this one was from Fightin' Marines #134 1977, Charlton
the other was more bricolage (which reminds me, i need to think up a funny ignatz bricoleur gag) it was Walter Lantz New Funnies #154 1949, Dell the Shadow #16 1988, DC Roger Rabbit's Toontown #1, Disney
yes, i agree with you they'd look better laid out onna page, i may try to do something along those lines, make a mini, color xeroxes are fairly cheap now & i think the color makes it interesting, i consider this to be kind of a reuptake on Lichtenstein, reclaiming a more pure appropriation essentially in the same format as the original, abstractions are everywhere, especially on the microscopic level...
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That's great. May I ask what the sources are for this and for your previous post?
ReplyDeleteAlso--I'd love to see how it would look laid out on a page. But for that it would work better with 6 panels instead of five...
this one was from
ReplyDeleteFightin' Marines #134 1977, Charlton
the other was more bricolage (which reminds me, i need to think up a funny ignatz bricoleur gag)
it was
Walter Lantz New Funnies #154 1949, Dell
the Shadow #16 1988, DC
Roger Rabbit's Toontown #1, Disney
yes, i agree with you they'd look
better laid out onna page, i may
try to do something along those lines,
make a mini, color xeroxes are fairly
cheap now & i think the color makes it
interesting, i consider this to be kind
of a reuptake on Lichtenstein, reclaiming
a more pure appropriation essentially
in the same format as the original,
abstractions are everywhere,
especially on the microscopic level...