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comics

comics

2 1.0
The part of a newspaper with funny drawings and short stories
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːmɪks/
translation icon : sección de cómics
  • I always look forward to the funny stories in the comics section of the Sunday newspaper.

Examples

  • The comics in this magazine make me laugh every week with their clever humor.

  • COMICS ARE FOR KIDS.

    American Pop (1981)

  • I think most comics and most people thought, you know, oh, a month maybe.

  • But most of the cartoonists and comics writers that I know had to do it themselves.

  • So I was either reading, working on my computer, reading comics, playing Dungeons and Dragons, that kind of thing.

  • DC was one of the few comic book publishers to survive the Comics Code Crunch.

    Blog text (23)

  • Comics are acts of moral protest which, by putting popular indignation down on paper, show the impossibility of a different way of life.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The Comics Journal is featuring a series of essays from the contributors to the 2010 volume The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking (University Press of Mississippi).

    Blog text (9)

  • Children enjoy reading the colorful characters in comics like Peanuts and Garfield.

Synonyms

funnies
vscomics
  • Informal
10 5.8

A part of a newspaper with short comic drawings that tell jokes

is a printed section that presents those strips together for readers
funny paper
vscomics
  • Archaic
2 5.1

A section of a newspaper with comic strips and cartoons

appears also in magazines rather than only in newspapers

Surface Forms

comics plural

Morphology

comics = comic (semi-transparent) = comic + s

Formally the plural of 'comic', but used idiomatically to name the newspaper/magazine section, a metonymic extension learners may not infer from the base alone.

Etymology

Comics Newspapers gave the page of comic strips and cartoons the name 'comics', meaning the part with 'funny' drawings and short picture stories. So the comics section is the light, picture-filled part of a paper.