comic abstraction: image-breaking, image-making at: MoMA, new york, USA from: march 4 – june 11, 2007 in recent years a number of artists have transmuted the lexicon of comic strips and films, cartoons, and animation into a new, representational mode of ‘comic abstraction’ to address perplexing issues from war and global conlicts to ethnic and cultural stereotyping. read more image: speech bubbles by philippe parreno, 1997