Artistic Soul In Torment Gifts

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

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

"Don't worry about your purchase not working. Everything we sell here is totally non-functional."

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

"I'm the only sane artist in the world."

Reginald Bunthorne

I will not talk in art class. I will not talk in art class. I will not talk in art class. I will not in art class. I will not talk in art class.

Piano and Pianist with broken legs.

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

Great moments in art dogs playing poker, cats playing Pictionary,

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Your tiny hand is frozen...

A woman drawing birds makes them fly around the room.

No time for sirtaki now, Greece!

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

Framed Lady

Urns in love

He doesn't howl at the moon. He prefers to howl into the void.

Phoenix

Nesting dolls stranded on an island send out nesting bottles with messages in each of them.

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

"On second thought, mabe it would look better over there."

'And when you're done here honey, I have a nice periwinkle picked out for the foyer!'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

Comedy Ballet of Marionettes I (Oil Version in Tate Known as 'A Caprice'

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

Swing dancers.

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

'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...'

Alberich steals the gold

"When Harold first said he identified as a balloon animal I thought it was just a phase, but here we are fifteen years later and it seems to be working."

'Dear, couldn't you spend part of your time actually hunting something?'

Blue Haired Lady in Ballgown