It's commanding as comic-book art in motion, convincing as the luridly mythic -- and therefore authentically adolescent -- expression of buried emotions.

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The development of comic-book characters into franchises has occurred alongside the growing appreciation of the comic-book genre as art.

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Works by the fifty-one-year-old Italian have provided the art world with comic relief and news-making sensations since 1989.

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Earlier this year, New York City Ballet invited the Brooklyn-based art collective Faile to erect a tower of comic book-style drawings in the theater's elegant promenade.

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Lichtenstein elevated comic book art into high art crossed with parody, and his use of Ben-Day dots is fun and funny.

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And as for non-commissioned pieces, owning art from a comic book you enjoy is a great way to relive your favorite fiction, especially if your favorite fiction fights crime.

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In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.

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