Ben Towle

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Portrait Night 6/14 (Morrissey)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is mopey 90s alt-rocker Morrissey. I changed the color of the light-colored shirt in the reference photo. Everyone knows that Morrissey wears black on the outside because black is how he feels on the inside. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section …

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Animal Alphabet: K is for Kingfisher

When folks hear “kingfisher,” they’re usually going to think of the belted kingfisher, but  there are many different varieties of kingfishers. This one is a common kingfisher (also called a river kingfisher). You can follow the other “K” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all …

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Sketchbook 6/12

I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook in ages! It’s not that I haven’t been working in it, but a lot of my current sketchbook stuff winds up being for Animal Alphabet or for my Portrait Night project. I’m posting this as “Sketchbook 6/12,” but I did this one a few weeks back. It’s one …

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Comics Documentary: Folktales and Airships (Featuring Me!)

Did you know that Wake Forest University here in Winston-Salem has a documentary film-making department? I didn’t until I was contacted a while back by filmmaker and MFA candidate Peter Salomone who was interested in making a documentary about comics-making–featuring me. I’m sure you know how exciting and interesting the life of a cartoonist is: …

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Portrait Night 6/7 (Henry Kissinger)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Henry Kissinger. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.