Ben Towle

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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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Time Lapse

Well, here’s a first–and only marginally successful–attempt to use my webcam for something other than Skyping with relatives.  I clipped the thing to my above-drafting table track lights and tried to do a time lapse video of my inking a page from Oyster War.  The camera’s too far away by a factor of about two …

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The Stones and TinTin

I sent this pic around via Twitter yesterday, but I think it deserves a post here as well.  I’m starting to ink Chapter Two of Oyster War and I’ve been streaming documentaries from Netflix in the background as I do.  One of the ones I watched yesterday was Stones in Exile, a documentary about the …

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My Cartoonist Survey Posted at David-Wasting-Paper

There’s a short survey/interview with me now posted over at the David-Wasting-Paper blog.  This is an interesting blog for two reasons beyond just getting to read what various cartoonists say in their surveys.  First, the questions for each cartoonist are exactly the same.  Second, there are so damn many of them!  I’m survey number 145.  …

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Inked Ukulele One-pager

I hesitate to call this a “comic strip” since it’s about 70% words (maybe “illustrated essay” would be more accurate) but whatever it is, it’s inked.  This strip will appear in the Fall issue of Signal to Noise magazine, which is where my previous very wordy one-page music strip about Winston-Salem’s “5” Royales also appeared. …

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