Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 15, 2023

Woot! I was right… Mona Lisa!! lol

I don’t think Nil’s idea is going to work out. He doesn’t have the right model.

I will say this.. The new Mona outfit looks better than her Muse look. lol

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So will he paint Bernice or give up on using her?

That pose is more like “Why so serious?”

Just as Max/Ivlax predicted yesterday.

Well, the future has been predicted correctly!

No way this sequence can be saved! (how’s that for a challenge?)

“No, it’s the spinach caught between your teeth!”

Bernice is hopeless. What does he see in her?

The only thing enigmatic about that smile is why Bernice would think anyone would want to paint it.

Bernice…let the artist be the artist please…thank you

You made me laugh, Evans.

I was wrong; I really thought that Piro would somehow show up as part of the art project. Too bad; that would have been fun…

C’mon Nil … didn’t you watch “Titanic”?

“Is it the glasses?” No – it’s the gasses…

Bernice loosen up your smile.

When I was in college, I painted a work I called “The Cadaverous Mona Lisa.” She was quite pale and ashen—lots of people in my dorm liked it. It disappeared one day, but luckily I took pictures of my dorm room, and it was in one of the pictures.

Raw meat would run from that ‘smile’.

Oh Bernice! Just listen to Nil and do as he asks, instead of assuming how he wants you to pose.

Why does he need Bernice? Why not a picture of the real Mona Lisa?

In the last panel, she kind of looks like “Weird” Al Yankovic.

Wrong Smile

No its the constant layer of smug

She’d need to shave her eyebrows to be Lisa del Giocondo, as it was the style of the time.

Bernice could use a Sharpie™ between her ’brows and be Frida Kahlo . . .

Or ask her to remove her classes and shave her eyebrows

Scary grin.

Does Bernice know that by the time Nil is done, all that will be seen is her right nostril?

Give her time to get bored.

Keen foresight for whoever called the Mona Lisa role for B yesterday.

Now here is hilarity ensueth.

Not exactly a charming, enigmatic smile, but Bernice looks really good dressed like that. I wonder if Nil wants to do like Francis Bacon, starting by being inspired by a portrait famous for its tranquility and rational composition and then transforming it into one of the most distressing images of torment, fear and despair that painting ever had. If that’s the case, I’d be curious to see Bernice’s reaction. I’m afraid she wouldn’t understand and would be angry. This might push her to go to meet Piro!?

“On second thought, let’s do Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, Bernice.”

Another painful series of strips…

Darling Ann ❤️ Eiffel has a fantastic “come hither” smile. Eat your ❤️s out. You ain’t worthy. Envious, but not worthy.

Creepy!

Never never never have I ever seen sooo much drama in a comic strip

i like it

this would be completely different form the art we’ve already seen where it was just small pieces, suddnely he’s going full portrait?

Perhaps she’ll do the Sharon Stone move from Basic Instinct

Bernice, closed lips, no teeth, no sounds.

I just think he wanted that ugly@$$ outfit off lol, maybe he’ll convince her to go back to her regular clothes

Draw a mustache on her, Nil

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues. You can tell by the way she smiles.

You’d think as intelligent as Bernice is supposed to be, she’d know the difference from whatever you’d call that smile she’s displaying, to a true “mona Lisa” smile.

I’ll bet Nil’s “portrait” will look more like Mondrian than DaVinci.

Question: why does Nils hair color and style change when he is with Bernice?

Enigmatic smile, self-satisfied smirk…what’s the difference?

Do your signature smirk Bernice.

The Muse is a Mess!

From the looks of it, Nil will wind up painting the “Moanin’ Louisa!”

New Yorker cartoon of Leonardo painting Mona: “And now a little smile.”

I think it’s the suggestive grin.

Those who said the outfit looked like Mona Lisa were on the money. Some said a flapper, which I couldn’t see at all.

Wow! Was I wrong! Ivan and J Puzzle got it right. Mona indeed! There’s always a story behind the smile, what’s Bernice’s? Artistic frustration ahead? ;-)

Afterwards, take the muse to the fuze

Nil’s Mona Lisa could cause Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” to scream again.

“Put your hands thus…” Who raised this boy?

It’s the "I’m so cool’ attitude.

I am quite frustrated with LuAnn. Greg Evans insists on keeping both Bernice and LuAnn shallow and limited. He won’t let them grow, although occasionally there will be moments of maturity and wisdom that come from nowhere …… and disappear just as quickly. The most interesting character today is Tara, and storylines involving her tend to evaporate for some reason. While I am at it, what happened to the letter from Piro to Bernice? ……. I mention these things because I recognize that LuAnn has the potential to be great, but I guess its just too risky - and inexpedient.

if you ever wondered why the Mona Lisa is so great see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9JvUDrrXmY&t=31s

It has to be a sorta smile.

I haven’t seen little Shannon in a while now.

Yeah, the smirk isn’t as classy

Not really “enigmatic”; more “snake oil salesman”.

What’s wrong with it?

Tuck in those teeth,Bernice.

Mona Lisa does NOT look like she’s about to sell you a flooded basement

A college art project based on the thoroughly overanalyzed dusty old cliche, Mona Lisa! Good job!

Nil capturing his inner Leonardo, eh?

This is Nil … the guy who goes outside the box with his art ….

Why does Mona smile ….

What if he drew just her hands with an engagement ring on it.

Let Piro spark her interest, so she can be a Piro-maniac and set fire to her love life. Then she can really Bern.

His muse is Wierd Al Yankovich?

It’s the glasses and the showing of her teeth

Her smile looks like she’s sitting on a feather.

Nice try.

Not glasses. Smirk and eyebrows.

This is often overlooked, but upon covering one or the other side of Mona Lisa’a face, the two halves are quite asymmetrical and show very different moods of expression. Methinks Leo Vincent deliberately did this.

I’ve long suspected that the Mona Lisa smiles because she just farted.

Rather than “enigmatic”, I’d say Bernice’s smile is “asininic”. (I know that’s not a real word, but I like the sound of it anyway, lol).

why oh WHY is she insufferably ignorant of her own obnoxiousness? She never really listens unless there is an opp to snipe Luann or make a 3rd party observation. She does fine when around Luann’s mom……but around her own age group? Not so much….

All around nope. Bernice being insufferable – be quiet, muse, and let the artist work. It’s impossible to see how he gets inspiration from her. And Nil using the Mona Lisa as subject matter? Truly lacks imagination. This arrangement just seems like contrived yuckiness to me.

Okay, so it was a “Mona Lisa” costume and wig, as someone had foreknowledge of yesterday! But Nil’s problem is not just Bernie’s glasses, easily enough removed, but rather her corny broad smile! Maybe she doesn’t comprehend “enigmatic” smile. Perhaps a hand-mirror will help….

And now, an unknown fact of art history. I think that Vincent van Gogh tried to cut off his ear because he had a distracting chatterbox model like Bernice.

What’s wrong is that Bern looks like Weird Al! LOL