Sentence examples for comic representation from inspiring English sources

The Shichi-fuku-jin are a favourite theme of Japanese folk song and are frequently given comic representation in painting and theatre, both singly and as a group.

When the play, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, " was staged in Australia in 2011, Hindus there protested, claiming to be wounded by the comic representation of the elephant-headed god, the length of whose trunk is used in one scene to allude to a vital male organ.

The results were not good; nonetheless, since the subject of the week around here, thanks to Amy Davidson's post, is the comic representation of Hitler, I thought it would be worthwhile to look at the interview with Levy by Louis Lewitan that appeared several weeks ago in Die Zeit.

Kafka could invent, and the forces that oppressed him were enough interior to be converted into giant fables, comic representations of modern man's cosmic unease.

The big theme behind these three comics is representation.

Mr. Taylor's white GMC truck is adorned with somewhat comic-book representations of a man and a woman flexing and lifting dumbbells drawn by his former business partner, Charles Pate.

The distinction is important to Renaissance and Neoclassical assumptions concerning the respective subject of comic and tragic representation.

The latest artist to make a spirited New York debut in one of this alternative space's tiny side galleries — called "White Rooms" — offers art-savvy, sardonic paintings of women in which style, anatomy, fashion, the comics, abstraction and representation engage actively in spatially tight quarters and on several levels.

In terms of sheer productivity, brilliance, distinctly American diction, philosophical rage, comic irritability, dramatic representations of solitude, uniqueness of voice and unwavering repugnance toward heterosexual convention, it is difficult to think of a contemporary artist with whom Roth might even be compared.

Before I end I should mention that there was a healthy representation of comic talent punctuating the night.

Minority representation in comic books is a topic close to my heart, so I was very happy to discover 'NO STRAIGHT LINES: FOUR DECADES OF QUEER COMICS' (Fantagraphics, $35).