Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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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%27s_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 ~~Michaelangelo~~ Da 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.
It's not easy being old.jpeg
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