Was the artist Roy Lichtenstein a thief and plagiarist? – Culture

Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist? Or a thief? A film documentary “Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation” poses this – not exactly new – question. The film cannot be seen in Europe, but the suggestive sentences are given in the YouTube trailer to some of the classic American cartoon men and women drawn with bouncy lines placed speech bubbles.