Autodidact Dreamer Mugs

'Well, he's progressed from an imaginary friend to an imaginary mentor.'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

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

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

'I'm in my Blue period.'

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

Here be dragons.

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

What else is there to wish for?

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

"Where the wild things were."

' 'Cat in the Window'...chapter 14...'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Real Life/Surreal Life

'The housing market may be flat, but pillow-fort construction is blooming!'

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

'Nope. I didn't see any dogfish.'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"I need a holiday that guarantees perfect weather, good beaches and romance!"

'All good things must come to an end.'

Imagine

Cinderella and Charming the Clown

"I'm sad to hear everybody lived happily ever after. That means no sequels to this story."

'Ben, true sportsmanship is a state of mind, and I'm proud of you.'

Phoenix

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."