Thesaurus results for COMIC STRIPS

comic strips

noun

plural of comic strip

as in cartoons

a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story a comic strip that is beloved by both children and adults

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Recent Examples of comic strips The memo even explicitly bans Stars and Stripes from publishing comic strips. — Maria Aspan, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026 Besides brewery ads, comic strips, editorials and history lessons all leaned into this idea. — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026 After working various office jobs, Adams created Dilbert in 1989, satirizing white collar work in what became one of the defining comic strips of the 1990s. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Jan. 2026 Our daughter learnt how to draw comic strips with an Athenian cartoon artist and was keen to try the photography course and stargazing. — Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026 This book is bursting with classic comic strips to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025 He was featured in tiny comic strips wrapped around pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The postwar best-seller Tezuka borrowed heavily from American newspaper comic strips and Walt Disney; Hayao Miyazaki has long praised France’s Mœbius. — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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Appointment television has become a rarity for Gen Z, which was raised on on-demand cartoons and can’t even identify a channel guide.

— Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
His wartime propaganda cartoons, for example, included stereotypical and racist depictions of Japanese people.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 July 2026

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The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Unlike fentanyl, there are no test strips that detect if cychlorphine is in a pill or substance.

— Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 13 July 2026

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