Toothpaste Car

The Toothpaste Car rolls across cream-colored paper with a cartoonish blue and white striped body, four black wheels with yellow hubs, and a large red toothpaste cap fitted where a standard car's trunk would be. Behind the wheel sits an orange tabby cat dressed in a green shirt, gripping the steering wheel with an alert, wide-eyed expression. The car's front end tapers into a smooth, rounded nose, and the overall silhouette reads as a squeezed tube of toothpaste reimagined as a drivable vehicle. The copyright line reads 2025 R. Scarry Corp. AG, placing this image in a licensed collaboration with the estate of children's book author Richard Scarry, whose Busytown illustrations introduced generations of readers to whimsical anthropomorphic animals navigating everyday life through playful, object-shaped vehicles. This Ana Inciardi mini print sits comfortably within her broader print series of licensed and pop-culture subjects, where familiar characters and childhood references are rendered in her signature hand-colored line style. Collectors drawn to mid-century children's illustration, Scarry's Busytown universe, or prints with a strong transportation theme tend to gravitate toward this one. The combination of a recognizable animal character, a clever object-as-vehicle concept, and clean graphic color blocking gives it a distinct visual identity on a shelf or in a frame. It pairs naturally with her other animal prints, and collectors who focus on character-driven or nostalgia-adjacent subjects often group it alongside similarly playful entries in her catalog.