Wordy Bird’s

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Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener, still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. In 2010, he began offering his artisanal service to the world and discovered that his aptitude for sharpening pencils was the celebration of artists, writers, draftsmen, and standardized test takers.

David Rees first came to fame as the author of Get Your War On, a Bush-era comic strip, serialized by Rolling Stone Magazine and then compiled into three books and an off-Broadway play. He’s also the comic genius behind, My New Fillig Technique is Unstoppable and the subsequent books and Relationshapes, a comic about shapes with feelings.