That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 04, 2022

/// Christen Købke did not make amends

for his bent Portrait of Wilhelm Bendz.

The “mahlstick” (painter’s tool)

makes Bendz look like a fool.

What’s a thin phallic rod among friends?

Thinking thoughts of finger-lickins, he ventures forth to goose his chickens!

Ah, 1830, the good old days, when street punks had to make their own zip guns from broken car antennas.

“It’s odd how that church burned down in that storm right after I stole this rod off the roof.”

Actually, it was the “gentle touch” brush that yanked it out of my 92 Camry :^(

Looks like Gene Rayburn’s microphone from Match Game.

Charles Kettering’s dad with the invention that would inspire his son: “Here kid, make something that can use this.”

“Now,” Lars thought, slyly,” if I can just find an orchestra to conduct…”

Ralph hopes this will improve his girl’s dad’s reception of him.

The censors required a rewrite of the initial script for My Favorite Martian, and that’s how the antennae ended up coming out of his head. This version was NSFW.

Each day, as his hairline receded/ He knew very well what was needed/ He invented a weapon/ That permits easy schleppin’/ But allows him to move unimpeded..

It started as phalic portraiture, however it was deemed inadequate and the painting was cropped

But doc, the length is good but is there anything that can be done about the girth?

and just how do you get parts for an 1830 Camry?

Conductor who forgot where the orchestra is.

“Have cattle prod, will travel.”

Charlie Hoboorten, snooker hustler, whose playstyle was as crooked as his cue.

Bendz, in his attempt to make pool rooms safer, displays his design for a thin, light cue stick that couldn’t possibly crack the head of a pool shark – he hopes.

“Failures in Phallic Art” #22

Nuthin’s more ethereal than the aerial of an Imperial in the mor-or-ornin..

One notes with a certain malaise

what in subtext the portrait here says

though his hairline be waning

he still enjoys caning:

he’s devoted to la vice anglaise

Looks like Trevor Howard as the Headmaster you never want to meet…

" The beatings will not stop until there’s a marked improvement in morale! "

Having taken the baton in a drunken haze, he was now left wondering why the Polish band leader was so upset.

“I brought the riding crop, mistress. I’ve been a bad boy.”

Portrait of Wilhelm Bendz: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Wilhelm Bendz by Købke.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first File: link found for info and links that point to more info about this roughly A5 paper size painting. The strip coloration image source has disappeared from the internet as far as I can tell.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #128 (originally February, 2010, now February 20, 2015) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 2 works, by this artist, have been used here (4 times total, including this repeated repeat). The November 25, 2011, strip has its first time (the 15 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative). It was repeated for the first time August 18, 2014, when Saturn changed to Camry in the caption, as it also is now in the blog entry (why its date changed). That was when I posted the comment for the November 25, 2011, strip.

The National Enquirer was right! Donny Most is losing his hair and does have a skinny pointer with a small knob!

Now the maestro can whack the violins if they get out of tempo.

Wilhelm knew that his mother would want proof that he did not put an eye out.

My original post in 2014:

First attempt at penile implant.

hoping his new pointer helps the students payattention!

Happy National Cartoonists Day, Steve!

Hey Gaston, say one more word about my balding head and I’ll stick this rod up yourfat arse!