"Roarin Rodney Roadrunner" cover illustration for Plop #15 (August 1975) by Wally Wood references "Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer

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"Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer
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"Roarin Rodney Roadrunner" cover illustration for Plop #15 (August 1975) by Wally Wood
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Aliens: Alien Queen Head by CT Thorne references "Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer via "Roarin Rodney Roadrunner" cover illustration for Plop #15 (August 1975) by Wally Wood?

 

a) So curiously one significant painting that this Roarin Rodney Roadrunner references is "Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer, which is a famous painting,

"Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer,

Roarin Rodney Roadrunner" cover illustration for Plop #15 (August 1975) by Wally Wood

b) Here, Dürer's painting would be reverses and then slanted

c) The parting would become the right top corner in Jesus' hair

d) The hands would become the area around the ear

e.i) Eyeball with eyelid

The cap with its crease becomes the part of the eyeball and eyelid, while the tufts of hair becomes the teeth

e.ii) The book however becomes the open eye lids

e.iii) The white cap might then the right way around become the general eyeball and upper eyelid

f) The makes use of the position of the old man's long beard

g) Generally the book cover becomes the bent arm.  Perhaps the hand becomes the tongue overlapping the wrist.

h) The space between Jesus' upper arm and the book becomes the mouth .
Perhaps in this case the beard becomes the tongue

i) The head of the man with the white cap becomes Roarin Rodney Roadrunner's behind