Penning Poet Pillows

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

"I see you also took the road less travelled!"

'Cartoonist thinking'

'Hard to follow...'

"He has a terrible peanut elegy."

Mystery of the Poets

Accountant Manqué

'I ink, therefore I am....', IF DESCARTES HAD BEEN A CARTOONIST

Vocation,vocation,vocation.

'I still write all my novels longhand.'

"Norman is an island."

"You're a gifted writer, although at times you're just too precious."

"Why are we here?"

'Ignore that, my pen leaked...'

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, all we ask for Mr. Whitman is poetic justice."

Anyway I thought I'd have a go at this writing lark on the first publisher I showed my scribbles gave me a five book deal.

Valentines for Things

Rider's Block: Well I'll be. I've completely forgotten how to start this thing.

'Well, YOU call it bad penmanship, I call it encryption.'

'No, no, no...that's far too legible. Shakier. Much shakier!'

John Milton

"Dear Grandma, thank you so much for my birthday gift! My very first fountain pen!"

"You don't have to spend a lot of money to have a good time?"

Veterans of Cursive Writing

Acme Pen Co -"If they don't work, just toss 'em in the bin"

'I've got my handwriting back from the graphologist - she says I'm shoddy, untidy, and cack-handed - it's uncanny!'

Soup factory: Permanently closed: gone into adminestrone

"Nobody's going to take you seriously unless you stop drawing those little hearts over your i's."

Poetic Justice

"Why didn't the gnome join the school football team?"

"Solitude is more fun in groups."

'I said pea green not pea sized.'