Meaning of comic cut | Babel Free

Definitions

A drawing or engraving of a humorous nature or theme.

Examples

“The drunken man is always the comic cut⟳ in the terrible book of life, and an old soldier who knew Portsmouth well in those days, described to me how he had constantly seen men, in a hopeless state of muddled intoxication, climb⟳ the trees in Elm Grove under the delusion that they were going upstairs to bed , and on flinging their weary limbs on the imaginary couch come⟳ crashing down through the branches on the heads of unwary passers-by.”

“A humorist by necessity, he is a classic by feeling, and it was not until his imagination was allowed full play⟳ and the "comic cut⟳" idea was put⟳ aside, that he developed at the rapid rate which is so remarkable in looking over his work⟳.”

“Unusually for a black and white artist, Sambourne used a huge library of photographic images to give⟳ accuracy to his work⟳, which was characterized by a vivid and decisive linearity as well as an artistic inventiveness that took his images far beyond the simple concept of a cartoon or ‘comic cut⟳’.”

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