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This image is a detail from a cartoon one of our
customers, the Pulitzer
prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman drew
for us. To see the drawing click
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| Linda Medley is an accomplished artist, illustrator and author. Click on the image at right to see the full page of "sketches" she did with one of our customized Namiki Falcon pens. Then visit her web site to see all of her incredible artwork http://www.studiolio.com |  |
| This is a drawing done by Dr. Torwong Chenvidyakarn of Cambridge, England, using an old-style OMAS Paragon with a 14K nib customized by us for "Spencerian" attributes (true extra fine point with extra flexibility). Please click on the image at right for the full sketch as well as a sample of Torwong's writing using this same pen. |  |
| Ed Weyman, copperplate master and Spencerian
expert, created this feathered masterpiece. Please click on the sample at right
to see the entire drawing. | 
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| Jonathan Gesinski provided us with this drawing which he did using one of our needlepoint Pelikan M600 nibs. It shows what can be done with a lot of skill, a sensitive hand and an extremely fine point. Click right for full image. |
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| Ginger Meidel is a calligrapher in St. Petersburg, Florida. One of her works was the winner of a juried book arts competition and is now in the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection of Florida Atlantic University Library in Boca Raton, FL. Click on the image to see the full design plus another of Ginger's images. |
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Matthew Klein has sent us this bowl of ice cream to demonstrate
his need for a pen that has varying line width. This drawing was done with a vintage
Waterman's artists pen. Please click on the image to see the full drawing. |  |
Steve
Calwas, working and studying in Spain, sent us this drawing he did with one of
the vintage Waterman's extra fine extra flexible nibs he bought from us. Please
click on the image to see it, in full |
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Brian Segal, a freelance cartoonist in Nova
Scotia, sent us his most recent contribution to the political
scene. Please click on the image to see the entire sequence. |
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Neil Watson uses one of our customized pens
for his musings and sketches. Please click on the image to see
this, and another of his drawings/writings. |
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| An artist and art teacher in the San Francisco Bay area, Rebecca Alzofon sketched this tree with a Waterman's #7 Pink pen and flexible nib which she purchased from us. Please click on the image to see this one larger, plus two more of her sketches. |  |
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Writers |
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Poet Jim Ferris writes with a vintage Waterman's
flexible point fountain pen. His poetry can be seen in the following
places: The
Hospital Poems The online edition of Ragged Edge Magazine Poems with Disabilities And the essay |
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The
Tattoo Encyclopedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo - Published
by Simon & Schuster in the summer of 2003, the book was already
in its fourth printing only a year later. Yeah, I'd say people
are interested in tattoos. And then there is Terisa Green's latest
book, Ink which came
out in June of 2005. |
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Dan has been writer-in-residence at Michigan
State University and Grand Valley State University. He has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 1992 Michigan Author
Award. Dan's books can be found at Amazon. com (click
here for Amazon) or Copper Canyon Press for his new release,
A Primer on Parallel Lives (click
here for CCP).
For the press release click here.
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Britt Leach has been reading "Pelikan
Writing Instruments 1928-2004" and sent us this poem. Click
on the first line to the right for the complete petition |
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Jeff Daniel Marion is a published poet, editor, printer, teacher and lecturer who grew up in Rogersville, Tennessee, a town featured in much of his work. Mr. Marion is currently serving as poet-in-residence and Director
of the Appalachian Center at Carson-Newman college. He still lives
in Tennessee with his wife, Linda. His books "The
Chinese Poet Awakens" and "Letters
Home" are available through Celtic
Cat Publishing. |
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| Jim McCausland is a Seattle-based senior writer for Sunset Magazine (www.sunset.com). He just finished working as a senior editor on the 8th edition of Sunset's Western Garden Book, which was released earlier this month. His first fountain pen was a Parker 45 purchased at the Eliot Junior High School book store in Pasadena; his current favorites are a Pelikan 700 Toledo and a Louis Cartier. Click here for his "Notes from the Field". |
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Buckner Melton has penned several books using
our fountain pens. His latest Sea
Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon
is slated to be released December 2006/January 2007.
Mr. Melton also published A
Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers
in 2003. Both books are available at Amazon.com. Please click
on the book titles above to view their image, and information,
at Amazon. |
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. Karen Traviss has used our customized Vanishing
Point pens to make her notes for her new book, Crossing
the Line, as well as City of Pearl. Click on either title
to go to her web site. Click on the image at right for the full
jacket cover. |
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David Willis composed and penned this poem
and calligraphy sample for us. If you would like to read
and see it, click on the sample at right. |
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Writer Dharma Windham, a vintage fountain pen
enthusiast, has just published his first novel, The
Reluctant Goddess. His novel can be found on his website
(linked above) and at Amazon.com. |
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