible projects to pursue and one possibility that came up was a proposal to adapt an existing book for the great SF/fantasy publisher Tor Books. Looking over …

Continue reading

B is for Beholder

You can follow the other “B” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures. The original art for this is for …

Continue reading

Come See Me At The Winston-Salem Toy & Comic Book Show

I’ll be at the Winston-Salem Toy and Comic Book Show this Saturday. I’ll have copies of Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean and my other books for sale as well as original art–probably just my smallish things like animal alphabet drawings. Come one, come all!  The event will be in the same shopping center as Ssalefish …

Continue reading

Portrait Night 10/18 (Steve Jobs)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is a the recently deceased Steve Jobs. I couldn’t really get on board the Apple bandwagon in its later years for various reasons–from philosophical objections to their business model to purely financial ones–but I wholly owe my current love of computer tinkering/programming to my elementary school experiences teaching myself BASIC on an …

Continue reading

A is for Achaierai

My inaugural AlphaBeast!  Comin’ atcha straight from the Dungeons and Dragons Fiend Folio, it’s the original Angry Bird, the Achaierai. You can follow the other “A” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. All the entries will be collected at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find …

Continue reading