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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

— Henri Bergson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

— Jill Davis

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

— Twyla Tharp

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

— John Banville

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

— Umberto Eco

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

— Jim Lee

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

— Miriam Toews

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

— Gene Luen Yang

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

— William Gaddis

✗Opposing Perspectives

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

— Jeremy Irons