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Some articles on comic, comics:

Patrick McDonnell
... McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts ... column in The New York Times magazine and created the monthly comic strip Bad Baby for Parents magazine ... Reader's Digest, Forbes, Time, and has co-authored the book Krazy Kat the Comic Art of George Herriman ...
The Comic Strip - Early History
... He planned to run The Comic Strip late at night after the play's performances ... Store along with Arnold Brown, an older standup comic who did not fit so obviously into the alternative comedy scene ... The Comic Strip opened in October 1980 and ran until 1981, when the troupe went on a national tour and then a tour of Australia ...
Vincent Connare
... Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font, often known as the standard typeface for comic and video game text, and the Trebuchet MS font, both of which ship as standard on ...
Ruben Bolling - Biography
... who has no formal art training, read many comics when he was a child, and sometimes features their styles in his work ... for several years before resigning to pursue comic writing full-time ... When that didn't work out, comic writing became a side interest and Bolling became a full-time bank employee ...
Groo The Wanderer
... Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book series written and drawn by Sergio Aragonés, rewritten, coplotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai, and colored by Tom Luth ... Over the years it has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics (one special issue), Marvel Comics (under its Epic imprint), Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics ... Groo was one of the first widely successful creator-owned comics, one of the few successful humorous comic books (outside Archie Comics) during its time, and one of the ...

More definitions of "comic":

  • (noun): A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts.
    Synonyms: comedian
  • (adj): Of or relating to or characteristic of comedy.
    Example: "Comic hero"

Famous quotes containing the word comic:

    “And in a comic mood
    In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: “Who am I?”, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: “Am I?” A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–62)