Improved variations of the word “comicist”? [on hold]
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I believe the word comicist is a valid word (for one who is a follower of comics), but it doesn't sound right to me.
Example sentence:
He was an accomplished comicist after decades of working in the industry.
ist definition:
a follower of a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
Some words sound natural with ist, such as cartoonist and scientist. But the ist added to comic sounds contrived.
Are there any alternatives with the same meaning? Are there rules for adding letters to ist to improve pronunciation?
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I believe the word comicist is a valid word (for one who is a follower of comics), but it doesn't sound right to me.
Example sentence:
He was an accomplished comicist after decades of working in the industry.
ist definition:
a follower of a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
Some words sound natural with ist, such as cartoonist and scientist. But the ist added to comic sounds contrived.
Are there any alternatives with the same meaning? Are there rules for adding letters to ist to improve pronunciation?
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Jeshua Lacock
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Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
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It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
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Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02
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I believe the word comicist is a valid word (for one who is a follower of comics), but it doesn't sound right to me.
Example sentence:
He was an accomplished comicist after decades of working in the industry.
ist definition:
a follower of a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
Some words sound natural with ist, such as cartoonist and scientist. But the ist added to comic sounds contrived.
Are there any alternatives with the same meaning? Are there rules for adding letters to ist to improve pronunciation?
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asked Dec 13 at 1:36
Jeshua Lacock
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I believe the word comicist is a valid word (for one who is a follower of comics), but it doesn't sound right to me.
Example sentence:
He was an accomplished comicist after decades of working in the industry.
ist definition:
a follower of a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
Some words sound natural with ist, such as cartoonist and scientist. But the ist added to comic sounds contrived.
Are there any alternatives with the same meaning? Are there rules for adding letters to ist to improve pronunciation?
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Jeshua Lacock
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Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
4
It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
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Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02
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Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
4
It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
2
Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02
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Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
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4
It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
2
2
Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02
Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02
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Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics, and, in fact, has been attempted before:
Those who heard Mr. Andrews on Tuesday evening, have obtained a knowledge of the great literateur and comicist [Mark Twain] which would take weeks and months of rigorous study to accomplish … — Broadford Courier And Reedy Creek Times (Broadford VC), 24 July 1896.
Up till now,' one of them writes, ' we did not know Puccini as a comicist except in some isolated examples … — The Musical Times 60 (1919), 138.
Now Mark Twain is usually called a humorist and with Puccini, the word looks like a nonce creation to pair with dramatist. In any case, the word was not frequent enough to appear at its proper place, nestled between comices and comicly in volume 3 of the New English Dictionary, 1893.
This is tantamount to hanging a “vacant” sign on the word and either waiting for a new lexical tenant or letting it fade away as so many failed coinages.
A fanzine in the 1990s took up the word in the sense you envision and used it as the title:
Source
For comicist to become a common designation for a comics author/writer/artist requires more than an ephemeral publication or a discussion on a website like this one. If, say, the late Stan Lee_ had casually referred to himself a few times in public as a comicist, then all the kids who drew comics on the back of their biology notebooks would want to grow up to be one. And a word is reborn.
answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
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Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
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The closest we have to orthographic rules that could apply
here is that words ending in ‑c that get endings that start
with e, i, or y must first add a k to preserve the sound.
That’s why words like picnic and traffic regularly become
picnicker and trafficker respectively.
So you could certainly have a comicker.
But words that take ‑ist don’t seem to care how they’re pronounced,
so you wind up with physics but physicist, lyrics but
lyricist. These leads you down the unpleasant path from comics to comicist, which
I cannot blame you in the least for being uncomfortable with. I am, too.
Whatever you do, your main problem is going to be that without
supporting context to prime your reader, people won’t be sure
whether you are talking about human comedians or about graphic
cartoons. This happens already with words like comicry, which
is ambiguous in this same way: it makes you wonder whether it
is about literature or the stage or the graphic arts.
Comic books have only been around by that name for a smidgen more
than a century, so you won’t be able to rope in old words. A
comicar is a writer of comedies, while comices were a
sort of Roman assembly, perhaps better known as comitia
these days if they’re mentioned at all.
Only in 1913 did comic artists start to refer to those artists
who actually drew comics. Then well before the end of that
century, attributive use such as comic collectors no longer
raised any eyebrows.
Also during the lattermost parts of that same century did
comix come to mean an underground or counter‑cultural comic
book intended not for children but for adults. However, I don’t
know how widely that word is known, and of course aurally
comixist is no better than comicist.
Nonetheless, several possibilities along that line which you
might consider are a comixist or a comixer. These are not
established terms, but they wouldn’t confuse most anyone hearing
them.
However, in writing it might be less than scintillatingly
clear whether a comixer was a fan of comic books or someone
who coöperated with one or more others in some sort of mixing
project; that is, a co-mixer.
answered Dec 13 at 2:59
tchrist♦
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What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
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Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics, and, in fact, has been attempted before:
Those who heard Mr. Andrews on Tuesday evening, have obtained a knowledge of the great literateur and comicist [Mark Twain] which would take weeks and months of rigorous study to accomplish … — Broadford Courier And Reedy Creek Times (Broadford VC), 24 July 1896.
Up till now,' one of them writes, ' we did not know Puccini as a comicist except in some isolated examples … — The Musical Times 60 (1919), 138.
Now Mark Twain is usually called a humorist and with Puccini, the word looks like a nonce creation to pair with dramatist. In any case, the word was not frequent enough to appear at its proper place, nestled between comices and comicly in volume 3 of the New English Dictionary, 1893.
This is tantamount to hanging a “vacant” sign on the word and either waiting for a new lexical tenant or letting it fade away as so many failed coinages.
A fanzine in the 1990s took up the word in the sense you envision and used it as the title:
Source
For comicist to become a common designation for a comics author/writer/artist requires more than an ephemeral publication or a discussion on a website like this one. If, say, the late Stan Lee_ had casually referred to himself a few times in public as a comicist, then all the kids who drew comics on the back of their biology notebooks would want to grow up to be one. And a word is reborn.
answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
18.9k52754
Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
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Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics, and, in fact, has been attempted before:
Those who heard Mr. Andrews on Tuesday evening, have obtained a knowledge of the great literateur and comicist [Mark Twain] which would take weeks and months of rigorous study to accomplish … — Broadford Courier And Reedy Creek Times (Broadford VC), 24 July 1896.
Up till now,' one of them writes, ' we did not know Puccini as a comicist except in some isolated examples … — The Musical Times 60 (1919), 138.
Now Mark Twain is usually called a humorist and with Puccini, the word looks like a nonce creation to pair with dramatist. In any case, the word was not frequent enough to appear at its proper place, nestled between comices and comicly in volume 3 of the New English Dictionary, 1893.
This is tantamount to hanging a “vacant” sign on the word and either waiting for a new lexical tenant or letting it fade away as so many failed coinages.
A fanzine in the 1990s took up the word in the sense you envision and used it as the title:
Source
For comicist to become a common designation for a comics author/writer/artist requires more than an ephemeral publication or a discussion on a website like this one. If, say, the late Stan Lee_ had casually referred to himself a few times in public as a comicist, then all the kids who drew comics on the back of their biology notebooks would want to grow up to be one. And a word is reborn.
answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
18.9k52754
Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
add a comment |
up vote
1
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up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics, and, in fact, has been attempted before:
Those who heard Mr. Andrews on Tuesday evening, have obtained a knowledge of the great literateur and comicist [Mark Twain] which would take weeks and months of rigorous study to accomplish … — Broadford Courier And Reedy Creek Times (Broadford VC), 24 July 1896.
Up till now,' one of them writes, ' we did not know Puccini as a comicist except in some isolated examples … — The Musical Times 60 (1919), 138.
Now Mark Twain is usually called a humorist and with Puccini, the word looks like a nonce creation to pair with dramatist. In any case, the word was not frequent enough to appear at its proper place, nestled between comices and comicly in volume 3 of the New English Dictionary, 1893.
This is tantamount to hanging a “vacant” sign on the word and either waiting for a new lexical tenant or letting it fade away as so many failed coinages.
A fanzine in the 1990s took up the word in the sense you envision and used it as the title:
Source
For comicist to become a common designation for a comics author/writer/artist requires more than an ephemeral publication or a discussion on a website like this one. If, say, the late Stan Lee_ had casually referred to himself a few times in public as a comicist, then all the kids who drew comics on the back of their biology notebooks would want to grow up to be one. And a word is reborn.
answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
18.9k52754
Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics, and, in fact, has been attempted before:
Those who heard Mr. Andrews on Tuesday evening, have obtained a knowledge of the great literateur and comicist [Mark Twain] which would take weeks and months of rigorous study to accomplish … — Broadford Courier And Reedy Creek Times (Broadford VC), 24 July 1896.
Up till now,' one of them writes, ' we did not know Puccini as a comicist except in some isolated examples … — The Musical Times 60 (1919), 138.
Now Mark Twain is usually called a humorist and with Puccini, the word looks like a nonce creation to pair with dramatist. In any case, the word was not frequent enough to appear at its proper place, nestled between comices and comicly in volume 3 of the New English Dictionary, 1893.
This is tantamount to hanging a “vacant” sign on the word and either waiting for a new lexical tenant or letting it fade away as so many failed coinages.
A fanzine in the 1990s took up the word in the sense you envision and used it as the title:
Source
For comicist to become a common designation for a comics author/writer/artist requires more than an ephemeral publication or a discussion on a website like this one. If, say, the late Stan Lee_ had casually referred to himself a few times in public as a comicist, then all the kids who drew comics on the back of their biology notebooks would want to grow up to be one. And a word is reborn.
answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
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answered Dec 13 at 4:40
KarlG
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KarlG
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Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
add a comment |
Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
Nice research, thanks! Do you think comickist or comixist is any improvement over comicist pronunciation wise?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 7:29
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The specific term is comicist, and the broader, more familiar term, cartoonist. Nothing else works.
– Kris
Dec 13 at 8:59
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
The OED has no entry for comicist, and I for one have never heard it used. I cannot accept your first sentence "Comicist from comics is no less valid a formation than physicist from physics,". It is, in my view less a valid formation, for the simple reason that it is not much used.
– WS2
2 days ago
1
1
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@WS2: The difference between a valid formation and a word derived through that method that actually makes it into the language has apparently escaped you. If comics artists etc. began to use the word to refer to themselves, then it would be accepted as a “proper” English word for the reason outlined.
– KarlG
2 days ago
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
@KarlG You are right. It has escaped me.
– WS2
yesterday
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The closest we have to orthographic rules that could apply
here is that words ending in ‑c that get endings that start
with e, i, or y must first add a k to preserve the sound.
That’s why words like picnic and traffic regularly become
picnicker and trafficker respectively.
So you could certainly have a comicker.
But words that take ‑ist don’t seem to care how they’re pronounced,
so you wind up with physics but physicist, lyrics but
lyricist. These leads you down the unpleasant path from comics to comicist, which
I cannot blame you in the least for being uncomfortable with. I am, too.
Whatever you do, your main problem is going to be that without
supporting context to prime your reader, people won’t be sure
whether you are talking about human comedians or about graphic
cartoons. This happens already with words like comicry, which
is ambiguous in this same way: it makes you wonder whether it
is about literature or the stage or the graphic arts.
Comic books have only been around by that name for a smidgen more
than a century, so you won’t be able to rope in old words. A
comicar is a writer of comedies, while comices were a
sort of Roman assembly, perhaps better known as comitia
these days if they’re mentioned at all.
Only in 1913 did comic artists start to refer to those artists
who actually drew comics. Then well before the end of that
century, attributive use such as comic collectors no longer
raised any eyebrows.
Also during the lattermost parts of that same century did
comix come to mean an underground or counter‑cultural comic
book intended not for children but for adults. However, I don’t
know how widely that word is known, and of course aurally
comixist is no better than comicist.
Nonetheless, several possibilities along that line which you
might consider are a comixist or a comixer. These are not
established terms, but they wouldn’t confuse most anyone hearing
them.
However, in writing it might be less than scintillatingly
clear whether a comixer was a fan of comic books or someone
who coöperated with one or more others in some sort of mixing
project; that is, a co-mixer.
answered Dec 13 at 2:59
tchrist♦
108k28290463
What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
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The closest we have to orthographic rules that could apply
here is that words ending in ‑c that get endings that start
with e, i, or y must first add a k to preserve the sound.
That’s why words like picnic and traffic regularly become
picnicker and trafficker respectively.
So you could certainly have a comicker.
But words that take ‑ist don’t seem to care how they’re pronounced,
so you wind up with physics but physicist, lyrics but
lyricist. These leads you down the unpleasant path from comics to comicist, which
I cannot blame you in the least for being uncomfortable with. I am, too.
Whatever you do, your main problem is going to be that without
supporting context to prime your reader, people won’t be sure
whether you are talking about human comedians or about graphic
cartoons. This happens already with words like comicry, which
is ambiguous in this same way: it makes you wonder whether it
is about literature or the stage or the graphic arts.
Comic books have only been around by that name for a smidgen more
than a century, so you won’t be able to rope in old words. A
comicar is a writer of comedies, while comices were a
sort of Roman assembly, perhaps better known as comitia
these days if they’re mentioned at all.
Only in 1913 did comic artists start to refer to those artists
who actually drew comics. Then well before the end of that
century, attributive use such as comic collectors no longer
raised any eyebrows.
Also during the lattermost parts of that same century did
comix come to mean an underground or counter‑cultural comic
book intended not for children but for adults. However, I don’t
know how widely that word is known, and of course aurally
comixist is no better than comicist.
Nonetheless, several possibilities along that line which you
might consider are a comixist or a comixer. These are not
established terms, but they wouldn’t confuse most anyone hearing
them.
However, in writing it might be less than scintillatingly
clear whether a comixer was a fan of comic books or someone
who coöperated with one or more others in some sort of mixing
project; that is, a co-mixer.
answered Dec 13 at 2:59
tchrist♦
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What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
add a comment |
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up vote
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The closest we have to orthographic rules that could apply
here is that words ending in ‑c that get endings that start
with e, i, or y must first add a k to preserve the sound.
That’s why words like picnic and traffic regularly become
picnicker and trafficker respectively.
So you could certainly have a comicker.
But words that take ‑ist don’t seem to care how they’re pronounced,
so you wind up with physics but physicist, lyrics but
lyricist. These leads you down the unpleasant path from comics to comicist, which
I cannot blame you in the least for being uncomfortable with. I am, too.
Whatever you do, your main problem is going to be that without
supporting context to prime your reader, people won’t be sure
whether you are talking about human comedians or about graphic
cartoons. This happens already with words like comicry, which
is ambiguous in this same way: it makes you wonder whether it
is about literature or the stage or the graphic arts.
Comic books have only been around by that name for a smidgen more
than a century, so you won’t be able to rope in old words. A
comicar is a writer of comedies, while comices were a
sort of Roman assembly, perhaps better known as comitia
these days if they’re mentioned at all.
Only in 1913 did comic artists start to refer to those artists
who actually drew comics. Then well before the end of that
century, attributive use such as comic collectors no longer
raised any eyebrows.
Also during the lattermost parts of that same century did
comix come to mean an underground or counter‑cultural comic
book intended not for children but for adults. However, I don’t
know how widely that word is known, and of course aurally
comixist is no better than comicist.
Nonetheless, several possibilities along that line which you
might consider are a comixist or a comixer. These are not
established terms, but they wouldn’t confuse most anyone hearing
them.
However, in writing it might be less than scintillatingly
clear whether a comixer was a fan of comic books or someone
who coöperated with one or more others in some sort of mixing
project; that is, a co-mixer.
answered Dec 13 at 2:59
tchrist♦
108k28290463
The closest we have to orthographic rules that could apply
here is that words ending in ‑c that get endings that start
with e, i, or y must first add a k to preserve the sound.
That’s why words like picnic and traffic regularly become
picnicker and trafficker respectively.
So you could certainly have a comicker.
But words that take ‑ist don’t seem to care how they’re pronounced,
so you wind up with physics but physicist, lyrics but
lyricist. These leads you down the unpleasant path from comics to comicist, which
I cannot blame you in the least for being uncomfortable with. I am, too.
Whatever you do, your main problem is going to be that without
supporting context to prime your reader, people won’t be sure
whether you are talking about human comedians or about graphic
cartoons. This happens already with words like comicry, which
is ambiguous in this same way: it makes you wonder whether it
is about literature or the stage or the graphic arts.
Comic books have only been around by that name for a smidgen more
than a century, so you won’t be able to rope in old words. A
comicar is a writer of comedies, while comices were a
sort of Roman assembly, perhaps better known as comitia
these days if they’re mentioned at all.
Only in 1913 did comic artists start to refer to those artists
who actually drew comics. Then well before the end of that
century, attributive use such as comic collectors no longer
raised any eyebrows.
Also during the lattermost parts of that same century did
comix come to mean an underground or counter‑cultural comic
book intended not for children but for adults. However, I don’t
know how widely that word is known, and of course aurally
comixist is no better than comicist.
Nonetheless, several possibilities along that line which you
might consider are a comixist or a comixer. These are not
established terms, but they wouldn’t confuse most anyone hearing
them.
However, in writing it might be less than scintillatingly
clear whether a comixer was a fan of comic books or someone
who coöperated with one or more others in some sort of mixing
project; that is, a co-mixer.
answered Dec 13 at 2:59
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answered Dec 13 at 2:59
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What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
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What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
What are the orthographic rules for adding a t such as in dramatist?
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 9:51
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
I sure that someone could locate a number of exceptions to your "rule" if they worked at it.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@HotLicks Check the OED, kid. It's THEIR. rule. Just like marry but marries. Just because some people can't spell doesn't stop them from getting marrryed, eh.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@tchrist - As much as they'd like you to believe differently, OED does not make the rules. They just document their interpretation of the rules.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
@HotLicks If you have a new question, ask it. Comments that do not seek clarification are out of bounds.
– tchrist♦
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Why do you believe comicist is a valid word? Did you find it in a dictionary somewhere? I've never heard it nor can I find it in any of the usual sources.
– Robusto
Dec 13 at 2:33
"Comicist" is apparently the name of a magazine for people interested in comic books. That appears to account for the bulk of Google "hits".
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:23
I thought that comicist would be a valid word for the same reasons cartoonist is a valid word.
– Jeshua Lacock
Dec 13 at 3:24
4
It's not a valid word unless people use it.
– Hot Licks
Dec 13 at 3:28
2
Hi. You need to be clearer, because your example sentence implies that your talking about a professional (publisher? artist? collector?) but the example meaning you provided implies you're just tallking about an avid reader of comics.
– Spencer
Dec 13 at 17:02