Chaissac knowingly mixes folksy primitivism and Modernist abstraction (Picasso was his role model), repeatedly reproducing his characteristic puzzlelike conglomerations of boldly outlined, brightly colored shapes, always adding cartoon faces to make rudimentary, mildly comical men.
There was something irresistible about this slight, comical little man who Malcolm Cowley thought "looked like a cartoonist's notion of a dapper French artist".
"Tiens," the poilu exclaims, "a holy maniac," and takes a potshot at him, driving the comical tin man, clanking and gibbering, into the cold desert night -- an unwelcoming yellow road.
Momchil Mladenov was a marvellous Don; he made the old man comical without depriving him of his dignity.
The man, comical but also grotesque, chivalric but also clueless, embodies desires that cannot be comfortably distinguished from the wish to quiet her: You've heard of planting lotuses in a fire, she says.
So Addictive," Missy Elliott (Elektra) — The album that gave the world two of this year's biggest hits, the spare, overcaffeinated "Get Ur Freak On" and the comical "One Minute Man," is much better, on the whole, than even those two songs.
Two men resembling comical superheroes appear to her aid and quickly defeat the man, while Shakira defeats Taylor.
Some instances of violence are comical – a tiny, drunken man being shoved into a muddy ditch by a tall, muscular hijra elicited roaring applause from bypassers.
My crowning moment came at the end of sophomore year, when I was elected "Cleve House Fact Man:" the comical emcee of Thursday lunches.
