Ben Towle
@benzilla.bsky.social
Cartoonist, five-time-time Eisner nominee, programming co-chair Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), adjunct comics prof @ CCAD, intergalactic trader & general nuisance. Four-Fisted Tales, Oyster War, etc.
Columbus, OH (Comics City, USA!)/Palm Springs, CA
Columbus, OH (Comics City, USA!)/Palm Springs, CA
The Beat has been doing great coverage of the whole debacle.
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Beat has been doing great coverage of the whole debacle.
As with a lot of stuff at the Billy, who knows?! It's listed as being from "the Fletcher Hank's Collection", but no idea what that is.
Also, we showed one of your originals!
Also, we showed one of your originals!
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
As with a lot of stuff at the Billy, who knows?! It's listed as being from "the Fletcher Hank's Collection", but no idea what that is.
Also, we showed one of your originals!
Also, we showed one of your originals!
Hahaha I love that she has a giant "AACK" on the wall in her studio!
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hahaha I love that she has a giant "AACK" on the wall in her studio!
Wait, I'm wrong, There was *one* bit of CATHY 50th coverage I read a while back and it's a really great bit of writing:
panelsandprose.com/2025/11/14/d...
panelsandprose.com/2025/11/14/d...
Does This Zeitgeist Make Me Look Fat?: An Overdue Appreciation of “Cathy”
Across five decades of adulthood, every woman I have ever known was familiar, often intimately, with Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy (1976-2010). Our heroine’s struggles with new and old gender roles, the …
panelsandprose.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wait, I'm wrong, There was *one* bit of CATHY 50th coverage I read a while back and it's a really great bit of writing:
panelsandprose.com/2025/11/14/d...
panelsandprose.com/2025/11/14/d...
Reposted by Ben Towle
Fittingly, it’s a paperbACK!
I’m sorry I’m gonna go hide now.
I’m sorry I’m gonna go hide now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fittingly, it’s a paperbACK!
I’m sorry I’m gonna go hide now.
I’m sorry I’m gonna go hide now.
It's obviously pretty crude relative to what he'd later become... but you can kinda see his style already!
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It's obviously pretty crude relative to what he'd later become... but you can kinda see his style already!
And finally, this. This is the first science fiction story illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, who would later go on to draw Valerian and Lauraline! Done in 1956.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And finally, this. This is the first science fiction story illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, who would later go on to draw Valerian and Lauraline! Done in 1956.
We also got this batch of Hiroshi Kaizuka pages from a story that ran in Shonen Jump in 1979. I absolutely love the crowd scenes here--and especially that big panel in the last page. I don't think Hiroshi Kaizuka has ever had anything translated into English? Zero Fighter Red is is best-known work.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We also got this batch of Hiroshi Kaizuka pages from a story that ran in Shonen Jump in 1979. I absolutely love the crowd scenes here--and especially that big panel in the last page. I don't think Hiroshi Kaizuka has ever had anything translated into English? Zero Fighter Red is is best-known work.
The manga is GREAT!
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The manga is GREAT!
Beautiful sketch by Posy in
Cassandra Darke (a book which, inexplicably, has never had a U.S. release).
Cassandra Darke (a book which, inexplicably, has never had a U.S. release).
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Beautiful sketch by Posy in
Cassandra Darke (a book which, inexplicably, has never had a U.S. release).
Cassandra Darke (a book which, inexplicably, has never had a U.S. release).