comics and the roots of abstract art: Les Incoherents (1880s)

An example of the common ancestor of comics and early modernist abstract art;
Les Incoherents (1887) with a mockery on colorfield painting years before it kicked off

https://www.wikiart.org/en/artists-by-art-movement/incoherents

Eugène Bataille's (1883) Mona Lisa smoking a pipe inspired Marcel Duchamps L.H.O.O.Q (1919).
http://www.toutfait.com/an-exit-marcel-duchamp-and-jules-laforgue/

(Emile Cohl; Les Joyeux Microbes (1909))

Also member of Les Incoherents; Emile Cohl one of the pioneers of animation
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cohl_emile.htm


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoherents