Crak!

The Pop Art movement, arising in the 1950s and 60s in the United States and United Kingdom, borrowed imagery from such popular culture sources as commercial advertising, magazines, and comic books. Artists often used mechanical forms of reproduction to produce works viewed as critical of both consumer culture and the elitism of the fine arts. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the foremost members of the Pop Art movement.

Lichtenstein began to appropriate not only the subject matter but also the style of comic books in 1961. Crak!, adapted from a panel in a war-themed comic, captures the color and dynamic action of its source, as well as imitates the Ben-Day dots used for color and shading in commercial printing.