Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 5/4

Actually, I kind of like how that turned out… maybe I’ll ink it.

FCBD: Jabberwacky Now Online

If you read my blog, you already know that Jabberwacky is the Free Comic Book Day online comic from Wide Awake Press and you already know who’s in it.  So…. now that it’s actually Free Comic Book Day, you can go and dowload it either as a PDF or CBZ–or you can just read it …

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FCBD Approacheth…

I did a post a while back about the Wide Awake Press Free Comic Book Day offering for this year, Jabberwacky!, but with FCBD nearly upon us, I thought I’d post a few additional items before the digital comic itself becomes available.  First off is this video “trailer” for the book, set to psychedelic rock …

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Sketchbook 4/25

Here’s a design for an out-of-the-way watermen’s hangout I’m working on for Oyster War–with ink and some quick watercolor applied.  I’m feeling like I’m maybe getting stuck in a bit of an architectural rut of late.  I want Blood’s Haven (the setting for Oyster War) to have a cohesive look, but this design is looking …

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“Trenches” vs. “Tranchees” – A look at the Fantagraphics and Casterman Editions of Tardi

I had a big Jacques Tardi “phase” a while back–and in particular, I was really enamored of the bits and pieces of C’était la Guerre des Tranchées that had appeared in various anthologies up to that point. In fact, the “duotone” style of drawing that I’ve been using in most of my longer work (Farewell, …

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