Satirical and sexually charged comic art by Tina Lugo
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Haverholm Saturday 5 November 2011
This is your semantics-haggling comment of the weekend:
I have to object to your labeling Tina Fugo’s work as “comic art”, an art form that is characterised by the sequential arrangement of several images. Pictures put together to form a whole, in short. The images display several common tropes of comics (speech bubbles, speed lines, etc.) but are not, in themselves. comic art.
As an aside, I’m also a bit disappointed to see that Fugo continues the Liechtenstein tradition of perfectly capable artists (barely) appropriating comic art and putting their own name on it. I understand the point of doing so once but that point was made 50 years ago, and it’s been used repeatedly since then more as an alibi than as an artistic statement.
The third image from top of this post (the B/W and yellow one) is a great picture by Jack Kirby, mirrored and reformatted by Tina Fugo (rather well, I might say. I like the colour). And yes, it’s originally from a comic book: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7KRlemhadm8/TW_7gbcmhNI/AAAAAAAACqY/4sbrUjaBO6U/s1600/102.jpg
And so, the aside wound up taking more space than the main point, my apologies.