Joyce Pensato, a painter who devoted her career to mining the psychology of cartoon iconography, has died. She was 78. Long recognized as a painter’s painter—beloved by fellow artists but not ...

Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn NY) has been painting cartoon characters for years. She takes icons of cartoon art—Felix the Cat, Donald Duck, Batman, Cartman from South Park—and renders them in ...

Joyce Pensato, an artist who released Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other cartoon characters from the comedic identities of their comic strips and movies, depicting them on towering canvases where ...

Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn NY) has been painting cartoon characters for years. She takes icons of cartoon art—Felix the Cat, Donald Duck, Batman—and renders them in smudgy charcoal and pastel or ...

As The New York Times points out, it's been a long time since Joyce's sprawling masterpiece Ulysses was considered obscene, but as the saying goes, "There's an app for that." Now, it seems that a ...

Ms. Pensato, who found art-world success relatively late, transformed the likes of Mickey Mouse and Batman into ambiguous and sometimes scary creatures. By Roberta Smith Joyce Pensato, a painter who ...

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The question of whether James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is obscene seemed to have been settled for more than 75 years. Until last week, that is, when the creators of a Web comic version of the classic novel, ...