 Today some critics question Lichtenstein's artistic skills as it relates to comics. Everett Kinstler notes that, although today Lichtenstein is closely associated with romance comics due to his teary "mannered close-ups", in his day "no comics publisher would have hired Lichtenstein — he wasn't good enough." He felt Lichtenstein lacked the ability to portray the emotional range of the story through facial expressions and body language independently.
