That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 18, 2019

As a boomer, I don’t care how you respond to me.

Not sure what to say today. Caption is pretty much perfect and perfectly funny

Little Maddy has convinced herself that if she just practices hard enough she will someday be able to forge her father’s signature.

“I might have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the sands of ancient seas..(they’ re gonna love this – but daddy will get all the credit..”)

The talent of little Maddy /enraged her less gifted daddy/ whose gift was so thin/ that, to bring money in/ on weekends he worked as a caddy.

No one had ever given her chalk, so she had a very hard time reading her pencil markings on the slate.

Schoolgirl doing homework: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Anker_-_Schulm%C3%A4dchen_bei_den_Hausaufgaben.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate, perhaps copied text, as 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, 607 works by him (including this). So far, 16 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/07/26?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my comment there includes the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2352 (December 17, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Today’s Daily Special: Manhattan Clam Chowder

Little Danae from Non-Sequitur got in trouble with the teacher this week, for saying exactly the same thing. I wonder if they go to the same school?

When you have to wait several hours for your GoComics to load, you might actually get some homework done.

“Greta Thunberg diagramming on an eight inch chalkboard how to save the earth” Oil on canvas, 1879

Steve Jobs’ great-great grandmother wondering why she has to use this heavy expensive board and stylus when her pencil and paper were working just fine.

Early iPad prototype.

Here we see Mildred inventing the idea of gluing a chalkboard with a witty saying to a horse’s butt. Little did anyone know that technical innovations, especially those newfangled ideas the car and paper, would soon make her idea a runaway success, as the first bumper sticker is born.

Swiss Miss writing her top secret recipe for microwavable cocoa mix where it can never be stolen by a gigantic, heartless corporation!

“Dear Santa

I’ve been a really good girl all year. All I want for Christmas is the impeachment and removal from office of a certain bloviating, bleached blond, bullsh*tting baby boomer occupying space at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In Washington,D.C.

P.S I am 12-years-old but I still believe in you, so I know you’ll grant my Christmas wish.

“Dear Santa, please send me some chalk. Or white paper. I hope you can read black ink on black slate.”

I will NOT write with my left hand

I will NOT write with my left hand

I will NOT write with my left hand …

Little girl, convinced that with a world class education, the boys will treat her as an equal.

“I can say it. I am one.” Isn’t that the rule?