Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 8/26

I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook recently, so here’re some hands from the current issues of TIME and Vanity Fair.

Proposals: Out with the Old, In with the New

While there are a few (like maybe one or two) editors who’ve not definitively responded to the Count of Monte Cristo graphic novel proposal I’d been working on a month or two ago, it looks like it’s time to consider it officially dead in the water–or at least, “shelved” for the time being.  I’m continuing …

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I’m a “Character” in Today’s NY Times

My friend (and screenwriter) Angus MacLachlan has a short article in the “Lives” section of today’s New York Times. It’s a true story that takes place in our neighborhood (Angus lives around the corner from me) and the pictured chair lived in my studio for about a year between the events detailed in the story, …

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Oyster War Page Progress: Inks

As mentioned a few posts back, I’ve picked a page from the current chapter of Oyster War to post progress on as it moves to completion.  I’ve now got that particular page inked, so here it is: As with most everything I draw, this page looked a lot more impressive in my brain, but I …

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Local “Comic Book Reading Room”

Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag?  I sure didn’t.  I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table.  My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me …

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