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This was a weird piece to do. Entertainment Weekly asked for a very 
straight riff on Roy Lichtenstein's "OH, JEFF", but with the blonde 
woman made to look like Anna Faris. I  thought that sounded like an 
interesting challenge, because Lichtenstein's style isn't terribly 
akin to mine, and then trying to do a likeness in another person's 
style... that was worth trying. And it was tricky. I'm not sure that 
I really pulled it off – and, to be honest, I'm not sure how 
satisfied the client was, either, but the editor (Dragos Lemnei) was 
very polite with his nudges that I should try, try again. 

The other thing that made this weird was that I had been aware of 
David Barsalou's work in identifying the original comic book panels 
on which Lichtenstein based his paintings, and so I couldn't help but 
look at the original panel by Tony Abruzzo. Abruzzo's image is, 
frankly, the best of the three. Mine's fine, but it's stiff; 
Lichtenstein's is... well, it's Lichtenstein, so it's pretty awful; 
Abruzzo's is just a gorgeous little piece of cartooning. 

I wanted to contact Abruzzo, but sadly he's been dead since 1990.
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