comic book - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
comic book (plural comic books)
- (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.
- Although the term comic book implies that humor is involved, not all comic books are of a humorous nature. Oftentimes people associate comic books with adventure stories involving superheroes.
- (magazine with sequence of drawings): comics, graphic novel
book or magazine
- Catalan: còmic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- 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
- 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)