Roy Lichtenstein transformed the comic strip into high art by monumentalizing its language: Ben-Day dots, heavy black contours, and melodramatic speech bubbles. His canvases enlarged the vocabulary of pulp culture to heroic scale, blurring the line between parody and homage. In appropriating mass imagery, Lichtenstein questioned originality, taste, and the divide between high and low art—while creating some of the most iconic visuals of Pop.