Comments on: Who's the comic book housewife?

Question: Who's the comic book housewife?

cillit bang — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:27:15 -0800

The last wive in the Desperate Housewives titles. Who is she? Is she from something? Does this style of cartoon have a name?

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:30:01 -0800

Pop art. Or Roy Lichtenstein style, if you prefer.

Who is she in the show? She's the narrator who killed herself.

Where is the image from? I think it was probably created for the show to look like a Lichtenstein.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:30:42 -0800

Aside: the singular form of "wives" is "wife."

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:00:28 -0800

An article on the credits. It only says:

...a woman in a Roy Lichtenstein-style pop art drawing retaliates against her boorish partner with a sock in the jaw.

Since they mention they had difficulty securing the rights to some of the artwork they chose, I would guess it was drawn in-house to look like something they couldn't afford.

The design firm has a web page if you want to e-mail them the question directly.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:48:27 -0800

yup--Lichtenstein, and based on old romance comicbooks--and those dots are called benday dots. if you take a magnifying glass to a comic book or newspaper you can see them (depending on the printing process used)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:50:47 -0800

By: O9scar

O9scar — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:55:16 -0800

You've probably seen Brenda Strong in something, as she's a perennial bit player - she's the ghost wife on Everwood, and Sue-Ellen Mishkie (the candy bar heiress) on Seinfeld, among others.

Some would argue she's virtually the same actress as Marcia Cross.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:23:54 -0800

Liechtenstein seems like the thing I was looking for. Thank you.

(Ludwig: I was being cutesy, but thanks for sharing your knowledge)

By: remlapm

remlapm — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:40:20 -0800

She is also the voice over artist for the trailers/ads for the new Kevin Costner movie "Upside of Anger".

By: signal

signal — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:25:28 -0800

I was being cutesy, but thanks for sharing your knowledge

When you're being cutesy, you shouldn't get bitchsy if someone else gets snarksy.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:49:58 -0800

signal, seems to me you're a little quicksy to assume that cillit bang wasn't being genuinesy.