Ben Towle

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I’m Back from the Union County Mini-Con

I just walked back in the door from the Union County library Mini-Con in Monroe, NC and I had a blast.  As you can imagine in a library that has my books in its collection, the name of the game here wasn’t sellin’ stuff, (damn you, “Comrade” Obama and your socialized book stores–or, as you …

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Tomorrow (Sat. June 26th) Union County Mini-Con

If you happen to be anywhere in the vicinity of Monroe, NC tomorrow, be sure to stop in to the Mini-Con being held there.  It’s part of Union West Regional Library’s program to get kids into the library and interested in reading–comics and otherwise.    Event organizer John Thompson talks about the event here over …

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‘Sea Witch’ Frazetta Tribute Illustration Update

So, despite keeping pretty busy chasing my daughter around while she’s out of school for the summer, doing freelance work, and even a little work on Oyster War, I finally got back to this Sea Witch thing.    Here’s the inked and cleaned up version.  If my printer can handle it, I’m going to try to …

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Interview at ALA’s Good Comics for Kids Blog

Among the many great folks I had a chance to hang out with a few weeks back at Heroes Con 2010 was Snow Wildsmith, a regional librarian (Mooresville, NC) and blogger for the American Library Association’s Good Comics for Kids site.  She did an interview with me on the show floor about all-ages GNs and …

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My Version of Frazetta’s ‘Sea Witch’

As most any comics-interested folks know, legendary cartoonist/painter/illustrator Frank Frazetta died a few weeks back.  I’ve been pretty busy of late (Heroes Con, packing for vacation, vacation, Count of Monte Cristo proposal, etc.) but when I heard the news I was inspired to have a go at a “tribute” drawing of a Frazetta painting.  One …

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