Caption:
One day, as he nonchalantly reaches for a match, Leonardo da Vinci’s life is suddenly transformed.
Alt text:
DRAW ME!
2025-10-21
Caption:
One day, as he nonchalantly reaches for a match, Leonardo da Vinci’s life is suddenly transformed.
Alt text:
DRAW ME!
8 Comments
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 7 pts · 311d
The modern match (lit by friction like the matches depicted in the comic) was invented about 300 years after da Vinci died
eleitl@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 311d
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%27s_horse
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d
MichaelangeloDa Vinci , one of history's most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
Grabthar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
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.
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
It's not easy being old.jpeg
everett@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 311d
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.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d
Also, Leo was left handed.
This comic is worse than Cow Tools.
Honk@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 311d
Cow Tools is a pretty high bar to clear, tbh