Kitaj shared Guston's commitment to bold figurative drawing with raw gestural ink work that blended literary and political content with darkly expressive imagery. His works on paper similarly combine cartoon inflected figures with an urgent improvisational line quality.

Golub pursued the same raw neo expressionist figuration as Guston using aggressive gestural mark making to render threatening and politically charged figures with stark black and white contrast. His ink drawings share the brutal immediacy and darkly humorous menace found in Guston's late works.

Clemente works extensively in ink on paper with a similarly spontaneous and expressive line that renders surreal figurative imagery with cartoonish distortion and raw emotional energy. His gestural drawings share Guston's fusion of dark psychological content with bold improvisational mark making.