Riposte Card No. 23: Childish Chatter!

Or, Catherine M. Wallace by Pierre-Paul Pariseau

Each month, I commission a new illustrator to create a postcard with the quip of their choice to send to my lovely paying subscribers. I always offer up a selection of lines but encourage the artist to BYOB, where the last B stands for “bon mot” and the first B stands for “bring.” Happily, Montreal illustrator Pierre-Paul Pariseau came to play with this line:

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you. No matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big because to them, all of it has always been big stuff.”
— Catherine M. Wallace

And naturally, M. Pariseau chose to interpret that thought with a flying fish. It’s an indisputable fact that his surreal collages fit the tenor of the times. To receive his psychedelically profound postcard in the mail from me, upgrade your subscription below. And here are P3’s answers to the Riposte Card Questionnaire:

What’s your go-to item in a well-stocked stationery store?
A notebook.

Where do you go for inspiration and/or information?
Books, I’m a big reader…. And a bit of the Internet.

Is there one joke, witticism, or aphorism you live by?
Let’s look in my current notebook. The choice is very difficult. Let’s take that recent one I noted : “I have never thought of it as a career, but only as a destiny.” Unfortunately I have not written where that sentence comes from, which is rare.

What’s the best thing to put on toast?
Honey and bananas.

What work are you most proud of, and how can people support it?
To have survived as an artist, an illustrator.