"If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen."

There is actually a town in china where the entire village makes their money painting caricatures of monkeys. Not saying it's a good career move, but at least that's the context for where the idea came from.

Interesting enough, the majority of the world's oil paintings come from this one tiny village with 5,000 painters who spend all day slavishly copying the same templates over and over:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen

You can find all their stuff on ebay and alibaba.