comic strips

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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comic strips
Noun
  • Then there's Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the grand tradition of other kid-friendly cartoons, each episode contains two short stories.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the operations supervisor in the tower was focused on trying to fix a printer which prints strips of paper with flight information and had jammed.
    Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Along with its main collection that included the introduction of the new Maro geometric bag with loose napa leather strips knotted on the sides, Serapian displayed iterations of its iconic styles revisited by British designer Bethan Laura Wood.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Comic strips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strips. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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