Sentence examples for comic history from inspiring English sources

Instead, the local alternative of comic history painting was born.

These qualities emerge from the four etchings illustrating Charles Dickens Christmas Caroll (1844), the Comic History of England (1847 48), and the woodcuts for the Comic History of Rome (1852).

One can only imagine how Sheridan Whiteside would have made caustic comic history if he had been confined to the Kowalski household.

An eccentric 25-year-old scholar, Knickerbocker relates this comic history of Dutch settlers in the American colony of New Amsterdam, satirizing Dutch-American mannerisms and retelling Dutch legends.

"Soul Kitchen" is really a comic history of the restaurant, which before the film ends changes hands more than once, undergoes multiple renovations and at different moments is a punk-rock club and a soul-music dance club.

His A History of New York... by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809) was a comic history of the Dutch regime in New York, prefaced by a mock-pedantic account of the world from creation onward.

Its precedents include, in comics history, the topography of Coconino County, in George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" (1910-44).

The theme of a publicly misjudged character's private anguish has grown, in comics history, to dominate the form.

FIRST, a bit of comics history: Superman long believed he was the sole survivor of his doomed planet.

And while his hero occupies a hallowed place in comics history, he is far from a household name.

The story, at No. 2, will likely go down in comics history as "the event that changed everything" right before the next event that really changed everything.