This popped up in my Google alerts a few days ago. My 2007 Graphic novel, Midnight Sun, is included on the Comics Alliance list of 15 best free comics for the Kindle Fire. I don’t have a Kindle Fire, so I honestly have no idea whether the article is referring to the freebie Chapter One …
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Jan 27 2012
A Year of Weekly Portraits
Roughly one year ago, I decided that the only way to get better at drawing faces was…. to draw faces–and to draw them regularly. So, beginning on January 25th of last year, I drew a portrait every week and posted each to Twitter (with the #PortraitNight hashtag) on Tuesday nights. My goal was to do …
Jan 25 2012
My Top Three Most Overlooked Books Of 2011
I neglected to do a top ten list for 2011. Partially I was just busy–but also, looking at the lists that other people together, I realized that there are a lot of major books that dropped in 2011 that I’ve not read yet. I have, though, noticed a conspicuous absence in most of these Best …
Jan 24 2012
Portrait Night 1/24 (Ben Towle)
Well, that’s all folks. It was one year ago that I set out to draw a portrait every Tuesday night for a full year. I thought it would be appropriate for my final entry to attempt a self-portrait, something I don’t think I’ve done since I was a college sophomore in the late 80s. I …
Jan 23 2012
O is for Osquip
There were a number of interesting “O” Dungeons & Dragons creature choices for this week’s AlphaBeasts, but once I crossed the osquip in the Fiend Folio my mind was made up. Partially I think it’s because he’s clearly the ancestor of the watery-beer-shilling “Spuds MacKenzie,” commercial icon of the 80s. The osquip is the original …
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