What are mini comics?

I know part of the fun is in their lack of concrete definition, but is there a loose standard as such? Maybe it's best to create a standard type of mini comic artists can aspire to?* If you created the standard what would it be?

Mine would look something like this:

• A mini comic is A6 in size (one quarter of an A4 page) form american and Canadians this would be a quarter of a letter or legal sized piece of paper
• A mini comic is 8-24 pages in length not including the cover
• small mini comic = 8 pages + cover
• medium mini comic = 12 pages + cover
• large mini comic = 16 pages + cover
• super large mini comic = 24 pages + cover
• Ideally the cover should be a thicker stock to protect the inside pages
• Productions values should be kept simple, eg, plain paper and B&W printing. The book should be easy and cheap to make, keep the extra effort saved for drawing and writing an awesome comic

*By 'standard type of mini comic' I don't mean every mini comic should be this way or it's not a mini comic but rather, a pre-imagined format that has a name, ie, 'Browns standard mini'**

**Yes this is a poo joke

Chugnut Comics No.3 now available, inspired by 'Free Comic Book Day' I have put together a showcase of some artists here for you to download and checkout, totally free. Clicking on the link will take you to a download page were you will see the file called 'Chugnut_FCBD_2013', from here you can download the file (perfect for a tablet) or chose to read on your browser. Enjoy! http://cl.ly/Ojvw 

Chugnut 2013 (March 22-24)

It has begun! Attending this year are,


Anthony Woodward
David C Mahler
David Blumenstein
Sarah Howell
Marta Tesoro
Rob Macfarlane
Gregory Mackay
Mandy Ord
Andrew Fulton
Jo Waite

There are some more folks, but we will have to wait until they arrive. More updates soon