Future Artist Gifts

"I did the best dental health poster in the class. I just hope Mr. Tooth Decay doesn't hold a grudge."

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

'It's just a first draft.'

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

The fate of the emigrant

'How are the ventriloquist lessons going?'

"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'."

"My mom says I can start a rock band if I call it 'I Love My Mommy.' You in?"

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

'You learn how to make dough later. For now, you're on a knead-to-know basis.'

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

Children's Art Show.

"It's a mobile."

''Now we're the only yard in the block with a blue apple tree!'

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

'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.'

"120 colors and no 'Sun' color!!"

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"We don't have to worry about being quiet until we're old enough to read that sign."

'We'll send you to acting class when you're older. For now, get up and get ready for school.'

Children's Imagination

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

'Don't write on that wall with crayons! It'll show up better on that wall over there.'

'I wish his guidance counselor spent more time on college plans and less time suggesting names for his band.'

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

'I'm having a private showing over on my grandma's refrigerator next week.'

"Timmy, your dog looks just like he does in your drawings."

"Your spelling, grammar and typography are all dreadful... Do you really want to end up as a cartoonist when you're older..??

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

"'How to Buy Tickets on Bezos' Spaceship so You Can Live to See Your Teens,' by Chloe Butler."

'In the future, that should produce thousands of PhD theses.'

'How was your day Ma?. . .'