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# Is It Art or Illustration?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/is-it-art-or-illustration/
- Published: 2016-02-29T12:00:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:42.000Z
- Description: I'm normally not too concerned with labels, but the whole art vs. illustration thing always kinda bothered me.
- Author: Lauren Purje
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

![illustration-1280](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/02/illustration-1280.jpg)