The contemporary British comic opera Iolanthe celebrated the fact that every boy and every gal that s born into the world alive is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.

America s Groucho Marxists

The Palin Charade

The Putin Parody

He's gone to the opera. To the opera?

Also opera.

The opera warehouse. I think it is very impressive.

Opening at the opera. Riding to hounds.

Milosevic and Hussein Trial by Farce

Oh, Ann, would you like to see the funnies?

At the enemy stronghold!

Go to the opera.

What was the opera?

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language.

No, that's his burlesque period.

You read too many comic books.

Yes, by the opera house.

A rendezvous at the opera.

My car's near the Opera.

So, the different elements of comics, like pictures and words, and the different symbols and everything in between that comics presents are all funneled through the single conduit of vision.

Scott McCloud on comics

There were hypertext comics.

So we can also eliminate the ugly ones or the caricatures.

Who put this item in about the comic?

The opera starts at seven.

We care what happens in that opera.

We're the ones writing this opera.

And well, that was an opera experience.

Would you bring me the program of the opera?

Imagine running into you at the opera.

I heard it in the opera tonight.

Or we'll go to an opera.

Friends of Italian Opera that's us.

I heard you operalovers were meeting'.

Thank you, fellow operalovers.

Sequence is a very important aspect of comics.

There were hypertext comics.

So instead of being grand opera, this opera will turn into what we're thinking of as personal opera.

It's from the new operetta at the Gaiety.

Tell me about the opera... was it exciting?

Monsieur Boudin, le directeur général de l'opéra.

What are they playing tonight at the opera?

It's not from an opera, is it?

Before going to the opera that night,

And one of the most important things about comics, I discovered, was that comics are a visual medium, but they try to embrace all of the senses within it.