Sentences with phrase «works as both a comic»

Before having children, Dani worked as a comic, performing across the country and participating in the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival with a solo show she wrote called «The Move.»

That a major university press would publish a series of graphic novels may come as a surprise to those who think of these works as comic books on steroids, offering plots about superheroes to younger readers.

Before Cohn entered academia he worked as a comic artist, a pursuit he took up in his teens.

Black Panther works as both a comic book adaptation and an ambitious social commentary drama.

And when he climbs onto an old tire swing for an arc or two over a lake, the tiresomely predictable break that lands him in the water ruins the scene as gentle nostalgia while landing too clunkily to work as comic relief.

Known as a writer and reporter, as well as for his King Oblivion books, «Copernicus Jones» marks Wilson's first published work as a comic book writer.

Tiago Carneiro da Cunha was born in São Paulo in 1973, where - as a young man - he worked as a comic book artist and illustrator.

Not exact matches

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

Unveiled at this year's San Diego Comic - Con, Marvel Studios» logo and animation update pays homage to Marvel Comics (as did its predecessor) while highlighting its own cinematic work.

As part of the Comicpalooza Podcast Partnership Program, Craig invited Cary, comic con's Social Media Coordinator, to sit down and talk how he and his team work their social media magic for Texas» largest pop culture event.

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Plato had as ready a wit as Kierkegaard's, and probably a healthier nature, and certainly Aristophanes» speech in The Symposium is a work of comic genius.

As you may remember, we've taken to posting the comedic work on Wes Molebash, who's comic strip — Insert Image — has a lot of fun with certain points of the Christian subculture and...

As you're reading this, I am either in the midst of a long day at work or heading to see one of my all time favorite comics for one of his 4 shows in Buffalo this weekend!

Back in 1958, when they first met, Dave was a young teaching pro at the Rockaway Hunting Club just outside New York City and Susan was working at NBC as secretary to Pat Harrington Jr., the television comic who was then appearing occasionally on The Jack Paar Show.

As someone who has worked closely with politicians for almost 20 years and who is also a stand up comic who makes jokes at their expense, I have been pondering this question with increasing unease.

In the video, as Miner travels to work, she has comic encounters with many community leaders.

I have influences in my work as a fantasy, rpg, music, and American comics, Japanese and European.

When I'm not gaming I'm working on writing my comic series, but I still try to play as much as I can.

American Film Institute: AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

I'm a talented artist and work as a graphic artist and web designer, I write and draw original comics for fun.

Jon Hamm does a broad comic turn as Wiig's conceited sex buddy that would have worked better if the writing weren't so coarse.

While weed was a big part of the comic misunderstandings that fueled the plot of the first movie, and works in similar fashion here as well, the fact is that both films operate on a higher plane than an awful lot of sludgy spliff flicks.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of

The son of a sideshow barber working with the Barnum and Bailey circus, Faye (born Joseph Palladino) started out as a Borscht Belt comic during the early»30s.

Her performance, which perfectly displayed the hyperkinetic comic energy and sardonic wit that came to characterize many of the actress» portrayals, won her a «special recognition for acting» at Sundance that year.The year 1998 brought more independent work in the form of The Misadventures of Margaret, a romantic comedy in which Posey had the title role and a foray into mainstream features with a turn as Tom Hanks» book - editor girlfriend in Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.

Working mostly in comedies, Ruffalo appeared in The Last Big Thing (1996) and alongside comic character actor stalwarts Steve Zahn and Paul Giamatti in Safe Men (1998); he also starred as an artist with love problems in the romantic comedy Life / Drawing (1999).

As written and directed by Satrapi and comic artist Paronnaud, the French - produced Persepolis works as best it can as a precocious and relatable vision of childhood one - third of the way through, when it recounts Marji's forced, rapid maturation during the revolution and the waAs written and directed by Satrapi and comic artist Paronnaud, the French - produced Persepolis works as best it can as a precocious and relatable vision of childhood one - third of the way through, when it recounts Marji's forced, rapid maturation during the revolution and the waas best it can as a precocious and relatable vision of childhood one - third of the way through, when it recounts Marji's forced, rapid maturation during the revolution and the waas a precocious and relatable vision of childhood one - third of the way through, when it recounts Marji's forced, rapid maturation during the revolution and the war.

It was bright and colorful and really seemed, to me at least, to capture the peculiar mix of whimsy and drama that marked the comic as a unique and brilliant work.

And while I'd never noticed Paul Walter Hauser in anything before, his scene - stealing work as Shawn Eckardt suggests a deep reservoir of comic talent.

Ted's favorite author, Howard Bellweather, protests Brian's Hero Award while collecting his own, Emmett works for men who are similar to the politically correct characters of the fabulous new gay TV drama, «Gay as Blazes,» and Michael wants to reconnect with Brian at a comic - book convention.

Based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee (who makes a cameo as he does in all the films based on his work), it picks up the story of those cosmic - rayed superheroes dealing with the end of the world and a fifth attempt at a wedding.

It's a mashup of comic styles and periods, and as such, works about 50 % of the time.

We picked out seven games that have (basically) never had their own comic book series before and detail as best we can for potential publishers just why they'd work in the realm of word balloons.

Gary Cole, one of the most underrated comic actors working today, has almost nothing to do as the ruthless drug lord, and Rosie Perez is all sass and no substance.

The polar opposite of Mike Leigh's grimy, naturalistic overviews of contemporary Britain, Topsy - Turvy's Victorian recreation and light comic touch match the flair of the Gilbert and Sullivan focus even as the director digs into some of the underbelly of both the stage and period society, with various insecurities and much darker, half - spoken bindings at work on the men and, especially, women.

I have to make the movie work, and Kevin Bacon with a ponytail and a cravat dressed as an 18th - century fop will look ridiculous»... Shaw walks the finest line, even if he did have that look in all the comics.

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

Written by Freaks & Geeks / Undeclared / KNOCKED UP's Segel — so committed a comic actor that he goes the Full Monty not once, but twice — and directed by Undeclared writer Nicholas Stoller, this heartbreak - kid comedy is very much a Judd Apatow production: It even features Jonah Hill as an obsessed Infant Sorrow fan who works at Turtle Bay.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

The Promotion works as a comedy because, in the depths of our dark hearts, we enjoy seeing the woes that beset our comic antagonists.

Still, «Unfinished Business» isn't a laugh - free experience — Nick Frost steals every scene as a business underling with a kinky side — and some of the comic set pieces actually work.

For those who only know her from her comic sketches on «Saturday Night Live,» her work here will come as a revelation (although her brief but marvelous work in Robert Altman's «A Prairie Home Companion,» where she really was pregnant, should have been a tip - off).

That first issue in particular reads and feels like one of the X-Men or Spider - Man comics Coates read growing up, or an issue of the Ed Brubaker - written Captain America, which Coates has cited as an influence on his own comics work.

Its melting pot approach to thought and movement was, at least in this particular film, very counterculture influenced, just as, say, the quasi-underground comic work of Alejandro Jodorowsky and others was in the days of «Metal Hurlant.»

Beck has worked on film adaptations of comic books before, such as Red and Elektra.

«When I go to work I don't discriminate it as a comic - book movie,» says Stan over coffee at Manhattan's the Gander.

Goldman's credits include the upcoming Kingsman, as well as plenty of successful work in adapting comics for film, with Kick - Ass, X-Men: First Class, and X-Men: Days of Future Past under her belt.

It's an agreeable flawed film, in other words: Officially reduced to a commentator for blind audience members («Damn, I ripped the fuel line,» Marty blurts out to a puddle forming beneath the De Lorean), Fox's comic spark is almost out in this go «round — and don't get me started on Elisabeth Shue (replacing Claudia Wells in the sequels as Marty's gal, she turns in generic work that only aggravates Jennifer's maddening disposability).