In response to my entry about a famous comic-book image used by poet John Ashbery in one of his collages, rtbinc wrote to point me toward a New York Times article from September about Ashbery’s artwork, which includes other examples of him making use of comic art.

You can see the most obvious one below.

In this instance, the origin of the art is at least more directly acknowledged. Here’s what Holland Cotter wrote about this particular piece:

The insouciant Pop-ish sensibility in some pieces owes a debt to Mr. Brainard’s brilliant collage work, as in Mr. Ashbery’s “Diffusion of Knowledge,” with its pair of all-American comic-strip superheroes mounting a spirited defense of the Smithsonian Institution castle in Washington.

That’s Fighting American to the left and the Guardian to the right, both created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Here’s what those characters look like in their natural habitats:

I’m afraid I can’t point out the exact panels or covers from which Ashbery took his images. Can you?