David Rees, the man behind the popular political comic Get Your War On, wants to sharpen you a pencil. Slowly. Attentively. And with a carefully selected sharpener or blade that suits the pencil best.

Pencil sharpeners are, ... Farooq feels strongly that pencil and paper, as a medium for recording thoughts and images, won't disappear any time soon. "Yes, it is old and unglamorous technology, ...