Recession Artist Pillows

'Well, the good news is; You won't need to tax and insure it.'

'All we can do is hope for identity theft.'

'It's great to get back to the simple life'

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

Depressed Businessman at Office Christmas Party.

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

Recession

"Sometimes, when business is brisk, I have to settle for no nap at all."

"Wow, these are great cartoons! We have to let them go, and anyway, cartoonists are on the endangered species list..."

'Well, that's simplified the mission statement.'

'Makes you feel insignificant, doesn't it?'

Squeezing a tight budget...

"Times are perfect for us masochists!..."

US Dollar weakens.

"Goodbye cruel world."

Man on lilo keeps getting irritated by flies/birds.

"So you're the artist dating my daughter? I've seen your work...you MUST be starving."

'I think we're going to have to add another storey downstairs...'

'Due to budget cutbacks, we need to get by with less.'

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this seminar is about how to make profits in times of crisis..."

"He is stingy. If he is giving gold it's only because prices have hit rock-bottom..."

'Look at my new overdraft its fantastic.'

'The bad news is that the dollar is down -- the good news is that nobody seems to have any.'

'Until this economy thing straightens out, you'll be working out of your car.'

Red Ink: "Busy as a bee, Ted, given the niche we've cut out for ourselves."

"I need the saw again."

'Of course business is slow. Would we want it any other way?'

'Our cries of Armageddon were completely ignored, so let's just keep throwing money at the economy.'

Hang fire on the Champas. Just a glimpse of green roots, so, a small glass of sherry.

'On jobless...on foreclosed...on worry and insomniac!'

Art Guidelines

'Excuse me, sir, I know you didn't get your bonus, your house is mortgaged to the hilt, you have two kids in college, your employer is facing bankruptcy and . . .'

'I waste Sunday worrying about Monday, so I compensate by making Friday my Saturday.'

'For this dish we're going to need two bottles of good quality red wine. And that's before we even start cooking.'

"What happened to consumer confidence?"