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Ben Towle Premium

Comics fan... and creator of GoComics feature Oyster War!

Recent Comments

  1. almost 8 years ago on Wallace the Brave

    This is gorgeous. Please let “Watercolor Wednesdays” be a continuing thing.

  2. almost 9 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    This has been so fun—and so educational. Thanks for all the effort. I’m sad to see Origins end.

  3. almost 9 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    “As we near the final Sunday…”

    Say it ain’t so! I’ll really miss this feature, if so.

  4. almost 9 years ago on Wallace the Brave

    Oh, man, that beast design is so great!

  5. almost 10 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    Absolutely amazing the way motion is handled here…

  6. almost 10 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    Feininger’s stuff is so amazing. Thanks for running these!

  7. over 10 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    Wow… such an interesting drawing style: completely uniform line weight and a highly selective/limited use of perspective (like the boxes and ship in panel 7, or the brick wall in panel 5). It reminds me a bit of playing card art.

  8. almost 11 years ago on Origins of the Sunday Comics

    Just discovered this feature. Can’t wait to see more of this stuff!

  9. over 11 years ago on Bloom County

    The reduction in strip size has been steady and pretty dramatic. This great image popped up online last week—size comparison of a single 1928 newspaper comic with the entire comics section from a 2013 paper:

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