noun
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A comedian.
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A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
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A children's newspaper.
adjective
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Funny; amusing; comical.
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Relating to comedy.
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a comic stereotype
Examples of comic in a Sentence
Dean handed the phone to his wife as the light went on like in the comic books—a flashing bulb of inspiration.
Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184) was the greatest comic dramatist of Rome.
He will be joined by some of his comic book superhero friends.
There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, but extremely attractive.
There are numerous French and Latin letters, his Apologie, a promising fragment of comic prose narrative, and a large collection of occasional verses, odes, elegies, stanzas, &c.
Ennius called his didactic poem on natural philosophy Epicharmus after the comic poet.
Powerful as a comic playwright, he was not a poet in the proper sense of the term.
Die Meistersinger is perhaps Wagner's most nearly perfect work of art; and it is a striking proof of its purity and greatness that, while the whole work is in the happiest comic vein, no one ever thinks of it as in any way slighter than Wagner's tragic works.
But we find no trace of the exuberant comic power and geniality of his great contemporary.
As a dramatist he worked more in the spirit of Plautus than of Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius or Terence; but the great Umbrian humorist is separated from his older contemporary, not only by his breadth of comic power, but by his general attitude of moral and political indifference.
A brief tract on comic metres (De comicis dimensionibus) and a work De causis linguae Latinae - the earliest Latin grammar on scientific principles and following a scientific method - were his only other purely literary works published in his lifetime.
How can you use comic books to motivate kids?
His pieces abound in comic situations, and some of them, Magister Blackstadius (1844), Rika Morbror (1845), En tragedi i Vimtnerby (1848) and others, maintain their reputation.
They are actually written by another great British comic called Tim Vine.
This would be an excellent holiday video game gift for kids who love comic superhero games.
For instance, there is a comic book series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series that brings you into the video game environment with the super-speedy hedgehog and his companions.
It was produced with great success in 1883, and was the first of a too short series of modern English operas; Mackenzie's second opera, The Troubadour, was produced by the same company in 1886; and his third dramatic work was His Majesty, an excellent comic opera (Savoy Theatre, 1897).
Among the student publications are The Cornell Era (1868, weekly), The Cornell Daily Sun (1880), The Sibley Journal of Engineering (1882), The Cornell Magazine, a literary monthly, and The Cornell Widow (1892), a comic tri-weekly.
The first volume published of his posthumous works was the exquisite and splendid Thedtre en liberte, a sequence if not a symphony of seven poems in dramatic form, tragic or comic or fanciful eclogues, incomparable with the work of any other man but the author of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in combination and alternation of gayer and of graver harmonies.
An important work was his treatise on the old comedy, dealing with theatres and theatrical apparatus generally, and discussing the works of the principal comic poets themselves.
Dean handed the phone to his wife as the light went on like in the comic books—a flashing bulb of inspiration.
The central roles of Joseph and Marion Tura are taken by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard and their performances are marvels of comic acting.
A comic afterpiece always followed the main play, and performances were often interspersed with songs and dances.
Designs such as the military, airplanes, tourists spots, sports teams, comic characters and universities also appeared on Zippo's lighters.
These intricate drawings, whilst reminiscent of old-fashioned comic books or medieval illuminated manuscripts, are timeless, like the human folly they depict.
Lenny teamed up with the Comic Strip in 1980, when he met comedienne Dawn French, who would later become his wife.
The stand-up comic was one of five wealthy clients targeted.
O Briain's simply an astonishingly funny comic, hitting scorching form.
Fine writes about a serious subject with a deftness of touch that is at times darkly comic.
The Serial Killers Club, as the title and subject matter might suggest, is a blackly comic piece of work.
What follows, in this Cannes Camera d'Or-winning gem, is an absurdly comic farce in the best Eastern European tradition.
Tragic facts are fitted into the sparkling humor and around the richly comic character of Billy.
In the 1980s, he drew the comic strip, Inside Woody Allen, based on the movie director, writer and actor.
Although I haven't read the comic strip, I believe that it contains many observations about humans from the viewpoint of the animals.
Momma is a comic strip written by Mell Lazarus, also known for authoring the Miss Peach series of comic strip written by Mell Lazarus, also known for authoring the Miss Peach series of comic strips.
But geekdom isn't perfect and this is what I think this comic strip has latched onto.
Join artist Jim Aitchison and create your own cartoon character, draw caricatures of friends and family and put together your own comic strip!
Penny Arcade Fantastic American site that runs a really funny comic strip.
Comical covers WHY DOES your front cover, every month, look like the front cover of a child's comic?
I did crossovers with other comics with whose creators I was friendly, got linked to on people's websites who liked the comic.
Harvey Pekar, the hilariously downtrodden Cleveland comic book artist, is the subject of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, titled after Pekar's autobiographical series.
Molière remains France's best-known comic dramatist, but was also a distinguished actor, director and the leader of several theatrical companies.
Comedy of Errors is a wonderful comic exasperation of mistaken identity.
Sir John Tenniel, who was already famous for his cartoons in Punch, a comic for adults, illustrated the fable.
The play also just misses the tone of comic fable that Williams intended to give it an air of innocence.
The School Council were also involved in raising funds for Comic Relief on 11 March.
Nowadays, of course, the Comic Relief joke is to use the inclusion of a high profile celebrity as a throwaway gag.
Along with my sci-fi fixation, I am also a huge comic book geek.
Tommy Rag is a fine addition to Spall's gallery of comic grotesques.
Paul Sinha, a pioneering Asian comic and regular headliner at UK comedy clubs, entertained guests.