comics

creative work in which images and text convey information such as narratives
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comics
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Summary

comics is a type of arts[1]. comics draws 11,780 Wikipedia views per month (type of arts category, ranking #9 of 31).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: literary genre[3], literary form[4]
  • Subclass of: visual artwork[5], literary work[6], sequential art[7], narrative[8], illustrated work[9]
  • Commons category: Comics[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Comics[11], Category:Comics titles[12]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Comics[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox comic book title[14], Template:Infobox animanga/Print[15], Template:Comics sidebar[16]
  • Has characteristic: comics award[17], sequential art[18]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/ComicStory[19], http://comicmeta.org/cbo/Comic[20]
  • Properties for this type: P6900[21], P11494[22], P5905[23]
  • Name: Comics[24], 만화[25], 漫畫[26], 漫画[27], história em quadrinhos[28]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q141458046[29]
  • Practiced by: comics artist[30], comics writer[31], penciller[32], comics creator[33], comics editor[34]

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Influence

Things named for comics include Telecomix[35], an organization[36], founded in 2009[37] and BD Gest'[38], a website[39], in France[40].

Why It Matters

comics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] comics is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

comics has been cited as an influence by pop art[43], an art movement[44], founded in 1950[45] and Drowning Girl[46], a painting[47], in United States[48], founded in 1963[49].

Entities named for comics include Telecomix[35], an organization[36], founded in 2009[37] and BD Gest'[38], a website[39], in France[40].

FAQs

Who did comics influence?

comics has been cited as an influence by pop art[43] and Drowning Girl[46].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · Andre Engels · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Permanent duplicated item → Q141458046
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Permanent duplicated item: Q141458046"
  2. 28d ago · Ricardosdag · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name → Comics, 만화, 漫畫 +7
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Name: história em quadrinhos"
  3. 5w ago · Mapenite · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of latvia id → 000057201, 000373587
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of latvia id: 000373587"
  4. 7w ago · Arlo Barnes · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → comics award, sequential art
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has characteristic: sequential art"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 17gXWk
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 13w ago · MSGJ · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Exact match: https://schema.org/ComicStory, Cleanup: merge duplicate URL claims ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  7. 16w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  8. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → comics
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: comics, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289921664|comics (#289921664)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  9. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007511-komiks, u0003099-komiksy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007511-komiks, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  10. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → comics award, sequential art
    Twitch tag id → 1d712738-c298-4ff9-9c15-671ae9a77b7c
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox comic book title, Template:Infobox animanga/Print, Template:Comics sidebar
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 1148, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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