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Gary Hallgren Original Art: TATTOO PARLOR
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GARY HALLGREN (1945-)
Fritzi Ritz painting: “TATTOO PARLOR.”
Almost
everyone these days has tattoos, so should we
really be surprised to see that even the usually
conservative Fritzi Ritz opts
to cover her back with Ritz Crackers imagery? Is
it a personal choice or has she possibly sold
out for a lucrative product placement deal?
Nancy and Sluggo watch intently as the tattoo
artist (a young Gary Hallgren?) forever
transforms Aunt Fritzi’s gracefully tapered
back, no doubt wondering what sort of indelible
ink they’ll add to their own torsos.
Ironically enough, a good number of real-life
folks these days have Nancy & Sluggo tattoos.
Most recently we saw Eisner-nominated cartoonist Box Brown at
San Diego Comic Con showing off a very cool
Nancy tat on his upper right arm, with plans to
soon aesthetically balance the other arm with
Sluggo. We’re not kidding about the growing
Nancy cult!!
Acrylic
painting on illustration board, shrink-wrapped
against ¼-inch foam board. Created in Janruary
2015. Horizontal dimensions 20 x 15 inches.
Signed by the artist.
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About the
artist: Gary Hallgren’s illustrations have
appeared in The New York Times,
MAD, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment
Weekly, and National Lampoon (his
Pinocchio cover for the Lampoon is an all-time
classic). And he illustrated all of the best-selling
books by Dr. Mehmet Oz. But he's probably best known
as a key member of the infamous “Air Pirates.”
Hallgren teamed with Dan O'Neill,
Ted Richards, Bobby London, and Shary Flenniken to
produce two notorious issues of Air Pirates
Funnies, which contained X-rated
parodies of Mickey & Minnie Mouse,
causing the Walt Disney organization to unleash its
army of lawyers on the unruly underground cartoonists.
The battle went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which ruled 9-0 in favor of Disney. Hallgren currently
paints personal visions of his favorite comics,
especially “Nancy & Sluggo," he collects vintage
Studebakers, and he ghosts one of America's most
famous syndicated newspaper strips
Related
items: Besides additional Gary Hallgren
paintings, we have Nancy & Sluggo silk
neckties, Ernie Bushmiller
postcards, several rare N&S pinback
buttons, and the coolest Nancy poster ever.
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