comix

American  

[kom-iks] / ˈkɒm ɪks /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. comic strips or comic art, often luridly sexual or political in character.

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Etymology

Origin of comix

First recorded in 1970–75; respelling of comics

Example Sentences

Independent comix have long been a place for all kinds of awkward honesty, especially for outsiders.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

“It has revealed truths about suffering that we have known all along. Comix and comix artists help us heal by expressing solidarity in both our shared and unshared experiences.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2020

Alongside the sketchbooks on view, the exhibit features Crumb’s Zap magazine covers, his famed Mr Natural, which was critical to the underground comix movement of the 1960s.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2019

Despite my traumatic introduction to Steinberg’s work, he began to figure significantly in my thinking, starting in my underground comix days, as I became more and more ambitious about what comics and cartoons could be.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2018

Mr. Williamson never gave up on Sammy Smoot and the gallery of other characters in his comics — or comix, as underground practitioners preferred to spell it — but the genre faded.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2017