"To me, being a comic novelist is obviously to be serious, too — what else is there to be comic about?" Mr. Jacobson said.
What is comic about this ultimate isolation, and even consoling, is that it is shared, like the plight of Howard's oxymoronic "Cousins".
There is much that is comic about the sexualised nature of this male-on-male banter, but it points to a deeper truth about the psychology of organisations.
What is comic about suicide bombers and I.E.D.'s, or a nuclear-armed Pakistan, reeling from corruption, violence and chronic dysfunction?
By the end of the hourlong session, there were comics about islands populated by Native Americans, and about aliens who communicated in Morse code.
(Because of its dialogue, "Médée" is technically an opéra comique, even though there is nothing comic about it).
My films, even if they're comic, they're about: 'Let's accept the bizarre.
'Well, yes, but there is something mildly comic about it,' he says, 'the last endangered species, the upper classes.
(This is not to say that articles about being comic are unfounded!).
The singer claims to have wept rather than sung the album's last track, "Gwreiddiau Dwfn" / "Mawrth Oer Ar y Blaned Neifion", which features lyrics "so bleak it's almost comic" about "being rooted to a sad piece of land being doomed to live somewhere and that's all you have and that's what you're stuck with".
