That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 14, 2017

Fetching portrait – missing dog.

The Danish version of the Marlboro Man.

Rockin’ the rain hat on a sunny day.

Phil never achieved his dream of being a fishing boat captain — THAT DAMN SEA SICKNESS!!!

3 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Bloch_-_The_Sailor_(1874).jpg

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate most pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this 1874 roughly legal paper size painting.

http://www.carlbloch.com/

has extensive info about this artist. So far, 3 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/08/04?comments=visible

has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1751 (July 14, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Poor lovesick guy, sitting there humming Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.

It is a guy, right? I mean, the feet are manish, but those lovely, slender fingers? Not to mention other attributes.

My first thought was that this is a woman….in no need of phallic portraits anyway.

He’s just scoping out the place.

she is wishing to be back at sea where no one cared about her sex change, and smoking.

“Sometimes a stick is just a stick..”

what? it’s just a boy holding his rod…

Man spread practicing.

“I’m just going to sit here quietly until whoever stole my boots walks by, and then …WHACK!!!