[“It Came from India.” Zippy, September 1, 2026. Click for a larger view.]
If there’s another comic strip that regularly mentions stationery supplies, I’d like to know about it. Today’s Zippy also mentions Wite-Out pens and correction tape. Supplies are everywhere in the strip’s history. F’rinstance.
For anyone who needs to know: never fill a fountain pen with India ink, which is for use with brushes and dip pens. I’m partial to Pelikan pens, and I long used Pelikan 4001 (Brilliant Black), which is not an India ink. At some point I switched to Aurora Black. Not cheap, but it’s one of the blackest black inks. And a bottle can last for years.
Related reading
All OCA ink posts : Zippy posts (Pinboard)
[How to get that speckled look? My dad did it with ink, a piece of screening, and a toothbrush.]
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Zippy ink
Defragmenting
Do you remember defragmenting the hard drive? The Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator is oddly soothing.
[When I think back on all the time in spent in Windows, &c.]
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