The good news is, that the small muscles in our hands that control the movement of the pencil can be redeveloped very quickly, and when I look back at the weekly editorial cartoons that forced me to start drawing again, they did improve a lot within a few weeks, so the skills are never too far away from reclaiming if needed.

As I recall, the index cards did become scarce at some point, but we made quite a few little movies before running out.