Aspiring Angel Gifts

What? Why the heck not?

Man flying to heaven on small angel wings

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

What else is there to wish for?

"I thought there would be bacon here."

Kiddies Menu for Witches

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

'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.'

Children's Imagination

Mr. K's essay is such a drag! Yeah, but I've got to do really well. Twig! You're such a grind! Am not! Life isn't only about grades. I know! But he's directing the spring musical. And my singing won't get me the part all by itself! English: Gateway to the Grammys.

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

Directors chairs on movie set with Model, Actress, and Whatever on them

'With one stroke of his fibre-tipped pen, Cartoonman laid waste to all that was evil...'

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Top Ten Hit

So close... Yet so far.

"I'm not sure I'd want fifteen minutes of fame. Mum would only follow it with fifteen minutes of criticism."

I'm trying out for the spring play. You'll be great! Ha! You'll be grateful to be an usher, Meryl Creep. Yeah. The good parts go to real actors. Sigh. The arts are sooo uplifting.

"That'll be the day!"

"This area is popular with would-be actresses and models,we call it 'Silicon Implants'."

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

"When I grow up I'd like to model for a pasta company."

"We thought we could put in the details later."

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"

'I was only famous for 14 and a half minutes.'

"I don't understand what people are saying up here."