Jun 19, 2025
I love drawing with nibs, but every time I do, I know i'm going to smear ink all over my art. No matter how meticulously careful I am. Smears! Ink on my fingers and arms! On my shirt and trousers! Yesterday I managed to get ink on my forehead and I cracked myself up. Because all of a sudden it occurred to me, after 50 years or so of reading the Charlie Brown vs. ink pen saga, that this is not just one of the many instances where CB is defeated by life (sports, sentimental life, dog ownership), but actually a self referential moment, the experience of the author with the curse of the smearing ink pen (Charles Schulz used a very stiff, very inky nib: the now out of production Esterbrook 914 "Radio" nib). If you draw with nibs, you know.
