That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 19, 2021

Marlboro considered an aquatic look before going with the cowboy.

While wearing flammable clothing, always light up near water.

Miko was strict abut the ‘no smoking in the house’ rule. Her husband had to walk a half mile out into the ocean before he could light up. And Miko didn’t care if all he was wearing was his pajamas.

Yoshi always smoked a cigarette when he went fishing – that made lighting the dynamite easier.

The Millennials’ way of committing hari kari. It takes longer, but the end result is the same.

Haruto practiced pursing his lips with cigarettes to improve his kissing technique.

(GEZZER ALERT!) “Why don’t you pick one up and smoke it sometime?” (Edie Adams {Ernie Kovaks’ wife} for Muriel cigars)

https://youtu.be/ZCCT3c5FI5E

taro secretly yearned to be an art deco model…

“I am SO a grownup, lookit—I got smokes!”

You don’t see many of these/ they’re exceedingly rare (if you please)/ he wears a sombrero/ while flying a Zero/ He’s a genuine Mexicanese.

When Tommy Chong first uttered the words, “No stems, no seeds that you don’t need. Acapulco Gold is………. bad arse weed!”

Yo, get out of those pajamas and get dressed.

Despite being in Asia, he finds himself coming on over to the L & M side.

These days you can’t smoke anywhere! Makes me wonder why anyone persists with trying.

“So, you smoke Raleighs too? Do you save the coupons?” “How do you think I got this hat?”

Looks a bit like Johnny Depp!

Strike another match go start anew, and its all over now baby blue.

What do you mean where did I learn this filthy habit? I learned it from YOU, alright?

Taking a smoke break before he gets back to mopping up at Fukushima.

“Exploding cigarettes? Come on, who would do tha..BOOM”

“…You clutch your baggie full of weed

And careful not to spill a seed

___ from Jaf Jaison’s Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent

What you mean badge, I don’t need no stinkin badge! Biden said to come in!

The robe is my dad’s, the hat is my mom’s but the cigarette..the cigarette is all mine!

He’s alert to the pandemic’s dangers/ he’s one of the new “couch rangers/ his waistband betrays/ how he’s spending his days/ sharing jokes with good friends/ …who are “strangers”.

The last and most difficult trial for the 10th degree Black Belt is to smoke a cigarette – FILTER LIT!

Red Matches: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Matches_by_Wada_Eisaku_(Kagoshima_City_Museum_of_Art).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 info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA1023#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2016/D7DF.en 

both have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL (Artist link has more). Maybe those who read Japanese can find more. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/31?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 #2666 (March 18, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Fingernail fetishist Jose has a post-orgasm smoke, displaying his newly painted nails.

C’mon baby, light my fire.

Cuban boy tried MJ for first time, them he swam to key west.

Where (cough) did you get that adorable (cough) sunhat?

I love the light and shade in this.

Thank god I don’t need a tinder and a spark any more!

The poster RJ Reynolds had for their cigarettes for the south of the border market, starring Jose Camel.

Leaving aside all of the Van Gogh and cigarette jokes. This is really beautiful. I love the colors, the painting style, and the way the sunlight is used.