That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 15, 2019

The Romans learned marching with a torch while celebrating the wine festival was not such a good idea.

Jenny knew how to fire up the band in more ways than one.

Diana openly carried a torch for her beloved Augustus. She was mortified later when she discovered it was just a figure of speech.

Everyone was making such a big deal of it because June taught her husband to put the seat down on the toilet.

She led all the street musicians out of the town and then locked the gate.

She’s keeping a close eye on the guy carrying the amphora of Falernian…

Try as they might,but they couldn’t get the cobra to come out of the basket

The PIED PIPPER’S mother !

Must be all the people who got their refunds.

Really guys, it isn’t the Olympic torch. I was just going to burn the chariot of my lying, cheating husband.

But people pay taxes every day.

She takes her music everywhere. Even to the outhouse after dark.

The annual procession from Home Depot to the temple of the god of grout. The urn contains hydrogen peroxide.

Hester Prynne regretted the day she convinced the town folk that there was a better way to punish her for her indiscretions than that damned Scarlet Letter.

Early form of stalking…

The Vintage Festival: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1871_Alma-Tadema_Das_Fest_der_Weinlese_anagoria.JPG 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/alma-tadema_sir_lawrence.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/alma/alma_bio.htm 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=25 

http://www.all-art.org/history400-1.html 

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp00090/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/694/lawrence-alma-tadema-dutch-1836-1912/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/a/almatade/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/tadema/index.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/alma-tadema_lawrence.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/8 

http://www.hoocher.com/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema/lawrence_alma_tadema.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. The artrenewal.org URL may have more artist info by the end of the week. So far, 15 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/15?comments=visible 

has the prior. One artist info URL has been added to the list in my comment there.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2180 (April 14, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Looks downright mournful! Rejoice! You’re experiencing one of the three certainties of life: Death, Taxes and Boredom!

“Hey, you on the far end. Yeah, you! That was supposed to be F#, not F natural. You ruined the whole thing!”

Messalina was thrilled with her new public relations firm, – Augustus, Silvanus, Sexto, & Ogilvy – who were making her a household name in Rome.

She was really dreading telling the commission that they only got two urns full from the annual harvest.

the local ladies didn’t like the new girl and shot herb with pea shooters.

There were some cute bargains in the annual school loan indentured slave auction.

It’s all fun and games until they set fire to the sacrificial alter.

Look where you’re going, young lady! That’s how the cathedral caught on fire!