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Gary Hallgren Original Art: NANIME
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GARY HALLGREN (1945-)
Fritzi Ritz painting: “NANIME.”
There’s
something both frightening and hypnotic about
seeing our beloved visual icons, Nancy & Sluggo, with these
huge anime-style eyes! The Japanese
pop culture celebrates the art of “cute” (see
the other Hallgren painting “Idora” in this
gallery) and giant eyes usually symbolize
beauty, innocence, or purity (all things we
associate with N&S) but do big eyes make our
favorite comic characters more cute, or
simply more disturbing?
We aren’t sure, but bootleg copies (not from
us!) of this original image are starting to make
their way into Nancy shrines across North
America, so maybe the often-prescient Gary Hallgren is on to
something. Only time will tell. Acrylic painting
on Crescent illustration board. Created in
December 2014. 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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