Tag: Winston-Salem

Amelia Exhibit Extended – At Gallery Hop Oct 2nd

Due mainly to this recent article in the Winston-Salem Journal, the exhibit of my original artwork from the forthcoming graphic novel Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean has been extended until the 19th of October.  Mainly that’s so it will be open and on display for the downtown arts district’s gallery hop this coming Friday (October …

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Weekend o’ Book Festival Appearances

I’ll be appearing at two book festivals this weekend.  The first is the Bookmarks Book Festival here in Winston-Salem on Saturday and the second will be at the North Carolina Literary Festival in Chapel Hill on Sunday.  Here’re details: Bookmarks The New Frontier: Graphic Novels, Webcomics and Manga Saturday, 2:00 pm – at the DADA …

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Two Pages of Amelia, Start to Finish

In preparation for hanging the Amelia Earhart – Drawing from History exhibit that opens this Friday (mentioned last post), I’ve put together a poster that’s going to be mounted on foam-core and hung along with the pages from the graphic novel.  The jist of the poster is just to provide a bit of introduction to …

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Amelia Earhart GN Original Art Exhibit

I saw this turn up on Smitty’s Notes, the local Winston-Salem events newsletter/website, so I guess the press release has officially gone out: Amelia Earhart: Drawing from History – by Ben Towle 9/4/2009 – 9/29/2009 7:00 PM, at Artists On Liberty Building – The Main Gallery 521 North Liberty Street, Winston Salem Amelia Earhart: Drawing …

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Comic Strip: The “5” Royales

Here’s a one-pager I did for fall’s issue of Signal to Noise magazine.  I posted some bits and pieces of this a while back when it was in-process, but now that the new issue on the stands here’s the entire strip. The stirp is an introduction to the ’50s soul/R&B band, The “5” Royales, who …

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