Things I liked about the blue period:
1. You thought it's one of those artsy animes that is gonna romanticize and over-praise Pablo Picasso. Was about to drop it because I hate Pablo Picasso and everything he did to his muses and for blocking a female cubism artist from galleries. Turns out it gets declared that one of the artist does not really like Pablo Picasso.
2. Cross dressing character gets deeper understanding of who they are, but does not turn back to "normal" in the end. They embraced their passion and did not leave crossdressing. Though, it's still a mystery to me if the character is canonically trans.
3. Gender does not matter here. No fanservice. No dominating genders or cliques. No harem shit. No forced romance. Just art majors having mental breakdowns. That's very sexy of them.
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In Plagiarism and You(Tube), Hbomb says "If you consider something so obscure you can get away with stealing it, you do not respect it." Save that line for the next time someone tries to tell you that Roy Lichtenstein brought respect to comics as art.
It's since been pointed out that while Lichtenstein did copy one of Russ Heath's drawings of an airplane getting hit, the painting depicted above was actually copied off Irv Norvick, because Lichtenstein did this so many times to so many comic artists.
In Lichtenstein's defense, he was doing this in a time when comic artists frequently weren't even credited in the issues themselves. In his condemnation, he never even tried to check, nor has he made any move to pay or credit any of the comic artists who recognized their own work later on. Rather than elevating the "low art" of comics, he was widening the gap of financial success and respect even further.
The Hbomberguy of this story is art historian David Barsalou, who has now spent decades tracking down the original art and the names of the original artists used in Lichtenstein's most famous output. Here's the flickr gallery for the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein project. Frequently copied were Tony Abruzzo, Ted Galindo, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Kubert, Jerry Grandenetti, and dozens more Golden Age artists who aren't very well known in comics circles, let alone art history books. Many of them died in poverty. That's something that the Hero Initiative, mentioned in Russ Heath's comic above, aims to prevent.
Also, Lichtenstein didn't even paint Ben-Day dots. That's a specific thing.
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I'm sorry but I'm just so angry, we really do need to include black people in queer art there is no queer history without black people I'm tired of barely seeing any black coded characters on this site. Being queer is not a white thing but it feels like it's the default on this website.
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very special to me that every critic has panned lisa frankenstein while every bitch on tumblr is like "this movie was made specifically for ME"
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