What is the more common name for a lexicon, of which Dr. Johnson's is an early example?
The Lexicon of Comicana names he invented for them sometimes appear in dictionaries, and serve as convenient terminology occasionally used by cartoonists and critics. A 2001 gallery showing of comic- and street-influenced art in San Francisco, for example, was called "Plewds! Squeans! and Spurls!" Additional symbolia terms include whiteope, sphericasia, that-a-tron, spurls, oculama, crottles, maledicta balloons, farkles, doozex, staggeration, boozex, digitrons, nittles, waftaroms, and jarns. The Lexicon of Comicana The Lexicon of Comicana is a 1980 book by the American cartoonist Mort Walker. It was intended as a tongue-in-cheek look at the devices used by cartoonists. In it, Walker invented an international set of
A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: "[Tyers] abounded in anecdote, but was no sufficiently attentive to accuracy. I therefore cannot venture to avail myself much of a biographical sketch of Johnson which he published, being one among the various persons ambitious of appending their names to that of my illustrious friend. That sketch is, however, an entertaining little collection of fragments." A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson was written by Thomas Tyers for "The Gentleman's Magazine"'s December 1784 issue. The work was written immediately after the death of Samuel Johnson and is the first postmortem biographical work