Ben Towle

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Portrait Night 2/07 (Nick Cave)

Well, I’m obviously slacking off on blog postings since the last thing I posted was also from my Twitter #PortraitNight.. but, here’s another one. This time, my subject is the young Nick Cave. I made a conscious decision last week not to choose a musician, but this week I’m back in music-land again: Here’s the …

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Portrait Night 2/1 (Babe Ruth)

Yep, another Tuesday portrait night has come and gone. Last night’s subject: Babe Ruth. I think the inking here is probably the best part of the drawing; the likeness itself isn’t very good. (I think the overall face shape is the main culprit–too gaunt/angular.) Someone on Twitter thought the red/blue color scheme was an Obama …

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What Am I Working On?

Every once in a while–more really to organize my own thoughts than in response to any actual outside interest in the information–I do a “What am I Working on?” post where I run down the statuses of my current comics projects. I did that in an abbreviated form over at The Beat for their year-end …

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Portrait Night 1/25 (Keith Richards)

As I’ve likely mentioned before, I’m not a great caricaturist–but the only way to get better is to try, try, try, right? So, to that end I’m going to try to do a (quick) caricature/portrait a week. As an attempt to motivate myself to actually do this every week, I’m going to try to post …

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Oyster War Now Free Online at Tumblr

“Free online” is pretty much redundant, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve set up a quick tumblr blog at http://oysterwar.tumblr.com and have uploaded the first two chapters of Oyster War there. Does that make Oyster War a webcomic now? Probably not. I’ll be violating the webcomics first rule–“update regularly”–right off the bat: I just posted twenty-something pages …

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