flemish
Original: flemish on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First speaker (a man, off-panel/standing): PRINCESS! WHY IS THERE A MASTER FLEMISH PORTRAIT ARTIST UNDER YOUR SKIRTS!?
Second speaker (a woman in a period gown, the princess): FAH! JUST 2 MORE WEEKS AND I COULD'VE SENT THIS TO LORD SOUTHAMPTON AND RECEIVED ITS EQUIVALENT IN RETURN!
(A small artist figure is seen tucked beneath the princess's skirts.)
Caption (below the panel): Sexting was way harder in the 17th century.
Votey:
Handwritten cursive text: feeling cute, may consign to flames later...
First speaker (a man, off-panel/standing): PRINCESS! WHY IS THERE A MASTER FLEMISH PORTRAIT ARTIST UNDER YOUR SKIRTS!?
Second speaker (a woman in a period gown, the princess): FAH! JUST 2 MORE WEEKS AND I COULD'VE SENT THIS TO LORD SOUTHAMPTON AND RECEIVED ITS EQUIVALENT IN RETURN!
(A small artist figure is seen tucked beneath the princess's skirts.)
Caption (below the panel): Sexting was way harder in the 17th century.
Votey:
Handwritten cursive text: feeling cute, may consign to flames later...
Alt text
A single-panel period comic. A woman in an elaborate 17th-century gown (the princess) stands while a tiny man, a master Flemish portrait artist, is hidden under her skirts painting. An off-panel man shouts, "PRINCESS! WHY IS THERE A MASTER FLEMISH PORTRAIT ARTIST UNDER YOUR SKIRTS!?" She replies, "FAH! JUST 2 MORE WEEKS AND I COULD'VE SENT THIS TO LORD SOUTHAMPTON AND RECEIVED ITS EQUIVALENT IN RETURN!" A caption beneath reads: "Sexting was way harder in the 17th century." The joke: producing a risque self-portrait by oil painting was a slow, labor-intensive substitute for sending a nude photo. Votey (aftercomic): handwritten cursive text reading "feeling cute, may consign to flames later..." a period riff on the "feeling cute, might delete later" caption.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.