Time machines?

As I've written here before, I was once very keen on drawing caricatures of older forms of rail transport still running during my lifetime. Come to think of it, Boeing 747s have now been flying for in excess of 50 years... but, never 'grabbed ' me like old rail-borne transport did. Perhaps that was because I 'moon-lighted' as an airline employee for 32 years whilst building a career as a pro-cartoonist...(or. was that the other way around?)

Whatever, here are some more 'rattlers' from the early 1980s. The originals were quite small for my usual output. About 10 x 10 cms on white bond paper (notice the varying degrees of paper yellowing in these scanned examples). It was a time when I perhaps enjoyed drawing for drawing's sake more than at any other period of cartooning endeavours. I was using a 'common or garden' variety of pen for practically everything I did then... an el-cheapo Pentel 'Roller-ball' R50 ... available at any news-agency and/or supermarket stationery section. They were incredibly versatile for thick/thin line-work, fine detail
and even fairly sweeping lines in larger works on hot-pressed surfaces. Images made with the pen dried
as virtually water-proof (insofar as adding coloured ink shades to original drawings is concerned anyway)... another handy attribute.

I only know of one other well-known 'toony who used those pens for repro work... the late, great Michael Atchison... who was long a 'fave' of mine before I learned of our similar 'choice of weapon'.

Sadly. they are apparently no longer marketed by Pentel(?)