At this point in his career as a comic novelist, Carl Hiaasen did not need to get any better.

It isn't surprising that so many of these people are comic novelists.

You might say the same of this book, with the understanding that froth is a wonderful invention - something no comic novelist should be without.

For a comic novelist, he was bad at jokes.

He was also a comic novelist and painter.

That the narrator of "Philosophy" avoids being exclusively couple-centred and looks around her with the eye of a comic novelist is an attractive quality.

Befuddled critics have patched together a kind of police composite that presents the suspect as a surreal postmodern comic experimental novelist.

And it dawns on you that Christine Bell is much more than a lighthearted comic novelist.

Eric Kraft is an odd bird in the literary landscape - an exacting comic novelist whose work is happy and expansive.

Over the course of Lurie's distinguished career as a comic novelist, this metaphor has become a familiar one.