To be completely honest, I have started saying Graphic Novel instead of comics. As comics can be any gag comic and I want to be known for something less comedy and more art work, it has more respect
Altough gag comics are huge and reach millions of people, nothing bad with a gag comic, clarifying
People get impressed when showing them, they're like "how do you do this?" And I'm like "In the computer" and it's quite cool ^^
If I say comics instead of graphic novel I get that response @dawgofdawgness showed XD