Sentence examples for comic frame from inspiring English sources

Presented within this distancing comic frame is the harrowing story of the nine African-American men (and boys) falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931.

By Michelle Nijhuis May 15, 2014 In the nineteen-thirties, the literary theorist Kenneth Burke proposed what he called the "comic frame" — the view, he wrote, of "human antics as a comedy, albeit as a comedy ever on the verge of the most disastrous tragedy".

Try making a cartoon strip in which every PictoChat frame is a new comic frame.

Most interestingly, the comic framing permits eruptions of histrionic extremity that are unsettling and affecting.

While many climate disasters are undeniably nigh, Foust says that coverage of them could benefit from Burke's comic framing.

Perry directs these uproarious rapid-fire outbursts with exquisite comic timing and incisive comic framing (the black-and-white cinematography is by Sean Price Williams); he and Altman go at each other with claws bared, revealing the terrifying vulnerability of two wounded souls who know each other's wounds all too well.

The characters in the comic were posed using Garry's Mod, a tool which facilitates manipulation of the Source engine used by Half-Life 2, and the comic frames were assembled using Photoshop 6.

The comic-frame format and the reduction of text to brief snippets gives manga an air of urgency and excitement.

Writing in The New York Times, Walter Kerr said Mr. Schulz and the show's creators had accomplished a small miracle by "opening up one end of his comic strip frame and letting his people out".

The large scale reproduction of a comic strip frame was considered radical and revolutionary at the time.

"Another semi-bummer weekend... .. mutters Pekar, slouching back to work in a comic-book frame.