Budding Cartoonist Mugs

'I'm teaching him to draw a cartoons.'

"I sincerely hope you learned a lesson this time, Mark. Drawing cartoons on your homework will get you nowhere in life."

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

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

My First Camera

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

Child drawing fish from life by putting his head in a pond.

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

Four children playing the flute.

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

'Do I have to be creative?'

"I was finishing my homework in the shower to save time!"

Creative Baby.

'My first camera'

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

'All good things must come to an end.'

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

How to draw a martian!

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

No animals were harmed during the writing of this book report....

Jackson Pollock as a child

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.