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| Dec 17, 2016 at 20:02 | comment | added | MMacD | No, actually the smaller-point ones were frequently used for drawing, too. Particularly the small Bs. And cartoonists didn't do their own lettering then, either --it was a specialist job because not everyone has a "good hand". | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 18:39 | comment | added | Jongware | .. wow :) Were those Speedballs used only for the lettering? (But I guess this could be answered with "do cartoonist also do their own lettering", of which I know is not always the case.) | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 14:37 | history | answered | MMacD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |