" is a rapturous masquerade ... Each of the guilds that produce our luxurious musical shows has shared equally in the general excellence of an upper-class song-and-dance arcade ... It is an excellent fable-good humored, slightly romantic and eminently pragmatic ... The music is jaunty, versatile and imaginative ... Mary Boland is the queen of the book and the performance and a carnival of comic delights.

She can be dishonest ( she claimed during the school carnival that there was a giant man-eating chicken in her booth, when in reality it was a tall man eating chicken named Tim ) and sometimes does not care about Adam's feelings ( once she sold his comic collection with his knowledge ).

Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

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 ”.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the Porter who appears in Act II, Scene 3, is also a type of " comic relief " drunk who serves to temporarily lighten the mood of the play right after a heinous regicide has taken place.

Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or, often, a serious play with a happy ending.

Bernard Dick summed up Holliday's acting: " Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability ... Her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts.

Méhul followed the example of the operas which Gluck had written for Paris in the 1770s and applied Gluck's " reforms " to opéra comique ( a genre which mixed music with spoken dialogue and was not necessarily at all " comic " in mood ).

In a 1976 Peanuts comic strip, Peppermint Patty gets so angry at Charlie Brown that her mood ring explodes.

Although the action sequences are quite faithful to Woo's typical choreography, comic relief and the general mood distinguish it from his grittier works, such as his previous film, Bullet in the Head ( 1990 ).

Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and / or mood for use in films, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.

For instance, one comic had Megan declaring she was in the mood for Italian and the two sharks immediately sought to find an Italian swimming in the water.

** Procedural texture – a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and / or mood for use in films, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.

" Conversely, another reviewer described it as " a fairly well done vampire comic book " with a " pitch perfect mood " and pleasant artwork, and About. com's Deb Aoki ranked it fifteenth on her list of the twenty-two best vampire manga.

Some comic strips, such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks, may be printed on the editorial or op-ed page rather than the comics page because of their regular political commentary.

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

Rospigliosi was an accomplished man of letters, who wrote poetry, dramas and libretti, as well as what may be the first comic opera.

This tradition may have been invented by the comic poets as a witticism, as the name of the purported husband means " Penis, from Men's Island.

The Little Bears may have been the first American comic strip.

Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his work ; contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character, and his readings may be considered a form of performance art.

The following works may be mentioned, among many others: Cajo Mario ; the three Biblical operas, Assalone, La giuditta, and Il sacrificio d ' Abramo ; Il convito di pietra ; and La ballerina amante, a comic opera first performed at Venice with enormous success.

: This may include the gentleman juggler — using everyday objects such as hats, canes, plates, wine bottles and cigars ; comedy juggling — the juggling skill is secondary to the comic character and jokes of the performer ; sport themed — the performers dress in sporting attire and juggle sports equipment such as tennis racquets, footballs, or even snooker balls ; traditional circus style — presenting pure skill with precision, skill and panache.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

* The town drunk may play the role of the fool as a source of comic relief.

He may disrupt public meetings, either for comic effect, or by dispensing what proves to be wisdom in a garbled and comic form.

Many American and British daily newspapers publish a larger edition on Sundays, which often includes color comic strips, a magazine, and a coupon section ; may only publish on a Sunday, or may have a " sister-paper " with a different masthead that only publishes on a Sunday.

While prochronisms such as this may not be noticed by the uninformed, other prochronisms are intentionally comic ( e. g. a 10th-century peasant earnestly explaining his village as an " anarcho-syndicalist commune " in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or a Beatlesque band called the " Bedbugs " appearing in the American Civil War era TV comedy F-Troop ).

The comic strip Warrumbunglers may also have played some part in this usage.

Gaines ' comics may have appealed to adults, but comic books were ( and to a degree, still are ) considered by the general public to be aimed at children.

Although DC and Timely ( which evolved to become Marvel Comics ) characters are more famous today, circulation figures suggest that the best-selling superhero title of the era may have been Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel, whose approximately 1. 4 million copies per issue made it " the most widely circulated comic book in America.

The characters chosen to be cosplayed may be sourced from any movie, TV series, book, comic book, video game or music band but the practice of cosplay is most often associated with replicating anime and manga characters.

These charges may well be comic fabrications.

99 ) speaks somewhat disparagingly of him, and Cicero, although he admits with some hesitation that Caecilius may have been the chief of the comic poets ( De Optimo Genere Oratorum, I ), considers him inferior to Terence in style and Latinity ( Ad Atticum vii.

" Fifteen years later, Time critic Richard Schickel listed it as one of his " Guilty Pleasures "; while acknowledging " there are people who think this film ... may be the worst big budget film of modern times ", Schickel disagreed, saying " if you set aside the routine comic expectations its marketing encouraged, you may find yourself entranced by a movie that is utterly sui generis.

As of 2009, 34 comic books in the series have been released.

Other movies have also used the term Bronx for comic effect, such as " Bronx ", the character on the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

Whedon stated: " The Origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

A number of strips in the comic have run for a very long time.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

Also in the comic, McDonald ’ s and all other restaurants all have scratch and sniff menus, with no actual food.

Although the film would have comic moments, Chaplin described it as first and foremost a romantic film.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.

The majority of traditional newspaper comic strips have some Internet presence.

As newspapers change, the changes have affected comic strips.

Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover — making it the first known American prototype comic book.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

Some fans have used “ Dilbertian ” or “ Dilbertesque ” to analogize situations in real life to those in the comic strip.

Some newspapers have dealt with the criticism by moving the strip from the comics page to the editorial page, because many people believe that a politically based comic strip like Doonesbury does not belong in a traditionally child-friendly comics section.

There have been a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including a musical and comic mini-series.

Moreover to have been singled out by Aristophanes for so much comic attention is proof of popular interest in his work.

Both the playwright and his work were travestied by comic poets such as Aristophanes, the known dates of whose own plays thus serve as a terminus ad quem for those of Euripides, though sometimes the gap can be considerable ( e. g. twenty-seven years separate Telephus, known to have been produced in 438 BC, from its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC!

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

Later we have Till the Clouds Roll By ( Victor Fleming, 1919 ), where anamorphosis is used to depict the nightmare effects of indigestion in a comic manner.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Over the years, there have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, seventeen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.