Whaam! Archives

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[...]