Ben Towle

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Animal Alphabet: B is for Bush Baby

Here’s the next installment in our weekly Twitter Animal Alphabet project (hashtag #AnimalAlphabet). I was really overwhelmed with the response we got when we introduced the project a week ago. I’d imagined that Rob and I would try to keep up with one a week and maybe a “straggler” or two would join in occasionally. …

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Portrait Night 4/5 (Chrissie Hynde)

Yikes! I’ve gone a whole week between #PortraitNight posts without a real, written blog post. Oh well, blame my daughter’s preschool being out last week for spring break. Tonight’s subject is rock-and-rollist Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. I dig pretty much all the early Pretenders records, but I’m partial to the first two records with …

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Animal Alphabet: A is for Alpaca

So, I’m doing yet another weekly Twitter project: the Animal Alphabet (hashtag #AnimalAlphabet). Rob Ullman and I brewed this up last week, but hopefully some other folks will join in. If the project winds up picking up any real steam in the form of regular contributors other than the two of us, I might set …

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Portrait Night 3/29 (Muammar Gaddafi)

This week’s #PortraitNight is a bit of a rush job, I’m afraid; I spent much of the weekend tangled up in a not-as-simple-as-expected project setting up a digital music player stereo component. Anyway, tonight’s subject is fashion dilettante and international nasty-man Muammar Gaddafi:

Teaching Comics: Getting Past The Blank Page

Earlier this week, Tom Hart did a great blog post over at the Sequential Artists Workshop site called “Oblique Strategies for Comics.” Tom’s got a great list there of unusual constraints (or parameters maybe?) that one can use to “kickstart” a comic. It’s posted without much further explanation, but the items on that list are …

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