That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 22, 2019

“Oliver, now that Daddy is gone, I’m going to have to send you to the workhouse.”

“Look, you’ve sponged off me long enough, and I’m sure Spot over there will take good care of you.”

“Okay Hansel and Gretel, you’re in England now. No eating candy houses and killing witches.”

Isn’t this where you took Daddy before he mysteriously disappeared?

Mary Poppins with the Banks children asking; “Mary, what did you give us at breakfast? We had some very strange visions, penguins dancing, animals talking and your singing supercalifra … what?”

Mommy Sally all ready ate half the plate of magic mushrooms!

Look over there, a white rabbit. Why don´t you follow it?

Friend 1: “Get them a Switch.” Friend 2: “Nintendo or whip?”Friend 1: “Yes.”

Ok Hansel, Gretal, you play here for a little bit while mommy goes to play at Uncle Johann’s house. He doesn’t like children

Think harder Tommy. Where did you leave the map that will get us out of these woods?

“Mom! You know I can’t pee in front of you and my sister. Why do you keep doing this?”

So, I bet you two are wondering why Mommy is wearing black and why there is a deep hole dug in the ground.

T’was a fun afternoon in the park/ when the damn dog decided to bark/ Tom’d been planning to make/ a pyre and a stake/ for his sister to play “Joan of Arc”.

This looks like a well-dressed version of Hansel & Gretel getting left in the woods.

Sadly, that’s what a lot of Boarding Schools were for, back then…

The Lady of the Manor: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helen_Allingham_-_The_Lady_of_the_Manor.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly B3 paper size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/allingham_helen.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1320 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/allingham-helen-patterson-1848-1926 

https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artists/allingham-helen-rws-1848-1926.html 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/allingham/index.html 

https://www.amazingwomenbyrail.org.uk/attraction/helen_allingham-blue-plaque/ 

http://www.spacial-anomaly.com/helen-allingham-and-her-cottages/ 

http://www.avictorian.com/Allingham_Helen.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64743958/helen-allingham 

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/heritage-towns/the-heritage-towns-of-don/ballyshannon/helen-allingham-1848-1926/ 

https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/women/helen-allingham/ 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/helen-allingham/biography 

http://www.helenallingham.com/Helen_Biography.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by her used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2207 (May 21, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

The prequel to “Babes in the Wood”.

This is what comics are supposed to be…. funny!

Peter knew he was supposed to give Mrs. Mannerly a message, but he absolutely couldn’t remember what it was. And Patty was no help at all.

just follow the nice doggie and he will lead you home.

Mrs. Jenkins having found Jake and Dianne in a compromising position, thinks it’s better to leave the kid out in the woods, rather having the towns folk cringe at them when the baby comes.

“Yes Tommy, there’re two reasons why we’ll never find our way back to civilization. Your sister and I are females, so we couldn’t read a map even if we had one, and you’re a male, so you wouldn’t ask for directions if your life depended on it.”