Roy Lichtenstein Comic List 8 8

[ThatNerdyCanuck]

I've been attempting to compile a list of all the comic issues Roy Lichtenstein used for inspiration (ripped-off) for his art work, as I can't seem to find a master list anywhere! I know I am missing a whole bunch, but here is a small list of the ones I know of off the top of my head. Please feel free to add whichever ones I missed out on!

Falling In Love #41 - Thinking of Him

Girls' Romance #78 - In the Car

Girls' Romances #81 - We Rose up Slowly

Girls' Romances #97 - Anxious Girl, Kiss 5, Good Morning Darling

Girls' Romance #105 - Sleeping Girl

Girls Romances #110 - M-Maybe

Heart Throbs #79 - Sound of Music

Heart Throbs #82 - Nurse

Heart Throbs #84 - Kiss with Clouds

Secret Hearts #83 - Drowning Girl

Secret Hearts 88 - Oh All Right, Crying Girl

Young Love v5#6 [31] - The Ring Engagement

Young Love v6#1 [32] - Kiss 3, Diptych, Forget it Forget Me

Young Romance [116] v15#2 - Masterpiece, I Know...Brad

Men of War #89 - Whaam!

Men of War #90 - As I Opened Fire

Our Fighting Forces #68 - Sand Fleas!

Our Fighting Forces #69 - Arrrrrff!

Our Fighting Forces #71 - Torpedo...Los!

G.I Combat #94 - Okay Hot-Shot, Okay

Strange Suspense Stories #72 - Brushstrokes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 2021 by ThatNerdyCanuck
updated list

[Randall Dowling]

Paging @szav

[Ares]

The Ultimate Irony would be to license the images directly from the publisher and then sell the larger images on a tshirt. The Lichtenstein estate cant do anything

[ThothAmon]

Very interesting topic. Wish I was organized enough to know how many of those I have. 

[kav]

Man I would love to see a side by side painting/panel/cover array.  with maybe the orig comic artist noted.

[kav]

Ok I found a list of the romance comic panels/artists- .  
https://www.wikiart.org/en/roy-lichtenstein/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry

Edited November 25, 2021 by kav

[kav]

gotta say the comic artists draw better.  dang and ol lichy had a larger area to work with too.

[comicnoir]

On 11/24/2021 at 10:12 PM, kav said:

gotta say the comic artists draw better.  dang and ol lichy had a larger area to work with too.

Which makes me think he drew that way on purpose. Artists use projectors all the time throwing images up on canvas and tracing. Why not he?

[kav]

On 11/24/2021 at 7:25 PM, comicnoir said:

Which makes me think he drew that way on purpose. Artists use projectors all the time throwing images up on canvas and tracing. Why not he?

sure thats what he did.  his tracing skills werent top notch tho.

[kav]

people think its easy to trace.  its not.  ask @Artboy99

Edited November 25, 2021 by kav

[Aman619]

he wasn't trying to recreate the panels perfectly....

[kav]

On 11/24/2021 at 7:35 PM, Aman619 said:

he wasn't trying to recreate the panels perfectly....

so he wanted them to look worse?  more poorly drawn?  I dont buy that.

[kav]

I've dealt with artists who would say "I could have drawn it better but I wanted it to look like that".  Maybe liefeld even says that.

[kazoo]

Appreciate the info, have been trying to put together a complete list as well.  There are way more of these than most people are aware of, ol' Roy seems to have found dipping into funny books really percolated the inspirado ...

I think I can add

Strange Suspense Stories #72 ("Brushstrokes 1")

I also have Our Fighting Forces #66 on my list but don't own the book and don't know what painting it is supposed to have "inspired", so not sure if that is a real one or not?

Edited November 25, 2021 by kazoo

[kav]

man I hope some motivated boardie does a complete side by side with artists names.  It deserves to exist somewhere.

[kav]

hell one could make a book abt this.

[kav]

there's an art bookstore next door-gonna head over there tomorrow see if something like this exists.

[kav]

was lichy a DC, Marvel, or charlton guy?

[Artboy99]

On 11/24/2021 at 8:27 PM, kav said:

people think its easy to trace.  its not.  ask @Artboy99

no it takes skill to successfully trace. my customers that request recreations expect to receive completed pages that resemble the originals as closely as possible hence why I light box as part of the process.

Lichtenstein was creating art that captured moments in graphical form, anatomy wasnt as important.

[Aman619]

On 11/24/2021 at 10:42 PM, szav said:

Oh boy here we go...he was elevating the mundane?... hah...this discussion has been had before.......

   I know you guys don't like these comments, but youre coming at it from a very narrow comics only point of view. Theres a larger world out there, the art world specifically.  Where ideas are as important as the techniques. (Frankly I think his technical skills in enlarging the panels with paint and brushes is pretty noteworthy... there was no affordable technology available to a painter then to just enlarge the panels like we see all the time now in comics history trade books.  Seeing the linework and dots 100 times larger than we did in the comics is powerful. Who was doing that?  In the early 60s the world was waking up from the post WW2 slumber of the Eisenhower decade.  Everything out there was being reimagined and explored. 

but anyway, I know this is all artsy faartsy gobbledygook cause the guy stole someone else images, dammet.... and he should be sued for it.  Seriously  do you all REALLY think these panels were THAT well drawn??? seriously? We aren't talking Frazetta panels! just the usual 6 to a $35 page rate of deadline-induced work for hire, get the check, hope for the next assignment, rinse and repeat.  Its great to worship these guys work cause we love the comics medium.  But dont tar and feather the guy who takes it to another level, and with dealer hype, sets them off on a journey to where they are world famous images that resonate with people around the world and are worth millions decades later.  Lichty didnt get that money!  He sold them right away and was happy to have sales.... 

Edited November 25, 2021 by Aman619