While art historical allusion, humour and fantasy are undoubtedly features of her selection, more precisely, they arise in deliberately citing popular print or publication sources, albeit with increasing distance or restraint.
To briefly summarise the development - the use of cartoons and banal illustrations in the work of Pop Art pioneers, such as Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), soon prompted painting from other kinds of cartoon and illustration and other qualities of painting with which to highlight such sources.