To get back into the swing of dip nibs, I began to copy favorite comic art fragments - Nancy, Mickey Mouse, the Addams Family, Krazy Kat, Richard Scarry’s kittens, Bettie and Veronica, Batman and Robin, the dinosaur hunter Turok, etc. I go back and forth the drawing experience is very different for each type of pen. Steel drawing dip nibs, which became popular in the 1830s, are still used as in the past: The nib is dipped into an inkwell, then dragged across paper to make a line that is thick or thin depending on the pressure applied. Originally they were architectural drafting tools, and during the 1960s and ’70s a lot of hippie comics were drawn with rapidographs. Rapidographs are refillable pens, the drawing tips of which consist of small, hollow tubes they make a uniform line. This series, begun in the early days of the Covid-19 epidemic, began as a pen exercise - I had recently finished drawing an entire comic story in rapidograph, which took a year or so, and I was interested in trying dip pen nibs again - and I haven’t stopped since.Ī note on rapidograph pens vs. There are a lot of ways and reasons to draw, and a lot of uses for drawing and drawings. Here’s the lineup:īUNNY CITY series: Introduction by Gary Panter | PHONE CALL | HEDORAH | WOODY’S NIECE | TELEVISION | HIDDEN VALLEY | RED DOME | FISH HOUSE | WITCH MOUSE | BIRD GIRL | DUCK BUNNY | BUZZARD BOMB | BUNNY SAUCER | 3 COWBOYS 3 INDIANS | COWBOY PLACE | BUNNY CITY We’ve titled the HILOBROW series BUNNY CITY, after one of the drawings. Over the next two or three weeks, we’ll post a selection of HILOBROW friend Gary Panter’s (untitled) recent series of drawings - cartoon characters, dinosaurs, cowboys and Indians, superheroes and monsters, cavemen and gorillas, log cabins and skyscrapers, plus extraneous scribbles - which he’s been sharing via Instagram since the beginning of the pandemic.

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