I don’t know who this is.
Author: Ben Bittner
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Film is Truth ads
Some friends of mine own Film is Truth video in Bellingham, Washington. I think it might be a non-profit now? Anyway, back when there were millions of video stores they had me make a short series of comics to advertise their store. It was probably the 90s.
What strikes me is how astonishingly bad my lettering is. I’ve always had terrible handwriting. It’s still pretty bad, but a few years after these comics were drawn I forced myself to learn italic handwriting. Now I can, at least, make something that looks halfway pretty if I try. (It only takes a week or two, and I’d recommend learning it to anyone who somehow makes it to adulthood with illegible chicken scratches.)
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Cooking with Anne leftovers
Some sketches and color studies that are related to Cooking with Anne. Originally I guess I was going to try to color the whole thing…
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Sketches of dogs and monsters
Here are some old sketches of dogs and monsters and other creatures that I guess I scanned from my old sketchbooks.
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Old sketches of people
This is a bunch of old sketches of people that I liked enough to scan out of my sketchbooks. Often they are strangers in coffeeshops, though there is one Karlos in there.
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A one hour comic about a robot
This comic is one of the few I’ve ever done that I felt the side scrolling format really worked for. Eventually I turned it into a minicomic (but not a scroll, alas), and I also etched it onto an 8 foot wide brass panel.
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a one hour comic
Who has time for a 24 hour comic, really? It takes all day, and the results aren’t usually awesome. Not long after I did my 240hour comic, I started doing 1-hour comics… the idea is the same, but the time commitment is less. This is the first one I drew.
