When filing a copyright for a comic book, do you have to do both a literary or visual arts or both ?

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You can copyright any one or combination. There are three things to do when you copyright something. Completing the forms and sending forms and work to Copyright Office is the third thing to do and it is really not very important to even do it. The two critical things are as follows: (1) On the work, put a c in a circle and print the date and your name after it. (2) Sell one copy to someone and make out a sale receipt that includes the date, price and name of the buyer. Keep the original receipt.

You should actually trademark characters from a comic book. The copyright only covers the one creation in one expression. Meaning someone else can take the characters and use them another way and thats perfectly legal if all you have is a copyright. If you trademark your character, and you own all forms of expression of them. That way anyone wanting to use them has to pay you a fee. This is known as a license.