That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 02, 2012

Trepanning?

Zombie, disguised as Tin man.

I’m asking myself – why do so many here know about trepanning? on second thought. . ..

I guess he already has courage.

Now this one is seriously bizarre!

Brrraaaaaaaains.

ah, Bosch . . .

All I can smell is burnt toast.

Is that the Emerald City in the background?

Different coloration enlarged image (use your browser zoom to enlarge more) available from here.This is a detail image of the larger (may take some time to display) Extracting the Stone of Madness painting, the title used in its current-location’s description (source of the title image), or Cutting the Stone, the title used in its Wikipedia page, or The Cure of Folly, the title used in this description, or The Stone Operation, used in the much longer discussions here (artistic) and here (medical), or 3 of them in this short description. The images have a sampling of the different colorations available online.OK, the artistic here discussion comes from a website that I didn’t know about before reading @Baslim the begger‘s comment, today, not here, but the first time a work by this artist appeared here. The website is sometimes slow to respond, but if you want to use it for prior strips, click the artist name (the preceding artist link for this artist), and use theleft-right arrows, at the top and bottom of the page, to scroll through his/her works. If you find the Get a picture … at the bottom of the page distracting, click the double-down-arrows below the yellow line on the right. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection.Second of the 4 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.

Rejected album cover art for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery

How the Coneheads came about on SNL.

Hieronymous Bosch is well known for his gory and gruesome work, But I knew nothing of him until I read Michael Connelly’s crime/thriller novel series with the detective Harry Bosch (Harry for a short). Good escape reading.

If he had gotten the heart first, he wouldn’t have done this ;-)

After the Hair Club For Men botched the procedure so badly, what choice did he have but to file hirsute.

Obviously has a copy of “Brain Surgery for Dummies”

This is a detail from one I have on a poster from a medical publisher. I’ve always thought of the patient as the Lion; Dorothy (well, a woman) and the Scarecrow (another peasant) are watching.

stoned AGAIN?

Here is another work by this artist.

What, no anesthetic?