 In the Drowning Girl the water is not only Art Nouveau , but it can also be seen as Hokusai . I don 't do it just because it is another reference . Cartooning itself sometimes resembles other periods in art – perhaps unknowingly ... They do things like the little Hokusai waves in the Drowning Girl . But the original wasn 't very clear in this regard – why should it be ? I saw it and then pushed it a little further until it was a reference that most people will get ... it is a way of crystallizing the style by exaggeration . 
