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"He was sort of comic relief for us," Mr. Shacknai said.

This sort of comic pessimism is, after all, part of Jewish culture".

But then the graphic novel was a pretty odd sort of comic book.

What you get to see is the sort of comic weirdness of the place, but, for all its bizarreness, life in North Korea is no joke.

Beckett uses a strange ballet of banana consumption as a sort of comic curtain raiser, stirring us to engagement with this forbidding character.

"In my experience, the sort of comic art that sold well were kind of money shots — big action shots of the heroes in costumes doing something interesting.

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And don't even get those editors started on a cartoon image of one of Mario Batali's trademark clogs that seems to be leaking pasta, or yellow worms, or maybe a sort of comic-book stench.

Drawn to this incongruous place — a place "where every time I begin a sentence describing it I think of examples that contradict what I'm about to say" — Lancaster set out to show how different the reality of the place was from "the sort of comic-book-like image offered by much Western media," she said.

In his ramshackle SoHo studio – a sort of comics library with a membership of just one, it consists of a dingy bathroom, a kitchenette, a drawing board, the odd dusty plant and about eight million quietly groaning books – Spiegelman lights yet another cigarette.

This leads to all sorts of comic and uncomfortable mistakes.

All sorts of comic scenarios come to mind as you wander around – imagine trying to chop that rubber 'wooden log' with the rubber axe that lies nearby.

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