Sentence examples for comics literature from inspiring English sources

Herriman came to be identified as Black or Creole in comics literature, including his first book-length biography, Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman (1986), while the "Greek" label stuck with some biographers, and was used by Bill Blackbeard in his introductions to the Krazy and Ignatz volumes in the early 2000s.

At the same time Jacobson generally distrusts blithe distinctions between comic literature and serious novels.

(This was a constant theme of comic literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Think of Molière, or "Tom Jones").

To complete my triangle of 19th and 20th century comic literature, I would like to place an "island" work, The Diary of a Nobody.

The man, played here by a dour and nervous-looking Romain Duris, wrote some of the most durable and perfect works of comic literature ever produced in the West: plays that, like Shakespeare's, remain eternally fresh and alive.

When we lost the art of making the perfect martini, we also seem to have lost the formula for producing comic literature that does not insult the intelligence of the reader.

The colour and breadth of Gogol's world, his reckless and cheerful no-good heroes with their wonderfully memorable facial features, names, mannerisms and speech habits - these are what make good comic literature.

In his definitive book on 18th-century comic literature, The Amiable Humorist, Stuart Tave argued that "the 17th-century concept of humour as an aberration demanding satiric attack was essentially reversed … by the creation of amiable humorists, among whom Parson Adams [from Joseph Andrews] and my Uncle Toby [from Tristram Shandy] were the most important".

Scott Veale's well-balanced and entertaining essay on Smith ("Drinking Gin With the Dead," Sept. 10) made me feel that I was no longer an island but rather part of the mainland of readers who know that comic literature can address serious subjects.

You probably can't do better than this as far as comic literature goes.

More often, though, he talks about the comics as "literature" with the universal resonance of Greek myth.