Joyce Pensato, a painter who devoted her career to mining the psychology of cartoon iconography, has died. She was 78. Long recognized as a painter’s painter—beloved by fellow artists but not ...

Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn NY) has been painting cartoon characters for years. She takes icons of cartoon art—Felix the Cat, Donald Duck, Batman, Cartman from South Park—and renders them in ...

Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn NY) has been painting cartoon characters for years. She takes icons of cartoon art—Felix the Cat, Donald Duck, Batman—and renders them in smudgy charcoal and pastel or ...

Joyce Pensato, an artist who released Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other cartoon characters from the comedic identities of their comic strips and movies, depicting them on towering canvases where ...