Tag: Comics

Nobody likes a quitter…but,

BUT, I’m officially giving up on two books I’ve been trying to get through pretty much the entire summer: Bone: The One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith and Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Both of these books are highly thought of, both are of the fantasy genre, and both are surprizingly boring. I remember reading the …

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The Three Cent Pup

I moved to my current residence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from Savannah, Georgia, where I was studying cartooning at SCAD. Among the drastic differences between the two situations was the sudden lack of any kind of social group with an interest in comics. If I were, say, an accountant by trade, this wouldn’t really be …

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..and yet more SPX

Here’s a newsarama interview with me on the topic of teaching comics: BEN TOWLE: TEACHING COMICS

More SPX

Here’s a good article on this past SPX, mentioning both Bleep The Peeper—a jam comic from the Charlotte con that the Wide Awake Press guys put together featuring me and a whole bunch of other folks—and ____are Always Fun to Draw: SPX on Newsarama

SPX 2005

Other than a nebulous “small press summit” that’s supposedly occuring as I type this (and the particulars of which no one seems to know), This year’s SPX is pretty much done. My impressions? Business-wise, I pretty much made the table fee back plus some change…and when you account cost of the books themselves as well …

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