Comic Fantasy

Fantasy literature that is parodic, lighthearted, wacky, snarky, or just plain buffoonish. Notable practitioners include Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, Esther Friesner, Tom Holt, Walter Moers, Christopher Moore, John Moore, and Terry Pratchett.

Subtrope of Comic Literature. Also see Fantastic Comedy. Not to be confused with Fantasy Comic Books.

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Works in this genre:

• The 13 Clocks
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series
• The Adventures of Samurai Cat series
• Alcatraz Series
• The Alchemaster's Apprentice
• Almost Night
• Anonymous Rex series
• Antipaladin Blues
• A Symphony of Eternity
• Atharon
• The Bad Unicorn Trilogy
• "Bandits in Your Grocer's Freezer"
• Barry Trotter
• Behind the Curtains
• Betsy the Vampire Queen series
• The Billibub Baddings Mysteries
• Bloodsucking Fiends series
• Bored of the Rings
• Bridge of Birds
• Castle Perilous series
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
• Chicks in Chainmail
• Chronicles of the Misplaced Prince series
• The City of Dreaming Books
• Chasing the Moon
  • "Pizza Madness"
• Constance Verity
  • The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
  • Constance Verity Saves the World
  • Constance Verity Destroys the Universe
• Coyote Blue
• Dark Lord of Derkholm
• The Dark Profit Saga
• The Devil is a Part-Timer! series
• Dirk Gently series
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• A Dirty Job
• Discworld series
• Divine Misfortune
  • "My Dinner with Ares"
• The Dragon Business
• The Dragon Hoard
• Dragon-in-Distress
• The Dragon Knight series
• Dragon Queen
• Dragon Slayers' Academy series
• Each Little Universe
• Early Riser
• Eccentric Circles
• Ella Enchanted

Enchanted Forest Chronicles

• Enchanted, Inc. series
• Expecting Someone Taller
• The Exploits of Ebenezum trilogy
• Fabled Hearts series
• A Fable of Tonight series
• Fairest
• Falcon Quinn series
• Falling Sideways
• Family Bites
• A Fantasy Attraction
• Farmer Giles of Ham
• Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
• Flying Dutch
• Forest Kingdom series
• GameWorld trilogy
• Georgina Kincaid series
• The Goblin Quest Series
• Goblins (2007) (also a comic in the other sense)
• The Gone-Away World
• Good Omens
• Grailblazers
• Groosham Grange series
• Grunts!
• Hairy Potheadand The Marijuana Stone
• Harold Shea series
• Heavens Hell
• Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest
  • "Imogen's Epic Day"
• The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious series
• Heroics for Beginners
• Hex Hall series
• How to Train Your Dragon series
• I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job series
• In the Company of Ogres
  • "Wizard Bait"
• The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters
• Iron Druid Chronicles
• Jason Cosmo series
• Jim Springman and the Realm Of Glory
• Joe's World
• J.W. Wells & Co. series
• The Kingdoms of Evil
• Knight Life Series
• KonoSuba series
• Lafayette O'Leary series
• The Last Dragonslayer
• Legends & Lattes
• Letters Back to Ancient China
• Lil i Put
• Leven Thumps series
• The Light Princess
• Magic Kingdom of Landover series
• Mogworld
• Monster
  • "Work Ethic"
• Muddle Earth
• My Dark and Fearsome Queen series
• Myth Adventures series
• A Nameless Witch
  • "Penelope and the Willful Blade"
• The Night of Wishes
• Nomes Trilogy
• Nursery Crime series
• Once Upon a Marigold
• One for the Morning Glory
• Practical Demonkeeping
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Priest, the Scientist, and the Meteor
• Prince Charming
• The Princess Bride
• Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
• River of Dancing Gods series
• Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
• Rune Soldier Louie series
• The Saga Of Billy
  • The Fortress of the Black Cauldron
• Sebastian Darke series
• Secret Histories series
• Sir Apropos of Nothing series
• Skulduggery Pleasant series
• Slayers series
• Smoke and Shadows trilogy
• SnarfQuest
• Spellsinger series
• Spells, Swords, & Stealth
• Split Heirs
• Tales from the Year Between
• The Echo Chronicles
• The Stupidest Angel
• The Supervillainy Saga
  • The Rules of Supervillainy
  • The Games of Supervillainy
  • The Secrets of Supervillainy
  • The Science of Supervillainy
  • The Tournament of Supervillainy
  • The Future of Supervillainy
  • The Horror Of Supervillainy
  • Tales Of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven
• Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town series
• Tales From Verania
• "Thank You for Taking Care of our Enchanted and Haunted Castle"
• The Tome of Bill series
• Too Many Curses
  • "Death, Dust, and Other Inconveniences"
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
• The Unhandsome Prince
• The United States of Monsters
  • Psycho Killers in Love
  • Red Room
  • The Bright Falls Mysteries
  • Straight Outta Fangton
  • Morgan Detective Agency
• Thraxas series
• Thursday Next series
• Unicorn Western
• U Realms Live
• Vainqueur The Dragon
• Vampire High series
• Villains by Necessity
• The Wanderings of Wuntvor trilogy
• Warlock of Gramarye series
• We Are Not All Made Of Colour
• Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and sequels
• Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
• Wild Ride
• The Wingfeather Saga
• The Witch Watch
• A Wizard in Rhyme series
• The Wizard, The Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey
• Wiz Biz series
• Woof Woof Story
• The Worst Witch series
• Xanth series
• You Are Dead (Sign Here Please)
• Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure

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