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Silence – the Ultimate Form of Expression? — PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: Silence - The Ultimate Form Of Expression? On this blog, we talk about expression - creative expression, expressing yourself, expressive gestures, expressions that have passed from the common vernacular. You name it,…

Garfield’s Birthday: 34 Years of Lasagna and Sarcasm

Happy Birthday Garfield! Garfield was always one of my favorite comic strip characters, possibly because we have so much in common. We both hate Mondays, love sleep, and speak fluent sarcasm. We also share a passion for lasagna that the world…
The Lost Art of Penmanship

Word by Word: The Lost Art of Penmanship

The Lost Art of Penmanship I peer through the magnifying glass, squinting at the delicate letters in front of me. They are as thin and spidery as the webs I bushed away when I took the letters out of their battered cardboard box, and my eyes…
Pencil Artist Federico Uribe

Pencil Artist of the Week: Federico Uribe

If there is one word that can sum up the work of this week’s featured pencil artist, it’s “unreal.” Federico Uribe is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida, creating pencil sculpture and pencil “paintings” that are beyond…

Five Reasons Twitter is Great for Writers

Networking is a difficult thing to do when gas prices are high. I’d love to meet and discuss literature with all of the writers of the world, but alas, my car would probably die before I made it to the Grand Canyon, and my fancy jet is in…
Pencil Artist Jason Quinones

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jason Quinones

I met this week's featured pencil artist at a Dare2Draw event at the Society of Illustrators in New York last month. His name is Jason Quinones, and he is a comic writer, penciler, inker and colorist all rolled into one. Jason attended the Joe…

Ode to Blackwing Revisted

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Celebrating the Blackwing, Animation Style One year ago today, the Palomino Blackwing 602 was introduced. That means it's also been a year since Pencils.com founder Charles "WoodChuck" Berolzheimer penned, or rather penciled (I know, we use…
1984

1984 and the Battle Against Censorship

1984 and the Battle Against Censorship “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan,…

Bradbury lit the spark of imagination – PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: Bradbury Lit the Spark of Imagination The passing of Ray Bradbury yesterday at the age of 91 fills me with a certain kind of nostalgic sadness. His writings, from “Fahrenheit 451” to “The October Country” to…

E3 and the Art of Video Game Design: An Interview with Shahid Ahmad

Yesterday marked the start of the Electronic Gaming Expo (E3), one of the biggest (if not the biggest) gaming events of the year. Gamers around the world are tuned into their favorite video game website or blog for updates from the show and…