"I've read 'The Satanic Verses' and it really is a comical book.
Mr. Lightman's foreboding, sometimes darkly comical book, "The Diagnosis," his third novel, is mainly the story of the information-age meltdown of Bill Chalmers.
This was a darkly comical book about the plight of workers at an ad agency who begin to be laid off.
Comical Response In 1983, the Department of Education paid for the printing of a million comic books to be sent to schools to publicize Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign.
There have been plenty of comical pop-culture devils (Hot Stuff, the comic-book devil of mudflap and tattoo fame, Bedazzled), but never with this detail.
The movie was also criticized because the movie was comical, when the books were solemn and serious with occasional wry humor.
They are celebrated today as design classics, while their pedagogic content is seen as a bit comical: imagine giving kids books about Nelson and Napoleon!
I was even more confused when his name popped up, a few years later, on a series of comical question-and-answer books about medicine, written with Dr. Billy Goldberg, the first of which was titled, "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" (Leyner met Goldberg while Leyner was writing for the TV medical drama "Wonderland"; they hit it off and wrote the books, which were a huge success).
(Picture book; ages 4 to 8) The title page of this comical, reassuring and instructive book by the lauded author and illustrator David Shannon shows a goofy-looking louse with suitcases in his pincers, like an unexpected guest waiting to be let in.
She also found some of the book's comical scenes, including the naked female skydiver landing in a pigpen, "among the most memorable that Irving has written".
