“It’s theft,” says one 96-year-old comic-book artist who feels the famous pop-art icon unfairly appropriated his work. “It would be nice to be recognized.”
A side-by-side comparison of Russ Heath’s original comic-panel art, from DC Comics’ “All American Men of War #89″ (1962), and Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 painting “Blam!” that appropriated the panel. The still is from a new documentary, which rotates the direction of Heath’s panel for clearer comparison. (Hussey-Cotton Films/Hussey-Cotton Films )Hy Eisman sits at his professional drawing board, much the way he has for seven decades. He is reminiscing about penciling a comic-book image from a page that yielded him $10 back in the ’60s. He says his rendering, though, would soon inspire the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who became rich and famous by appropriating such comics without credit — and with a projector — for his large, highly prized canvases.
![[RAMAGE] – Did Lichtenstein create art or copy it? A new film stokes the controversy.](https://christianbuehlmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/telechargement-5.jpg "[RAMAGE] – Did Lichtenstein create art or copy it? A new film stokes the controversy.")
