Future Artist Mugs

"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.'

Thanksgiving at the kids' table.

'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.

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

"It's a mobile."

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

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

"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.'

"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.'

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

Children's Imagination

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

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

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."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

"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."