That is Priceless Comic Strip, December 12, 2012 on GoComics.com

Superfrog said, 5 months ago

It’s just puppy love.

orinoco womble said, 5 months ago

Heinrich, you dog!

Dogsniff said, 5 months ago

LET THE PUPPIES BREATHE!

Pacopuddy said, 5 months ago

The minute he saw her soft, jiggling little puppies, he knew it was love.

masterskrain said, 5 months ago

Talk about a relationship going to the dogs…

vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago

does any dating site work?

Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 5 months ago

Puppies!!!

masterskrain said, 5 months ago

He must be a German Cowboy!
After all, he’s “Got A Long Little Doggie!”
(Sorry…)

Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

re:vwdualnomad

Some of the old ones in the 1990s did. I heard a feminist complaining that 15% of the marriages that happened in the 1990s from the East Bloc didn’t work out. Hardly something to complain about, given that 30% of marriages divorce in the U.S. (the 50% comes from dividing the number of marriages and divorces in a year, but not everybody gets married in the same year. “Serial divorcees” account for the higher rate with people usually divorcing several times because they bring themselves into a marriage.)
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I analyze the matter in one of my books, but the upshot was that GenX men in this country got tired of waiting for American women their age to stop partying and “living the single life” in the late 1990s. The “life’s a party, life’s a big laugh”, “hey, I got nice guys to clean up after me” got old. So they went elsewere to find women who actually wanted to marry. Not surprisingly, common interests plus a determination to work things out seems to have been very successful.
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Thanks to alcohol and drugs being the only “escape” for many in Russia and other east bloc nations (sort of like the 11 liters of pure alcohol that modern Europeans drink per year), the life expectancy for males had crashed to 59 in 1990 in Russia. With all the problems that went with long-term alcoholism. Large numbers of East Bloc women wanted someone who didn’t drink or do drugs. They wanted someone sober, kind, and serious about life to marry. American women wanted the opposite. And so, millions of marriages from the east bloc.

mabrndt said, 5 months ago

Modestly enlarged image can be found here, or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.

The Dachshund family with Hunter and maid (link shows Wikipedia page that provides that English title) is privately owned.

Admiring the puppies was sold (with a different coloration image) in 2004. The artist’s German Wikipedia page (Google translated) and collection.

So far, 2 works by this artist (NEXT advances more than one page) have appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog.