How to say "comics" in Japanese

• コミックCommon
  nounThe everyday loanword for comic books and for manga as a medium, covering a single comic book or comics in general; the natural choice when talking about what you are reading.
  コミックマーケット６７にてコピー本ほん販売はんばい。無事ぶじ完売かんばいしたので製本せいほんしました。↗

  They were sold as photocopy books in Comic Market 67. We had no problem selling all of them, so we had bound copies made.
• コミックスCommon
  nounThe plural-form loanword; in meaning it largely overlaps with コミック, and it is frequently seen in the titles of comic book series or when speaking of comics as a collection of volumes.
• 戯画ぎがCommon
  nounAlthough 'comics' appears among its meanings, this word really means caricature or a satirical cartoon — a drawing that exaggerates for comic or critical effect — and is seldom the word you want for comic books.

「コミック」 is the everyday loanword for comic books and manga; 「コミックス」, its plural form, largely overlaps with it and often suggests a series or collection of volumes; 戯画 means caricature or satirical cartoons, not comic books.

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• コミックcomic
• コミックスcomics
• 戯画ぎがcaricature