If they were Marvel characters, these days, Hawkman and Hawkwoman would be born as twins and still be intimate.

In Lobo's first appearance, he kills a character who is a reference to a real-life artist. Who's the artist, and what's notable about the character's appearance?

(crickets)

I'm pretty hot with the guesses right now, so I'll guess Salvador Dali, and the character Lobo killed looked like a clock from Dali's "The Persistence of Memory." (Which, until just now, I thought was titled "The Persistence of Time." Thank you, Wikipedia.)

--I'm wrong? Cool, it was just a guess.
wyld

Jackson Pollock. And the character's appearance looked like a big blob of multi-colored vomit, just like every piece of Pollock's so-called art ???

The artist in question is a comic-book artist.


And JTR, I hope you aren't oen of those people who says "anybody could do that" about art. Difficulty is not the point.

I'm only like that with so-called modern art. It's like the "sculpture" on the ground of the local university. Three girders welded together like a teepee and painted school bus yellow. That's not art. That's three girders welded together and painted school bus yellow.

It's art, the only question in whether or not it's good.

I happen to like Pollack (what I've seen, anyway) and I hardly like all modern art unconditionally.

I agree. The comments JTR has made about Pollock and modern sculpture, were surely made about Picasso way back when, by people who thought "art" was narrowly defined by the kind of thing Grant Wood did.

As for the trivia question, I'll guess Neal Adams.

Not Neal Adams.

Here's a hint-- I said "artist" because I wanted to be coy, but "cartoonist" is the label more likely applied to this individual.

Oh, and I friended him on Facebook, too. He's still around.

He kills Jack Kirby whose made up of tiny dots?

To each their own.

And I'm not a fan of Picasso, either.

Many years ago the Childrens Television Workshop made a special called "Don't Eat The Pictures: Sesame Street in the Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Sesame Street characters visited the Met, introducing kids to different art styles. Most of the characters got an individual segment; Cookie Monster tried to eat a Cezanne painting of fruit, Oscar the Grouch drooled over broken sculptures from ancient Rome ("The most beautiful trash I've ever seen!"), etc. The Count, while present, did not get his own segment, and I always thought it would have been cool to have him discover pontilist paintings. "This painting is made up of little dots?? I will count them! One dot! Two dots! Three dots!" They could have made a running gag of it, kept coming back to the Count still counting the dots. "Nine thousand, six hundred forty-two dots! Nine thousand, six hundred forty-three dots!"

Cartoonist around in 1983, well-known enough to be "killed" by Lobo, and still around? And a "he".

Gary Trudeau?

Nope, and not Kirby either (I don't think he's on facebook!) though the idea is the right one.

Oh, and people put down the impressionists when they came on the scene, too.

I'm sure, but what's Rich Little got to do with it?