Comments on: Happy Birthday, E. A. Poe.

By: Pencil Revolution

Pencil Revolution — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:47:00 +0000

I don’t think fountain pens were readily available until Lewis Waterman’s 1884 model that worked (sorta) well. Not sure if Poe was a metal nip guy or a quill person:)

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm

By: ronin1516

ronin1516 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:27:00 +0000

I wonder if Poe used a fountain pen. I only say this becasue MontBlanc and at least one other company offered limited edition E.A. Poe fountain pens that costed an arm and a leg!!!

By: Darla, Pencil Portrait Artist

Darla, Pencil Portrait Artist — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:20:00 +0000

I am so excited to find a blog about pencils! Pencils are so underrated. Guess what I do? Yes, I am a pencil artist :) I’m going to add a link to your blog into mine!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:06:00 +0000

I don’t think pen and paper seperated Poe from his stories. The stories are in him, or if your a materialist like me, were him. The pen and paper just gave the reader a look at what was going on in his head.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:41:00 +0000

I once took a class in illustrative portraiture in which one assignment was to create a portrait of a famous person. One of my classmates did a portrait of E.A. Poe, in which the hair looked conventional at first glance but, on closer inspection, was seen to be a large dark rat, curved around Poe’s head in the shape of hair (think “The Pit & the Pendulum”). Very effective!

I believe the portrait was done in ink; sorry about that ;-)