This was a weird piece to do. Entertainment Weekly asked for a very

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This was a weird piece to do. Entertainment Weekly asked for a very
straight riff on Roy Lichtenstein's "OH, JEFF", but with the blonde
woman made to look like Anna Faris. I thought that sounded like an
interesting challenge, because Lichtenstein's style isn't terribly
akin to mine, and then trying to do a likeness in another person's
style... that was worth trying. And it was tricky. I'm not sure that
I really pulled it off – and, to be honest, I'm not sure how
satisfied the client was, either, but the editor (Dragos Lemnei) was
very polite with his nudges that I should try, try again.

The other thing that made this weird was that I had been aware of
David Barsalou's work in identifying the original comic book panels
on which Lichtenstein based his paintings, and so I couldn't help but
look at the original panel by Tony Abruzzo. Abruzzo's image is,
frankly, the best of the three. Mine's fine, but it's stiff;
Lichtenstein's is... well, it's Lichtenstein, so it's pretty awful;
Abruzzo's is just a gorgeous little piece of cartooning.

I wanted to contact Abruzzo, but sadly he's been dead since 1990.
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