On top of this, he still performed other gestures, such as arranging police protection with his personal assurances for local artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, when they were threatened by Nazi supporters for their new patriotic comic book superhero, Captain America.

Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Peter Cook and how their careers took off after the split of the partnership.

The drama of the 1660s and 1670s was vitalised by the competition between the two patent companies created at the Restoration, as well as by the personal interest of Charles II, and the comic playwrights rose to the demand for new plays.

While some would argue that this ruins their comic dynamic, this is a notable exception in that the dynamic is not lost by their personal separation.

The play is deeply personal and reflective but with a firmly comic sensibility.

After the strip finished in 1946, Kane returned to the comic books but, unknown to DC, had hired his own personal ghosts, including Lew Schwartz and Sheldon Moldoff from 1953-1967 .< ref > Moldoff, in a 1994 interview given while Kane was alive

On the first level, the main plot, the characters are royal and their concerns are those of statecraft and national welfare ; in the second-level plot, the characters are aristocratic and genteel and their concerns are those of personal values and personal fulfillment ; and on the level of the comic subplot, the characters are common and their concerns are largely sensual.

In the comic series Elephantmen by Richard Starkings of Comicraft, the executive director of the Information Agency where almost all of the main characters of the series work is called Gruenwald and bears a strong resemblance to Mark Gruenwald, down to his personal traits.

Hamton's parents figured prominently in the Tiny Toon Adventures direct-to-video movie How I Spent My Vacation ( along with Hamton's uncle Stinky, a heavy-set pig with poor personal hygiene ); in this film, they take Hamton and Plucky on an ill-fated vacation to a theme park ( during which Hamton barfed on a valuable comic book of Plucky's ).

Where the " straight man " serves no personal comic purpose but acts as a device to make the " comic " look good, he is known as a " stooge ".

* Batman Confidential-a monthly comic series that also tells tales from Batman's past but deals with more personal events in his career.

* Justin Green is generally acknowledged to have pioneered the genre ( in English-language comics, at least ) in his " Binky Brown " stories, notably the 1972 comic book Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, an extremely personal work dealing with Green's Catholic and Jewish background and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Breach-of-promise actions were part of the standard stock-in-trade of comic writers of the 19th century ( such as Charles Dickens in his Pickwick Papers, or Gilbert and Sullivan in Trial by Jury ), but most middle-and upper-class families were reluctant to use them except in rather extreme circumstances ( such as when a daughter became pregnant by a man who then refused to marry her ), since they led to wide publicity being given to a scrutiny of intimate personal concerns, something which was strongly repugnant to the family feeling of the period ( especially where young women were concerned ).

His personal life is rarely explored, and he instead appears usually for comic relief in scenes in Ellen's workplace.

Pazienza quickly developed an extremely personal body of work, alternating between playful comic cartooning – at times politically charged, at times simply nonsensical – and much more elaborate, dark, disturbing graphic novels, often dealing with drugs and wanton violence, with a liberal scattering of black humor throughout.

Here, Kaworu is portrayed as being ignorant of human emotions and taboos regarding social interaction and personal space, creating some comic relief.

In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created " TAKERU " ( 1992 ), the world's first computer graphics comic book series.

Their plays are wildly eclectic, touching on all genres and tones ; plays may be political, satirical, personal, tragic, comic, abstract, musical, surreal, poetic, and so on.

After his book Slaloms was awarded what was then called the Alph ' Art Coup de coeur ( First comic book prize ) in 1993, Trondheim was offered to bring his burgeoning series to a major publisher, Dargaud, while he continued churning out more personal books for L ' Association and other independent French publishers such as Cornélius.

This is an heroic comic poem, which is at the same time an epic and a personal satire.

There is as yet virtually no stand-up comedy in Korea because of cultural restrictions on insult-humour, personal comments, and respect for seniors, despite globally successful Korean comic films which depend on comedy of error, and situations with no apparent easy resolution under tight social restraints.

Created and written by Rupert Holmes ( with music also by Holmes ) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events ( both dramatic and comic ) in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II.

Chaplin also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.

Emphasis is laid on the comic elements of his dual relationship with Lois Lane ( Teri Hatcher ).

One plot element shared by the comic and the show is Lex Luthor's problematic relationship with his wealthy father, Lionel.

This type of language is used, according to E. Segal, for “ the forceful inversion, the reduction of the master to an abject position of supplication … the master-as-suppliant is thus an extremely important feature of the Plautine comic finale .” The imperative mood is therefore used in the complete role-reversal of the normal relationship between slave and master, and “ those who enjoy authority and respect in the ordinary Roman world are unseated, ridiculed, while the lowliest members of society mount to their pedestals … the humble are in face exalted ”.

With Nothing in Common ( 1986 ) – about a young man alienated from his parents who must re-establish a relationship with his father, played by Jackie Gleason – Hanks began to establish the credentials of not only a comic actor but of someone who could carry a serious role.

He has a brief, quietly emotional conversation with Alyssa, and gives her a copy of Chasing Amy, his new comic based on their failed relationship.

Although originally of the same ambiguous relationship to canon, the characters it introduced would reappear in the canonical Angel comic books to come later.

A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting ( Gérôme ) to comic opera ( Saint-Saëns ) to shadow puppetry ( Donnay ).

The humour had always been largely derived from their on-stage relationship, but whereas Hills and Green had cast Morecambe as the comic and Wise as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship ; as theatre critic Kenneth Tynan noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morecambe became a straight man who was funny.

Holden passes the reins of power over the Bluntman and Chronic comic and creates a new comic named Chasing Amy, based on the relationship.

* Nick and Nora were the inspirations for two comic book couples: the adoptive parents of Mary Marvel, Nick and Nora Bromfield, as well as the relationship between Ralph Dibny ( DC Comics ' Elongated Man ) and his wife Sue Dibny.

In the canonical comic book continuation to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – present ), it is revealed that Buffy and Dawn's relationship has been strained and conflicted since the events of " Chosen.

A central concept was that the duo lived together as close, long-term friends ( there were many references to a childhood friendship ) who shared not merely a flat but also a bed — although their relationship was purely platonic and merely continued a tradition of comic partners sleeping in the same bed that started with Laurel and Hardy.

* Romantic comedy film, a comic film centred on a romantic relationship

It is revealed that Bottler followed his and Linus's dream by becoming a comic book artist, Hutch has finally started his own detailing business, and Windows and Zoe are now in a relationship.

In the end the reader is able to unveil many of the mysteries of the novel and the relationship between the heroic material from the past and the comic adventures of the present since L ' Estoile is the noble Leonore in disguise.

In the 1993 Nintendo Power Star Fox comic, Fox had a romantic relationship with Fara Phoenix.

* In some Star Trek media, notably comic books, Commodore Decker is portrayed as one of Captain Kirk's mentors and teachers at Starfleet Academy, providing a backstory for their relationship and deepening it.

It features fashion, health and relationship articles and community news and event listings as well as the stories — often pornographic and several in comic form — common to all gay men's magazines in Japan.