Comic Book Genres (Explained)

Below you will find the tags to use for creators to put your title where its readers may look. Only use Genres that actually fit the title. We may re-classify your title if we feel it is in the wrong Genre and send you a message about our reasoning. For readers, it’s a road map to Comic Genres you enjoy.
Superhero
Science-Fiction/Fantasy Comics
Manga
Horror Comics

Children/Kids Comics

Action Comics

These comics often deal with adventure stories involving average humans in extreme circumstances.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/action-comics

ADULT Comics

Comics that are meant for an 18+ plus audience only.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/adult-comics

Adventure Fiction Comics

These types of comics are often about finding something or accomplishing something on a big scale. Like a treasure hunt.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/adventure-fiction-comics

All Age Comics

Stories are made to be shared with a General audience often family books fall under this genre.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/all-age-comics/

Alternative Comics

These comics take on topics often seen as not mainstream and often do not have their own specific genre to fall under.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/alternative-comics

Children/Kids Comics

Comic made for younger readers 11 and under. However, some comic books may cater to a younger reader but entertain all ages. The difference between this and All Ages is often younger and simpler themes are explored in these stories.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/children-kids-comics

Comedy Comics

Comics that are made to make you laugh.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/comedy-comics

Comic Strip

Meant to be a single panel or just a few panels to give an idea or a short theme. Often found in newspapers or online.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/comic-strip

CRIME Comics

Crime comics often explore crimes and the justice system’s handling of those crimes.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/crime-comics

Fantasy Comics

Comics that cover supernatural, magic, and imaginary worlds and creatures. Often coming from oral story roots born from traditions, superstitions or fantasy.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/fantasy-comics

Graphic Novel

This is meant as a Genre that tells a full story. It often accompanies another genre. A trade collects comicbook from ongoing titles, story arcs, or limited runs.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/graphic-novel

Horror Comics

A Comicbook that uses scare tactics to entertain.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/horror-comics

Humor Comics

Much like Comedy Comicbooks, this genre is meant to make people laugh but can use more sarcasm and deeper jokes to get that laugh.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/humor-comics

KINKY Comics

Comics that are about the Kinky Lifestyle.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/kinky-comics

LGBTQ Comics

Comics that are about the LGBTQ Lifestyle.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/lgbtq-comics

Manga

Japanese-style comics that created their own style and are mostly found as black-and-white stories told in chapters or in full. Not as much Comic Books as they are Comic Novels.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/manga

Mystery Comics

Comics that present a Mystery to be solved by the reader or entertain them.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/mystery-comics

Non-fiction Comics

Real-life stories are told through comics. Can include autobiographies.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/non-fiction-comics


Romance Comics

Comicbooks about Human relationships with other humans in a romantic context.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/romance-comics

Slice-of-Life Comics

Stories about the human condition, struggles of life, and the journey of life itself.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/slice-of-life-comics

Science-Fiction Comics

Sci-fi deals with Tech themes, the universe, and the things we see as magic that one day may come to be or discovered.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/science-fiction-comics

Superhero Comics

About extraordinary humans often with unique abilities.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/superhero-comics

Western Comics

Comics that place during the Historical US’s Wild West Period.

https://www.creatorsofwrittensins.com/tag/western-comics

Can a Comicbook fall under Multiple genres?

Absolutely. However, in tagging a story you should be mindful of the audience a book is for. If the book is meant for ADULTS who are Kinky, even though it may fit as an ADVENTURE story too, it should go with the tag that fits the audience best being kink. Genre tags should be used to get the audience not to make something fit into many boxes.