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Swipe File: The $42.6 Million Dollar Comic Book Panel

Published Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:50:26 -0600

Last updated Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:28:46 -0600

The 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting "Ohhh… Alright…" sold at Christie's last night for $42.6 million, a record for a Lichtenstein by a wide margin. According to David Barsalou, the author of Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein, the piece was inspired by this comic book panel inked by Bernard Sachs.

Anybody have more complete info about the original source of that panel? Sachs was of course a prolific inker from the mid-40s through the 70s, mostly for DC Comics.

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

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