Comical is a portable CBR and CBZ comic book viewer written in C++ using wxWidgets.
It supports multiple image formats and uses high-quality image scaling algorithms to fit pages onscreen.
The software is released under an open source license.
Features include:
- Intuitive interface.
- Full-Screen mode.
- Single-Page or Double-Page display modes.
- Several zoom modes – Fit, Fit-to-Width, Fit-to-Height, Original, and Custom.
- Crisp image scaling with algorithms adapted from the FreeImage project.
- Autodetects double pages scanned together and displays it accordingly.
- Prefetches and caches pages for speed and responsiveness.
- Page rotation.
- Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left browsing.
- Displays JPG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG images.
- Supports RAR(.cbr) and ZIP(.cbz) comic book archives including password protected files.
- Supports all encrypted RAR archives as well as ZIP archives with pkzip 2.04g encryption.
- Google Local style scrolling.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems.
Website: comical.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: James Leighton Athey
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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