June 21st is Father's Day. Even if you loathe the commercialization of holidays, even if Father's Day was a commercial idea at its conception, you can still seize the day as an excuse to give Dad something that will tickle his heart*. For example, you can order this personalized image on a 4" ceramic coaster or 6" ceramic wall decor tile (or, on an easel, desk tile) from our web store. John Tenniel's frog footman and fish footman from his timeless series of illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
* One wouldn't think of saying his 'fat, black heart' " after Sylvia, said The Imp of the Perverse (Poe). Surely the verse below more appropriately leavens the dark oedipal residues that we want to leave out of a Father's Day gift. And perhaps Magpie will come up with a Father William tile, too.
Alice in Wonderland and, Through the looking-glass By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Brigitte Bryan, William Makepeace Thackeray: "
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