- Ivan: LARISA!
- Ivan: I found this behind your cupboard!
- Larisa: Ivan, please. It’s not what it looks like.
- Ivan: It’s exactly what it looks like!
- Ivan: If I ever catch you again with a Thomas Kinkade print, I’ll take away all your brushes!
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[0484] Larisa’s Dirty Secret
└ posted on Thursday, 23 May 2013, by Novil
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Oh Laursia you naughty little girl!
this comic made me wonder, what would happen if they found out larissa does drugs?
“Next you’ll be saying you want to become a Disney Princess! Shame on you! I bet Francis Bacon never had to deal with THIS!”
I’m confused. Who is Thomas Kinkade?
@ John:
Try searching him.
Kinky.
@ John:
I too had to look that one up. He was a painter, who apparently sold a lot of paintings and prints. As I understand it, the joke is, that his work was rather mainstream/bland and not very “artistic”, kind of “low quality art”. So owning his work could be considered the artistic equivalent of owning a Justin Bieber CD.
He’s basically accusing her of having bad taste in art. At least that’s my understanding, no idea if this is really meant to be the joke XD
Ivan: Don’t you remember the Great Art Taboo of 1983!? This man’s art is to be never mentioned in the art society!
Larissa: B-but his prints are beautiful! Look at the amazing way the cabin blends in with the trees!
Ivan: I will not have any of this nonsense in my house!
Larissa: … Besides, he’s probably the only thing I like besides fire! I won’t get too involved with fire this whole week. *gives a hopeful smile*
Ivan:Dammit… I’ll let this slide today. Just make sure you hide it so your mother won’t see. She’ll go crazy.
Larissa: ALRIGHT! 😀 *fistpump*
I was expecting something kinky. But I never thought it will be a Kinkade painting. You made my skin crawl! get that thing off of me!
Larisa can make it up to him and show that she can handle it – just get out the oils and paint in a zombie apocalypse in progress, homeowner on the roof, blasting away with a shotgun, his family being dragged out by the zombies, glow of a burning conurbation from behind the hills, possibly a mushroom cloud or two.
Ivan: Much improved. But don’t let it happen again.
That’s Larissa for you. Regular kids hid their Tomas Kincades under their beds. 🙂
Seems to be a lot of comics lately, where the final panel changes the concept completely.
I wonder what the next one will be?
I guess having porography would have been explainable to an artist dad. I could be “artistic nude”…
So that’s what she needed all those extra medications for…
@ BobisOnlyBob:
Argh, you beat me to it. 😛
Larisa honestly… Just put Landon pictures all over other stuff you want to hide, I suppose Ivan will not suspect a that there is hidden something underneath once he sees the pile of Landon pictures…
I bet you could do this with Kinkades too: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/04/adding-monsters-to-thrift-store-paintings/
@ TheBig1:
It’s worse than that… he’s accusing her of having GENERIC taste in art.
Kinkade’s stuff is pretty, but extremely mass-reproduced and widely sold. It’s been printed on calendars, mugs, umbrellas, and almost anything else that can have a painting on it.
@ Greenwood Goat: Oh… shotgun. Yeah. I wasn’t thinking of some kind of plant… a peashooter maybe.
Totally flippin’ agree.
To go into a house with Kinkade’s causes my eyeballs to itch. For some reason it’s gone way past cute into nauseating.
And then you find out the “Painter of Light” was a class 1 “Wanker of Blight” and suddenly all his Evangelical fan club started to avert their eyes in embarrassment when the PR lifestyle was shown to deviate heavily towards selfish excesses and boorishness IRL.
It was too kinky for him to handle.
Thomas Kinkade?!? NO!!!!! why couldn’t it be a paint-by-numbers?!?
AckAckAck wrote:
Who knew some people had a kink for a Kinkaid?
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I’ll escort myself out.
Thomas Kinkade: the Kenny G of art.
…Wut? Did she steal it or something? o_O
I don’t get this. even after googeling Kinkard and his art… Ok her father is more the gloomy apcalypse painter so I guess he wouldn’t be fan of this “art of light” but Larissa always liked more beautifull, romantic paintings better (as we clearly remember) so… what’s the point? Art is art
to be fair, his paintings are sorta nice – in a postcard kind of way….but i wouldn´t call it art and never say, put up a poster on my living-room wall. and the whole franchise is really annoying, i swear they print his stuff on EVERYTHING, heck i wouldn´t be surprised if they had kinkaide toilet-paper 😉
Who is this Tomas Kincaid, why does Ivan hate him so much…
… and why the deuce was he rooting around behind Larisa’s cupboard to begin with? o_õ
Speedddogg wrote:
Good idea! Except why go for the twee option of Plants vs Zombies when you could have Night of the Living Dead meets Day of the Triffids – a battle royale of sci-fi horror? >:=)>
Man, Larisa´s mom/dad must be so happy everytime they see Landon as Larisa´s boyfriend. Or feel weirded out how thier crazy daugther could fall for such a normal nerdy guy. XDDD
CDRom11 wrote:
Larissa does not do drugs. From what I recall (and I haven’t got time to archive dive) she secretly takes insulin. She doesn’t want others to know she’s diabetic. I believe Woo saw her take some in the story arc where they’re searching the old factory.
Wow, I thought everyone knew who Thomas Kinkade is! The painter of light, I believe is what fans named him. My gram especially used to have boatloads of his works in her florida home. And I think he died just recently? Or I could be totally, insanely wrong and be thinking of someone else entirely. :<
It’s not that Kinkade paintings are bad, as such. It’s just that a little goes a very, very very very long way.
Well, at least it wasn’t a Chagall or a Monet or, God forbid, Rousseau.
Actually, I really don’t know who these people are.
@ Moxie Man:
Moxie Man wrote:
Not quite, she is not hiding her diabeties (see page 60). Still she has some other medical problem as was seen during the warehouse exploration arc (page 126 shows her inhaling something and taking some pills), which she doesn’t tell her friends about (judging by the way she looks around before talking out additional medication out of the backpack). I would rule out drugs, since whatever those pills and inhaler were, it didn’t change her behaviour and there was no signs of anxiety or anything like that before taking the dose.
maravilla wrote:
I don’t think the problem is that the painting are very happy and colorful looking, rather I think the problem is that his art is to “mainstream.” It’s like a parent who’s a fan of the original Fallout being angry at his child for thinking Fallout 3 is awesome.
For a second I thought I recognized that sketch of a Kinkade you put in the last panel… then I realized they all look like that sketch in the last panel LOL
Is it bad of me that I never heard of Thomas Kinkade or his work?
Thomas Kinkade was accused of making mass production “art” and that it was produced in factories with machinery and touched up with manual brush strokes
Larisa! You are a diabetic! This sweet stuff is BAD for you!
Mitigation! Maybe it’s her emergency supply of combustibles…
As many have said before, Kinkade is entirely too mainstream. His works are, as I recall, lithographic prints that art students would then touch up with real paints to add “the light” to the paintings before they’re sent out to his dedicated “galleries” or his mailorder business for sale. Because of the “hand touch” applied to each, it gives them a semblance to real original works (rather than prints), which “let him” get away with charging far higher prices for the prints.
Besides his terribly mainstream appeal (some even go so far as to call his stuff “kitch”, he also spent a lot of effort putting references to his Christian faith into his works including not only churches and crosses, but specific chapter/verse references. He was also accused of unfair dealings with his gallery franchises, had arbitrations against him in some of those cases, and faced allegations that he used Christianity as a tool to take advantage of people.
So, basically, not only is his work mainstream schlock, but he’s an “artist” who relentlessly and shamelessly commercialized his own work. So, the joke is not only is his stuff not ART, but even if it were, he’s no artist – he’s a SALESMAN.
What’s wrong with Thomas Kinkade ? I just don’t get it.
@ mrskwid:
Wasn’t Andy Warhol first to do that, though?
1. You misspelled her name.
2. Nice flag, you cracker asshat.
@ shadycat:
Whoops! This was supposed to be a reply to the first comment. Please delete!
@ C. W. Roden:
1. You misspelled her name.
2. Nice flag, you cracker asshat.
@ Greenwood Goat:
I always thought there should’ve been a showdown between the triffids and the lepus…
@ shadycat:
……you know what, you’re not worth it. Have a good day.
One of Larissa’s shameful secrets, right up there with her secret Barbie collection.