As a comic portrait of the artist, Harriet scores high.

Like James Thurber's haunted comic portraits, it is all the funnier for the appalled sadness that beats beneath.

A personal anthology by a cartoonist who is a foremost practitioner of what he calls "comic portraits that are deliberately hurtful."

Mr. Miller has directed skillfully, giving each of his gifted cast members room to create show-stealing comic portraits.

"Catch-22" is a Dantesque vision, a darkly comic surrealistic portrait of men caught up in the madness of war.

On the other hand there is a dolefully comic portrait of a stolid, brutish early lover who believes that courtship consists mainly of asking questions.

The pieces range from a lyrical meditation to a comic portrait of a jilted lover.

Though slight, the dance was a comic portrait of a woman of a certain age and uncertain but indisputably unruly passion.

"Professor Enigma," a bleakly comic portrait of psychological gamesmanship in a pastoral art colony, considers both the power and the powerlessness of the artist.

But the women's well-padded costumes made them look pregnant and the dance was a comic portrait of expectant parents.