Best wedding readings/references for a cartoonist/illustrator?

March 29, 2023 1:22 PM

What it says on the tin -- I need your recommendations for the best wedding readings/references for a cartoonist/illustrator friend getting married!

This will be a quick and dirty ceremony, and I'm officiating. I'm trying to bolster my 'speech' and patter during the ceremony with quotes, references, or any other ideas that would be sort of an insider reference that a cartoonist or illustrator would appreciate. (Her style is very cute and graphic novel-y, and she teaches comics to younger kids as a profession!)

Like, does Bill Peet have a nice line to say about marriage? Nate Powell? R. Crumb?

Anything you could throw out would be helpful. The wedding is tomorrow!

posted by knownassociate to Writing & Language (5 answers total)

This poem that a friend read an excerpt of at my wedding includes the line "When I look at you my eyes bulge out of my skull like a dog in a cartoon."
posted by babelfish at 1:25 PM on March 29, 2023

Some reference to Calvinball?
posted by Melismata at 1:35 PM on March 29, 2023

Having a Coke With You is an amazing love poem that has quite a bit about art.

I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time
posted by FencingGal at 2:02 PM on March 29, 2023

This book comes to mind: Scenes from an impending marriage by Adrian Tomine
posted by leastlikelycowgirl at 8:12 PM on March 29, 2023

Thank you everyone! Great selections -- I went with the end of the "pyramid scheme" poem. The cartoon eyes and the publicly-funded mention just fit perfectly.
posted by knownassociate at 5:53 AM on March 30, 2023