Ben Towle

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

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

Hahaha 🤮

Otoh:

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

Are you familiar with Malört?

What is this Cursed Object™️ that's appeared in our fridge??

Took me a minute to figure out what's going on here... but I assume that's white dot pattern zip over the ink drawing.

I don't think dachshunds can do this?

The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3] A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

I just backed The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3] on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

Chair of Comics & Narrative Practice, Full-time Faculty (Open Rank) - Columbus, OH Chair of Comics & Narrative Practice, Full-time Faculty (Open Rank) The Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) is seeking a dynamic and visionary faculty member to lead our Comics & Narrative Practic...

Hey, hey... CCAD, where I currently teach comics as an adjunct, is looking for a chair of the comics dept. Full-time gig--health insurance, benefits, etc. Plus yr in Comics City, USA w. CXC, the Billy Ireland, and more cartoonists than you can shake a stick at.

ccad.applicantpro.com/jobs/3871453

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

That was one of them anyway (apparently)!

Also, I'm stunned that as ubiquitous as those little cartoons were on the back of baseball cards when we grew up, that until now (when I read those amazing posts) it never occurred to me--as a comics making adult--to wonder who actually drew them!

Absolutely. Stunning research work from this guy. The venn diagram intersection of comics and baseball ppl is pretty big--think both appeal to our collective obsession with details, and trivial nonsense (which is actually really important, dammit!).

Amazing! Links to the three parts of the article by White toward the bottom.

Art of Manga Manga — Japanese comics and graphic novels — have become a global phenomenon. Art of Manga showcases the world of manga from the 1970s to today.

Damn... this manga exhibit that just went up in SF looks amazing. Gonna have to figure out how to get to it. Probably catch the tail end of it once we're in Palm Springs for the winter!

www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

Me 24/7

Not sure I've seen this before... Looks like some kinda Craftint-ish thing, but not duoshade? Dot pattern not lines, and just one %age value.

(If you can't tell, I've recently gotten the Neal Adams artists edition haha)

Never noticed this before, but reasonably certain that Neal Adams must have gotten hand-drawing chops directly from Burne Hogarth's Drawing Dynamic Hands—look at those distinctive "upside-down heart" shapes on the fingers!

So simple, but so effective... love how the stretched-out stars connote movement so well! (Since I co-curated that exhibit at the Billy Ireland I'm now on the lookout even more for movement stuff in comics lol.)

In class today... Putting it all together: inking a page with brush, nibs, and tech pen. Among the choices for the assignment is this Kirby Kamandi page that I'm gonna demo with. (Also a good excuse for me to buy that book of side-by-side Kirby pencils with the inked versions!)

Good thinking, Olive! If I were a telepath and trapped in a crashed hot air balloon, I too would reach out for help from a bowtie-wearing dachshund at the dog park rather than, say, the fire department, the police, a park ranger, etc. #MaryWorth

More In-flight reading... Hahaha @sktchd.bsky.social

This video is great! And there's some snippets of Moebius concept art in it I don't think I've seen before.

In-plane reading: slowly catching up on Witch Hat Atelier. As always, beautiful art, incredible page layouts!

I often joke about Mary Worth being so slow-moving that you can bow out for a couple of weeks and it seems like nothing's happened... but just checking in after being AWOL for a bit because of CXC chaos and I'm greeted with *this*??

...and as a result now lead the AL Central (due to tiebraker)!

Been ruminating on a Corto Maltese tattoo for a while and I think I've settled on this image. Should I care that it's from Celtic Tales, one of my least favorite Corto books? Probably not!

Bud Plant is calling it a day: A conversation with the comics retail pioneer - The Comics Journal Bud Pant's Incredible Exit Interview by Zach Rabiroff.

TCJ interviews Bud Plant, our 2025 Tom Spurgeon Award Winner!

www.tcj.com/bud-plant-is...

There are also a handful of Krazy Kat strips that in retrospect, with this knowledge now in-hand, that seem *very* interesting. The one that comes to mind is the one where the setup is that Krazy winds up in a flour factory and emerges white, after being covered in flour iirc.