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Ben Towle

@benzilla.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, five-time Eisner nominee, programming co-chair Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), adjunct prof of Comics @ CCAD, intergalactic trader & general nuisance. Four-Fisted Tales, Oyster War, etc. Clintonville - Columbus, OH (Comics City, USA!)

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 1h

Also, solid food court!

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 1h

At Kinokuniya in Chicago. Picked this up. Seems like a solid premise!

Also, generally love this place. So wish we had one in Columbus.

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 6h

Oh damn...

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Comics Publisher Humanoids Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Comics publisher Humanoids files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, ahead of plans to liquidate the company

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 1d

So Olive's a telepath... who can mentally communicate only with dogs? Not sure it's time to clear out a room for her at the X-mansion, but as Mary Worth goes, this is a bit off the beaten path plot-wise.

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. You have to search for "sketch" or "sketches," though--not "pencils" or "penciled".

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha I thought about throwing that in, but figured my students would just use it as a justification to turn in largely blank pages. THAT MAY FLY AT MARVEL, BUT NOT IN MY CLASS!!!

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 2d

(I considered throwing in a page of "Snowblind" from John Byrne's ALPHA FLIGHT, but I figured that'd be a invitation to get a bunch of mostly white/empty pages from my students lol.)

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 2d

Examples of text/SFX-only (or pretty damn close to it--other than those couple of last panels) comics for an assignment: Michel Fiffe, Eisner, Matt Madden.

Any other obvious examples I could throw in??

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 2d

Hermes Press is having a fall 25% off sale (code FALL25) so I just nabbed STAR TREK: A COMICS HISTORY for $30. Saw copies at CXC and it looked great.

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Star Trek: A Comics History by Alan J. Porter

Paperback: 208 pagesall color Now for the first time the complete history of the Star Trek universe in comic books and newspaper strips all over the world. Written by pop-culture historian Alan J. Por...

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 2d

Found some old Hal Foster pencils that the Billy had and used them for an inking assignment. Turns out, interestingly, they were later finished by John Cullen Murphy and ran in '79. Here's the process:

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 4d

Clover Press via Kickstarter!

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 4d

In the mail today 😍😍😍

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 5d

Oh happy day! Apparently my favorite Comic-Con story has not in fact vanished from the internet, but lives on courtesey of the Wayback Machine:

web.archive.org/web/20201125...

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 5d

Mariners win

Winona ryder heathers cigarette

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhhh... This is gonna be fun to dig through!

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 6d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”

And why they’re right to be scared

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 7d

It's time... for nautical comics adventuring!

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed. It is, as the bottle says, savored by "two-fisted drinkers".

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 9d

And, ya know, for when you're traveling:

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 9d

Hahaha 🤮

Otoh:

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 9d

Retaliation for the tarifs, I assume. Still... seems unnecessarily cruel.

Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 9d

Are you familiar with Malört?