Basquiat similarly used raw expressive figuration on unconventional surfaces with bold gestural marks, creating emotionally charged characters that carry a similar outsider energy and visual immediacy to Nara's corrugated board drawing.

Condo creates expressive figurative works featuring distorted cartoon influenced characters rendered with bold outlines and emotional intensity, closely mirroring the stylized figure work and psychological mood found in this Nara piece.

Pettibon works extensively with ink and colored pencil on paper to produce raw expressive figurative imagery that shares the same hand drawn intimacy, unconventional surface sensibility, and emotionally loaded character driven imagery as this Nara work.