If you think artisanal pencil sharpening is a joke, you’re missing the point. David Rees, a cartoonist, humor writer and self-crowned pencil sharpening artisan, is on a mission to educate America with ...

David Rees, best known for his comic strip Get Your War On, is all over town this week promoting his new book, How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of ...

David Rees’ new book “How to Sharpen Pencils” is the latest in a long string of successful humor projects, the most high-profile being the comic strip Get Your War On serialized for years in Rolling ...

Pencil-sharpening maven David Rees turned the non-fiction writing series at the Mid-Manhattan Library upside-down Tuesday night with his edgy pencil-sharpening workshop — based on his instructional ...

So when we heard that political cartoonist David Rees would be at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn on February 13th offering tutorials on “artisanal pencil sharpening,” we thought it was a brilliant ...

David Rees is no stranger to paper. As a cartoonist for Rolling Stone and other publications, he won widespread acclaim (and criticism) for his politically charged “Get Your War On” strip, which ...

If you were cognizant during the War on Terror, you saw David Rees’s comic strip Get Your War On. Rees used generic clip art of cubicle-dwellers talking to each other over the phone, peppered with ...

To David Rees, sharpening a pencil is far more than a mundane task — it's an art. After the cartoonist, author and writer discontinued his satirical comic Get Your War On — which ran in Rolling Stone ...

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The fabled performance artist declaims poetry commemorating our age of Zoom funerals and Zoom weddings and Zoom memorials and compulsive handwashing.