Expressionism Explorer Gifts

"I should warn you I'm an expressionist painter..."

The Scream warms to selfies

Metropolitan Art Center current exhibit: Father of the Finger-In-Your-Eye School of Modern Art.

'He took a daring step into Expressionism and fell out of the window.'

Paul Klee

"I got the idea when I accidentally dropped a tin of paint on a canvas, and some idiot offered me £5,000 for it!"

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

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."

The devil you know and his plus one

'Nurse, why is there always a fly in my ointment?'

Soldier armed with a pen.

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

"It's great to see Biff; Socksie the cat is out of the bag..."

"It's an honest mistake I'm sure we'll never hear of again."

'You have no idea how hard I've gotta work just to maintain my indie cred around here!'

"Out with the old fish, in with the new."

"I won't be in today, I'm feeling a little under the coffee table."

"Feel better, dear?"

The Devil's in the detail!

The Elephant in the Womb

Freedom of the press

'Here's the good news. 'Happy camper' and 'are we having fun yet' have been added to the official list of banned cliches.'

'You always talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but you never mention Mary.'

'... Going once...going twice...aaaand--sold! To the gentleman in the front row for a thousand words.'

'Let's cut right through to the heart of the matter.'

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch your is just a figure of speech, Ned. A little left, and higher."

"My mom is a vegetarian, so she doesn't bring home the bacon. She brings home kale and quinoa."

'Kafka! Kandinsky! Kokoschka!'

"I still have my loophole, but I can't drive a truck through it."

Censorship.

Museum of Natural Cliches

"The first rule of miming is you don't talk about miming."

'No, no....You have it all wrong!'

A great new year (for cartoonists).