Opening boxes in the attic tonight, I found a cache of stuff from high school, when I was taking the Art Instruction ("draw the puppy") correspondence course.
BAesides assorted Strathmore and tracing pads, I found the now-extinct Craftint Doubletone illustration board. (Maybe there are even the chemicals for it in the bottom of the box.)
Somewhere I also have a supply of coquille board (for use with grease pencil for tone behind drawn or inked linework), a favorite of editorial cartoonists thirty to fifty years ago.
These are things nobody knows about nowadays, but in olden days were dark secret tricks of the trade for reproduction. Zip-a-tone hadn't event been invented, I don't think.
My attic is a virtual Smithsonian of graphic history.
If only I could charge admission.
http://huggy-lugnuts.deviantart.com/journal/28977327/
http://books.google.com/books?id=sb374j7kI1sC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=craftint+illustration+board&source=bl&ots=kCvRNbDyvc&sig=1jnhmoIarBIuHJc6L8uhCXSWMaI&hl=en&ei=FLEETMT4EpO4NrTfzDs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=craftint%20illustration%20board&f=false
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