Check out the Third Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper

Visit the OfficeSupplyGeek for the third installment of articles on pens, pencil, notebooks, and other interesting analog stationery items. The article on the decline of fountain pen sales, Are Fountain Pens on the Decline?, got me thinking on how quickly non-digital tools are likely to vanish as more and more budding artists embrace fully-digital paths. Besides some curious and persistent artists that took up the search for these rather elusive tools from Japan that combine the convenience of pens with the performance of a brush nib, brush pens and waterbrushes for example have never really been widely used by the general public. We are quite lucky that they are still available through some specialty importing retailers, but interest in them remains limited judging from the little activity in this Jet Pens forum section dedicated to them. Of course after undertaking the search myself, I already found the brush pens that work best for me and stocked up on them. Thus if you find an analog tool that you enjoy, better get a couple of spares before they disappear (so long as they have adequate shelf lives).