That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 04, 2019

The street urchin look for Fall 1877 emphasized brown, missing buttons, and torn knees.

Five years later they were featured as the Over the Hill Gang.

Now back to work kids. Those coal mines need digging.

“You know how much that camera’s worth?!”

The next day’s page 4 news: Five brats hospitalized in serious condition after offending “It” clown. No one has any sympathy whatever. Employer will add medical costs to their debt to be worked off.

The Osmonds before “One Bad Apple” hit the pop charts.

Guess which under-sized brother is about to be sold to the circus?

menudo hangin’ in the ’hood on an off day…

“Hey mister pull my finger”

as if our lot would have two dimes to rub together.

Special bonus today: image of master showman and full-time huckster, Phineas T. Barnum.

The young Marx brothers, Chico pointing, Groucho second from left, Zeppo far left, Harpo center, and Gummo second from right (He’s been sick.)

Young gangsters in training – You need to start early if you want to have a successful gang. The second from the left is the ring leader – he’s already smoking cigars and calling the shots.

Melcher has you all beat.

“Chowderhead”, am I? I’ve a good mind to thrash you young tatterdemalions within an inch of your lives !

“It’s really gonna be hard for the Community theater group to put on a decent production of “Newsies” with just the 5 of you!"

I’m inclining to say, with dismay/ that something is leading astray /(perhaps "social media?/ Perhaps Wikipedia?)/ the innocent youth of today..

Those little rascals broke my fourth wall!

It’s the hard-knock life / Don’t if feel like the wind is always howl’n? / Don’t it seem like there’s never any light! / Once a day, don’t you wanna throw the towel in? / It’s easier than puttin’ up a fight

No one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy / No one cares if you grow or if you shrink

Empty belly life / Rotten smelly life / Full of sorrow life / No tomorrow life

It’s the hard-knock life

(With apologies to Annie; music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan 1977.)

The pants on the far right are going for a $150 a pair at Dillard’s women’s department.

Early boy band busking but no one wanted to put their hat on the sidewalk.

The lads who were too good looking to win a role on “Our Gang”.

Backstreet Boys….

This goes back further than the 90’s era boy bands! This is Dion and the Belmonts singing “Why Must I be A Tweenager In Love”. (They scored their first big hit a few years later when they were able to change it to “Teenager”)

So that’s what you look like before you finish your first cup of coffee – lol – oh my sides!

The Kennedy Brothers – Before the Old Man made his fortune bootlegging!

The Passing Show: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=44399 

has info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brown_john_george.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=533 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-george-brown/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32252308/john-george-brown 

https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/15524/pull-for-the-shore 

https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brown_John1.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=js1ZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.avictorian.com/Brown_John_George.html 

http://hoocher.com/John_George_Brown/John_George_Brown.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/11/26?comments=visible 

has the prior (I’ve added an artist info URL to what my comment there had).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2342 (December 3, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Since we look kind of like Norman Rockwell boys, people will think we’re cute and harmless. That’s when we make our move.”

Models waiting in line for the runway walk.

Mr. and Mrs. O’Farley were only able to have one son. So they had him cloned every year. (Original far left).

The male chorus line in Annie.

It’s clever how the artist makes the viewers into the “passing show.” Kind of puts us in our place!

Coming soon to a line-up near you!

The “Lurchin’ Urchins” junior hip-hop group.

I love this one