Word: humorous
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...reflects on his years as an undergraduate with self-effacing humor, remembering fondly a time when boys carried ties in their pockets, the football team was terrible and professors wore cufflinks to class...
Chester Brown doesn't need your love. His shifts in tone and subject have bucked many a reader. Part of the second generation of "underground" comix artists of the mid 1980s, Brown has gone from absurdist humor ("Ed the Happy Clown") to confessional autobiography ("I Never Liked You") to adapting the Gospels, to a fictional series with all-gibberish dialogue. His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject. Although choosing to do a biography of a 19th century mystic...
...story on his hands, and he has done much valuable research. His book, however, is far from satisfying. In tone it alternates between a voice so low key as to verge on dull and a stuffy attempt to make the book appear more scholarly than it is. Hemley's humor is always just off target, or trite, or both. "To paraphrase Groucho Marx, we don't want to be members of a human race that would have us as members"; it almost makes sense, but for that, no cigar...
Some might claim these women are joking. (Dr. Caldicott certainly isn’t joking; as she clarifies, “I am deadly serious”). But is their man-hating humor really that funny? After all, who cares that the clinically and psychologically dead psychopaths are forced to support other people’s children? Men are guilty and should pay, simply because they are men. As California attorney Fatima Araiza says, “This is no longer the oppression of women. This is now the oppression...
...Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts," says Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostál. "All the same it's a great film." Milos Forman, the émigré Czech film-maker and two-time Oscar winner, hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes...