Seventh graders have been learning about the pop art movement of the 50s and specifically the cartoon artwork of Roy Lichtenstein. One of the most notable artists of the era, Lichtenstein’s enlarged versions of pulp comics taken out of context provided an interesting parody of the more high brow paintings of the previous generation that had been lauded by critics and largely inaccessible to the lay person. In fact, Lichtenstein and his peers often directly copied famous works of art and recreated them in the pop art style – a direct commentary on the role of art in popular culture. The seventh grade students created their own versions of Lichtenstein’s iconic portraits using themselves as models. Limited to a palette of yellow, red, blue, and black and white, they also learned about the significance of Ben-Day dots in early printing and Lichtenstein’s liberal use of them in his paintings. Concurrently in graphic design we have been using these same images to create vector art cartoons in Adobe Illustrator as well. In that form students were allowed to expand their color options and truly utilize the computer as a design tool.