That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 04, 2020

Watch where you swing that thing. You might chop off something important.

“This sure is hard water.”

“Stop posing for the cover of ‘Cannibal Cuisine’’ and get your skinny butt in the boat, Tua. Those fish aren’t going to catch themselves.”

A strapping Hawaiian named Hugh/ from a tree trunk could hew a canoe/ With his lifestyle (immoral)/ and his underpants (floral)/ I wish I were Hugh. Don’t you ?

That hammer sure looks like an axe to me. Check out the shape of the head and the colour difference to indicate the sharpened blade.

that gauguin – he frittered his days away in the tropics among topless women when he could’ve been painting pastoral scenes back in france with his crazy pal van gogh…

I guess I don’t get why Gauguin is considered such a revered artist. I don’t think it’s good at all. Looks to me like 3 different paintings mashed together.

Interesting cosmic underwear. I see Saturn in the front; is Uranus in the back?

Ugh, snakes! Why’d it have to be snakes?!

Too many syllables.

Going postal in the tropics — taking an ax to your work boat.

Hasn’t this guy heard of using the proper safety equipment? No pants, no shoes….

Anyone gonna tell him it’s an axe?

Lau tries out his new sand wedge.

“They can laugh if they like—but I have it on good authority that this is how Abe Lincoln started out.”

that looks like Darwin Award potential to me

Today was the day that Kona’s deformed right foot would cease to be the reason the girls of The Easy Islands refused his intentions (so long as the adze was sharp enough).

“I’m going to take care of this damned athletes foot infection once and for all!”

Listen here you man! Around here we make mashed potatoes in our boats and chop rocks with axes topless. It is the way.

Don’t adze, don’t tell.

My cable company, too, included the topless canoe-building channel, but that doesn’t mean they’ll keep me as a subscriber.

The man with the axe: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_029.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3125/paul-gauguin

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/255/paul-gauguin-french-1848-1903/

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/gauguin/gauguin_bio.htm

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/paul-gauguin

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Gauguin

http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-gauguin/;

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gauguin/biograph.html

https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Gauguin/9000044/Paul_Gauguin.aspx

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin

http://www.impressionniste.net/gauguin_paul.htm

https://prabook.com/web/paul.gauguin/729130

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/13.htm

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/gauguin-paul.htm

http://hoocher.com/Paul_Gauguin/Paul_Gauguin.htm

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 7 works (8 times, with one repeating a since deleted strip) by him have been used here.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/10/07?comments=visible

has the prior, the repeat (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2571 (November 3, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

See! Even Gauguin’s agent was too stupid to realize it was an adze, not an ax!

Try as she might, Maima could not interest Tamaroa in canoodling.

Warning! No sharp objects once you drop the brown acid.

I’d hammer in Tahiti too if I could.

This painting is very strange!

Polynesians at that time did not have metal tools, printed fabrics or sailboats of that type.

Or just in my skirt like my wife….

luckily isnadel and his wife found a lady washed on shore wearing a cloth that both of them looked ’spazzy" in

quick! Finish the painting before the drugs really kick in!

Mr. Christian had heard that the native Polynesian bris ceremony was tough, but he hadn’t expected this!

I would drop whatever it is and help the woman with the perky breasts….why not?