Over the last decade, I’ve gone from producing one or two comics a year to producing over a dozen comics yearly, along with webcomics, short stories in anthologies, a few graphic novels, and helping produce the very newspaper you hold in your hands. On top of all that, I’m also happily married, a father of three wonderful children, and work a full-time non-comics related job. Before you ask, no, there’s not two of me. In fact, I accomplished this level of productivity by making a few simple changes in my life.
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Ben Towle is a five-time Eisner Award nominated cartoonist with a lengthy bibliography. His first book, Midnight Sun, was published by SLG Publishing in 2007 and is a historical fiction tale inspired by the real-life crash of an airship expedition in 1928. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean is also a work of historical fiction. Published by Disney/ Hyperion Books in 2010, it features the famous aviator and her quest to fly across the Atlantic. Oyster War, published in 2015 by Oni Press, is a nautical fantasy about dastardly pirates looting the seas and the pragmatic Commander and crew hired to stop them. Ben’s latest book, Four- Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat, published by Dead Reckoning in 2021, shares stories of animals that have fought alongside soldiers throughout the centuries. Ben currently serves as a professor of Illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
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