Ben Towle

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Portrait Night 4/26 (Herbie Hancock)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Headhunters-era Herbie Hancock: If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

“Talking with Tim” Interview at CBR’s Robot 6

I recently did a really enjoyable interview with Tim O’Shea for his “Talking with Tim” feature over at ComicBookResources.com. As is my wont, I wound up flapping my trap overmuch and consequently what probably should have been a short “what are you working on” interview wound up being me rambling on about everything from TinTin …

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Animal Alphabet: D is for Damselfly

You can follow the other “D” 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. D is for Damselfly The original art for this is for sale here.

Defective Comics Panel Audio Now Available

Last year, at Heroes Con ’10, Craig Fischer and I did one of our (in)famous “mega-presentations” in which we discussed offbeat and oddball superhero comics. One portion of that presentation was a panel discussion featuring Colleen Coover, Jeff Parker, Chris Pitzer and Evan Dorkin–and, at long last, the recorded audio from that panel is now …

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Portrait Night 4/12 (Kim Deitch)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is underground comics legend, Kim Deitch. When it comes to underground cartoonists of the 60s and 70s, Robert Crumb seems to always grab the spotlight, but in a “desert island” situation, my pick would be the works of Kim Deitch. He’s one of the greatest–if not the greatest–world-builder in comics. Start reading …

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