Feminist Theory Funnies

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"I just finished this piece." "Roy Lichtenstein, right?"

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"Why do you say that?" "Well, it looks just like Roy Lichtenstein's work. I'm not sure I could name the painting but it's totally his style."

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"Are you saying he owns painted romance cartoons done in enlarged Ben Day dots?" "Kinda, yeah, unless you have some theory for making this, pardon me, clone."

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"Wouldn't you say 'ownership' is the language of the marketplace? Can't anyone make an image like this? Why can't you concentrate on the differences between what I made and what Lichtenstein supposedly made? You're immediately dissing this. Shouldn't a critic's job be to be supportive and nurturing? Are you trying to wish me out of existence?"

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"Well? Respond to my work, I made it!" "Your piece sucks and you are boring the shit out of me with your rhetoric."