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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Handsome old baby. 🙂

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“I await instructions from the mother ship.”

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
Sunburst”      By:  Father Arthur Poulin
 
LINK      to more about the artist.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Whew, as I scrolled down I was afraid I’d have to find something in this picture.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Okaaaay…. this doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Pablo Picasso, the artist…

Unless there’s some sort of dig at his art in the strange beings pictured, as by 1929 his paintings were getting rather surrealistic.

He was already quite famous, but of course, not the only Picasso in the world (though perhaps there were not many in France) and there are no signs of cubism in this illustration.

From Google translate:

“The Commissioner could not contain a movement of recoil before Picasso’s macabre discovery. “My expedition located thousands of them, trapped in the ice. They were placed here by an extraordinarily superior race to be reactivated in the near future,” Picasso explained. While a few steps away from him a mysterious being didn’t miss a single scrap of his conversation.”

But what about almost everyone being skeletons?

There’s also a weird burning bird on the floor that seems to have hatched from an eggshell on the chair.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

 
By this     LINK ,     this is indeed connected to the well known artist.
I have not read it in detail.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Thanks.

I read most of it, until it bogged down in lists of dozens of names of early Spanish cartoonists and magazines.

There’s an image of a 1933 cover of this same magazine that was owned by Picasso, but I found no reference to this 1929 edition.

It could be named after him, as the article points out that he was friends with many cartoonists and satirists, without the story being actually about him…

Or maybe it is, in some way … but the reference seems oblique.

Ah well, I suppose a 95 year old comic magazine is allowed to be a mystery.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

This looks incomplete. There’s the hydrant, but where’s the dog?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

I’m confused… Or maybe I don’t get the joke?

There’s neither a hydrant nor a dog in the original painting.

You do know this view is presented from the other side, right?

Taken from round the back.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

If this artist is going through all the trouble of adding a hydrant where, as you say, there wasn’t one originally. S/he should have completed the scene with a dog peeing on it.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Like!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Could this be

SPOILER
Mickey Mantle?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Nope. It’s

Actual spoiler
Yul Brynner

P51Strega
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Thank you. I didn’t recognize either picture. I did realize I’d seen the adult many times, but couldn’t name him.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I got the adult.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Got it from the kid in an almost accidental way…

The face looked familiar but I couldn’t quite place it until….

And this is halfway almost…

kind of a spoiler….
I absent-mindedly scrolled upwards and the top of the picture went off the edge of my screen.

Seeing his face without his hair made me recognize him.

Liverlips already said who he is.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Is it as accurate as Disney’s nature documentary about lemmings?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

Yeah… A great model of scientific accuracy, that one.

And people still believe it!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

In otter words, “Got any fish?”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I find it remarkable how much otter and dogs noses look alike.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Give him long fluffy spaniel type ears and lose some of the whiskers, and he looks just like somebody’s dog in the comics.

I can’t think whose… a strip I’ve seen but don’t usually read.

I’m picturing an older fellow, maybe with a mustache… and/or a family… with a small long eared dog with a wide face and this expression.

And I could be wrong about some of that. 😁

Last edited 6 months ago by SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Pickles?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

No, but thanks for playing…

Liverlips McCracken
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6 months ago

Cleo spoiled? Perish the thought.

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

In my house it’s the cat.

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

LOL… And here I thought no one ever listened to me!

Of course, now I’ll be blamed for Claude’s falling through the floor….
When the problem is actually all the years of failing to follow up and follow through on proper discipline.

……

But you gotta start somewhere, Claude…

And what’s a broken bone or two in the service of dog training?

Next time you’ll just have to watch her a little more closely…

And maybe not let her have anything sharp…or… um… explosive…or…

Um…. Claude? Er… Claude???

mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Maybe if he wore his hearing aids, he could hear the sound made by the saw. You aren’t to blame.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

As you say, he has to start somewhere in training her. And it looks like he’ll be starting at the bottom.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Shellfish and pasta, two things I really don’t like, so I’ll pass.

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

I’m OK with the pasta, but no seafood for me. I’ll also pass.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

With extra bread to soak up all the extra butter!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Wow, shellfish and pasta are two of my favorite things!

With loads of garlic and butter and olive oil, and plenty of veg on the side, I could eat this 4 nights a week.

In fact I had shrimp and pasta with a quick, garlicky, home made fresh tomato sauce just last night.

Thanks, you guys who don’t like it…

More for me!

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I’ll follow happy³’s and Susan’s choices.

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