Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for May 19, 2018

Does anyone still use inkwells and quills these days?

Inkwells were already disappearing by then (the early ’50s)…

There are no more inkwells Charlie Brown but just for mentioning it I’m gonna clobber you!

Charlie Brown is such a wuss! I mean, look how he reacts to Violet yelling at him in frame 3. The kid is frightened to death. Gonna be one weak and timid little man when he grows up and then will probably marry someone like PP and be bossed around the rest of his life.

Violet’s pigtails won’t even reach the inkwell, so Good Ol’ Charlie Brown would be safe in this regard.

Dear colorist: The shirt is yellow.

That’s one of these old practices I find so strange. People did that? Soak someone’s hair in ink? And thought it was cute? You deserve to get beaten up for that.

When I was in 5th grade back in the mid 1960s, the desks were so old, they had the depression where the inkwells used to fit.

Remember Charlie Brown’s future pen-pal, which due to his struggles with the fountain pen became his “pencil-pal.” So I had to look it up: modern ballpoint pen/ink combo circa 1938 (Biro), popularized post-war and the inexpensive Parker “Jotter” hit the market mid-50s.

Today: “Ill take a photo of your pigtails with my phone and photo-shop them being dipped into ink-wells and then instagram them to the entire class!”

ENOUGH WITH THE TECHNOLOGY JOKES, BUSHMILLER!!!

Oh, wait. Wrong comment. Sorry, I thought this was “Nancy” for a moment. ;^.^

My mother told me that one of her classmates would spread ink on the front end of his desk so when my mother set her elbow there she got ink on her arm.

When I was in the 2nd grade back in “47” We had bottles of ink with a little cup like think in the bottle and you tipped the bottle so the ink went in it. Then we used the pens that you used different tips, dipped it in the ink and wrote a little bit then dip it again!

Author extraordinaire Shelby Foote wrote his epic “Civil War” series (and all his other books) using a dip pen. Look up the story about how he stocked up on nibs, ink and blotters.