Word: comical
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...gift was for bringing a clear-eyed sympathy and an irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg show"); with penetrating observation (Garbo is "the woman whose life everyone wants to interfere with"); and with a hard-won wisdom of the heart ("It's much easier to turn hate into love than to turn fear into love...
...Comic books are for losers. The consumption of comic books should only be done ironically, like hoarding Pez dispensers. While watching movies is accepted, reading about superheroes is hopelessly square. The self-important Comic Book Guy from “The Simpsons” comes to mind...
...last few years, graphic novels have become the acceptably trendy cousin of comic books. The film version of Daniel Clowes’ nastily funny suburban epic “Ghost World” charmed the beautiful people and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. Graphic novels have gradually eked out their own section in every Barnes and Noble, a corner that is filled to bursting with intrigued readers of every...
Last year, so-hip-it-hurts literary journal “McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern” (with Dave Eggers as editor) published an “all-comics issue” featuring graphic novel artists. The contents included contributors as diverse as bawdy comic legend R. Crumb, the understated Canadian Seth, and existentialist horror artists Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. Chris Ware, fresh from the impressive critical success with “Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth,” served as editor...
...ACME Novelty Library” volume is a departure from what attracted so many readers to “Jimmy Corrigan.” “ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...