• Real Name: Ben Towle
• Gender: Male
• Age: 38
• Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina (United States)

• Joined: Dec 6th, 2006
• Last Visit: Jun 23rd, 2009

User Tags: artist, indy, north carolina, slave labor, slg, winston-salem, writer

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Megatherium: Terror of the Ice Age

A three-page story I did for the recent Wide Awake Press Free Comic Book Day issue. The theme of this year's issue, titled Piltdown, was cavemen, dinosaurs and the like. This wordless story is all about the Megatherium, AKA: the giant sloth.

Hey, Teach

“Hey, Teach” Guest-Starring Jason Lutes and MODOK - An old minicomic from 2003 chronicling the summer I taught comics at the North Carolina Governor’s School.

Origin of the "Hush Puppy"

My contribution to the food-themed Wide Awake Press Free Comic Book Day offering, Eats.

Miscellaneous One-Pagers, Gags and Pinups

Various images including a recreation of a classic Steve Ditko cover, an Inhumans pinup I did for a convention, a 1-pager featuring "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski, a Marvel Civil War gag cartoon and more...

Goggles and Gloves

This is an eight page story featuring some characters developed by Chris Reilly and Steve Ahlquist. This story may see the light of day at SPX 2007, along with other G&G stories illustrated by other artists.

[ Posted by stormbear on Jan 6th, 2009 12:25 PM ]...

Town Called Dobson has been nominated for the 2008 Weblog awards for best webcomic. Please consider voting for the strip. You can vote everyday until Jan 13th, 2009.

Click here to vote

I wanted to take some time in this new year to thank you folks for your support of me and my little comic strip Town Called Dobson. We crossed the 500th Strip threshold this past year, got printed in some great independent newspapers, got to show off how I create TCD at Adobe over the summer and the continued presence in the blogosphere is always a blessing. Without your support, readership and emails, TCD would never have made it so long. It is with the deepest heart I thank you all. It is vital that progressive issues are represented in editorial cartooning, especially in these days of dwindling news readership.

Your consistent support and strip devotion has earned Town Called Dobson a 2008 Weblog Award Nomination for Best Webcomic. I am stunned to be nominated and I am sure Karl Rove was secretly working behind the scenes to kill the nomination off, but "Hope" wins again!

[ Posted by S_Price on Jul 10th, 2008 2:48 PM ]...

Thanks for the add, Ben! Nice to meet another cartoonist who appreciates the comedic potential of the Giant Sloth!

[ Posted by Thunderheadjones on Dec 22nd, 2006 8:19 AM ]...

Hey Ben!
Thanks for the head's up on this site! See ya soon!

[ Posted by mrpip_pal on Dec 7th, 2006 5:30 PM ]...

Thanks for adding me Ben - looking forward to the next issue of Midnight Sun.