That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 16, 2018

The damn Times crossword!

Michel Glinka thinking: “I’m going to be more well known than that Tchaikovsky guy.”

“If I can’t come up with a caption, they’re going to de-syndicate the strip for sure. (I’ve already been late twice this week.)” ;-)

Let’s see… If I am Ivan Ivanovitch, and Papa is Ivan Ivanovitch, then gramps first name must be Ivan…

The problem with being Russian is that we’re all sons of vetches…

Lincoln, feeling a pressing need to start his political memoirs was told, “It won’t kill you to wait til the end of your term.”

8 × 10 years ago…nah. 3 quarters of a century plus 5 and 7….nah…

“If I turn this cloth into an absorbent, dependable undergarment, I won’t have to leave this sofa until noonish.”

Even Karl Marx took a sick day once in a while. (So go home and stop coughing all over your coworkers!)

“I was looking back to see

“If you were looking back to see

“If I was looking back to see

“If you were looking back at me.

“You were cute as you could be

“Standing looking back at me

“And it was plain to see

“That I’d enjoy your company.”

—Jim Ed Brown

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian? I would hate to see what Ilya Yefimovich Repin, LETHARGIC looks like.

“hmmm…a 10-letter word for ‘groveling bootlicking capitalist swine’ that starts with r…”

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka during the composition of the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila”: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikhail_Glinka_by_Ilya_Repin.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. The strip coloration is the prior under File history.

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1884 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/r/repin/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/history458-2.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/1853 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ilya-repin 

https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/?category=all&period=all&author=repin 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/ilya-repin.htm 

http://www.artcyclopedia.ru/repin_ilya_efimovich.htm 

https://vsdn.ru/authorcolumn/357.htm 

all have and perhaps links that point to info about this artist (the last 2 in Russian; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 11 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/11/26?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comments are still there, with the line breaks removed, its 23 hyperlinks remain inactive. ?&@#!#%&!

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2061 (October 15, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Steve… your caption is so perfect!

Yuri found that reading the lovelorn column gave him all sorts of ideas.

George felt it was about time to call in sick, and read the scratch sheet and play the ponies.

You converted the strip into a Möbius strip… :)

I once knew a Russian couple. He was named Ilya, and was Ulya(the funny thing is, if you convert their names to the english equivalents, they sound nothing alike: Elijah and Julia)

There is nothing more decadently self indulgent than luxury time with hot coffee, a warm robe, and the morning paper.