Ben Claassen III

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Ben Claassen III is a comics artist and illustrator who frequently works with non-traditional media such as stencils, long exposure photography, and the use of stop-motion animation via a Game Boy Camera. He is best known for his illustrations for Wil Wheaton's first book, Dancing Barefoot and for his weekly comic strip, DIRTFARM. DIRTFARM is syndicated in several Alternative weekly publications, including Washington City Paper, Baltimore CityPaper, and the Chicago Reader. He is published alongside other cartoonists such as Derf and Lynda Barry.

A near-graduate of Louisiana State University, Claassen currently spends his time working on DIRTFARM, travelling, keeping a daily comic journal (published yearly), as well as dabbling in freelance illustration and design.

In addition to his other work, Claassen helps maintain Killoggs, a community for "displaced and disaffected Southern artists, animators, writers and wage slaves".