“I think my work is different from comic strip – but I wouldn't call it transformation... What I do is form, whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense I'm using the word; the comics have shapes, but there has been no effort to make them intensely unified. The purpose is different, one intends to depict and I intend to unify. And my work is actually different form comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place. However slight the difference seems to some.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

1970's
Source: Movements in art since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson 1975, p. 153

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American pop artist 1923–1997

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