Drawing pens

[timo ronkainen]

Simon:
>Can anyone tell the initiated, like me, what sort of drawing pen would the 
>likes of Tony Strobl, Carl Barks & Gottredson use to illustrate their 
>strips?

I'm not sure if anyone already answered privately. I hope this didn't come 
too late.
Anyway they used more or less pen like this for inking:
http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/pen.html
Steel tip dipped in bottle of ink. For penciling most often used pen was 
blue pencil.

Timo


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