Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 19, 2021

Nil is more obsessed with body parts than Rocket Raccoon.

“WHO NOSE?” Good Grief!

Nil should convert his portfolio to NFTs and see what happens.

Luann’s nose? $375.00 ?

Is that a painting of a “rear end” behind them???

Okay – enough is enough!

How much does he want for the derriere on the back wall in panel 1? What’s his bottom price?

There is a Google logo to the right side of Nil?

I think Nil let those “A’s” Zebo was passing out like Halloween candy, go to his head.

Bernice is understanding the dynamics of art.

How droll can one strip get? I pity poor Bernice. She’ll need hours in front of the fish tank to recover!

Creo que una sábana pisada por una tortuga con unos pinceles amarrados, como salió en un episodio de Don Gato, tendría más valor que toda la galería de Nil.

Nil’s name is CLEARLY printed on all the little tags by his artwork. How could Bernice not have looked at one and realized that is was HIS art show?

The Degroots can purchase these “art” artifacts and place them in the Fuse as a tax write off?

400 for that? that boy is not realistic at all!

Dang! T thought panel 2 was a door to a closet or somewhere private they could sneak in to for a more personal evaluation.

It’s going to be a long road to Saturday and the end of this.

I guess Nil is clueless to the fact Bernice is living with Luann because she’s experiencing financial issues.

Did I see a pair of buttocks behind them?? My Gawd. I gotta say that’d be perfect for a bathroom right above the toilet. And whose nose did you draw, Nil? I suspect yours as the way it is drawn looks like the artist used a mirror below to draw oneself’s nose.

Some interesting conversation about art until we hit sticker shock.

Comparing panels 1 and 3, I see that the art gallery has Hogwarts Nature.

I wonder what the deal is with this art show, anyway. I’ve only ever seen a museum that had college student art in it on “Six Feet Under”, and all the students there only got to display one piece of art each. And they were specifically students at an art college—not a community college. I didn’t know a museum would feature just one generic community college’s freshman? sophmore?‘s work. I suppose someone knows someone that had Nil’s experience and good fortune? Anyway, that there’s a nice depiction of a tiny alien.

I know that’s supposed to be a nose, but it looks like a tiny alien phasing through the wall.

If he fails commercially he could become a p9lic3 sketch artist, he has human anatomy down from top to (dare I say) bottom…

Three of Nil’s artwork would work well in the waiting room of an ear, nose and throat doctor.

Nil has the collection insured for $50,000. TJ is in the back preparing hōrs devours for the patrons. Nil is pretty smart and realizes that If TJ is there, it increases the chance of a fire and all those pieces will be a total loss from the fire and smoke damage.

Nil! Try offering a blank canvas for $1,000.

Keith Haring drew simple logos that became widely known and made money.

Add a decimal point after the “3” and you have a deal.

The nose knows.

I’m not especially fond of Modern Art, but Himself is, and while he was working in his degree (the History section included Art of the Twentieth Century – looking at how art was used to reflect the social and world changes that were occurring) and I developed at least an understanding of it, if not much of an appreciation of it. It is not fair to say that a five year old could do those sploshy sort of paintings: certainly sometimes, but it is surprisingly difficult to do well. And sploshy paintings are only a very small part of the movement. However you can still keep Emin and Hirst and their ilk!

Okay. Now I’m really laughing! At the nose, of course. :D :D :D :D But seriously, if Greg wanted Nil to look really weird, he’s succeeded beyond all expectations.

Looks like a bugs view of someone’s nostrils!!

Over 60 responses over the topic of nothing !?! WoW!

Could this BE any duller???

The chance of anyone buying that painting is Nil.

$400. 1% for the art. 10% for the frame. And 90% for the gobbledygook.

Hear that, Zebo? Bargain alert!

I wouldn’t even invest a penny to one of those original Picasso’s abstract paintings!

Art always has had a purpose, it serves as a shortcut to those who know someone called Arthur!

Typical young artist, with a very convenient agreement with the art gallery. Usually, if you are lucky, novice artists receiver half the price of the work sold. And I’m sorry Bernice, but Nil is right. The desire to make art is internal. It doesn’t really require a purpose. The purposes are added.

At least not an image of a colonoscopy.

He wants to be a dieting artist not a starving one.

The works with the arrows magically appeared in the last panel.

Must be his Gil Kane tribute.

You have to have a nose for that kind of art…

Is this arc funny? Yes or No…

I haven’t had chance to read all of the comments; I know we’ve noticed Nil’s “Who Nose” and the portrait of the finger. Has anyone else noticed what appears to be a portrait of a profile of buttocks between Bern and Nil in the first panel?

Attendance seems low.

When I was married, both the step-sons – college educated artists – would attempt to sell some of their work. Some did actually sell. But it was “good” art, either landscapes or sculpture.NOTE: the youngest though knowledgeable in painting was specialized in sculpture – both static and dynamic. He was the one that fully excelled and obtained his Masters. Though interested in various other artistic pursuits, he knew he had to support his family and eventually took on practical jobs, some even in teaching which eventually led him to obtaining his Bachelors in Education and now he teaches in high school.The oldest eventually after bouncing around from job to job and province to province, has eventually now settled into a Mechanical Service job.

Bernice has done nothing but be nasty. Shame on her. Granted the art is strange, but she is still being nasty.

it looks like someone is mooning Bernice.

This looks like a case of ‘some things are better left unsaid’!

Bernice reveals herself not only as an insufferable scold, but also an ideologue: art does not need a purpose. Surprising she hasn’t encountered that concept yet in her life.

(Snark aside, maybe she’d be more at home at a craft exhibition. https://www.craftcouncil.org/ disclaimer: I used to be a member)

I’m sure someone will buy it, Nil—weirder stuff has gone for much more!

I was intrigued that the artist, in panel 3, was able to convey the impression that Bernice is a much older woman. I looked at the panel for a while and decided it may be the result of her squinting. In any case, it was the most interesting feature of this story line (to me). Comments?

I they would check in with some of the paststories that were good…. Like Ann in jail, Pru adopted a baby, Quill comes back…

Well at least they are talking!

So, what body part is that in the first panel between Nil and Bernice?

Did Nil get to the bottom of this theme here?

Looks more like hairy nostrils.

$375 is a compromise.

Man I would love it if he actually DID make money off his art. Some of these pieces would fit right in at Cafe Kabloowie

I suppose Greg is after all showing the same amount of respect for Nil’s art as he does for any one else in the strip who is involved in the arts – that is, not much – but I will say that when considering the prices asked for paintings or other creative works consider breaking it down to an hourly wage for the time involved in their creation. In a lot of cases that would come to well below minimum wage.

Is anyone else as bored with this storyline as I am?

@ srmalone: I am NOT bored. I like this interaction between Nil and Bern. Specifically, Bern is being made to think differently from what she is used to, i.e. text book learning on subjects. Now she’s she’s looking at pieces of art and having to think about what they convey without relying past stores of knowledge or information from textbooks. So far she’s doing OK and Nil is forcing her mind in this way.

If he wants that much for his “art”, I think that “Nil” is going to be a description of his bank balance.

Typical artist

Only sixty comments, and the strip has been up for more than nine hours – I think that might be a record for the fewest comments. It looks like “The Unsaid” is leaving us speechless!

Greg Evans is playing us. First he is making us think this date is a dud. On Saturday Bernice will see the light and we will be on to another story.

Sorry Nil. If your internal motivation for creation is for cash I predict a very limited future for you in art.

I think Greg is having a joke on all of us and has no regard at all for this type of “art”. Too bad we have to endure it to the end of the week. I’m hoping he has Zebo show up and pay big bucks for one of Nil’s “paintings”. That would be a perfect ending!

The unsaid comments people give to others: looking down their nose at you, the raised eyebrow, the finger in your face, etc. All ways of conveying a message without words.

Another boooorrrrring arc.

Great satire on the pretentiousness of a lot of modern art.

OOH! I just thought of a great subject for Nil’s next “internal urge” painting!

Nil could wait about 25 years and this art work could be worth millions.

Hey buns… you’re going to go places.

This is not an arc about romance. It’s an arc about Art.

Sadly, you’ve got to be famous BEFORE someone gives 2 cents for your internal urges.

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Again, very wise words from Nil…. “the urge to create is internal”.

Although this is a bit of a typically “filler-Wedesday” comic today…. I still think it is doing a great job of establishing Nil’s strong abilities in the academic pursuit of art. And, the interplay between Nil and Bernice keeps progressing nicely as well.

After Bernice rejects him he’ll become a successful international artist with works hanging in the Lourvre.

Art is very subjective and what appeals to one may not appeal to another. I am quite sure someone, somewhere would really appreciate his art. And, if his art doesn’t sell, it would be real easy to re-use the canvas. Nil and Bern would be a good match, both are intellectuals but in different ways.

Ok, I know the second painting from the left in panel 1 is just a finger, buuuuuut…

Speaking of, I just noticed the painting behind Bernice in panel 1. lol

I like the one in the first panel. I’ve always been partial to birds…

Nil ’ere is going to be the butt of all jokes for a while! :D

That just MIGHT sell…..

With all body parts on display, I hope for Pete’s sake the second painting is just a finger.

While visiting my niece at her college, we went to the college art show. One sculpture there , the artist had incorporated the bumpers of a second generation Corvette. So in my mind it was worth four , five hundred bucks in auto parts alone.

In no time that artwork will sell for $15 at a starving artist sale, next to the oil paintings of bland landscapes!

Very late to the game today.

One: The more Nil presses about money, the more I think he is the one who put Jack and Luann up to this prank. Ain’t no way Jack could have ever wanted to go to this exhibition; knowing in advance that Nil would be the dominant artist, perhaps only artist, and with his hand constantly out, looking for a handout, well, I’ll just break it off there.

Two: James Corden fans: „I smell a good time, you smell a good time, it’s time for Celebrity Noses“!

Even if you put a decimal point in there, I’d not buy it. Not my style, dude.

Think I disagree with Nil a bit. Painting may not have an external purpose, unless it’s a room or house, or as used in art therapy or to sell a product. Art though as in Applied arts of weaving textiles, pottery had a purpose. Hats off to the designer of the wheel! ;-) Music and dancing had beginnings in rituals. But the paintings here could be worth Nil’s price to someone. Depends on the region, too. Some markets are better than others for art. I’m still hoping Prof. Zebo shows up! Fun! ;-D

Shouldn’t the nostril openings be part of the nostrils themselves? Because that nose looks like it has two huge tumors on either side of it. Either Nil needs to take anatomy class or Greg does.

“The nose knows!” A tell all expose about how we ruin this beautiful world with pollution. We punish ourselves with a foul smelling world and keep at it, because we like being punished.

I think that $375 is missing a decimal point.

Nil is intriguing but strange.

Nil needs more practice sketching parts that are different from his … will Bernice volunteer? Stay Tooned!

Have it autographed by Nasal Nick and His Nine Nasty Nose Pickers (Punk rock band).

THIS IS ART.

https://www.rogerdean.com/views-1968-1975

Is the art a prop to the romance or not, is that the question?

Van Gough sold one piece of art before he died in poverty by killing himself.

I did the photography at openings for three different galleries. I’d usually be offered about a 40% discount – the gallery would only take a 20% mark-up instead of the customary 100%, so the artist made the same cash either way. And the wine was free. ;)

Nil’s ill-considered opinions are typical of many art-users these days. So artless….

This kid knows how to bargain!!

The 2nd pic? A finger? Really? Looks phallic. Get this loser one time artist off stage already!

I am reminded of a comic authored and drawn by Dana Simpson: Heavenly Nostrils

Of course, gocomics had her change the name.