How can messages about culture be conveyed through comics?

Are comic strips art?

What influence did Roy Lichtenstein have on culture and society during the Pop Art

movement?

Bright colors

Clear Outlines

Ben-Day dots (small dots used to render color in mass manufactured color cartoons)

Imagery of mass produced items

(This technique is exemplified in DC comics)

Ben Day dots, re-popularized during the 1960s and 1970s by Lichtenstein.

Artists provided a different take on popular comic strips.

What do you notice about the colors, content, and style?

Action was conveyed through images and the “sounds.”

How is this panel a commentary on the issues of the time?

Soft sculpture Pop Art was also often able to be used.

Gallery perspective

What are the items that depict popular culture in this painting?