1. The painting shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea
The painting shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea. She is emotionally fraught, from a romance. She declares that she would rather sink in the ocean, than call Brad. This is revealed through a thought bubble that provides the narrative element: "I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink — Than Call Brad For Help!" The narrative element highlights the cliched melodrama, while its graphics reiterate Lichtenstein's theme of painterly work depicting mechanized reproduction.
The work is derived from a 1962 DC Comics panel, while also borrowing from Hokusai's The Great Wave.
In comparison with the comics panel, here the girl seems to drown in a sea created by her own tears.
Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning girl, oil and synthetic polymer on canvas, 1963, MoMA, NY

2. oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
Author
Roy Lichtenstein
Title
Drowning girl
Technique
oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
Year
1963
Dimensions
171.6 cm × 169.5 cm
Location
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Source
DC Comics panel: Run of love
Analysis
The painting shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea. She is emotionally fraught, from a romance. She declares that she would rather sink in the ocean, than call Brad. This is revealed through a thought bubble that provides the narrative element. In comparison with the comics panel, here the girl seems to drown in a sea created by her own tears.
The borrowed technique was "representing tonal variations with patterns of colored circles that imitated the half-tone screens of Ben Day dots used in newspaper printing”.