That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 17, 2022

Doing portraits of his daughter saved the artist money by not hiring professional models and kept him out of trouble with his wife.

/// She’d been reading, her father then said

that she ought to watch TV instead.

Here she stares at the screen

while her anger, unseen,

made her blow the set up (with her head).

/// Miss Wormwood (Matilda) is “funny;”

she loves books while her father loves money.

She moved things with her mind,

then Miss Trunchbull resigned,

and Matilda now lives with Miss Honey.

“I’m sitting on Jiminy Cricket!”

After forcing Becky to sit for several hours, the artist was never seen again.

/// Artist Dad’s at the end of his tether.

Daughter Ila shows no signs of whether

she will learn what he taught.

That young girls really ought

to sit down with their two knees together.

Does she make you want to confess?/

Does she make you want to say yes?/

There’s a reason for that -/

This powerful brat/

Is a Rosicrucian – no less !///

Though some say she’s merely demented/

But know this in advance:/

She still wears rubber pants:/

Nature’s laws can’t be circumvented !

“The ‘eyes’ have it.”

Such an obedient child. The artist told her to sit quite still and keep her eyes fixed on him. She did, and he was so unnerved he could hardly paint.

Junior Mastermind

It was readily apparent when the Stepford Girls took after their mothers. “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice” was way, way overdone!

That vacant look in staring eyes

That rigid grip on chair arms implies

The creepy powers this girl possesses

Despite sweet dress and coiffured tresses:

A “Bad Seed” soon sprouting bloody messes!

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And soon the Evil’s ripe and is seen

Appropriately near to Halloween

Her soul belongs to her Satan Dad,

The most wicked child he’s ever had!

Oh, she’s to truly be the Queen of Mean.

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Oh, men will call her Wicked Wendy

Deceptive as poison eye candy

She tastes sweet, but her kisses are

Quite oft to leave a burning scar

And makes most men fatally randy.

Redrum

I would not, could not, in this chair

I would not, could not, with this hair

I would not, cold not, as you stare

I’m sorry, teacher, I just don’t care

She’s doing a “Sharon Stone”…..

Lydia reflects on the saying, “You can do anything that you put your mind to doing” as she sits in time-out.

….and that’s where babies come from

Answer: Try it, you might like it.

After “walking in on her parents” Martha had to sit for a little while the shock of what she saw wore off…though it never would.

Chuckie’s Mother.

NO POETRY HERE, JUST A BIG THANK YOU FOR A MOST CLEVER PANEL!!!!!

Sofia shown here getting The Chair

Subject portrayed wishing the artist into the cornfield.

Sofia to Albin: “You are growing sleepier….”

Scary child…

Nope; sorry — would be prohibited from exhibition, and the artist under investigation, under today’s ‘Kiddy Porn’ definitions.

Every kid that visited the Principals office.

The central theme of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is the exploitation of the working class. It was the main argument in her dissertation on dialectical materialism. Duh.

Next time I’m going to knock on Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom door. Next time I’m going to knock on Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom door. Next time I’m ….

In spite of the withering glare/

I will tell you what most would not dare:/

Your authority wanes/

When folks see the stains/

Festooning your underwear.

Cynthia’s first day of school. does she look hypnotized to you, well she will be this way for 13 more years.

Becky didn’t play well with the other kids during recess. That’s why she was chosen for this painting.

The artist’s daughter Ila: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Museums in Nuremberg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the first Egger text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3011 (October 14, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here. The March 25, 2021, strip has the prior.

After the little girl had seen “Harold and Maude” several times she felt certain Bud Cort was her father but was pretty sure Ruth Gordon wasn’t part of it …

Training for parkour requires concentration.

Sharon Stone, the very early years

Beaver!!!

For tomorrow:

Nuthin could be odder than to learn you’re cannon fodder in the mor-or-ornin’…