That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 24, 2017

Years later, George would do a portrait with a dragon from a totally different perspective.

Trevor starts to realize what will happen when his parents can’t afford massive volumes of Purina Dragon Chow any more.

“Mom, Dad says his butt’s a dragon. Better make that coffee strong.”

“He followed me home, mum. Can we keep him?”

Pit Bull? I don’t need no stinkin pit bull.

But I wanted a green dragon!!!

Taste like chicken.

He went to a farm upstate.

Art history moment: the title is “Innocence” or “The Child In The World”.

“Commentary by Rupert Maas

Gotch was working on this subject in 1895 and different versions exist in oil, pencil and water-colour. This appears to be the most highly finished. The subject is a representation of innocence and experience.

Gotch explained it as the child “standing alone and unafraid in the innermost, horridest home of the Dragon, called the World, who is powerless against her innocence”. The model for the child was his daughter Phyllis. The oil version was exhibited at the New Gallery in 1895, being judged too radical for the Royal Academy. It received mixed reviews, for some critics thought the dragon more suited to pantomime than fear-inspiring. This irked Gotch who had spent a substantial amount of time researching the dragon in books on heraldry."

Phyllis went on to become a concert singer, the Marquise de Verdieres, and an activist in the politics of Newlyn, in Cornwall, where she probably had to face down a few real-world dragons.

The forst thing that came to mind when i saw this was Anne McCaffrey and her Dragon Rider series of stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey

Casting call for the live action “Pete’s Dragon” .

Kid thinking " I wonder if I pee on the dragon, will he be PO’d ?"

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innocence,_c_1904,_watercolour_by_Thomas_Cooper_Gotch.jpg

has info and links that point to info about this smaller-than-letter-size painting (best viewed using Google Chrome – can automatically translate webpages if necessary). So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2012/08/31

has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks !&?@#!#%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (January 23, 2017), accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Young Evan Davies has an idea for a BBC TV programme.

mom? does he have to play in the " game of thrones"?

Bilbo always thought that Smaug would be bigger.