Starving Artist Mugs

"My grant ran out"

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

'What do you do for a living?'

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

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

Governmental Corona Support for Artists

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

"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'."

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

Lockdown casserole

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

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

"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.'

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

"Move, Gary."

Children's Imagination

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"That'll be the day!"

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

"Maybe I haven't suffered enough. Why don't you whip up some of your curried pork balls and refried rice for dinner?"

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"

Artist and the artist's model both thinking of the money.

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

"I spent locked out including my painting."

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

"Now cover those leftovers with lots of cheese. What they don't know won't hurt them."

'I highly recommend this painting if you're into art as an investment.'

'She leaves before I finish her portrait.'

"If you wish to see your artwork displayed, don't forget your bio."

"Actually, I just came up here to get away from leading economic indicators."