comic vs graphic novel

comic

noun
  • A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel. 

  • A comedian. 

  • A children's magazine. 

adj
  • Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous. 

  • Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre. 

  • Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining. 

graphic novel

noun
  • A comic book containing a single full non-episodic story. 

How often have the words comic and graphic novel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )