the b in hb pencil stands for black.
what does the b in hb pencil stand for?
black
brown worked freely, without ruling lines or lettering. usually he roughly sketched the artwork with a light blue pencil, then elaborated it with an hb pencil, at which stage he has said "most of the work done". brown inked the pre-vortex stories with a brush; when he committed himself to a regular schedule, he felt inking with a brush would be too slow, and switched to cheap markers or pencils to increase his productivity. he continued to use a brush to fill in blacks and to letter his dialogue balloons. brown came to favour the quality of the brush again toward the end of the story's run, but found it slow to work with and thus used it less than he would have preferred. by photocopying before sending the artwork to the printer, brown could ensure that the copy printed from was sufficiently black.
ed the happy clown
before the formation of republic of turkey, ankara was a typical anatolian town. the only important trade center of ankara was "taşhan" (i.e., "stone inn") which was built in 1880s. the neighborhood around taşhan was also called taşhan. after ankara was included in the railroad network in 1892, taşhan became one of the most important quarters of ankara and after the young turk revolution the committee of union and progress built its ankara branch office building to the west of taşhan. during the turkish war of independence this building was used as the parliament of turkish nationalists. after the war a square was built to the east of the parliament building . the earlier name of the square was "hakimiyet'i milliye" ("national sovereignty") but eventually the name ulus came into use. a statue was erected in the center of the square. the statue which was called statue of victory was designed by austrian sculptor heinrich krippel was completed on 24 november 1927. in 1960s however the square was redesigned and the boulevard was shifted slightly to west, so that now the statue is to the east of the boulevard. after the passing of the surname law in 1934, the famous taşhan family got their last name due to the "stone inn" that was located in the center of the square.
ulus square