What follows is a comic narrative about their domestic life together, as the tiger nurses him back to health.

What an idea for a comic narrative.

His book has no intellectual content, and wants none, but is a model of old-school musical-comedy construction in its insistence on establishing a context, whether narrative, comic or emotional, for every song.

He's naturally funny, and thinks out his solos in terms of comic narrative, but everything he does connects back to the melody.

While Baker gave the job of writing the comic narrative to others, he continued to illustrate the Sad Sack comic book covers until the time of his death.

The comic narratives feature a bean-headed surrogate for the artist who struggles with the mundane frictions of his life as an artist.

At 84, a painter of ruefully comic narratives has his first retrospective.

As well as the comic narrative, each issue is backed up with interviews with actual witches and Wiccan practitioners, and guides for casting fan-submitted spells.

Frequently described as the "poet laureate of Cleveland," Pekar "helped change the appreciation for, and perceptions of, the graphic novel, the drawn memoir, the autobiographical comic narrative."

The thrill is usually in the leap from the abject to the exalted: from lowbrow, comic narrative to high-minded poetry and philosophy.