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.
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.
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.
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.
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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…
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Handsome old baby. 🙂
“I await instructions from the mother ship.”
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“Sunburst” By: Father Arthur Poulin
LINK to more about the artist.
Whew, as I scrolled down I was afraid I’d have to find something in this picture.
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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.
By this LINK , this is indeed connected to the well known artist.
I have not read it in detail.
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.
This looks incomplete. There’s the hydrant, but where’s the dog?
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.
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.
Like!
Could this be
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Thank you. I didn’t recognize either picture. I did realize I’d seen the adult many times, but couldn’t name him.
I got the adult.
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…
Seeing his face without his hair made me recognize him.
Liverlips already said who he is.
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Is it as accurate as Disney’s nature documentary about lemmings?
Yeah… A great model of scientific accuracy, that one.
And people still believe it!
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In otter words, “Got any fish?”
I find it remarkable how much otter and dogs noses look alike.
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. 😁
Pickles?
No, but thanks for playing…
Cleo spoiled? Perish the thought.
In my house it’s the cat.
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???
Maybe if he wore his hearing aids, he could hear the sound made by the saw. You aren’t to blame.
As you say, he has to start somewhere in training her. And it looks like he’ll be starting at the bottom.
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Shellfish and pasta, two things I really don’t like, so I’ll pass.
I’m OK with the pasta, but no seafood for me. I’ll also pass.
With extra bread to soak up all the extra butter!
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!
I’ll follow happy³’s and Susan’s choices.