Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 05, 2019

A+ to Luann

Looks smudgy to me. ✨

I like Zebo. He IS kind of cool.

It’s nice to see Luann excelling!

I am 83. Will I live long enough to see Luann fall in love again? And keep him?

If you look at her hand, it looks like she did most of the smudging with her knuckles and the edge of her palm.

The tortillon and the hair.

Gosh. Zebo actually makes a statement that is not denigrating those beneath his massive ego. As some have already observed, perhaps there is a glimmer of hope for him.

Actually that’s a pretty good flowerpot Lu drew in the last panel! Almost looks like real life. I guess true artists DO have to Suffer or something!

Perhaps Lu should get Jack to drop a bowling on that other foot.

Then, she’ll be ready to create a masterpiece! ;)

Nice to Zebo pushing Luann to be better.

Luann is quite the teacher. Life is smudgy. i hope she begins to figure it out. Entre stage left! Jack somehow, but next week or two before this arc comes to a conclusion. Oh please don’t leave us hanging GnK (this is the young adult version of the hopeless in love girl, but I think she is going to get closer).

Hey. We go is using his TA to help teach and not just for scut work!

I went to Cal (Berkeley) done ago and for lots of lower division classes, the TAs did the teaching.. Comp Lit, French ( where my French I TA was from Scotland and for French 2, the TA was from Haiti and spoke French and Spanish, but very little English. I remember my Anthro prof at the community college who said HIS Anthro prof was Margaret Mead, but she was usually out studying natives and the class was taught by TAs.

So it is really a positive thing that Luann is allowed to show off her talent as a TA.

So, Tara, stuff your job-supportive jabs!

If the Neanderthal who taught Cave Wall 101 to young cavemen ever saw this, he would think that we had really lowered the bar.

I’d say this is an Impressionist.

Brings to mind a sign that used to hang in our electronics lab:

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“No student’s project is completely worthless, it can always be used as a horrible example.”

The Fourth Wall is like a billboard tonight. The Luann characters are smudgy – thereby remaining interesting. Some pretty nice people with a smudge of selfishness. And some others not so nice – but with a smudge of needing to do better. For me, Ann Eiffel wanting Les to call her “Mom” was touching.

He left the ‘F’ off his last word.

If you ask me, it could use a couple of happy little trees.

If you say so.

Thank you for making her (and consistently keeping her) left-handed, Greg. The Southpaws of America (SoA) salute you!

Sometimes, the real art is how they sell those things.

Wouldn’t someone like Zebo not define what is and isn’t art, since anything CAN be? Isn’t that the whole concept of modern art? To show that anything can be art?

Now, this is a fantastic Art class with a funny joke about Luann’s life. The Art classes with Professor Zebo and his assistant Luann could become a spin off strip and i would be happy to follow both.

Never realized Lu is a southpaw.

More like belongs in the trash. Seriously, art classes are so stuffy.

Huh. Imagine that! I thought a tortillon was something you ordered with Brenda and Eddie in an Italian restaurant…

Tortillon, eh. Well got my new knowledge for today.

A happy life should only be 20% smudgy. Luann’s looks 80-90%. Expecting zero smudges makes one very unhappy. Maybe Luann will learn that lesson today.

It’s art?

A tortillon is a cylindrical drawing tool, tapered at the end and usually made of rolled paper, used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing utensils. A blending stump is similar to a tortillon but is longer, more tightly wrapped, and pointed at both ends. Wikipedia

Artists have to have immense, over-sized egos to handle all the criticism. Most also need day jobs to pay the bills. Our younger son writes a webcomic that has gotten very positive reviews from his readers, but the following is very small so far and does not generate any income for him.

Yup, Luann is a piece of art alright!

Sunday: Frank exposes his deepest feelings to Nancy.

We have long known my beloved Luann is an art form.

Coulda fooled me.

art who?

LuAnns next hot hunk will be Zebo! She will love older men.

Luann’s obsessing after a single lunch date reminds me of Mike from the movie Swingers, who has a nice Meet Cute with a woman, but then is such a wreck afterwards that when he gets home he leaves her eight voicemail messages in a row.

Love it! What a great way to illustrate life isn’t black and white, but shades of grey and often blurry and messy! Good job, Luann!

Anyone out there remember the Jon Gnagy “Learn to Draw” TV shows from the 1950s? May have been one of the early infomercials, because he pitched his Learn to Draw art supplies set throughout the show. Didn’t know it back then (but today, I learned) that one of the items in that set was a tortillon, or (thanks, RonnieAThompson) a blending stump!

Hmmm….maybe Zebo does look a bit like Jon Gnagy, or vice versa. Or is that generic stereotypic artist?

Yea, but you may well be 93….

I bought many tortillons, but always ended up using my fingers. My art professor always scolded me, because it leaves skin oils on your drawing. I liked to think of it as authenticating my work with my DNA.

Tortillion stems from the French for “twist” where as Luann’s drawing is smudges … just an FYI.

I like what she’s done with it. Art therapy can work!

Anybody knows that a tortillon is a really big tortilla, so its purpose is to make a very big taco.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Luann doing art. i’m thrilled!!! i.e. to know that as art TA, Luann is asked to demonstrate skills, suggesting that Zebo offered her the job because he observed (previously) that she actually had those skills. Will Zebo help Luann to figure out a direction in life that is less smudgy and grey?

We all caught Luann’s self-correction and know what she was about to say at first. Probably Zebo would not wax so enthusiastic over that!

I’m impressed with Greg today. It’s not often that you see an idea that gets to the point like this.

I am 91 and the doctor just sliced a pretty big chunk of cancer out of my left side. I plan to live till I am 105. The doc says no sweat. I will die at 105 if he failed to get it all. LOL