Ben Towle

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Heroes Con 2011 – Day 3

Sunday My Sunday at Heroes Con started out with an interesting–if sparsely attended–panel: “Historical Comics” with Becky Cloonan, Chris Schweizer, Don Rosa and me. It made me wonder if maybe having the first panel each day start an hour (or half hour) after opening might be a good idea, since that would allow time for …

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Animal Alphabet: J is for Jellyfish

You can follow the other “I” 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. J is for Jellyfish The original art for this is for sale here.

Heroes Con 2011 – Day 2

Saturday at Heroes Con was actually somewhat slower for me than the supposedly-slow Friday that precedes it. I think, though, that this is largely because I don’t have a new book for sale and have been selling primarily original art and commissioned sketches. Friday (not Saturday) seems to be the day that original art folk …

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Heroes Con 2011 – Day 1

After a relatively quick (but pretty bleary-eyed) early morning drive from Winston-Salem, I arrived at the Charlotte Convention center just in the lick of time to get set up for what has got to be America’s best-loved regional comics convention, Heroes Con. Friday is pretty much always a slow day at Heroes and today was …

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Portrait Night 5/31 (Helen Marnie)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Ladytron singer and synth player Helen Marnie. I’m not big into electronic music generally, but Ladytron does it so, so well. For a good introduction to the band, pick up their recent “best of” compilation, Best of 00-10. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either …

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