Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 18, 2025

Plot Twist: Nil sells a piece of his art for UGE $$$ and buys a Tesla.

Will Mrs. Horner buy one of Nil’s paintings?

Looks like Phil and Luann are getting along nicely. I wonder if Jack oranyone else from Mr. Zeebo’s class will show up with their own art work.

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I wish I could say I liked Nil’s work.. but it not my taste. Looks way to easyto just draw an eyeball on a canvas. I appreciate pieces where talented people put lots of effort into them.

I’ve never been able to tell whether Zebo and now Nil was Greg being sarcastic about the trend from representational art through abstract to conceptual art. I always considered Zebo a crackpot and Nil’s art does nothing for me. Mrs. Horner likes Nil’s art but then she seems to like everything. I wonder how she made it as an instructor in Creative Writing since she never finds anything wrong about anything.

Nice to see Luann connecting with Phil so quickly.

Phil, meet my friend comb. Apparently they’ve never met…

Ah. Phil is back. Now I know why Luann is there…to see Mrs Horner. I thought it strange she’d go and see Nil for his art showing when it should’ve been Bernice. Will she show up, I wonder? After all, she is supposed to be his muse, however, in this one, I don’t think a muse was involved. It was a self- portrait in pieces.

Phil, Nil, chill pill.

I don’t know if anyone caught it, but yesterday, over at Arca, someone pointed out it looks like Nil painted his left eye in two of the pictures. It could have been missed by assuming those 2 pics were background, but the color was the same as his hair. So maybe G&K snuck a view of his left eye in, exposing it the way it was drawn. His right eye was shown with his hair being the way we normally see him.

Careful, Mrs. Horner—that just might be the “evil eye”!

Ohhh, it was for those types of seniors. It explains how tired I was at 1AM last night

Frame 1 – The bottom eye is pretty good.

Mrs Horner and Phil and even Nil… Better than most topics.

Actually the work of Pablo Picasso, Len Lye, Andy Warhol and others who would be in solidarity with Nil’s perspective on art dates back (at least in Lye and Picasso’s cases) a century or so. Great art is timeless. But if one must limit one’s appreciation of art by such periphery as chronology, then that would certainly qualify as “old fashioned”.

Well, I guess this explains why I saw something likeable in his art. I’m old.

Well, there’s arrive-at-random Phil, so this is sure to peak some readers’ interest. Also, it’s hard to tell, but is Nil actually smiling in the last panel?

I was in my 20’s in the ’70’s, which was the hey day of Pop art and the likes of Andy Warhol et al, so I guess that’s why I like it.

Mrs. Horner jus might end up in th back of Nil’s car. To check out the other 7 that is

mrs horner has poor taste or her mind is going and stop with the Phil – Luann angle. He’s probably gay and more interested in just seeing art.

Well, Nil, the abstract artist, Mrs. Horner who loves his work (why assume a Senior Senior would not appreciate abstract art?). What is most interesting, in context, is how in the first panel, it’s drawn so that Lu and Phil seem glad to see each other, and are comfortable talking with each other, and in the third, how Lu is clearly flirting, on the sly, kinda, with Phil. She clearly seems to like him

You’re seen

Is this meant to be a satire on the appeal of modern “aht”. It is regrettable that having an aesthetic sense is mocked as “old-fashioned”. I recommend the movie “Art School Confidential” for anyone interested in the emptiness of modern “aht”.

“I always feel like Somebody’s watching me!”

Mrs Horner is a connoisseur of fine living and modern art.

Where is Bernice Halper?

Sounds like Nil was quite the knack for artistic expression.

I think the eyes have it.

(O,O)

Is this arc over yet? How about an exhibit of Ann❤️Eiffel’s art work? Much more… invigorating, hubby hubby boy howdy. Bring back Ann❤️Eiffel!!

I’m apparently more old-fashioned than a 94 year old, too

I’m not surprised, Mrs. Horner probably knew some of the artists from the Black Mountain College and she was a young woman in the 50s and 60s. When many thought that painting on canvas was an old thing. It’s nice to see Phil again, but I didn’t expect him to be so delicate. Nil’s paintings aren’t so edgi.

And the morale of today’s arc IS: “Sometimes, the Older “Folks” GET it.”

As for Phil?

Well, he seems like a Norman Rockwell kinda guy. ;-)

But does Nil do anything but self-portraits?

I’m shipping Phil and Luann…. Philann! LOL

Looks like I was wrong about Phil coming back. But is he really ever gonna end up with Luann? Or is this more teasing that ultimately ends up nowhere, like Tiffany’s fruitless obsession with Kip?

Pick an image of an eye and focus on it. Relax. Imagine you are face-2-face with the man. Think about meeting him for coffee and a snack. Enjoy your moment with the man. Breathe in. Finish your coffee and go, refreshed.

Phil and Nil – let the rhyming name jokes commence! : )

Nil was one of her students in the writing class. Mrs. Horner always is able to encourage her studnets in all their indevors.

I remember once reading one writer’s science fiction story, in a collection of his, that I thought was bad, put in to pad out the collection when he couldn’t sell it…and finding out a few days later that it had just won a big award. It was still a bad story.

The more I see Mrs. Horner the less I think of her as a liberated Elder and more as a nonagenarian version of Gwyneth Paltrow.

Luann says, “There’s worse things”Yeah, like her grammar. S/b “There are worse things”, or, “There’s a worst thing”.

There is some “art” that I like. A lot that I don’t. I don’t know if the “artist” is talented or not, most of the time. I am, however, in awe of those who have the talent to capture realistic depictions. They are, perhaps, more in the illustrator category than artist but those, like Frank Cho for instance, engender envious feelings in me. I can see. And I can draw. I just can’t put the two together. There are connections missing in my thinkmeat somewhere. Many, many connections.

TBH the old lady is slowly becoming insufferable, with her toxic positivity.

Aw, Horny’s just being polite, Nil’s a hack. And Luann’s a horn dog.

Yes, Luann, there are things that can be worse than having “old fashioned taste in art.” Like being an artist whose whole “thing” in painting one unobscured eye.

Being more old-fashioned then a 94 year old? There are worse things, Luann? Oh, you mean like reaching 94 years old, and you still haven’t slept with a man.

This strip is a reminder not to assume that the elderly don’t have a sophisticated appreciation of the arts. Whatever one might think of Nil’s style, it says something about the school that they put modern art in the retirement home rather than something they considered simpler for old people to understand. I went to a couple of musical performances at my mother’s retirement complex. In one case it was a classical ensemble and in the other it was a band that played Brazilian oriented jazz numbers. Unfortunately in both cases they dumbed down their repertoire into simplistic (sometimes singalong) versions of 1940’s standards. Needless to say my mother and I dare say a number of others in the audience were disappointed.

Write what you know, paint what you see.

Did we ever catch Phil’s last name?

Ask her out, you scrubs-wearing ding-dong!

Nil has found his target audience.

Is it me, or is Mrs. Horner aging faster than the rest of the characters?

Is Luann is starting to develop into a real person? Compassion for others, helpful, generous?

Doesn’t the presence of eyes in all of Nil’s paintings seem a little paranoid? And no one has mentioned how egocentric.

Mrs Horner has always been more intuitive than others.

Seems a bit narssictic on Nil’s part. Though I could be wrong. So will Phil and Lu be getting together?

Here we go, betcha didn’t see that comin ! ;-)

Keep thinking Nil’s car is an old Yugo or Saturn, maybe a Pinto….

If you ask me, Luann is developing more meaningful relationships.

“Hold onto sixteen as long as you can; changes come around real soon make us women and men…” —- John Cougar

If that’s what it looks like in the lower left in panel one, I’m starting to think that Greg doesn’t really understand how the concept of disposable latex gloves is supposed to work.

I’d love to see the reaction of the other students when they discover Nil only displayed his own art instead of everybody’s.

There’s age and there’s old.

Wonders never cease……..

In luannverse time, 94 years old is like 200 years?

Luann has been 19 years old for the 3 years?

More visits to the retirement home over the university dorms ?

Oh I guess it must be “make fun of artist’s and their work” week.

I know everyone hates the grammar police, but please say “There’re worse things.”

Will Mrs.Horner pay in cash or medications?

Mrs. Horner get’s it.