Caption:
One day, as he nonchalantly reaches for a match, Leonardo da Vinci’s life is suddenly transformed.
Alt text:
DRAW ME!
The modern match (lit by friction like the matches depicted in the comic) was invented about 300 years after da Vinci died
That’s part of the joke.
I don’t get the crude horse and draw me reference though. Ah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo’s_horse
These match books have card matches so they are difficult to strike like a wooden match. The card match is drawn through between the cover of the matchbook and the striking surface. So the ad on the front of the packet is a word play on the igniting mechanism. Larson’s joke here seems to be that MichaelangeloDa Vinci , one of history’s most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.It says Leonardo da Vinci pretty clearly lmao
Yes, and these matchbooks went on to inspire both Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino and Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi as well. One day the four great artists were surprised to learn that the cardboard matches had been crafted by a great artist of the martial persuasion, who kept getting slivers from the wooden variety. Lovingly know to the four as Master Splinter, they went on to great adventures together in the sewers of New York.
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Possibly an ad for a correspondence art class? I feel like those were common in other media (like magazines), but I guess there could have been ads on matchbooks too.
Also, Leo was left handed.
This comic is worse than Cow Tools.
Cow Tools is a pretty high bar to clear, tbh
