COMICS

"COMICS" is a plural of: comic.

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: COMICS

Crosswords: COMICS

Like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics. (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod)

When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. (Lady of Burlesque; writing credit: James Gunn; Gypsy Rose Lee)

You'd better not be back there jerking off to the Japanese comics! (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

You are an engineer if you have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area. (references; author: unknown)

Sex in the Comics (1972)

Comics of the Fifties (1960)

Maestro of the Comics (1946)

The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics Winsor McCay (1911)

Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Children's Comics and Magazines Market: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• R. Crumb's Carload O' Comics : An Anthology of Choice Strips and Stories : 1968 to 1976 (reference)

• Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture Series) (reference)

• Return to the Amalgam Age of Comics: The Marvel Comics Collection (reference)

• The Amalgam Age of Comics: The Dc Comics Collection (reference)

• Those Were the Terrible, Shocking, Sensational, Appalling, Forbidden ... but Simply Wonderful Horror Comics of the 1950'S. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Carl Barks Library In Color Comic Album: Walt Disneys Comics And Stories Series (reference)

• Comics Interpreter (reference)

• Get Real Comics (reference)

• Action Comics (reference)

• Detective Comics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Show & Tell Series Set (Milk & Cookies/Bats & Balls/News & Comics) (reference)

• How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Comics story about a young boy wearing Superman T-shirt enters 4th St. telephone booth and emerges wearing NY Fire Department T-shirt to respond to the September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City] / Sale.01. Credit: Library of Congress.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Ann Fergusen reading the comics. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Japanese books and periodicals lead the import market in number of titles (due to the huge number of comics), while imports of Chinese language items are greatest in number of volumes. (references)

The economic situation in the years 1997 and 1998 was good, so during that period the bestsellers and sellers of comics were at their peak. Taiwan has experienced economic slowdown since April 1998, and many companies, including some leading financial consortiums, declared bankruptcy. (references)

In the satellite experiment, in which not only publishers but also printing companies and electronic manufacturers participated, download took a long time, e.g. it took 9 minutes to download 10 MB contents of typical novels, and 20 minutes or more for comics and other contents containing pictures. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "COMICS": euro-comics.

Albanian

vizatime komike. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, silly, wag), ‏رسوم هزلية (comic, funny). (various references)

Chinese 

漫�"� (Cartoon). (various references)

Czech

komiks (comic). (various references)

Finnish

sarjakuvat. (various references)

French

dessins comiques, bandes dessinés. (various references)

Greek 

ιστορία σε εικόνεσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ס�"רת ציורים �"תוליים. (various references)

Hungarian

képregény (comic strips). (various references)

Italian

fumetto (balloon, cartoon, strip cartoon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

戯�"� (caricature, cartoon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎが (caricature, cartoon), コミックス , コミック (comic books). (various references)

Korean 

만�" (Cartoon). (various references)

Pig Latin

omicscay

Portuguese

história em quadrinhos. (various references)

Russian 

комиксы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stripovi. (various references)

Spanish

historietas (comic strip). (various references)

Swedish

serietidningar. (various references)

Ukrainian

комікс (cartoon). (various references)

Misspellings

"COMICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cimliss, Cmis, cmyc, colics, Comac, comags, comice, Comici, comick, comico, comicus, Cominco, comins, comish, comism, comiss, comix, commissn, Commius, conicas, cormacks, cosmics, Cromlix, cumecs, cumis, cyonics, domic, Komech, komics, Komische, komix, Kovics. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cosmic.

-1 letter: cisco, comic, osmic.

-2 letters: miso, mocs.

-3 letters: cis, cos, ism, mis, moc, mos, oms, sic, sim, som.

-4 letters: is, mi, mo, om, os, si, so.

+2 letters: cosmetic, cosmical, moccasin.

+3 letters: cacomixls, complices, cosmetics, economics, micaceous, microcosm, mischoice, moccasins, occultism, stomachic.

+4 letters: accomplish, cacomistle, carcinomas, chromatics, cinchonism, cockneyism, colchicums, concretism, cosmically, cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cruciforms, ecchymosis, iconoclasm, macaronics, megascopic, microchips, microcodes, microcosms, microcytes, microluces, microscale, microscope, microscopy, mischoices, misconduct, misconnect, occultisms, seriocomic, stomachics.

+5 letters: accompanies, accompanist, accomplices, accustoming, actinomyces, cacomistles, cinchonisms, cliometrics, cochampions, cockneyisms, columnistic, commercials, communistic, compactions, compliances, complicates, concretisms, contumacies, cosmetician, cosmeticize, coxcombries, cytoplasmic, democracies, disaccustom, ectoplasmic, encomiastic, iconoclasms, lincomycins, macrocosmic, macroscopic, masochistic, microclines, micrococcus, microcopies, microcosmic, microcosmos, microcuries, microfiches, microinches, microscales, microscopes, microscopic, microsecond, microswitch, misconceive, misconducts, misconnects, mobocracies, monocracies, omniscience, saltimbocca, sociometric, timocracies, viscometric.