Must-Have Artworks for Comic and Cartoon Lovers FEATURING WORKS BY TAKASHI MURAKAMI, ROZ CHAST AND MORE

Since the invention of the modern comic strip and cartoon animation, artists have been referencing, adapting, and appropriating cartoon imagery into their own works—sometimes for humor, sometimes for satire, sometimes for critique. Perhaps best known are the Pop artists of the 1960s, like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, who appropriated others’ cartoons and advertisements as ready mades. In today’s contemporary art, cartoons run the gamut from the wild manga of Takashi Murakami to the painted cartoon mashups of Jamian Juliano-Villani and Yoshitomo Nara's caricature-like illustrations to Roz Chasta's funny comics. Here are some of our favorite artists involved in the medium—add them to your collection!