Comic books are a widely loved part of modern entertainment culture and are no less valuable than movies or books. For example, San Diego Comic-Con International is attended by hundreds of thousands of people every year. Those comic books fans, who love reading them as much as Sheldon and Leonard, read them not only in the printed versions, but in digital ones as well. However, comic books for computers are stored in such formats that are pretty difficult to open if you don’t have the right program. To simplify the struggle of opening comics on your PC, we’ve reviewed the best comic book readers for Windows below.
Icecream Ebook Reader
Icecream Ebook Reader is a simple comic book reader with an elegant and easy to navigate interface. With its help, users can arrange their own comics (and ebooks in general) in libraries, add bookmarks, select the color scheme of the interface of the program for the most comfortable comic book reading, and choose from double and single page display modes. Users can zoom in and out of pages, check their progress of reading comics and add them to their favorites. This reader supports both CBZ and CBR formats.
CDisplayEx
CDisplayEx is an extremely simple comic reader. Its interface is very intuitive and the program supports CBR and CBZ formats. One of its best features is the auto correct of colors. This is very helpful if you are dealing with files of low quality. It can fit comics to the screen, under height or width, allows you to add bookmarks, shows comics in a slideshow, shows books in single or double page mode, and much more.
ComicRack
ComicRack is a comic book reader that supports CBZ, CBR, ZIP, RAR and PDF formats and has a comfortable interface with extended functionality. This reader can also arrange comics from your computer into your personal library. It supports full screen reading mode, hotkeys, addition of bookmarks and some other useful features.
MComix
MComix is an open source program that is lightweight and doesn’t require installation. It can work in fullscreen mode, fit the width, height and size of the comics, show the comics in single and double page mode, navigate to needed pages, and offers a lot of extended settings, like appearance, scrolling settings, display settings and shortcuts.
MangaMeeya
MangaMeeya is a CBZ and CBR reader that also supports opening images and doesn’t require installation. It supports slideshow mode, hotkeys, various filters, the adjustment of images for the needed size, 3 comic display modes (reading, thumbnail and explorer), and some other features. All in all it works, but the interface is far from calling it comfortable.
Honeyview
Honeyview is a great graphic viewer that supports plenty of formats and has a very nice looking interface. It supports zipped formats like CBZ, CBR, RAR, and others, as well as RAW formats like CRW, GNG and more. Everything is highly intuitive; there is a customizable slideshow mode, the possibility to rotate images, add bookmarks, copy content of books and other convenient features.
Sumatra PDF
Sumatra PDF is a compact open source software that r supports multiple formats and documents including comics. The interface is easy to navigate, and the program allows printing opened documents. In addition to that, it doesn’t consume much of your computer’s resources. With this comic book reader you can customize view modes, add bookmarks, zoom in or out and more. The program is available in multiple languages.
All these comic book readers have their pros and cons; some are lightweight but not that intuitive, others are nice to work with but limited in some features. Pick the right one for you to enjoy all you favorite comics on PC in the most preferred way.