Ben Towle

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Process: Oyster War Page 35 Start to Finish

If you follow me on Twitter, you’re already in the know, but if not… Yesterday I wrapped up chapter three of my webcomic Oyster War. (New pages posted here. Begin the story here.) Chapter three starts here and runs thirteen pages, I think–the longest chapter in the book so far. It’s also nearly wordless and …

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Portrait Night 8/17 (Guy Picciotto)

Not one of my better #PortraitNight drawings I’m afraid, but I managed somehow to completely flub my usual weekend Portrait Night/Animal Alphabet schedule and wound up having to crank this out last night in a scant hour or so. Anyway, continuing in my series of subjects taken from Our Band Could Be Your Life, here’s …

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T is for Takin

You can follow the other “T” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com. T is for Takin The original art for this is for sale here.

Portrait Night 8/9 (Steve Albini)

Continuing my series of #PortraitNight drawings of musicians from Our Band Could be Your Life is tonight’s subject: Big Black front-man and all-around indie rock gadfly Steve Albini. This isn’t the greatest likeness, but it was one of my favorites so far to do. Unlike previous subjects like Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, there’s a …

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S is for Sea Turtle

You can follow the other “S” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com. S is for Sea Turtle The original art for this is for sale here.