That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 26, 2019

Posing for hours for this painting was hard enough on the models. What made it worse was listening to the artist repeatedly say: Let’s see the Amerikaner Rockwell top this!

“I think we should go with this Neptune Society plan.”

Hank would have preferred that his wet-behind-the-ears doctor hadn’t had to read the manual before performing a proctology check.

Grandpa enjoys it when his grandson reads aloud the hay day parts of his journal.

“Grandpa, why do you want me to read you “Fifty Shades of Grey” book? I’m not supposed to read it and you know it makes you nervous."

BEDTIME STORY !

“Read faster kid, I was 40 when you started this book”

Due to Pop Pop’s poor memory, Tommy was able to read the same bedtime story every night.

He’s deaf and he can’t read.

Ooh, Bedtime story. And don’t forget to change his diaper!

“Okay, Mr. Jagger, here’re the lyrics one more time.. then you have to get up get out there and blow them away.. ah-HEM: “Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away War, children, it’s just a shot away It’s just a shot away War, children, it’s just a shot away It’s just a shot away..”

Just wait…there are pictures.

Okay, I found the chapter on checking for testicular cancer…..with pictures!?

Reading page two of " 101 Knock Knock Jokes." Okay remember now Grandpa you say, " Who’s there? "

After Mrs. Dubose died, Jem started a “reading to morphine addicts” business.

Dear Grandpa, this volume I hold/ may be “literary gold”/ but you’ve started to snore/ and to read it’s a chore / for it lacks a “centerfold”.

“And they lived happily everafter…”

It was hard winter in their isolated cabin. Fearing they would have to resort to cannibalism to survive, Tommy passed the hours while waiting for Grandpa to die by reading the cookbook and dreaming of the recipes he would make. Then he reached the chapter on “assisting” the process …

“Oh, look Grandpa! It’s a Pop-up book!”

Reading Devotions to Grandfather: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anker-_Die_Andacht_des_Grossvaters_1893.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://iamachild.wordpress.com/category/anker-albert-samuel/ 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=572 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16444946 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/albert-anker 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-anker/ 

http://www.albert-anker.ch/en/biografie.html 

http://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4000009&lng=en 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. The last is in German (again Chrome can translate). Click more… in the Lexicon article for the complete text, and More works under the right side images for, currently, 597 works by him (not this). So far, 15 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/06/14?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my just re-added comment there included the same artist info URLs, if you saw them before the blankety blank GoComics Moderator deleted the original comment 6/25).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2252 (July 25, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Thanks for helping me with my lobotomy lesson Gramps. Ok. First, it looks like I’ll need an ice pick. Don’t go anywhere, I’ll be right back…

In the movie “My Life as a Dog,” the elderly blind man has the boy read to him from a lingerie catalogue.

When all was said and done, Johnny much preferred reading to grandfather than cleaning the chicken coop.

“But Grandad, you were supposed to be helping me with my homework.”

As his grandson read through the “Do Your Own Vasectomy” manual he became rather uncomfortable, but he knew it was going to be necessary.

WHAT: your only leaving me the chicken coop?

Shut up and keep reading kid…My “Plumbing” still works….

Whilst working in the yard I recomembered an old line from a 1954 Joke Book anthology -( I was Nine years old but I got it!) – …

Glands May come. and glands May go….But the OLD FUNNY BUSINESS GOES ON FOREVER…Aint it ’Da Truth….

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It was a dark and stormy night….