That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 07, 2020

The painter’s parents couldn’t hide their disappointment at their son dropping out of law school.

Helga: “I’ve got you for the rest of your life and you are going to behave yourself.” Wilhelm: “Yes dear.”

“Marrying my clone hasn’t worked out like I expected.”

“Oh, Jeremiah, you used to be sooooo hot! But, oh my, that kettle’s cooled!”

In the “who can look the manliest contest” Matilda beat George by a nose…and a stronger jawline.

She realized she’d have to leave him now that Maxwell himself has gotten hammered!

WORST SEX CHANGE EVER!

portrait of bruce willis in drag and that actor whose face is familiar, but whose name you just can’t recall…

“American Gothic” couple thirty years earlier.

You just had to wear the see thru blouse on portrait day.

It looks like they’ve got their heads stuck through holes in the back of the canvas.

“Hey honey, why the long face?”

“See what I have to put up with?”

“Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you/ Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue/ Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through/’Cause lipstick on you collar told a tale on you”

You smelt it, you dealt it.

Before the command, “Say Cheese!” was invented.

That poison I gave him should be kicking in any time now

I never knew that Mary Steenburgen and Hugh Laurie made a costume drama together.

“Whaddya mean I was supposed to bring the pitchfork?”

Smiling for a portrait only started at some point in the 20th Century. I remember as a kid wondering why all the photos of Grandma’s generation looked like I was in trouble with them.

The honeymoon’s over..

It isn’t my style to deride / a man and his choice of a bride / but, in cases like this / which one is the “Miss” / is exceedingly hard to decide !

Cousins, identical cousins, they walk alike they talk alike….

The amount of hair growing out of his ear was truly astonishing. She couldn’t look away.

Well, that portrait should go well with their Christmas newsletter: Dear Friends and Family – Joseph and I experienced a bit of a rough patch in our marriage, this year…

The painter did give them a big discount for her favors.

Double Portrait of the Artist’s Parents: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Joseph_Begas_-_Double_Portrait_of_the_Artist%27s_Parents.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this 1816, roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/begas_the_elder_karl.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5241 

https://books.google.com/books?id=8pxRAAAAYAAJ&&q=%22Prussian%20painter%22&pg=PT890#v=onepage&q=%22Prussian%20painter%22&f=false 

https://www.krefelderblatt.de/begas-haus-museum-feierlich-wieder-eroeffnet-1349/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/begas/carl/biograph.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=wCC2HkHpxg4C&q=Karl&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=Karl&f=false 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd119181304.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/01/27?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs.)

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2379 (February 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Yet another Republican wife expresses her silent displeasure at her husband’s vote at the Senate Impeachment Trial.

“Hugh Laurie as the Captain, Bruce Willis as his wife in the new show ’Don’t go Back Out There Ahab!’”

Johann’s choice of a “beard” wasn’t fooling anyone.

The artist said, “Please gaze at your husband adoringly” and that was the best she could do.

Portrait of the Artist’s Parents Trying Very Hard to Keep Their Hands Off Each Other.

This is a very rare picture of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and his first husband BRUCE. :>)

Jim wanted to know why he had to be the one in drag for the painting.

John Lithgow?