The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture

A one-shot publication from Fantagraphics in 1983, The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture served as a printed companion to a gallery exhibition of the same name. This single issue explores the intersection of fine art and comics, examining how cartoon aesthetics and popular imagery influenced painters and visual culture. It stands as a unique artifact of the early 1980s, documenting a moment when the boundaries between high and low art were being actively questioned.