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The book captured the comic side of Italian life which is always coupled with tragedy.
BBC: Benigni pulls the strings
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As with traditional animation, if the economics are right, CG seems a good fit for larger-than-life stories: comic book adaptations, sci-fi, horror and myth.
CNN: Review: Exciting 'Beowulf' jumps off the screen
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This is the closest thing to a living, breathing comic-come-to-life that has ever been produced, and it represented everything great and imaginative about comics.
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By contrast, Widmerpool, his fat and pompous schoolfellow who is unexpectedly successful in adult life, is a great comic creation.
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His favorite was Tony Hancock, a comic wedded to despair, in his life as much as in his work. (Hancock died of an overdose in 1968.) Harvey had him on vinyl: a pristine, twenty-year-old set of LPs.
NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing
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Rather than slapping some pithy comments between splashy artwork, Trombetta forces a confrontation with very difficult realities by connecting the molding memories of real-life atrocities to the disintegrating comic panels of 1950s horror books that have been far too easily dismissed as brainrot.
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His unerring nose for pretense in the art world and American life, and his gift for comic invective when faced with political correctness and euphemism, alienated him from both the left and the right.
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All this to say: Sometimes real life characters are just as good as anything in a comic book.
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The richly textured populist panorama, with its long-simmering feuds, casual gunplay, corrupt local politics, and the shoddy justice of vigilante mobs, blends the comic hyperbole of long-ago tall tales with the intense melodramatic spectacle of life and death in the daily balance.
NEWYORKER: Wild Girl