Comic Literature

Literary works which are primarily intended to be funny, or where everything is Played for Laughs.

See also the subpage Comic Fantasy.

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Works:

• Douglas Adams
  • Dirk Gently
    • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    • Life, the Universe and Everything
    • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    • "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"
    • Mostly Harmless
    • And Another Thing...
  • The Meaning of Liff
  • The Private Life Of Genghis Khan
  • The Salmon of Doubt
• The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle
• The Alien Series
• Almost Night
• The Alphabet of Manliness
• America (The Book)
• Audrey, Wait!
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
• Auntie Mame
• Bad Kitty
• Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts
• Bastard Operator from Hell
• Behind the Sandrat Hoax
• Big Trouble
• Bill the Galactic Hero
• Blandings Castle
• Blonde Bombshell
• Blott on the Landscape
• Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
• The Bobbie Faye series
• Erma Bombeck
  • If Life is a Bowl of Cherries — What Am I Doing in the Pits?
  • All I Know About Animal Behavior, I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room
• The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
• Brewster's Millions
• The Bum Trilogy
• Bunnicula
• Butler Parker
• The Candidates (based on a true country)
• Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
• Castle Perilous
• Catch-22
• Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Belles on Their Toes
• City of Devils
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Colony
• Complete World Knowledge
  • The Areas of My Expertise
  • More Information Than You Require
  • That is All
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Dancing Aztecs
• The Dark Profit Saga
• The Dark Side of the Sun
• Dave Barry Slept Here
• Devin and the Teacher
• The Dice Man
• Differently Morphous
• Doc Wilde - Affectionate Parody of Doc Savage and his entire pulp adventure genre.
• Drake Maijstral: space opera + comedy of manners
• EarthCent Ambassador — Affectionate Parody of Space Opera and Government Procedurals.
• Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
• Elianto
• The End of the Raven
• Existentially Challenged
• The Extra Man
• Falling Up (Bromberg)
• Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian
• Fat
• Florence of Arabia
• The Flying Sorcerers
• Fool
• Fun Jungle
• Funny Girl
• Gangsta Granny
• Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
• Gautrek's Saga
• Gear Saints
• Get Blank
• The Get Rich And Become God Method
• Go, Mutants!
• Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!
• The Good Soldier Švejk
• The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
• Go the Fuck to Sleep
• The Great Greene Heist
• The Greenwich Trilogy
• Hamish X
• Happiness TM
• Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
• The High Crusade
• Hilda and the Mad Scientist
• Hoka
• Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score
• How I Paid for College
• How I Became a Famous Novelist
• How to Be a Superhero
• How to Survive a Horror Movie
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
• The Hunger Pains
• "I Like Monkeys"
• Illegal Aliens
• Incompetence
• Indecent Exposure
• Interstellar Gunrunner
• Insane City
• The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters
• Invisible Werewolf Dracula Meets Vampire Mummy Frankenstein
• I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun
• Is This A Zombie?
• Jacques McKeown
• Jam
• Jeeves and Wooster series
  • Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  • The Code of the Woosters
  • Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  • Jeeves in the Offing
  • Joy in the Morning
  • The Mating Season
  • Much Obliged, Jeeves
  • Right Ho, Jeeves
  • Ring for Jeeves
  • Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  • Thank You, Jeeves
• Jennifer-the-Jerk Is Missing
• Jesus on Thyface
• Jetlag Travel Guides
• Kill time or die trying
• Gordon Korman
  • The Unteachables
  • A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
  • I Want To Go Home!
  • No Coins, Please
  • Ungifted
    • Supergifted
  • Don't Care High
  • Macdonald Hall
  • Losing Joe's Place
  • Son of Interflux
• Slacker
• Slugfest
  • Slapshots
  • Our Man Weston
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
• Laughing Gas
• Legends & Lattes
• The Liar
• Life Among the Savages
• The Little Golden Calf
• Little Green Men
• Lizzy and Diesel
• Love in a Cold Climate
• The Loved One
• Lucky Jim
• Lunatics
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
• "The Longest Joke in the World"
• Mabel Jones series.
• Magic 2.0
• "Mark Delewen and the Space Pirates"
• A. Lee Martinez
  • A Nameless Witch
  • The Automatic Detective
  • "Bigfoot Dreams"
  • Chasing the Moon
  • "Cindy and Cragg"
  • Constance Verity
    • Constance Verity Destroys the Universe
    • Constance Verity Saves the World
    • The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
  • "Death, Dust, and Other Inconveniences"
  • Divine Misfortune
  • Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain
  • Gil's All Fright Diner
  • "Greyback in Blue"
  • Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest
  • In the Company of Ogres
  • Monster
  • "My Dinner with Ares"
  • "Penelope and the Willful Blade"
  • "Pizza Madness"
  • Too Many Curses
  • "Wizard Bait"
  • "Work Ethic"
• Master of Formalities
• MASH series
• Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
• Max and Moritz
• Maxie, Rosie, and Earl—Partners in Grime
• The Meaning of Liff
• Meg Langslow Mysteries
• Moon Base Alpha
  • Space Case
  • Spaced Out (2016)
  • Waste of Space
• Motel of the Mysteries
• Moscow - Petushki
• The Mouse That Roared
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
• Mr Blank
• My Family and Other Animals
• My Girlfriend Is a Zombie
• My Uncle Oswald
• "The Name of the Game"
• Night of the Living Trekkies
• Naughty: Nine Tales of Christmas Crime
  • Secret Santa (2004)
• Not Taco Bell Material
• Nuklear Age
• Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!
• "The Œmygawsh Universe"
• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
• Our Dumb Century
• Our Dumb World
• Paperback Writer
• The People’s Choice
• Philogelos
• Planet Tad
• The Player
• The Poor Mouth
• President Me
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• "The Priest, the Scientist, and the Meteor"
• Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess
• Private Parts
• Professor Mmaa's Lecture
• The Pursuit of Love
• Psmith
• Puckoon
• Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
• Ramona Quimby
• Ratburger
• Ready Okay
• Reborn on a Systemless Earth...with a System
• Red Dwarf series
• Redshirts
• The Red Tape War
• Reggie Pepper
• The Retief series
• Revolting Rhymes
• Rex Nihilo
• Riotous Assembly
• The Road to Mars
• Robots Have No Tails
• Romeo and/or Juliet
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• The Salmon of Doubt
• Sandstorm
• Scoop
• Secret Santa (2007)
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
• Shimoneta
• Simply Weird: The (fake) History of Weird Comics Incorporated, A (fake) Comic Book Company
• Smoke
• A Snowball in Hell
• Somebody Owes Me Money
• Space Academy
  • Space Academy Dropouts
  • Space Academy Rejects
  • Space Academy Washouts
• Space Captain Smith
• Space Opera
• Spy School
• Stage-Land
• The Star Diaries
• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
• Stephanie Plum
• The Stupidest Angel
• The Suicide Shop
• 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
• "Sweet Ermengarde"
• Tales of an Mazing Girl
• Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes
• The Technicolor Time Machine
• 1066 and All That
• Three Men in a Boat
• To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure
• To Say Nothing of the Dog
• Tricky Business
• The True Meaning of Smekday
• The Twelve Chairs
• The Ugly Barnacle (by the way of Memetic Mutation)
• Ukridge
• Vile Bodies
• Whale Music
• Who Cut the Cheese?
• Who Moved My Soap
• Why Not Me?
• Wigfield
• Wigs on the Green
• Wilt
• "The Woman Who Made Machines Go Haywire"
• "The Worst Shots in the West"
• Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure
• The Zombie Survival Guide
• Xiapo Yellip Zump
• Zuleika Dobson

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