Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hubbub their little community can tolerate -- or a good movie requires. A poet manque as well as a sometime black marketeer, he has the manners of a thug and the soul of a romantic. When he is falsely accused of harboring the collaborator (and briefly jailed), his outrage, hugely comic but strangely blackened around the edges, is marvelous to behold...
...thing DAN QUAYLE doesn't need is yet another publication poking fun at him. Nevertheless, a new comic book is about to tweak the Veep. Where's Dan Quayle? (Collier; $9.95) is a parody of the hugely successful Where's Waldo? children's book series, in which the game is to spot the title character inside an illustrated crowd scene. The Quayle send-up has the Vice President visiting the Kennedy Space Center, Red Square and Pebble Beach Golf Course...
Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much -- infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex, Volare, bygone rock dances...
...from nursing-home attendant to meat-packer in a sausage factory, while writing story after story. A sharp-eyed editor at the Atlantic Monthly suggested that one of Sayles' submissions -- already 50 pages long -- be expanded into a novel. It eventually became Pride of the Bimbos (1975), a darkly comic tale of an exhibition softball team that performs in drag...
...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...