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Gary Hallgren Original Art: SCARECROWS
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GARY HALLGREN (1945-)
Fritzi Ritz painting: “SCARECROWS.”
As a giant crow menaces our favorite homeless
hero, a scarecrow version of Sluggo in
the cornfield mirrors the startled pose of the
endangered man-boy. Only the maniac Nancy
surrealist Gary Hallgren can
explain the meaning of this curious imagery, but
he remains typically silent, insisting on
letting his art speak for itself. Speaking of
mirroring, is it us, or do the closely cropped
corn stalks in the foreground resemble a
close-up view of the stubble on Sluggo’s head?
This one is much deeper than it first appears.
Acrylic painting on illustration board,
shrink-wrapped against ¼-inch foam board.
Created in February 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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