Artistic Detainee Gifts

'We would like you to accompany us to the station, sir!'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'I love my new easylife artist's easel.'

Glue gun? Glitter? Dang it, I grabbed my crafting belt again.

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

'Will Mr. 'No Comment' please remain after class.'

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Prisoner still life painting.

Exhibition for Prisoners

"I spent locked out including my painting."

"By the way, HarperCollins decided your book did not warrant publication."

"Everyone we know is escaping and you sit there doing nothing."

'I'm done doing inside jobs on the outside. I make more on the inside as an outsider artist.'

'This next song is about a close call and a near success. It's called The Grant that Got Away.'

"To be honest, nobody wants to buy your paintings... we need a promotional strategy! Cut off your ear in public!"

Brendan Behan.

Coronavirus

"Look! It came pre-defaced by the artist."

Prison Paintings

Cartoonist draws bomb next to prisoner.

Prisoner escape

"Just came back to pick up my mail."

'It's from my wife's lawyer - she's giving me my freedom.'

"When you said every single one of us without exception, did you mean me too?"

Springtime 2021.

Lockdown

Prison windows.

'Does this orange jumpsuit make my butt look big?'

"I see the art budget's been cut again."

Jail-breaking for dummies.

'Sorry I'm late -- the Principal held me for questioning.'

"Sweetie, show the Hazlitts the watercolors you made in jail."

Prisoner painting his ball and chain.

Christmas in prison.

Lockdown Prisons