ATTIE, Dotty

Taking the comic-book form of sequential panels, Attie has made an unusually allusive art that echoes classical painting, particularly Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), and Victorian literature, particularly Anthony Trollope (1815–82), in addition to comic books. Her square, bordered panels tend to have either picture or text, in either case propelling a narrative; and beneath the innocuous surface are hints of menace and nightmare. The pictures are usually drawn from details in masterpiece...