Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 02, 2010

You go, Cynthia!

There’s always room for jello.

Morning, Marg!

I love her attitude!

And it’s a bright idea, too!

Looks like her ideas tend to involve caffeine.

An inspired juxtaposition, Stel Bel. I recognized Donkey Hotay right away but, being the philistine that I am, would never have known the overall setting was Van Gogh. Very poetic.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Boy, for some reason, the instant I saw Cynthia, I said “Marcy!”

Whoa, StelBel! You have ripped off not one but two great artists in one cartoon! Brava!

Unfortunately that idea isn’t any better than the others.

I like Cynthia, and I would like to know her latest idea. A new way to get Sherpa cartoons treated fairly, perhaps?

@StelBel: A beautiful mix. Both human artists could only wish that they could do half as well.

Some might laugh at first glance, but Cynthia’s ideas have made her a millionaire many times over.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200602

Hello, art lovers and Cleo fans…

Tonight we visit three disparate works, which have somehow come together as one…

in the June 2nd  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa….

 

A late 19th century oil, by the great post-impressionist painter, Van Gogh….

A mid-20th century sketch by the renowned Picasso…

long thought to be a simple pen and black ink drawing….

but a possible original copy has recently been unearthed, in blue, and has thrown its presumed provenance into question….

 

and a brilliant 21st century reworking of the two, together(!), by the Queen of Tampering… our own StelBel.

 

Of course… a work so impressive, especially a basset one, is bound to have imitators…

jealous of the fame so readily accorded the canines in the worlds of art, music, theater and film.

Very soon, some unknown human obviously rushed to copy Stelbel….

plastering a probably unapproved human version of the Picasso over the same Van Gogh…

and so quickly ,that some parts were left out or shifted in the process.

 

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/b8/5f/e2b85f816a033abb788e9976f2ba279f.jpg

 

And then, flushed with what they perceived as success, the humans got carried away… as humans do…

plastering that illicit human variation onto other Van Goghs…

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/fa/25/f3/fa25f35f235aafea4e32a4296428326b.jpg

 

And even, if you can believe it…

onto merchandise!

https://i.etsystatic.com/10586478/r/il/2c0a3c/1723348677/il_1588xN.1723348677_5pm4.jpg?w=300

The nerve!

GOOD MORNING BALLARDEERS! 56221081 DAYS OF MY QDAYS. Really tired of this carp.

Be very careful out there. (((((HUGS)))))

Nicely done, Stel.

I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I’m going to be singing about Impossible Dreams all day long!

This is a beautiful poster today, Stel. And somewhat appropriate for this crazy world we’re living in right now. May you all reach that unreachable star!

We have something similar ‘growing’ in a wheat field up here:

https://www.bleuhorses.com/

check out the photo galleries. :))

I think MLK had that kind of dream.

Good morning Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan.

is the other figure Poncho Sanza, the trouble making squire from Pooch Cantina?

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0049V1962?v=1

https://www.pablopicasso.org/don-quixote.jsp

Nice adaptation. Kudos again, StelBel!!