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Gary Hallgren Original Art: RETROFRITZI
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GARY
HALLGREN (1945-)
Fritzi Ritz painting: “RETROFRITZI”
Fritzi Ritz is in
full throwback mode with hoop earrings, a Rosie the
Riveter bandana, and a vintage Coca-Cola machine
supporting her 1950s Ma Bell telephone. She wants to
be picked up in a Hot Rod and artist Hallgren, the
owner of a super cool Studebaker Hot Rod, no doubt has
a special fondness for this incarnation of Fritzi. A
15 x 20-inch acrylic painting on tracing paper mounted
on illustration board shrink-wrapped against ¼-inch
foam board. Painted in March 2015. 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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