That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 28, 2025

/// Paul Leroy used his oil paints to render

”Alfred Leroy, child,” in scarlet splendor.

The same last name, (Leroy),

clues this may be Paul’s boy,

but it’s hard to be sure of the gender.

“I’m more fabulous than The Blue Boy.”

But where’s Amos ?

That Andy’s a typical man-/

he has moved on from raggedy Ann/

You can tell from his threads/

That he’s now turning heads:/

He oozes esprit and élan…

Peter Pan with Daltonism

As designated Beadle, whenever Sebastian was put in temporary charge of his class in the teacher’s absence, he turned into a literal ‘Enfant Terrible’, dressing in scarlet cherkeska as a full-on Junior Cossack.

Wilkommen in Kabarett.

“It’s a hard-knock life” immediately came to mind.

Young Alex DeLarge before his droogs.

The Red Teapot.

By Picasso.

Picasso is very abstract,

That’s not an opinion, that’s fact.

Critics aspire,

His work they admire,

But you and l know it’s all cr@p.

…Soon after this portrait was revealed the Stark family painter disappeared without a trace. Arya was never asked to sit for another.

A younger version of one of the men from yesterday’s painting before he had learned to make his stick stand upright on its own (not a double entendre, but I suppose it could be).

Ok, who was the idiot who picked our clothes for the running of the bulls?

not the cane!

His parents never figured out how he paid his own way through college.

“My pronouns are they/them, and don’t you forget it!”

" You’ve been a very naughty boy, Mr. Leroy. It’s time for punishment! "

“It’s 3:05 and you are late for your scheduled afternoon perversion SIR!”

A plate from: “Early Twentieth Century Transgender History Illustrated”.

“Anyone for a little S&M?”

Leroy did marry in 1889, but I haven’t run down information about his children, if any. This painting is 1918, so 29 years after his marriage. This model might be late teens? A late-ish son?

No you doofus – for Halloween this year, I’m going as the Scarlet Pimpernel – not the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

“Oh stop! Im a boy, really!”

Alfred Leroy as a child: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Canes in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 enfant, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3451 (January 28, 2025) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .png from the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

Although he is proud of his progeny, his fondness for androgyny, causes Mr. Leroy, to state this is a boy, don’t accuse me of misogyny.

Chris is studying how to join the military under trumps plan, boy or girl or other.

gender confused Andy.

Christopher Robin’s French Adventure.

/// Once again, “That Is Priceless” is late.

On GoComics there is no update.

I just saw it appear

on Steve’s blog, but when here?

I’m afraid I’m too sleepy to wait.

Pour demain:

Geographers, working in tandem:/

it’s easy to understand ‘em../

Claimed for Europe the rights/

to far distant sites-/

if they hadn’t, their kings would have canned’em.

How could anyone, even back then, think this looked masculine? The parents must’ve really wanted a girl, but were stuck with a boy. BTW, it was only small children, more like toddlers, who were dressed alike regardless of gender. It stopped long before this kid’s age. That’s for sure. Very funny caption, thanks!