That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 13, 2025

/// La Petite Soeur believes it’s unjust

that she’s too young to cause boys to lust.

Hopes her fan will reveal

she’s a flirt, (and conceal

she has yet to develop a bust).

Whatever – I don’t care what your kink is, as long as you pay cash.

Young woman hiding her baby bump.

She couldn’t understand why her onlyfans account didn’t take off

Sally Rand, the early years.

Glove? What glove? I’m just a big fan of tattoos.

Poor little Pierre disliked putting on a silly costume whenever his Aunt Marie felt like making a portrait.

This some kinda fans only thing?

She nearly has that ‘’Go to hell!’’ look down. Anyone who’s ever been around teenagers knows what I mean.

All the money you spent on that $#%^ tv, we could have bought A/C!

There was a young lady called Fran,

Who wished she had been born a man.

A steroid or two,

Made her run to the loo,

The $h1t$ really have hit the fan!

Portrait of Robert’s debut as Roberta.

I gotta say, this strip has introduced me to a lot of artists I’d never heard of before.

Yes, Mother went a bit overboard on the pleating of my bonnet….and I have no idea why she thought pink would be a flattering color for me.

Her idea of pink hoods for the Ladies Klan Auxiliary never caught on.

Reminds me of a little character from the Wizard of Oz…Lollipop girl?

She isn’t a woman quite yet/

But that’s been no cause for regret/

Because overage churls/

Like underage girls/

Therefore she is her rich uncle’s pet..

Connie Conehead making goo-goo eyes at Ronnie.

What she’s hiding behind that fan/

Are her tools in her larger plan/

By foul means or fair/

To obtain a large share/

Of the assets of that aging man.

It’s likely that she will succeed/

But let’s not begrudge her her greed./

She’s aware that youth’s brief/

And girls come to grief -/

So I’m happy to wish her “Godspeed” !

She’s the head of a Fan Club.

“but Im a boy!”

Or is she just grist for his mill-/

One of many? She won’t know until/

The geezer “checks out “/

And removes any doubt:/

She will find out when they read his will..

Fanny thought the gift that was a play on her name was in poor taste.

Combat will begin with the lirpa.

Dolores Haze shows how she fanned Humbert Humbert’s passions.

From the producers of Toddlers and Tiaras, Fox’s new show: Lolitas and Lace.

In France Can-can girls start their training young!

She looks like the president of the Lullaby League.

The first known evidence of tattoo sleeves?

That caption seems like a lot of work with very little payoff.

Little sister: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of sisters" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 1,564, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3442 (January 13, 2025) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .jpg from the URL). Was unable to find any online info about this artist (perhaps someone fluent in French would be successful). So far, first work by her used here.

Sold at Sotheby’s a while back; estimate only about 2,000 euro.

Does this bonnet make my head look fat?

The Cotton Candy Princess of 1893.

Naughty little boys wore the dunce cap. Naughty little girls…. Oh never mind.

She looks like a young girl that has been corralled by her dad into sitting and posing. There’s a look of resigned amusement, of all that she does for this family.

Well, sometimes it depends on the mother’s genes……size 36 bra……..?

For tomorrow:

Whoever this idiot is/

my mustache is better than his./

When he sneezes, snot drips/

From both of its tips/

From Stockholm clear down to Cadiz. Yuk!