• Maternal Advice

    I mean, you didn’t have many boyfriends did you dear. I think you could have made a bit more of yourself with your clothes. Always black. Always dressed in black. Black this… Black that. You should wear brighter colours, I think. “I’m wearing an orange jumper.” Yes. But that’s just plasticine, isn’t it.

  • The Interference of Envy

    If you really want to make a cartoon about love … I don’t think you are an expert, dear. You didn’t exactly have lots of boyfriends… not like me, I mean.

  • Redefining One’s Position

    “I appreciate your suggestion, Mum, but I don’t want to cartoon a cat. I’ve been thinking that I would like to do a cartoon about…..” “….. Love.”

  • Maintaining One’s Position

    ….I don’t know why you won’t make a cartoon about a cat. Do you remember we’d go to the pictures and Smutty would be waiting for us outside the cinema when we came out? “I don’t remember … I think I was too young. I do remember him liking to sit on the white line in the middle of…

  • Declining Advice

    “Mum … I don’t think I want to make a cartoon about a cat.” Why ever not?  I would. “I didn’t think you were particularly fond of cats.”  I don’t know what you’re talking about. We used to have a cat. You remember Smutty, don’t you?   “Of course I remember him. But that’s not the point,…