Ben Towle

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Build a Beach Head – James Sturm & Art Baxter’s 1998 Response to Understanding Comics

(Edit 8/8: There’s also a bit of discussion about this strip going on in my Google+ stream. If I have you in one of my circles, you can join in there.) I’m currently teaching an Introduction to Sequential Art class for The Savannah College of Art and Design and the primary text for the class …

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Portrait Night 8/2 (Mark Arm)

Well, I guess I’m full-in now doing drawings of musicians from Our Band Could be Your Life. Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Mudhoney front-man Mark Arm. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

R is for Rhinoceros

You can follow the other “R” 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. R is for Rhinoceros

Portrait Night 7/26 (Greg Norton)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Hüsker Dü bassist and wearer of rock’s greatest mustache (sorry, Freddie Mercury), Greg Norton. I tried to get out of my “music rut” this week to no avail. I did a pencil sketch of Joseph Heller, but it was 100% terrible… so back to 80s indie rock it is. If you’d …

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Q is for Queen Triggerfish

You can follow the other “Q” 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. Q is for Queen Triggerfish The original art for this is for sale here.