ETYM Latin comicus pertaining to comedy, Greek komoidia comedy: cf. French comique. Related to Comedy.
(Drama) Of or relating to or characteristic of comedy.

Množina: comics

A magazine devoted to comic strips; SYN. comic book.

Množina: comic books

Publication in strip-cartoon form. Comic books are usually aimed at children, although in Japan, Latin America, and Europe millions of adults read them. Artistically sophisticated adult comics and graphic novels are produced in the US and several European countries, notably France. Comic books developed from comic strips in newspapers or, like those of Walt Disney, as spinoffs from animated cartoon films.
The first superhero, Superman, created 1938 by Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, soon had his own periodical, and others followed; the Marvel Comics group, formed 1961, was selling 50 million copies a year worldwide by the end of the 1960s and found a cult readership among college students for such titles as Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk. In Japan 1.9 billion comics were sold in 1987—a third of all publications there.

Singular of comic effects is comic effect.

Množina: comic operas

Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken; SYN. opera bouffe, bouffe, opera comique.

Množina: comic papers

Singular of comic papers is comic paper.

Singular of comic programs is comic program.

Množina: comic reliefs

A relief from the emotional tension especially of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element.

Množina: comic strips

Or cartoon strip; Sequence of several frames of drawings in cartoon style.
Strips, which may work independently or form installments of a serial, are usually humorous or satirical in content. Longer stories in comic-strip form are published separately as comic books. Some have been made into animated films.
The first comic strip was “The Yellow Kid” by Richard Felton Outcault, which appeared in the Sunday newspaper New York World 1896; it was immediately successful and others soon followed. Some of the most admired early comic strips were the US “Gertie the Dinosaur” and “Happy Hooligan” as well as “Krazy Kat”, which began 1910 and ended with the death of its creator, Richard Herriman, 1944. Current comic strips include “Peanuts” by Charles M Schulz (1922– ), which began 1950 and was read daily by 60 million people by the end of the 1960s; the political “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau; the British “Andy Capp” by Reginald Smythe (1917– ); and the French “Astérix” by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny, which began in the early 1960s.
The most famous and beloved cartoon characters were devised by Walt Disney from the 1930s; and superheroes such as Superman, Batman, and Flash Gordon have staying power.
A sequence of drawings in a newspaper telling a story; SYN. cartoon strip, strip.

Not to be taken seriously

1. Relating to comedy.
2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable.

Množina: comicalities

In a comical manner; SYN. funny.

Množina: comicalnesses