Starving Artist Sympathizer Mugs

'I've met someone who actually got paid for a painting once.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

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

'I don't want this job. I worked all my life and retired. I like being retired.'

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

A Friend in Need.

Working one day a year doesn't pay the bills

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

Rodins rotten juggler

"I spent locked out including my painting."

Salvador Deli

"By the way, HarperCollins decided your book did not warrant publication."

'Supporting the arts'

A military officer daydreams

'She leaves before I finish her portrait.'

'This next song is about a close call and a near success. It's called The Grant that Got Away.'

"To be honest, nobody wants to buy your paintings... we need a promotional strategy! Cut off your ear in public!"

Brendan Behan.

"Mother! Have you seem my reds? My yellows? My, for god's sake, my blues??"

'He got a grant on the condition that he stop painting for a year.'

'"For the love of it" no longer accepted. Cash only'

Starving Artist Sale.

"Look, honey! All your lost eye glasses have mysteriously migrated to this drawer, and now they're plotting their next escape."

"Bring on The Wall, Donald!"

'Golf was too frustrating, so Ed took up painting!'

'What do you do for a living?'

Fire at the British Museum

Painters Without Borders.

"My grant ran out"

A musician is sleeping rough covered by sheet music.

'Collecting two hundred and six tiny objects in a matchbox was fantastic - sorry I sneezed!'

"Nonsense, Jay – my wife's ballet loses far more money than your wife's little theater company."

"I see the art budget's been cut again."

Lockdown Prisons