comic book

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Noun

comic book (plural comic books)

1. (comics) A book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.

Usage notes

• As the term comic book suggests, comic books were originally composed of comic strips of a humorous or satirical nature. The term has since expanded to other genres as well. Oftentimes, people associate comic books with adventure stories involving superheroes.

Synonyms

• (magazine with sequence of drawings): comics, graphic novel

Derived terms

• American comic book
• comic-bookish

Related terms

• cartoon
• funnies
• funny pages
• funny papers

Translations

book or magazine

Bulgarian: комикс (bg) m (komiks) Catalan: còmic (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 漫畫書 / 漫画书 (zh) (mànhuàshū), 漫畫冊 / 漫画册 (zh) (mànhuàcè) Danish: tegneserie (da) c Dutch: stripboek (nl) n Esperanto: bildrakonto Estonian: koomiksivihik, koomiks Finnish: sarjakuvalehti (fi), sarjakuvakirja (fi) French: bande dessinée (fr) f, bédé (fr) German: Comicbuch n Italian: fumetto (it) m Japanese: 漫画本 (ja) (まんがほん, mangahon, まんがぼん, mangabon), コミックブック (komikku bukku) Korean: 만화책(漫畫冊) (ko) (manhwachaek) Polish: komiks (pl) m Portuguese: (revista de) história em quadrinhos m, gibi (pt) m (Brazil) Russian: ко́микс (ru) m (kómiks) Scots: comic buik Spanish: cómic (es) m, tebeo (es) m, colorín (es) m, paquín m Swedish: serietidning (sv) c (periodical), seriemagasin n (periodical), seriealbum n (non-periodical) Thai: หนังสือการ์ตูน (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-gaa-dtuun) Turkish: çizgi roman (tr), çizgi roman albümü

See also

• superhero
• graphic novel
• fanzine