The phrase "a sort of comic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has characteristics of a comic or resembles a comic in some way.
Example: "The film was a sort of comic that blended humor with serious themes, making it both entertaining and thought-provoking."
Alternatives: "a type of comic" or "a kind of comic".
Beckett uses a strange ballet of banana consumption as a sort of comic curtain raiser, stirring us to engagement with this forbidding character.
I started writing about food — or about eating, really — as a sort of comic relief when I was doing the U.S. Journal series.
Those shows and movies pegged us as exotic even threatening outliers. "Modern Family" endows us with a sort of comic banality.
A mere meeting of the eyes may strike sparks between man and woman, as in the case of Celia and Oliver, whose quick betrothal is a sort of comic riposte to Rosalind and Orlando's laborious courting.
Mr. Perrin allows us simply to watch -- as pelicans use their wide beaks to cull what they can from a receding wave, as Clark's grebes do a sort of comic ballet skittering across the surface of a lake.
Cheetah, Tarzan's lovable chimpanzee companion, has now become a sort of comic maid, helping Jane wash the dishes and operating the rope and pulley fan system that Tarzan has constructed to cool their arboreal retreat.
And don't even get those editors started on a cartoon image of one of Mario Batali's trademark clogs that seems to be leaking pasta, or yellow worms, or maybe a sort of comic-book stench.
In his ramshackle SoHo studio – a sort of comics library with a membership of just one, it consists of a dingy bathroom, a kitchenette, a drawing board, the odd dusty plant and about eight million quietly groaning books – Spiegelman lights yet another cigarette.
Pixar has made a religion of prototyping through what the company calls "story reels". The company doesn't just write a script; it creates storyboards that provide a sort of comic-book version of a prospective movie, then adds dialogue and music.
Lots of people try to make themed anthologies and then after months of frustration drop the theme and allow any sort of comic in.
Dodd has said that Shakespeare was a sort of standup comic at heart.
