Frank and Ernest by Thaves for December 30, 2014
December 29, 2014
December 31, 2014
Transcript:
Frank: That's great, Michelangelo, but the Pope really just wants some lawn gnomes.
Squizzums almost 10 years ago
The people are philistines.
emjaycee almost 10 years ago
I could see a mirrored gazing ball in the middle of St. Peter’s Square.
Or a bunch of pinwheels. Could double as a very small solar farm.
dwpbike almost 10 years ago
so that’s why it ended up at caeser’s palace
neverenoughgold almost 10 years ago
Strategic table placement…
TREEINTHEWIND almost 10 years ago
Just scatter some practice pieces from the art school next door around here and there…..unsigned of course…..
holmswedeholm almost 10 years ago
I know this is comic strip and lots of leniency needs to be liberally applied when it comes to culture and the facts, but Michelangelo’s “David,” which is depicted loosely here, had nothing to do with papal commissions. True, popes did commission works from Michelangelo, but the “David” was not one of them—the most famous papal commission for Michelangelo was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. The “David” is housed in a museum in Florence, where it was commissioned and created. This strip is humorous also in that the “David” is a colossal statue and so to contrast it with lawn gnomes is comical.