If you describe something as comic, you mean that it makes you laugh, and is often intended to make you laugh. The novel is comic and tragic Most of these trips had exciting or comic moments
Comic is used to describe comedy as a form of entertainment, and the actors and entertainers who perform it. Grodin is a fine comic actor. a comic opera
A comic is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures. Joe loved to read `Superman' comics. = comic book. amusing you and making you want to laugh tragic (comicus, from , from komos; COMEDY)
arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"