That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 02, 2020

Ways to kiss up to the sergeant to get a 3 day pass.

In the early days of caricature drawing, the artists often didn’t survive.

The dog thinks he looks silly, and the guy on the right is taking no chances in case the examiner yells “About face!”

Bert figured that getting a promotion to the propaganda unit was the best way to avoid getting killed. Now all he had to do was make Sgt. Potbelly here look heroic, and he was in.

“Hey, draw me with a woman on my arm”“I’m sorry, Sarge, I’m not certain I remember what they look like.”

You know, if the sword were pointing the other direction, we might have a candidate for “Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture.”

“Is this the best I’ve got to work with? This dandy looks like the only battle he’s been in is a game of chess in the courtyard.”

The dog didn’t need the coroner’s sketch to identify the murderer.

Toto on trial for being absent without leave during his time in Oz.

sergeant forgetting about the rule that you never turn your back to the audience…

Pierre was such a show off. While Jules and Louis could do a good manspread sitting down, he could do it standing up!

Fido was just about to attack the cat on the sergeants head.

At least one of them understands horizontal fracking.

So let me get this straight, Doctor. You put the lime in the coconut. You put them all together? You put the lime in the coconut and then you’ll feel better?

To get a good perspective, Tim the double amputee, climbed up on his chair.

Hessian out a few details before the next battle.

“Hurry up, I’ve got to get this jug over to another painting of a woman with it on her head.”

“Okay, that’s 3 crepes, two baguettes with frommage, a liter of vin rouge, and …anything else ? Nothing for you. Maurice ?”

I’ll add the horse later

There I was, surrounded by thousands and out of ammunition! So what did I do? I fixed bayonets and charged!!!

For a moment I thought that the second guy on the left was a really short guy standing on the chair.

If I could draw boobs, they’d be everywhere.

“How do you draw with a boob? You get the boob to make the drawing!”

The department’s sketch artist didn’t like where the sergeant’s description was going: 3-cornered hat, white stockings,….

He did say “Draw your weapons”.

Guardsman on the right guarding the family jewels….

“Does your dog bite?”

“C’mon, guys. We’ve only got an hour for lunch. So it’s a chicken salad on wheat for Tom, a Ruben with slaw for Dick, two chili dogs for Harry, a . . . "

…when it was really obvious that ol’ Sarge wanted this to be a Great Moment in Phallic Portraiture.

Your zipper is down.

“And then I got all indignant and I stand just like this and I say ‘shut the front door’!”

“Yes, yes. And then what?”

“The Captain made us attack anyway!”

As the French crossed the Prussian borders/ (according to French recorders)/ the Prussian cuisine/ caused a horrible scene/ – they succumbed to digestive disorders.

Da*n kibitzers! I’m gonna sic the dog on the next one who makes a suggestion.

“Everyone’s a damned critic!” thought Jean-Louis as attempted to sketch the Sargeant. “Even the dog’s got to put his two francs in!”

The Portrait of a Sergeant: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Louis-Ernest_Meissonier_-_The_Portrait_of_a_Sergeant_-_WGA14740.jpg 

has info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history has strip coloration image. 

https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/sites/default/files/61228.jpg 

has what I uploaded if the title URL still defaults to the old image for you.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/meissonier_jean-louis-ernest.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ernest-meissonier 

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire_id/le-voyageur-327.html 

https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/permanent-collections/european/jean-louis-ernest-meissonier-the-print-collector/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/m/meissoni/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/history400.html 

https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/m/jean_louis_ernest_meissonier.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/84 

https://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/jean-louis-ernest-meissonier-french-1815-1891/ 

https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=349&sold=1 

http://hoocher.com/Jean_Louis_Ernest_Meissonier/Jean_Louis_Ernest_Meissonier.htm 

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. So far, 4 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/05/13?comments=visible 

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

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2483 (July 1, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

That’s ridiculous. How could he draw the sergeant with boobs when all the boobs are behind him?

The Les Misérables dress rehearsal was delayed today.

At a 1991 library convention in New Orleans, one of the vendors had a caricaturist in their booth. He asked me what I like to do, so I said, “Sing … act …” “Sing!” he cried and began drawing. The vendor rep and another rep (both young women – cf Lila’s stint as a pharma rep) from across the aisle stood behind him watching, like those two guys on the left, and started giggling. I wondered how he was drawing me – in a choir robe? In the shower? Then I remembered passing The Cat’s Meow on Bourbon Street, which I think must have been one of America’s first Karaoke bars, and asked, “Is he drawing me at The Cat’s Meow?” All three nodded in unison as the reps chorused, “Uh-HUH!”

the man at left and the midget are waiting for the squad’s idiot to sign for his pay, before the party starts. vino for all!!!

I always thought that Meissonier guy was a bit sketchy…

The “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was in effect. “Don’t draw” never seemed to come up.

“Make it big. Make it really big. I want her to be impressed.”

How many buttons is that on the spats?! How long does it take him to get dressed?