| Format introduction | A comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image viewer; since then, many viewers for different platforms have been created. |
| Technical details | Comic book archive files mainly consist of a series of image files, typically PNG (lossless compression) or JPEG (lossy compression) files, stored as a single archive file. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF files are seen. Folders may be used to group images. Comic book archive files are not a distinct file format; only the file name extension differs from a standard file of the given archive type. |
| File extension | .cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7 |
| MIME | application/x-cbr |
| Developed by | Type of format: Multimedia, archive file |
| Associated programs | CDisplay, ACBF Viewer, Calibre, ComicRack, Comic Seer |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive |