Author: Steve Melcher

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian

“I’m Going To Ask You Politely One More Time, and Then We’re Going To Have a Problem: Take Your Hand OFF My Ass,” Date Unknown

Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch

For Some Reason, Brandon Was Suddenly Having a Flashback To His Fraternity Initiation, Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Eugène Zak, Polish-Belarusian

Famous For His Perfectionism Among His Fellow Comic Strip Characters, Bucky Liked To Come In Early Every Day and Manually Adjust All His Speech Bubbles, Before 1926

Oil on canvas

Daniel Huntington, American

TikToker Using the New Rutherford B. Hayes Filter, 1884

Oil on canvas

J. de Kruyff, Dutch

Probably the Best Thing About the Invention of the Kindle Was That People No Longer Had To Carry Their Bookshelves Everywhere, 1837

Watercolor

Kristian Zahrtmann, Danish

“I’m Talking To Him the Night Before the Wedding, Right? And I Suddenly Realize That He Says ‘To-May-To,’ While I Of Course Say ‘To-Mah-To.’ So We Called The Whole Thing Off,” 1878-79

Oil on canvas

Carl Vilhelm Meyer, Danish

Nude Man Seated on Park Bench Artist’s Model Explaining That He’s Given It More Thought and He’s Really Not Comfortable With the Whole Nudity Thing, 1919

Oil on canvas

Mort Künstler, American

“Cocaine Bear” Fighting With His Dealer, 1970

Gouache on board