roy lichtenstein Archives

The series lasted five seasons from 1953 to 1957. The Dell comic book series bears no resemblance to the television show beyond starring a private secretary.  It features completely different characters in a very serious and rather hard-edged romantic drama.  The only thing in Private Secretary #1 that even slightly resembles comedy is the fact that[...]

The lead story, Run for Love! drawn by Tony Abruzzo, lettered by Ira Schnapp and written by an unknown writer, opens like this. Secret Hearts #83 from 1962 Despite the wording at the bottom of the page, the imagery was lifted by Roy Lichtenstein for his painting Drowning Girl, also known as Secret Hearts or I Don't[...]

I went with my eldest, looking for inspiration and found plenty. It's also home to Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! My feelings about the piece are, naturally, mixed. But I did wonder if I could mount a defence against prosecution if I nicked one of these items from the gift shop After all, it would be art, and I would[...]

Although this practice has a long tradition, dating back to medieval religious iconography and even earlier, it was popularized in the 1960s by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein with his most famous works Whaam! and Drowning Girl These are where Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples take their real inspiration Two pages in particular stand out for[...]

Chris Thompson writes; It seems Image Duplicator has got people talking … The private view, attended by a number of artists including co-curators Rian

Reappropriating the works that Roy Lichtenstein originally reappropriated, with a satirical theme, the exhibition launched at Orbital Comics in London tonight, and will continue until the end of the month If you're in town, go see it If not, you can see more of the exhibition in these three previous Bleeding Cool posts, or buy[...]

Tomorrow, Orbital Comics in London premiere the Image Duplicator exhibition in which a number of artists reappropriate the works that Roy Lichtenstein reappropriated in his own work, currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern over the river. The launch party is tomorrow evening, I hope to see you there. You can check out two previous lots here[...]

This Thursday sees the launch of the Image Duplicator exhibition at Orbital Comics, where comic book artists and designers reappropriate images that Roy Lichtenstein used, crediting the original artist, and making a comment on… whatever they feel like. We ran a bunch of images before, here's a new set Prints and postcards can be ordered here. Rian[...]

We mentioned the Lichtenstein parody cover for Viz Comic last week. Turns out there's also a strip inside by the incredibly famous cartoonist Lew Stringer

We've looked at the recent art exhibition re-appropriating the works of Roy Lichtenstein by comic book creators But one piece, not in the gallery, is on the cover of one of the best selling English speaking comics published today, Viz, starring one of their longest lasting characters… We've looked at the recent art exhibition re-appropriating[...]

In a couple of weeks, Orbital Comics in London will be filling its gallery with pieces below, and more, comic book artists re-appropriating the works of Roy Lichtenstein, tracking them back to their original source material and then creating a new comic book image that credits the original artist, curated by Rian Hughes and Jason[...]

That aside, I've heard it said that if Roy Lichtenstein had done his thing in recent times, he'd have been figuratively atomized by lawsuits Perhaps we'll see that theory put to the test here. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Ridley Scott's Most Revealing Prometheus Interview Yet Scott does trot out some of his favourite lines about the film –[...]

Roy Lichtenstein, who I felt was profiteering on the work of great comics artists, at least altered them to suit his own style, as can be seen by this comparison plucked from David Barsalou's site Desconstructing Roy Lichtenstein, which shows a Russ Heath panel side by side with Lichtenstein's recreation. I never looked at a Lichtenstein[...]

There are many in comic books who consider Roy Lichtenstein a thief A fraud A man who took other people's work and made millions off them, an artistic crook of the highest order The Rob Granito of the sixties. I disagree though, I do find Roy's work a transformative artistic act Credit, some money for the[...]

According to the artist Peter Blake, in an interview with Time Out Hong Kong, legendary pop artist Roy Lichtenstein didn't even like comics. He recalls that "Lichtenstein, who originally started off as an abstract expressionist, didn't particularly enjoy comics In fact, he painted his first rendition of the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor [...]