That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 08, 2023

That’s one lousy frame up job.

“Hey neighbor, just to let you know these walls are paper thin and I could hear every fart you make.”

Once again, with all of the ideas the artist could come up with, this is the one he chose?

Looks like Kilroy IS here.

Did one of this guy’s descendents say "What, Me Worry?:

Thmk gof it’s not the pillow guy.

How’d I get in this wall, I guess I was plastered last night.

Is that a fish or a tie?

Funny…I thought it was Prince Harry checking his room for bugs./s

That is one way to break the fourth wall.

“Something there is that does not love a wall !“/ Who wrote those deathless words? I can’t recall../ But what’s a man to do ?/ Well, this kid broke right throug !/ And isn’t that the answer, after all ? (Robert Frost wrote them.)

“You look terrible. You need a MyPillow for better sleep.”

And you thought you moved away from Weird Harold!

To paraphrase an old saying: People who live in paper houses shouldn’t throw scissors.

Send in the clowns…

Mona?

Bob the Builder’s evil cousin, Alfonse the Wrecker.

Breaking through the fourth wall

“Priceless painting? Where?”

Alfred E Newman’s grandson?

It’s that guy who lives on the other side of the medicine cabinet trying to sell me Right Guard again. (Yeah – I know I’m revealing my age here.)

Pierre Poilievre on the campaign trail. I used to live in his riding and I never voted for him! I hope no-one else will either.

Wait, I want to go on the adventure too. I brought my ring.

The Boy: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Almeida Júnior" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Menino, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1483 (6/29/16) (June 7, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works by this artist have been used here (8 times total, including this Throwback Thursday), the June 29, 2016, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The June 26, 2018, strip has the prior by him.

Reminds me of a a young Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield in “Back to School”). Thornton Melon : [sees a naked women taking a shower after opening the curtain mistakenly] … I didn’t see anything.

[opens the curtain again]

Thornton Melon : … Honey, you’re perfect. Check out the IMDB listing for that classic for more one-liners.

That’ll show everyone. I CAN fight my way out of a paper bag.

Not so great moments in imbecile portraiture?

“Boy,” 1882

The latest Marvel superhero: the Paper Ripper!

heeeeeeeere’s johnny!

Hi there. I’m a painting. Wouldn’t you like to have me on your living room wall?

Oops, sorry about your new wall paper……

“Whachya Dooowin!?”

This is another of several Masterpieces for which all of my original Comments (and all but one of my Replies to others) were deleted by GoComics and not later restored. About a year later I’ve decided to do my best to recreate at least one response for each of those paintings:

/// Júnior set up this painting called “Boy” with a young model in his employ.

The lad took careful aim

and then burst through the frame

of his old portrait, beaming with joy.

/// The model was not being coy;

it had pleased him no end to destroy

the painter’s last work.

He had looked like a jerk

with a gap-toothed grin sure to annoy.

/// The boy, thought, "There’s no point getting Mad

just because that first likeness was bad.

Let him paint me again.

If I hate that one, then

I’ll rip it to shreds, too," thought the lad.

This is another of several Masterpieces for which nearly all of my original Comments (and Replies to others) were deleted by GoComics and not later restored. Just over a year later I’ve decided to do my best to recreate at least one response for each of those paintings:

/// Júnior set up this painting called “Boy”

with a young model in his employ.

The lad took careful aim

and then burst through the frame

of his old portrait, beaming with joy.

/// The model was not being coy;

he felt like a new man to destroy

the painter’s last work.

He had looked like a jerk

with a gap-toothed grin sure to annoy.

/// The boy, thought, “There’s no point getting Mad

just because that first likeness was bad.

Let him paint me again.

If I hate that one, then

I’ll rip it to shreds, too,” thought the lad.