Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
funnies \fun"nies\ (f[u^]n"[=e]z), n. pl. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips; called also funny papers and comics. Rarely encountered in the singular.
comics \com"ics\ (k[o^]m"[i^]ks), n. pl. The section of a newspaper containing mostly comic strips; -- called also funnies and funny papers. Many but not all newspapers have a comics section.
Wiktionary
n. (context pluralonly comics English) The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.
Usage examples of "funny papers".
They read everything down there, funny papers everything even trash like this.
I was rather inclined to despise the Funny Papers, as they were then called.
He didn't read like a mortal intent on violence, so I settled back in the kitchen, put my feet up again, and resumed my perusal of the British funny papers.
Well, I guess you'll be stayin' out of the funny papers, because what they're gonna put you in is one of them orange jumpsuits.
It was like those two fellows that used to be in the funny papers, those two Frenchmen that were always bowing and scraping at the other one to go first, making out like we had all come away from home just for the privilege of sleeping on the ground, each one trying to lie faster and bigger than the next.
He and the little girl, June Star, were reading the funny papers on the floor.
Another thing is, there are no radios, picture shows, funny papers and if you want to take a bath you got to fill a washtub with water from the well.