Foreign Word for Comic ( as in the visual medium )

[airbolt]

I am trying to translate the phrase " football comic " into a number of languages ( as in a comic about football ). In Babel Fish i get a translation which comes out as " funny football".
I know comics are " Bandes Dessiness" in france . Can anyone help me with the word for comic ( as in visual medium ) in German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese?

[BilSuth]

You need to get away from the word COMIC, which suggests funny. The dictionary describes it as:
a magazine for young people with stories (about football) mainly in pictures.
It doesn't need to be concise, just so long as your description is clear and unambiguous.

[theprof]

Being fluent in German myself, I'd agree with BilSuth on this one. Leaving "football" out of it for a moment, the German for "comic" in the sense of a periodical is usually "comicheft" or "comicheftchen". The German for a comic newspaper is "bierzeitung"

However, it's not quite that simple. If the comicheft is substantial, it becomes a comicbuch, which translates as "comic book".

Furthermore, a series of comic strips stitched together to form a story is often referred to as a "comicstrip" (one word rather than two). An alternative word for a comic strip is "bildgeschichte"

Football in German contains an eszett, which cannot be typed on a conventional UK/US Keyboard. It translates as "Fu�ball" so a straightforward football comic would be "Fu�ballcomicheft"

[theprof]

I'll leave the other languages to those more proficient than me.

[airbolt]

Thanks , theprof, for your excellent answer. It's invaluable to have a fluent speaker answer this question. Much obliged.

[Ankou]

for italian, try 'fumetti'.

[crackernut2]

I find babel fish not very good, if you go to FreeTranslation.com you might find an improvement.
good luck