Roy was born on this date.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

[lunatica]

1. Thanks!

I’ve always considered graphic art and cartoons as genuine art. It just happens to appeal to younger people, although it’s beginning to get recognition as art now. Litchtenstein was among the first who saw all the potentials in it, as well as the potentials of new materials, like plastic.

I think he never took our modern surroundings with all it’s commercialism for granted. It caught his interest as a form of art in itself. While the rest of humanity saw it as crass, uninteresting, or as a blight on the landscape, or as a form of commercial mind control, he saw much deeper and he saw intrinsic value in using it to make art.

Fascinating. It’s almost as if he saw it as anthropological art, like the cave painting in the Lascaux Caves. Art done for its time, on the walls, to depict a desired thing. The cavemen would paint the animals they hunted, something they needed in order to survive. Something desired.

[Star-Thrower]

2. I started out

being a "paste-up" and "layout" artist. When there were no computers but just sheets of different types, now called Fonts,which had to be lined up for copy to be sent to press. When we needed more comprehensive copy we would send it to a type setter. I would then organize the layout of the graphic and incorperate the text. All mostly done with an exacto knife to carefully get all of the components to come together to make a good ad for publishing.

Cartoons go back a long long time. I love cartoon polical cartoons. Actually all cartoons. Definitely cartoons are high art. I love them.